quote: I drank Pop when I was growing up in Southern California.
Where in SoCal?? The only people I know around here who say "pop" are (some of the) Eastern imports. Posts: 32919 | Registered: Mar 2003
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Actually, I can't remember what everyone else called it, so my calling it Pop may be a relic of my mother's Okie/Arkie background. (She is really, truly an "Okie from Muskogee", having been born there; but then her family moved to Arkansas when she was a few months old. Hence the "slash" designation for her background.)
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I know a few Venturans. Pretty sure they all say soda. Musta been your mom. 'Sok -- my dad still says some stuff with the Brooklyn accent he was brought up with. Posts: 32919 | Registered: Mar 2003
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I go with Fizzy - again like Sugar & Spice I'm British
In our house someone usually just shouts "drink" (joke from Father Ted) when ever someone else goes in the Kitchen
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Could be that, Rivka. On the other hand, you have to keep in mind that this was a long time ago, and the terminology could have changed. I haven't lived in Southern California since 1978, after all.
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Well, but I've been here since late 1980, and I don't remember ever hearing "pop" from anyone who was a native. Posts: 32919 | Registered: Mar 2003
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I suppose it's not really that different from calling all facial tissues Kleenex, but it still strikes me as weird. What do you say when you want an actual Coke? Do you have to call it a Coca-Cola to make it clear?
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If you're in a restaurant in the South, they'll usually ask you what kind of Coke you want. If you want an actual Coke, you just say "Coke" again. If you want a Diet Coke, you say "Diet," and if you want a Sprite, you say 'Clear."
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Ah, of course. It's coke. "Anybody want a coke? I'm going down to get one." "Sure, get me one!" "What kind?" "Coke." "Got it."
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If I want a "cola", I ask for a coke. If the place serves Pepsis products (most places serve one or the other, not both), they'll bring you a Pepsi. If I want diet cola, I ask for a diet coke. Same thing - they'll bring a Diet Pepsi. Anything after that, I'll specify - Sprite, Mountain Dew, etc.
All cans, no matter what soda was in them, are referred to as coke cans. All machines, even if they only sell Pepsi products, are coke machines.
This is a fact of life because Coke is much better than Pepsi. Whenever people discuss these things, a part of their subconscious is truly wishing they were all Coke and that Pepsi did not exist.
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zgator, that's so true! I feel sorry for the poor people out west and up north who have difficulty finding real cokes and have to drink that awful pepsi stuff. (Mountain Dew, though, is pretty good.) Someday I hope they'll discover the problem and fix it, just as they have recently finally discovered the joys of freshly manufactured Krispy Kreme doughnuts.
Another thing I realized not long ago that those poor people lack is HUSH PUPPIES! I was shocked and saddened to hear that people in other parts of the country don't know that when you mix cornmeal batter with onions and deep fry blobs of it in very hot Crisco, it results in something very close to the concept of paradise as described by several major religions.
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One of my linguistics professors got a strongly worded letter from the Coca Cola mafia (uh, I mean legal department) that Coke is a trademark and not a generic word for carbonated beverage. I think I grew up saying soda
quote: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.
So, if your kleenexes are Scott Tissues or Puffs, you don't call 'em kleenex?
If your fridgidaire is a Maytag or a Kenmore, you don't call it a frigidaire?
If your aspirin is a generic brand (instead of Bayer) you don't call it aspirin?
If your band-aid is from Curity, you don't call it a band-aid?
If your rollerblades aren't from Rollerblade, you don't call them rollerblades?
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Why, Icky? Because it's self abusive? Well, just turn off the animations and it hurts a lot less.
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Strange to say, I actually call them soft drinks. I do say coke machine, but probably because most of them say coke in large print across the front.
Pop, if you want this name to cheer yourself up you're welcome to it. Just email me and I'll get you the password. This is almost as good as the time I registered the Dread Pirate Davidson.
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quote:Someday I hope they'll discover the problem and fix it, just as they have recently finally discovered the joys of freshly manufactured Krispy Kreme doughnuts.
I weep for people who have never had a Krispy Kreme donut right off the line.
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If I don't want Dr. Pepper, then I ask for a cola. If there's no DP, then who gives a rip what I'm drinking? Unless the choice is between Mountain Dew and crab juice. I'll take the crab juice!
Hey: I was in Savannah last summer and I found out that the Krispy Kreme rights have been sold to every US city with at least 100,000 people. They're still workin' on 50,000.
Here in Tucson we just got KK last YEAR...I had to drive to Phoenix for my donuts!
quote: If your fridgidaire is a Maytag or a Kenmore, you don't call it a frigidaire?
Um... actually I call it a refridgerator, or a fridge. Maybe a fridgerator, but that's only if I'm not thinking normally. I don't think I've ever called it a frigidaire.
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quote:I feel sorry for the poor people out west and up north who have difficulty finding real cokes and have to drink that awful pepsi stuff.
Is Coca-Cola different in the South? 'Cause we have it out West. And you know, some of us prefer Pepsi to that nasty, bitter, cough-syrupy Coke stuff.
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Soda is obviously correct. Though I had to laugh when our waiter at the local Chinese place asks customers "You want some Pop-Soda?".
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Does anyone else here consider Pepsi and Coke to be two completely different drinks that should be served with different foods? I like coke with fried chicken, and pepsi with pizza. Like white wine and red wine, only...more similar.
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PSI Teleport: Prescott is 96 miles from Phoenix. It usually takes an hour and a half to an hour and forty-five minutes to get there. But i know it's worth it; I've had it before. Although, coincidentally, I actually had it first in the LA area while on vacation.
Flag may have them fresh-made too. I've never checked.
And about your other question:
Sort of, though I like Coke with both fried chicken and pizza. Pepsi is my preference for snack foods, like potato chips, though.
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I have NEVER heard this before, Rivka! Is this purely a California slang?
*sigh* It was a bad joke. Microwave popcorn being one of the most common uses of most microwaves . . .
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Don't worry, rivka. We call vacuums "sucky sweepers" in my family and we all think it's hilarious.
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I have always called it a coke no matter what brand it was. My grandma use to get on to me when I was a kid and tell me to call it a soda or a cola. I didnt listen. That is probably one of the things she said or did that she did not have a major influence on me. of course she also told me that watching commecials was silly but I like commecials and get a kick out of them.
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Mind you, over here everyone calls them "soft drink" or "softies"...none of that pop or soda nonsense!
That, together with the fact Minties are a (I think) typically Australian sweet - Mintieman, are you an Aussie in disguise?
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