What Do You Call This Popular Beverage?

[Belen]

I have tasted Coke before, but what makes it different from a Pepsi?

Pepsi tastes like sweet battery acid.

 

[Paul Farquhar]

Pepsi tastes like sweet battery acid.

Given that it’s acidic sugar water that’s not really surprising!

 

[Ulfgeir]

Are any of the options in this poll used outside of the US? In Canada, I've only ever heard the term 'soft drink'.

I think soft drink is the translation we use here. Funny thing is we do have a beverage here in Sweden that is called "svagdricka", which translates as "soft drink" or "weak drink". It is some root beer-ish stuff.

 

[Tonguez]

I also call it sugar water. Coke isn't evil, unless diabetes, ulcers, and overpaying for sugar water are too.

ulcers and the marketing of highly acidic sugar water as a fun drink for the whole family is evil

I also find it hilarious when various people I know buy Coke Zero because its 'healthier'

 

[CleverNickName]

My reasons for calling the Coca Cola Bottling Company "evil" have less to do with their products and more to do with their politics concerning water rights and and policy.

 

[Ulfgeir]

My reasons for calling the Coca Cola Bottling Company "evil" have less to do with their products and more to do with their politics concerning water rights and and policy.

Worse than Nestle?

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

In my part of Canada (west coast), that would be either a "coke" (or pepsi or whatever) or a "pop," though the more American "soda" is not unheard of, and no one will be confused if you use it to generally refer to soda pop.

I just assumed you all drank carbonated maple syrup.

(To be clear, that sounds pretty good, honestly.)

 

[Dannyalcatraz]

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.

Not Kal-El, but what about Kōk-Elcola?

 

[Dannyalcatraz]

I just assumed you all drank carbonated maple syrup.

(To be clear, that sounds pretty good, honestly.)

I’d at least give that a taste!

Edit: FWIW, I found that there’s several recipes for maple syrup cocktails and mocktails, some of which DO include something like club soda or seltzer.

The closest I’ve found to a commercial maple syrup soft drink a la Coke, 7-Up, et alia, were these:

https://www.candywarehouse.com/products/canadian-maple-syrup-soda-24-piece-case?source=pageEmbed&page=addProductsPage1¤tFlow=byob

https://boxncase.com/products/lester-s-fixins-maple-syrup-soda-12-oz-bottle?variant=43795500499183&country=US¤cy=USD&utm_medium=product_sync&utm_source=google&utm_content=sag_organic&utm_campaign=sag_organic&srsltid=AfmBOopfILXmJ7y2pDGyV5IpQxicPhUSQjHV_DYmReoHRzOmVR42WQQV8No&com_cvv=8fb3d522dc163aeadb66e08cd7450cbbdddc64c6cf2e8891f6d48747c6d56d2c

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Apparently, there’s a soda stream one, too.

 

[Clint_L]

But the thing you dispense beverages into a glass from in a restaurant is definitely only a "soda fountain" and never a "pop fountain".

I have never in my life heard it referred to as a soda fountain, except in what I though were kind of archaic American texts - like an old advertisement or something. When I worked at McDonalds, it was the "pop machine" and when I worked at a bar it was the...hmmm, I can't remember what we called our little gun that shots out pop and soda and OJ and stuff. Defnitely not a "soda fountain" though. That term makes me think of an Archie comic.