Carbonated Beverages

[BillsPride12]

POP...It's a Buffalo thing! 

[Augie]

2 minutes ago, Your Brown Eye said:

I call it by the name brand(s)

 

So, you’re a Fresca guy? 

[ExiledInIllinois]

Nazis like Fanta.  ?

[SlimShady'sSpaceForce]

Pop as grew up in Roch.   

 

after I moved out .......   Southerners don't know what a "pop" is.  Now all I ask for is a coke (then decide what else if they have Pepsi) 

[Wayne Cubed]

Originally from Rochester... it's always been Pop, hell that's what Wegmans used to call it. I believe Soda Pop is a Syracuse thing.

 

 

[Sig1Hunter]

It was pop when I was a kid growing up in the southern tier of NY. Moved down south,  and now it's soda.

[row_33]

i have never heard soda used growing up in Southern Ontario, even with hundreds of road trips to the Rust Belt for sports

 

 

[The Real Buffalo Joe]

In Texas.

Coke = Coke

Sprite = Coke

Pepsi = Coke

But Dr. Pepper, is Dr. Pepper. It was invented here, and they're quite proud of it.

[shrader]

13 hours ago, Your Brown Eye said:

I call it by the name brand(s)

 

I do the same.  I'm not interested in the fight or the awkward stares, so I get as specific as humanly possible.  If I'm not sure what a place carries, I'll just ask for "a diet coke or pepsi, whatever you have".

[Misterbluesky]

On 7/10/2018 at 12:31 PM, Soda Popinski said:

anything that has sugar and is fizzy is soda to me.   

 

But when we drink seltzer water, it's seltzer water.   Or sometimes Soda water.    

Today is free Slurpee Day...11am - 7 pm.

[ExiledInIllinois]

5 hours ago, shrader said:

 

I do the same.  I'm not interested in the fight or the awkward stares, so I get as specific as humanly possible.  If I'm not sure what a place carries, I'll just ask for "a diet coke or pepsi, whatever you have".

If I want the awkward stares, I will ask for vinegar for my fries.  Oops wrong thread. ?

[Fr. Jerk]

In the South, they call everything a Coke.

[Soda Popinski]

6 minutes ago, The Jerk said:

In the South, they call everything a Coke.

What south is that?  Atlanta?   Everything in central FL is Soda 

[Ridgewaycynic2013]

On 7/11/2018 at 11:35 AM, The Real Buffalo Joe said:

But Dr. Pepper, is Dr. Pepper. It was invented here, and they're quite proud of it.

'Wouldn't you like to be a Pepper, too'?

 

Sounds like some sort of cult...?

[Johnny Hammersticks]

On 7/11/2018 at 11:35 AM, The Real Buffalo Joe said:

In Texas.

Coke = Coke

Sprite = Coke

Pepsi = Coke

But Dr. Pepper, is Dr. Pepper. It was invented here, and they're quite proud of it.

 

So, what if you want a Sprite, but you ask for a coke...and the server gives you a coke?  I can imagine the conversation...

 

Patron:  Yeah, I’ll have a large Coke.  

 

- Waitress brings a large coke.

 

Patron:  Excuse me miss, but I ordered a coke and you brought me a coke!  ‘Murica!!

[Rob's House]

I grew up in the south and typically refer to the specific drink, or say soda when referring to carbonated drinks generally. I'm told we call everything Coke, but I've never heard anyone call a Sprite a Coke.

Edited July 13, 2018 by Rob's House

[Fr. Jerk]

12 minutes ago, Johnny Hammersticks said:

 

So, what if you want a Sprite, but you ask for a coke...and the server gives you a coke?  I can imagine the conversation...

 

Patron:  Yeah, I’ll have a large Coke.  

 

- Waitress brings a large coke.

 

Patron:  Excuse me miss, but I ordered a coke and you brought me a coke!  ‘Murica!!

 

The way my Southern co-workers in the service explained it, I guess you order a Coke.

 

Then they ask what kind of Coke. And then you specify weather its something different than a Coke

Edited July 13, 2018 by The Jerk

[Golden Goat]

Missouri: They generally call it "soda" in St. Louis, but "pop" in Kansas City. I always found that strange.

[The Real Buffalo Joe]

1 hour ago, Johnny Hammersticks said:

 

So, what if you want a Sprite, but you ask for a coke...and the server gives you a coke?  I can imagine the conversation...

 

Patron:  Yeah, I’ll have a large Coke.  

 

- Waitress brings a large coke.

 

Patron:  Excuse me miss, but I ordered a coke and you brought me a coke!  ‘Murica!!

This actually happened to me. When I first moved here.

 

My cousin; "Hey Joe. Grab me a Coke out that cooler over there."

 

Me: "There's no coke in that cooler."

 

Cousin: Are you sure? I just filled it up.

 

Me: Yeah. There's Mountain Dew, Sprite, Orange. But no Coke

 

Cousin: Then hand me a sprite jackass. Those are all Cokes.

 

Then he explained the differences.

[Johnny Hammersticks]

10 minutes ago, The Real Buffalo Joe said:

This actually happened to me. When I first moved here.

 

My cousin; "Hey Joe. Grab me a Coke out that cooler over there."

 

Me: "There's no coke in that cooler."

 

Cousin: Are you sure? I just filled it up.

 

Me: Yeah. There's Mountain Dew, Sprite, Orange. But no Coke

 

Cousin: Then hand me a sprite jackass. Those are all Cokes.

 

Then he explained the differences.

 

Which are...?