Another new soda pop

[cignus_pfaccari]

Looks like "pop" is centered in the Midwest, while "coke" is centered around Atlanta (appropriately enough). "Soda" seems to be the most widely distributed in numbers.

Yep. I've always been under the impression that in the South, you refer to carbonated beverages as Coke, and the waitress asks you if Pepsi is okay.

Brad (who's from Kentucky)

 

[Tinker Gnome]

Yep. I've always been under the impression that in the South, you refer to carbonated beverages as Coke, and the waitress asks you if Pepsi is okay.

Brad (who's from Kentucky)

I usually refer to carbonated beverages as "Soda." I have had the above happen to me once though.

 

[Olgar Shiverstone]

Yep. I've always been under the impression that in the South, you refer to carbonated beverages as Coke, and the waitress asks you if Pepsi is okay.

Brad (who's from Kentucky)

Heh. I travel a lot, and usually fly Delta, which serves Coke, as an Atlanta-based company should . I flew United in a trip recently, and the conversation went something like this:

Flight Attendant: "What would you like to drink?"

Olgar: "I'll have a diet coke." (note: little "c")

FA: "Is Diet Pepsi OK?"

Olgar: "Sure, that's what I said, a diet coke."

FA (frustrated): "Sir, we don't serve Coke, only Pepsi."

Olgar: "That's what I mean."

FA: "Mean what?"

Olgar: "A Pepsi. It's a coke. Same thing." (OK, at this point I was having fun with her.)

FA (rolls eyes): "Whatever, sir ..."

I've had similar conversations at Taco Bell.

 

[aurance]

Heh. I travel a lot, and usually fly Delta, which serves Coke, as an Atlanta-based company should . I flew United in a trip recently, and the conversation went something like this:

Flight Attendant: "What would you like to drink?"

Olgar: "I'll have a diet coke." (note: little "c")

FA: "Is Diet Pepsi OK?"

Olgar: "Sure, that's what I said, a diet coke."

FA (frustrated): "Sir, we don't serve Coke, only Pepsi."

Olgar: "That's what I mean."

FA: "Mean what?"

Olgar: "A Pepsi. It's a coke. Same thing." (OK, at this point I was having fun with her.)

FA (rolls eyes): "Whatever, sir ..."

I've had similar conversations at Taco Bell.

Poor lady, she just wanted to get you a drink.

 

[BOZ]

Neat links, Eric!

Looks like "pop" is centered in the Midwest, while "coke" is centered around Atlanta (appropriately enough). "Soda" seems to be the most widely distributed in numbers.

yep. we all say "pop" up here. of course, i often call it "sodie pop"

 

[Captain Howdy]

Holiday Spice, to me, sounds like a good smelling candle... NOT a pop... I'll try it... but, my assumption is that it is going to be butt-nasty.

You would be safe in that assuption. My brother bought a bottle and I tried some. At first it just tastes like regular Pepsi, but it leaves an after-taste similar to bile... Try it if you want, but have a toothbrush ready.

 

[RangerWickett]

Heh. In Atlanta it seems sometimes like Coca-Cola has a brigade of lawyers watching to make sure people don't buy other companies' drinks. Most restaurants only serve Coke products. So here, sodas are called Coke because, well, that's the only choice we got.

Well, that and Beverly. If you ever visit the Coke Museum (The World of Coke), just for kicks try the beverage called Beverly. It's in the section of Coke products from around the world, and it tastes like someone dissolved aspirin in water. You'll regret not trying it, it's so bad.

 

[Morrus]

Well, just to throw a spanner in the works, I think you all sound weird! "Soda" is only used here when inlcuded in the phrase "soda water", "pop" is what a balloon does, "coke" is definately, specifically, Coca Cola - if you tried to claim otherwise, you'd get a very strange look from whoever you were talking to!

Most people here refer to drinks by name (a coke, a 7-Up, a coffee, a glass of water, etc.); if I had to refer to carbonated beverages as a whole, I guess I'd call them "fizzy drinks".

 

[RangerWickett]

I believe the formal term in the U.S. is 'soft drinks.'

My roommate drinks, get this, Diet Chocolate Cherry Fudge Soda. *shudder*

 

[John Q. Mayhem]

The Holiday Spice Pepsi isn't bad if it's cold and you drink it before it warms up at all.

Wickett? Your roommate puts the fear in me.

I usually call soft drinks soda (I'm in VA). Things seem pretty even between Coke and Pepsi here. I went down to Florida a few months ago, and there was no Vanilla Coke, anywhere! Just cherry and that nasty-ass vanilla Pepsi.