Soda, Pop, or Coke?
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Topic: Soda, Pop, or Coke?
Posted By: StyLaZyn
Subject: Soda, Pop, or Coke?
Date Posted: March 10 2007 at 09:57
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I have a friend down south (USA) who refers to any carbonated,
non-alcoholic beverage as Coke. Doesn't matter if its Pepsi, Sprite, or
whatever. I call this stuff generically "soda".
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Posted By: Dalezilla
Date Posted: March 10 2007 at 09:57
| Pop. |
Posted By: Trickster F.
Date Posted: March 10 2007 at 09:58
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I call it Other. ------------- sig |
Posted By: Vompatti
Date Posted: March 10 2007 at 10:28
| It usually finds its way to me without calling, but if I had to call it something, I'd call it a carbonated, non-alcoholic beverage. |
Posted By: Psychedelia
Date Posted: March 10 2007 at 10:36
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what is pop? ------------- Another emotional suicide, overdosed on sentiment and pride |
Posted By: JJLehto
Date Posted: March 10 2007 at 11:17
| Soda |
Posted By: darkmatter
Date Posted: March 10 2007 at 12:16
| Soda! |
Posted By: progismylife
Date Posted: March 10 2007 at 12:18
| Soda |
Posted By: cookieacquired
Date Posted: March 10 2007 at 12:49
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Posted By: bhikkhu
Date Posted: March 10 2007 at 12:51
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Calling everything Coke is just silly. Coke is a specific beverage, and is also not the generic term for any cola.
Now, I have a definitive answer for the soda and pop debate. These separate terms used to be used together as soda pop, to describe the beverage in question. If you look at it, soda is the adjective, and pop is the noun. So the correct answer is pop. (So says professor H  ) ------------- a.k.a. H.T. http://riekels.wordpress.com" rel="nofollow - http://riekels.wordpress.com |
Posted By: Abstrakt
Date Posted: March 10 2007 at 13:07
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Soda, or cola.
Depends what kind of soda it is
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Posted By: Psychedelia
Date Posted: March 10 2007 at 14:39
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whoops sorry i didn't understand the question. I voted for the coke one. Nobody actually calls fizzy drinks by these names that i know. As may have been gleaned everyone just calls them fizzy drinks. ------------- Another emotional suicide, overdosed on sentiment and pride |
Posted By: Philéas
Date Posted: March 10 2007 at 18:27
| Coke is Coke and nothing else. In Sweden we call it läsk (pronounced lesk in English), which is short for läskedryck, which is an older way of saying "refreshing beverage" in Swedish. The best option here would be soda, although I tend to use the term soft drink(s) in English. |
Posted By: Bj-1
Date Posted: March 10 2007 at 18:29
 For the poll question; soda. ------------- RIO/AVANT/ZEUHL - The best thing you can get with yer pants on! |
Philéas wrote:Posted By: Dalezilla
Date Posted: March 10 2007 at 18:35
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Posted By: The T
Date Posted: March 10 2007 at 18:36
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Just Coca-cola or "cola" in my country.. here of course coke...
But it's better to explain things properly...You don't want to go to a inner city neighbourhood and order "coke" in a store... you may get the other version  ------------- 
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Posted By: Snow Dog
Date Posted: March 10 2007 at 18:57
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Being British, its pop. But I generaly call it by the name that it actually is. ------------- http://www.last.fm/user/Snow_Dog" rel="nofollow"> 
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Posted By: Snow Dog
Date Posted: March 10 2007 at 18:58
Are you an American living in Britain Ben? ------------- http://www.last.fm/user/Snow_Dog" rel="nofollow">
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Posted By: Philéas
Date Posted: March 10 2007 at 18:59
The one used for heating? The coal-ish things one burn, you know?  |
Posted By: Chris H
Date Posted: March 10 2007 at 19:01
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I usually just call it coke. But then again, I live in an upper-class neighborhood/town so I've never really had a problem ------------- Beauty will save the world. 
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Posted By: johnobvious
Date Posted: March 10 2007 at 19:03
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The Coca-Cola headquarters are based in Atlanta, GA so a lot of people down in that area work for them or know people who do and I believe this is why down south the term "Coke" morphed into meaning all sodas. Waitresses in restaurants will ask "what kind?" after you say you want a Coke. Bizarre, I know. People in my area of the country call it pop, but I had a roommate in college from New York, who, after we argued the merits between pop and soda, got me to convert. So I call it soda in pop country.
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Posted By: martinn
Date Posted: March 10 2007 at 19:04
I call it gaseosa
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Posted By: Snow Dog
Date Posted: March 10 2007 at 19:04
In Britain "Soda" means Soda Water only. ------------- http://www.last.fm/user/Snow_Dog" rel="nofollow">
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Posted By: Snow Dog
Date Posted: March 10 2007 at 19:05
When does he fight Godzilla? ------------- http://www.last.fm/user/Snow_Dog" rel="nofollow">
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Posted By: Atkingani
Date Posted: March 10 2007 at 19:29
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In Brazil, the general name for all gaseous drinks is refrigerante or simply refri. Cola is used for Coke & Pepsi and 1,000 other similar/equal brands.
"Coca" is used for Coca-Cola and that other thing. We never use Coke, even cans don't bear this name. However, I once saw a kid asking a 'Coca from Pepsi'...
 Soda is a kind of lemon gaseous beverage and Pop another one, in this case, with several flavours: lemon, orange, cola, etc.
I voted other! ------------- Guigo ~~~~~~ |
Posted By: magnus
Date Posted: March 10 2007 at 20:18
Other. I usually refer to it as "brus", since I rarely discuss these carbonated drinks with people who aren't norwegian 
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Posted By: blaughida
Date Posted: March 10 2007 at 20:27
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Soda. I think the traditional thing where I'm from is "tonic" but no one my age says this. What can I say, New England is getting less and less weird...my mother tells me that people used to have more of an accent in general, too. Kind of sad, really. |
Posted By: dwill123
Date Posted: March 10 2007 at 20:53
| Soda |
Posted By: rileydog22
Date Posted: March 10 2007 at 22:17
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I call it Soda when I'm in my home environment of New Jersey. When I go out west, I call it Pop to fit in.
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Posted By: markosherrera
Date Posted: March 11 2007 at 15:12
| fresco |
Posted By: Forgotten Son
Date Posted: March 11 2007 at 16:05
| Other. A fizzy drink. |
Posted By: VanderGraafKommandöh
Date Posted: March 11 2007 at 18:10
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Pokey Cola I prefer Pepsi, so naturally I often call it Pepsi. -------------   
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Posted By: stonebeard
Date Posted: March 11 2007 at 18:14
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Pop, though if they still sold it here, I'd be sure to yell, "SSSSSUUUUUUUUUUURRRRRRRRRGGGGGEEEEEEEEEE!!!
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Posted By: goose
Date Posted: March 11 2007 at 18:58
| Fizzy? |
Posted By: VanderGraafKommandöh
Date Posted: March 11 2007 at 19:00
That gives me an idea for a track name... Fizzy Surge (featuring Surge 1/Surge 2/Octosurge) -------------
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Posted By: rileydog22
Date Posted: March 11 2007 at 20:34
The lyrics go: I wish that you could let me fizz forever. Oh, but this cap on my head is TOO TIGHTLY SCREWED! Oh no no no no, I can't get it off, I can't get it off! ------------- |
Posted By: VanderGraafKommandöh
Date Posted: March 11 2007 at 20:48
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It's an instrumental, or it will be. It'll contain a common theme, as can be heard in the original Surge.
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Posted By: VanderGraafKommandöh
Date Posted: March 11 2007 at 20:50
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And just to confuse things, John Fogerty calls it Soda Pop. Soda pop, soda pop, you know you can make it to the top... -------------
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Posted By: Arrrghus
Date Posted: March 11 2007 at 20:53
I sometimes call it soda pop. 
Either that, or soda. Most of the time, I just say the specific drink that I want (Dr. Pepper, Sprite, root beer, Coke, etc) ------------- 
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Posted By: VanderGraafKommandöh
Date Posted: March 11 2007 at 20:58
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Root Beer, Cream Soda and Doctor Pepper are horrible!
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Posted By: markosherrera
Date Posted: March 11 2007 at 20:59
| Doctor pepper seems like a cough syrup I LIKE Canada dry ginger ale.that now in Venezuela I cant find it. |
Posted By: Arrrghus
Date Posted: March 11 2007 at 20:59
To each his own. I like the three you just mentioned a lot. -------------
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Posted By: Equality 7-2521
Date Posted: March 11 2007 at 21:55
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If it's a coke I call it a coke, but speaking in generic terms I say soda. I get a good laugh when I hear pop.
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Posted By: ViolinCyndee
Date Posted: March 11 2007 at 23:40
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I call it coke and NEVER say 'pop'... ------------- http://cdbaby.com/cd/cyndeeleerule www.cyndeeleerule.com |
Posted By: kazansky
Date Posted: March 12 2007 at 00:33
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Soda ------------- The devil we blame our atrocities on is really just each one of us. |