Pop is slang, coke is a brand, soda is the read deal. You used to go to a business that had a soda fountain. SODA
soda pop
Shm.Smh. The fucking people who call all sodas “coke”.Them: What kind of Ford do you drive? Me: a Chevy.
What does “shm” mean? I’m currently only reading it as an onomatopoeia and I don’t think that’s right.
See also My Names Is Earl. “She was Chinese… Japanese, specifically.”
Calling it soda, good. Calling it pop, fine. Calling every soft drink a coke, fuck off.
Get this, in Scotland, pretty much any liquid is called juice.
Still makes more sense than calling Sprite “coke”.
I gotta put juice in my car, it’s on empty
Although I’ve always referred to buckfast as “the devil’s ribeana”. Although I do admit that the standard name is “wreck the hoose juice”.
I really want coke to be more common as referring to soda pop on general because I want to see Coca Cola freak out as they lose the trademark to genericization.
Soda is an always has been the right term, but the people who say “coke” to mean any soda are the most wrongest people in history
I agree, but I also don’t go around saying “cellophane tape” or “photocopy”, and instead tend to use “scotch tape” and “xerox”. Lots of other people do too. I know that’s wrong too, but it at least partially explains the whole “coke” thing.
Why though? There’s no sodium bicarbonate in those, only carbon dioxide for the bubbles?
SODA!!!
How funny would it be if one state was completely colored red and it was “but of the old sweet and bubbly” or some shit.
I say “cola” if it is a cola type drink, and soda if it isn’t. Raised in the Midwest for background.
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Personally I have never heard of that one, nor the drink, how is it pronounced?
The correct term is obviously “beer”
Where is “soft drink” on this map?
Soft drinks include any non hard drink, including all the non carbonated stuff. This is specifically referring to carbonated beverages.
Oddly with the exception of water.
Interestingly enough, I’ve never heard “soft drink” used to refer to anything but soda (Midwest USA here)
Soda: the correct way to say it
Coke: a specific brand, but I’m all for genericization
Pop: why are you calling a soft drink daddy?We call it pop up in Canada so I’m rooting for that, but I will accept some loss of territory if it helps eliminate the coke people.
Yeah honestly it sounds a little weird calling it soda lol but calling it Coke makes absolutely no sense 😅
That explains my confusion on why I always got told that people in the south call it all coke, but when growing up, I always heard just called soda; I grew up in NC, which is considered a southern state, but appears to have been completely taken over by the soda side at this point.
Growing up in western NC, it was always Coke when I was a kid. But then shopping carts were buggies and toilets were commodes back then too.
Buggies I’ve not heard, but I do have a grandmother who still calls it the commode.
Mine went with commode as well, and my 70ish aunt is the only born American I’ve ever heard insist on calling it a buggy.
@Kid_Thunder, mind if I ask the general era you were growing up? Because I’m a millennial from the triad and we say soda. Soda pop in elementary, but I’m not sure whether we picked that up from media.
It would be interesting to work out around when the shift happened.
80s and 90s. I was a millennial when we were called Gen Y but like I said, west NC. I think being closer to Appalachia and thus Appalachian probably matters. So sometimes pants or jeans were ‘britches’, though not used by people my age then, “fixin’” was used a lot (“I’m fixen to come over yonder (‘over’ being optional here)” or perhaps ‘reckon’ in “I reckon that’s about a mile down that ways” where you ‘think’ it might be a mile over there. ‘Y’all’ was outpacing ‘you’uns’ by then. ‘Foot’ instead of ‘feet’ specifically for measurement was still used. Like “That’s about 2 foot thick.” Holler could be used two ways, one of those being to ‘yell’ or talk to someone or to describe a small valley. A toboggan was those knitted hats (stocking caps) you’d wear rather than the sled you’d typically be riding on wearing one of these. When you’re a young kid they’d sometimes have those stupid puffy balls on top of them. One of my grandmothers would use ‘I swunney!’ as an exclamation of being appalled or surprised by an outcome. I have no idea where that came from. ‘Chaw’ was used by older folks to describe a wad of chewing tobacco like “You have some chaw I can get?” A ‘bald’ was a the top of a mountain without trees and usually mostly rocks like “You can see 3 states from any of them balds over there.” Sometimes old people would call a backpack a ‘tow sack’ or even ‘clean’ is used kind of odd like “He knocked it clean out of the park!”
We were still taught that slaves had it better off in some plantations and that many came back from the ‘silent North’ (implying blacks were straight up ignored and at least down South where they’d be beaten, lynched and tortured some thought that this attention was somehow better I guess) and that the Civil War was about States Rights and the issue of slavery wasn’t actually important. I’m not sure if it still is but I hope not. I assume it isn’t the way my family goes on and on about indoctrination of children outside of homeschooling.
Huh, where I am in Australia, we use ‘I reckon’ a lot. We also still casually refer to height in feet, and use ‘foot’. Eg. ‘I’m six foot one’. Everything else we measure in metric, and medical records list height in centimetres. Using ‘clean’ like that is pretty normal here too.
Edit: To be clear, the height of a person. Nothing else.
as a non-american, the only term i’ll ever accept is “sodipop”
Excuse me, but the correct term is “sarsaparilly”.
I’ve heard that if you order a “Coke” in the area that says “Coke”, they’ll just give you a random soda and you have to drink it no matter what it is. That just seems plain wrong to me.
