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Actually, I agree with you, Zotto. I don't much like Pop, but at least I call it by its proper name.
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quote: I call it Coke. It's Diet Pepsi, but I call it Coke.
That's like calling your Ford a Saturn, because you call all cars Saturns. IT may be a Ford, it may be a Saturn, but it's not BOTH. But they ARE both Cars.
And both Coke and Pepsi (Diet and Otherwise) belong to the class of drink called SODA.
Although I usually refer to them individually. If I want a Vanilla Coke, I ask for a Vanilla Coke. If I want Sprite Remix, I ask for Sprite Remix. Etc.
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Soft drinks, or drinks, though my dad calls soft drinks pop, and I probably have at times too, or soda more often that.
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*sigh* I'd just stick with preferring iced tea, but then I might unknowingly offend a rapper somewhere.
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Am I the only one who says beverage? That's only because when I went to Kentucky to school after growing up in PA, I got tired of arguing with all the "soda" people.
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Hee Hee! Had this argument with a friend from Boston who came to Kansas a couple years ago and was shocked that we called it Pop! She promptly tried to get all of us to change how we said it, to "soda".
The store clerk wouldn't know what we were talking about if we said "soda."
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Soda, although most of my history of places that i have dwelled should lead me to say pop but i don't.
i remember a conversation way back in middle school with jamie about how all these southern people call every soda a "coke" regardless of color or flavor. it's quite sad really.
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It's a coke. I know it doesn't make sense, but my Diet Dr. Pepper is referred to as a coke.
Our new youth director is from Buffalo NY, and we are working hard to teach him how to talk. He actually used the word pop once when addressing the congregation. He was quickly corrected. Posts: 14428 | Registered: Aug 2001
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My question to you, Farmgirl, is why you need to ask the store clerk where the soda is? If you can't find the soda on your own, you have bigger problems than calling soda "pop" or "coke". Posts: 3852 | Registered: Feb 2002
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I think I call drinks, soft drinks or by their proper names because it was the only way my parents could compromise on what to call them. My dad being from Indiana calls all soft drinks "pop", hence pop, diet pop, pop machines, pop cans etc. I've noticed this seems big in the midwest, which explains why my dad being from Indiana takes that stance. My mom is from Kentucky, and as seems to be popular here (and among many other people I've met fromt he south) all soft drinks are "cokes", drink machines are coke machine, all alluminum cans are coke cans, and even if it is because we need to buy more Diet Mountain Dew Code Red, we have to stop and get some cokes. Sense this clearly always threw off Dad who for some reason assumed that she meant CocaCola when she said things like "please, hand me a coke". So now they are soft drinks, because Mom doesn't call them pop very often, and calling all soft drinks cokes seems to get to Dad (always corrects me when I call a drink machine a coke machine if it isn't actually a coke machine).
Now the new queastion, why did I write so much about what to called carbonated beverages? Posts: 733 | Registered: Sep 2003
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next time there is a gathering of hatrackers there should be an exchange of stuff that is hard to find/buy in different areas, as the diet code red seems to be hard to find for some people, and I'm sure there is more.
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In the South, all carbonated beverages are Cokes (Co-Cola if you were born before 1950). Since most types of Coke (including Pepsi) were invented in the South, our nomenclature is the proper one. Posts: 3037 | Registered: Jan 2002
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Outside I usually stick to proper names, as I'm not wild about any of the options. If absolutely necessary, pop or soft drinks are acceptable.
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Um, can I call it both? I just sort of switch back and forth, I honestly cannot recall favoring one over the other.
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I fell in love with soda from Europe while I was in France last week. Orange soda without all the extra sugar! Somebody send me some...it's addictive.
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I don't know what it's called...I mostly just like, babbled something about orange.
That stuff. Fanta! Orange Fanta is my new favourite. But all the soda here sucks. And French McDonald's beats American McDonald's hands-down, strangely enough.
*absolutely _had_ to try French McDonald's*
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Pop. Only pop, unless I am ordering a specific brand name. But all carbonated beverages can be referred to as "pop" unless there is alcohol involved.
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I drank Pop when I was growing up in Southern California.
Now that I live in Central California, I drink Soda. When I drink it. The past few years, however, I drink mostly water.
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