CleverNickName
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What do you call this?
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Image: iStock
I honestly don't know how Oklahomans manage to do lots of the things they do. But on topic: they apply branded labels to almost everything--tissues are all "Kleenexes," all headache medicines are called "Tylenols," etc.Assuming it's not Pepsi, I call it a Coke. Generally I just call drinks what they're called. Soda is something else entirely. Pop is just any sweet fizzy drink, and pretty much limited to the 1980s. Soda pop is like garage cake or wheelbarrow window, two different things just smashed together.
I would be incapable of ordering a drink in Oklahoma, clearly. Luckily, I don't imagine that's a problem which will ever affect me.
Well, trademark genericization is not an issue local to you (just those particular brands are). Also see Xerox, Hoover, Google, Aspirin, Linoleum, Thermos, etc. Even 'Heroin'!I honestly don't know how Oklahomans manage to do lots of the things they do. But on topic: they apply branded labels to almost everything--tissues are all "Kleenexes," all headache medicines are called "Tylenols," etc.
It's been very challenging for us in the off-brand diacetylmorphine business.Even 'Heroin'!