What Do You Call This Popular Beverage?

[Ruin Explorer]

What do you call this?

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I voted other, but if it was brown like that, I'd assume it was a cola, and call it cola, in the UK. Maybe "coke" some of the time.

However, more generally I'd call them "fizzy drinks" or "soft drinks". Probably the former though if I wanted to include Dr Pepper, Fanta, and so on.

 

[Ruin Explorer]

Here it's always:

"A pint of coke, please."

"Is Pepsi OK?"

"Sure."

Yeah generally true, though equally I have heard people ask for "cola", or ask for Pepsi specifically and get asked "Is Coke ok?" and so on.

 

[FitzTheRuke]

I'm pretty sure it's illegal here to sell somebody something different to the thing they think they're buying. They don't ask because they're being conscientious, they do so because they have to.

Interesting. I think we must still have a bit of the old "buyer beware".

As a tiny businessman, I much prefer your version. I think it's plain better for business (long term) to let your customer know exactly what they're going to get (within obvious reason) and let them decide. It seems to work to build loyalty and repeat customers, which I would think is what you want. So much of business frustrates me because it seems like so much of it is designed to trick people into buying something that they probably don't want. It seems easier (and more likely to be successful) to me to simply make and provide only things that they DO want, or at least that they ought to want.

I know based on the practices of ENPublishing that you are similar.

 

[R_J_K75]

It may have originally been a mixer, but doesn't seem to date back that far.

If that's not true, then the History Channel done did be lying to me...

 

[R_J_K75]

"Is Coke ok?"

Depends on who you know

 

[payn]

If that's not true, then the History Channel done did be lying to me...

 

[R_J_K75]

Good old Giorgio, never disappoints

But sorry there are no aliens Giorgio, Kal-El isn't landing in your backyard any more than Luke Skywalker is stamping your intergalactic passport.

 

[Morrus]

As a tiny businessman, I much prefer your version.

It's not my version--it's the law! Giving somebody something other than what they purchased is called fraud. Consumer rights are enforced in the UK.

 

[FitzTheRuke]

It's not my version--it's the law! Giving somebody something other than what they purchased is called fraud. Consumer rights are enforced in the UK.

I understand. I meant "your version" as in "you citizens of the UK". Sorry if that wasn't clear.

 

[Staffan]

And "band-aids" (what you would call, I think, a plaster).

On the subject, I wouldn't call that a coke unless it was a coke, though most restaurants near me will call it a coke, even if it's a pepsi. I'll call the group of carbonated sugar-drinks "pop" - but I don't like pop, so I don't have to say it very often.

I can understand using "coke" as a synonym for "cola" – including Pepsi, RC Cola, Jolt, or whatever. I mean, it's not right, but whatever. But I can't deal with how some locations use it as a synonym for soft/fizzy drinks of whatever kind, as in considering a Sprite a "coke". Though my understanding is that this is mostly in the Atlanta/Georgia area?