Carbonated Beverages

[Mark Vader]

Mostly I will call a drink by it's name, Pepsi, Mountain Dew, Dr. Pepper etc.

 

But if I'm at a restaurant, I will ask what "soft drinks" they have.

[BillsPride12]

4 hours ago, The Jerk said:

 

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

 

Waitress: "What'll ya have hun?"

 

Customer: "Coke"

 

Waitress: "What kinda coke?"

 

Customer: "Sprite"

 

As a Western New Yorker that is just weird as all hell to me 

[KD in CA]

I just ask for the beer list.

 

 

[Buffalo Barbarian]

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.    

 

I thought it was soda popinski

 

 

On 7/10/2018 at 8:38 PM, ExiledInIllinois said:

 

Oh... It's interactive down to the county level... Click away..

Coke has been arounf since 1882???

 

My little Sister worked @ Mayo in Rochester, MN years ago... She had a co-worker from Georgia. My Sister was going to a vending machine and asked said co-worker if she wanted a drink.  Co-worker said: "Yes, a Coke."  My sister brought her a Coke back.  The co-worker was like... "I wanted an Orange Crush!"

 

WTF!!!

 

that's her fault "coke" (which is just stupid) doesn't specify what kind you want.

 

 

Edited July 14, 2018 by Buffalo Barbarian

[Buffalo Barbarian]

On 7/10/2018 at 9:15 PM, BUFFALOKIE said:

Tuck Fexas. I had to choose it because Okies do not identify as southerners nor midwesterners. So, north Texas is close as reality.

 

If not midwest then what?   Can't think of anything more midwest than Oklahoma.

 

 

On 7/10/2018 at 9:26 PM, Mr Info said:

I grew up in WNY and called it pop. First trip in college to visit friends in Manhattan and I used the term ‘pop’ for a carbonated beverage and all looked at me like I had fallen off the turnip truck. Have never used pop since to refer to a soda.

 

So do you say , I want a mountain dew coke ??y

 

 

[CowgirlsFan]

Nothing.

I call it by their name.

I rarely drink them but when I do I will call it by it's name..Coke..Dr Pepper,Sprite,7 up..etc. 

 

Also I am a native Texan and still live in the state 

Edited July 16, 2018 by CowgirlsFan
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[LeGOATski]

Mini soda

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On 7/13/2018 at 12:25 PM, Golden Goat said:

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

 

Same in New York state and Pennsylvania

NYC & Philly call it soda.  Buffalo & Pittsburgh call it pop

[shrader]

On 7/13/2018 at 12:04 PM, 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!!

 

I still have no idea how the smurfs ever had any clue what they were saying to each other.

[teef]

On 7/10/2018 at 7:56 PM, PromoTheRobot said:

 

Growing up it was pop. Now that I live away it's soda, or just the name of whatever...Coke, Pepsi, Moxie, etc.

this is where i'm at with it.  i always called it pop until i went to school in boston.  people were thrown my the term, and i just started using soda so i didn't have to deal with the confusion.   they can be bent out of shape by the term pop, but those m!@#$s call sprinkles on icecream, "jimmies".  what kind of psycho does that.  they also call water fountains, (the kind you drink out of) bubblers.  don't bust my balls.

[Ridgewaycynic2013]

42 minutes ago, teef said:

but those m!@#$s call sprinkles on icecream, "jimmies".  what kind of psycho does that.  

Sprinkles on ice cream are 'sprinkles'.  Jimmies are ants in the cupboard where you keep the 'sprinkles'.

[Royale with Cheese]

I grew up in Minnesota and I called it pop back then.  Here in Atlanta, everything is Coke.

 

I generally call drinks by their name: Dr. Pepper, Pepsi, Cherry Coke, Root Beer etc...

[Fr. Jerk]

Everything is better with Coke.

 

 

Edited July 16, 2018 by The Jerk

[Royale with Cheese]

7 minutes ago, The Jerk said:

Everything is better with Coke.

 

 

 

[Gugny]

52 minutes ago, Royale with Cheese said:

I grew up in Minnesota and I called it pop back then.  Here in Atlanta, everything is Coke.

 

I generally call drinks by their name: Dr. Pepper, Pepsi, Cherry Coke, Root Beer etc...

 

I don't think Root Beer belongs on this list.

[Royale with Cheese]

14 minutes ago, Gugny said:

 

I don't think Root Beer belongs on this list.

 

I think Root Beer is known more as "root beer" than it's specific product name.

I never hear someone say "Yeah, give me an A&W" like they do with a Coke or Pepsi.  They just say root beer.

[Gugny]

27 minutes ago, Royale with Cheese said:

 

I think Root Beer is known more as "root beer" than it's specific product name.

I never hear someone say "Yeah, give me an A&W" like they do with a Coke or Pepsi.  They just say root beer.

 

I agree.  But it still doesn't belong on your list.

[Royale with Cheese]

1 minute ago, Gugny said:

 

I agree.  But it still doesn't belong on your list.

 

To say A&W...it's 5 syllables.  I think that's what's hurting them....too long.

[Gugny]

1 minute ago, Royale with Cheese said:

 

To say A&W...it's 5 syllables.  I think that's what's hurting them....too long.

 

I drink Mug.

[Royale with Cheese]

2 minutes ago, Gugny said:

 

I drink Mug.

 

It's just not a good name.