What Do You Call This Popular Beverage?

[Clint_L]

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.

But also, sugar waters, of which they are the leading proponent, are a world-wide health catastrophe. They probably have as much blood on their hands as cigarrette companies.

 

[HaroldTheHobbit]

Being Swedish, calling it soda invokes US black and white movies from the 50ies. But what do I know, I don’t even drink the stuff, Coca Cola or other brands and tastes.

 

[R_J_K75]

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

Sure, if he's a space coffee bean farmer, Kal-El-Folger??

 

[Cadence]

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 bard 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.

Probably AI, generated, but...

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

That looks like a machine in a non-English speaking language. I don't recognize the language that Coca-Cola logo is in.

 

[Cadence]

That looks like a machine in a non-English speaking language. I don't recognize the language that Coca-Cola logo is in.

The Wikipedia article says it is from China in 2010. I didn't have my reading glasses on and didn't even notice

 

[Morrus]

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

Is it? I've never heard that term in my life.

There's no "is definitely" in this conversation. There's only "in my very limited personal experience of the world".

 

[Cadence]

Is it? I've never heard that term in my life.

There's no "is definitely" in this conversation. There's only "in my very limited personal experience of the world".

I definitely meant "to me and my experience"!

But I note that Google AI (for what that's worth :-/ ) and Wikipedia-US seem to agree.

 

[Dannyalcatraz]

“Soda fountain” is one that goes back many decades- perhaps before my birth- but I don’t hear it often anymore. I’m more likely to hear just “fountain” (and the beverages called “fountain drinks”) or a “drink(s) dispenser”.

Edit: I checked- the first “soda fountains” date back to the early 1800s in Europe and USA.

 

[BookTenTiger]

What do you call this?

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I call it "a couple of Cadbury Eggs."