Is it Pop, Soda or Coke where you live?
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In BC and Ontario it is Pop. I'm a Coke fan myself.
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Originally Posted By: 440Magnum
All soft drinks are "cokes."
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All soft drinks are "cokes."
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I just order what I want, usually Diet Coke if I am having soda.
Soda here. We had a new grocery store chain come in a few years ago from the Pacific Northwest; their signs read “Pop”. The other stores around here read “Soft Drinks”.
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Originally Posted By: ls1mike
When I lived in Texas it was Coke...what flavor do you want.
So you'd ask for a Coke and they'd say what flavor and you'd say Coke again? OK..
When I lived in Texas it was Coke...what flavor do you want.
So you'd ask for a Coke and they'd say what flavor and you'd say Coke again? OK..
Dental decay or soft drinks, pop.
Out here it's called "Sody-Water."
Pop here, has been all my life.
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Originally Posted By: AZjeff
Originally Posted By: ls1mike
When I lived in Texas it was Coke...what flavor do you want.
So you'd ask for a Coke and they'd say what flavor and you'd say Coke again? OK..
Basically, yes. Coke. They would say what flavor. That was 1993ish.
Originally Posted By: ls1mike
When I lived in Texas it was Coke...what flavor do you want.
So you'd ask for a Coke and they'd say what flavor and you'd say Coke again? OK..
Basically, yes. Coke. They would say what flavor. That was 1993ish.
Liter of cola.
Originally Posted By: 2strokeNorthstar
Liter of cola.
Just order a large Farva.
Liter of cola.
Just order a large Farva.
As the map shows it's soda when I lived in St Louis and Milwaukee which are Midwestern islands in a pop sea, pop in South Dakota. I lived in Atlanta for four years in the seventies and can't for the life of me remember coke being used as a generic name although people carefully differentiated between Strong Coke which was six ounces in a glass bottle and regular Coke. Thought they were stupid to pay the same money for half of much, but I tasted the two back to back and they were right.
Remember ordering a Scotch and soda in the late sixties on moving to Milwaukee and the bartender asking "sweet?" It was Scotch and seltzer then and there.
Pop v. Soda v. Coke
Remember ordering a Scotch and soda in the late sixties on moving to Milwaukee and the bartender asking "sweet?" It was Scotch and seltzer then and there.
Pop v. Soda v. Coke
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For me it's tea. In the UK that is. When In travel to the USA it's coffee. Americans don't have a clue about making tea, but are masters of coffee.
Pop, soda, coke, whatever you call it is great for your dentist's financial well being.
Claud.
Pop, soda, coke, whatever you call it is great for your dentist's financial well being.
Claud.
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Originally Posted By: 2strokeNorthstar
Liter of cola.
Just order a large Farva.
Its only .25 and look how much more you get.
Originally Posted By: 2strokeNorthstar
Liter of cola.
Just order a large Farva.
Its only .25 and look how much more you get.
In southern Indiana and southern Ohio I hear people ask for the specific type by name. IE Dr. Pepper or Sprite. If they want a Coke i hear Coke, with a waiter asking is Pepsi fine? Generally a pepsi is a Coke in my experience
In Australia, soft drink.
Originally Posted By: andyd
Tonic, ARCOg, where did you grow up? Tonic is a south eastern MA idiom. Early fizzy drinks were touted as healthy early on. Dr Pepper, Moxie, Cel-Ray.Coca Cola. Tonics
Just east of Lowell MA. Got here in the early 60's. Originally I was from Indiana then we moved to New Jersey in 1958. Dad was a Manager at Western Electric (AT&T/LUCENT TECH) and he moved around the Phone MFG locations for a while. Around Indianapolis we called it soda pop in the 50s.
Tonic, ARCOg, where did you grow up? Tonic is a south eastern MA idiom. Early fizzy drinks were touted as healthy early on. Dr Pepper, Moxie, Cel-Ray.Coca Cola. Tonics
Just east of Lowell MA. Got here in the early 60's. Originally I was from Indiana then we moved to New Jersey in 1958. Dad was a Manager at Western Electric (AT&T/LUCENT TECH) and he moved around the Phone MFG locations for a while. Around Indianapolis we called it soda pop in the 50s.
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