What Do You Call This Popular Beverage?

[Corinnguard]

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Buttery-flavored soft drink?

 

[payn]

Buttery-flavored soft drink?

 

[Corinnguard]

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"Here, hold my syrup."

 

[Paul Farquhar]

Most of the soft drinks you get from a soda fountain start out as a flavored syrup or syrup concentrate. It's then mixed with CO2 and purified water. So, you aren't too far off.

Now I have to wonder which of the many maple syrups out there in RL would make a good soft drink. Log Cabin?

There are different kinds of maple syrup?!

(Maple must be a very successful company, they even managed to get their logo on the flag.)

 

[Corinnguard]

There are different kinds of maple syrup?!

(Maple must be a very successful company, they even managed to get their logo on the flag.)

Maple syrup - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

Apparently so.

 

[CleverNickName]

Speaking of sodas:

If carbonated beverages are your thing, but you are looking for healthier options, try making your own with frozen fruit juice concentrates. Just thaw a can of your favorite frozen concentrate, pour it into a squeeze bottle, and keep it in the fridge. Whenever you want a soda, you just squirt a couple of ounces of that concentrate over some ice in a glass, then fill with club soda.

It's still quite a lot of sugar (though not nearly as much as canned soda), but at least it has vitamins and minerals and, ya know, actual nutritional value. And you can pronounce all the ingredients.

 

[Willie the Duck]

Assuming for the sake of argument that the stuff in the glass is Pepsi or some other Coke-like product not produced by Coca-Cola as part of its 'Coke' line of products, then it is (for me, hopefully obviously):

• Not a Coke (a specific branded product).
• Is a Cola (a flavor/style of carbonated sweetened drink).
• Is a soda pop (what my gut tells me is the quasi-technical term for carbonated, flavored, and sweetened water-based drinks).
• Is pop (the regional colloquial term for soda pops in my area).
• Is also carbonated beverage (a term which also includes unsweetened fizzy water drinks like soda water, tonic water, mineral waters, etc.).
• Could be a fountain drink (something dispensed from a soda fountain or from a soda gun) if it didn't come in a bottle or can.
• Is also a soft drink (a non-alcoholic beverage).
• Is also a beverage (a drink other than water).
• A drink (something intended/served in typical fashion for one to drink as an atomic unit of consumption).
• Something one drinks (as above, but also mixers, dairy intended to go in coffee/tea, or otherwise components of a complete 'drink.')
• Potable liquid (something that can safely be drunk)
• Liquid (something that can physically be drunk).

There are all sorts of special framing and exceptions to the above system. For instance, coffee and tea might be distinct from soft drinks if alcohol isn't even in the running (the work cafeteria might serve 'coffee, tea, or soft drinks'). Likewise, 'NA' drinks like near-beer and dealcoholized wine register to me as special-case entities on the alcoholic drinks menu, and don't fit in the 'soft drink' framing. Similarly, if someone asks what you beverage preference is, you might say 'water' even through by the above framing that's not technically a beverage (although that might just be shorthanding 'no beverage, I'll just have water').

 

[dragoner]

 

[Pale Violet Light]

Here in NZ, the most common generic term would be "fizzy" or "fizzy drink". That being said, lemon-lime drinks like Sprite and 7-Up are referred to as "lemonade" -- which of course means something different for me!

I had the opposite experience and have transitioned from “fizzy drink” to the more international (?) “soft drink”. In addition, I was very displeased the first time I got American-style lemonade instead of sprite. Not that it’s bad, just not what I was expecting.

 

[The Soloist]

Over here, in Quebec, most people call it une liqueur, but it's a misnomer because a liqueur is a sweet alcoholic beverage distilled from a fruit. Some of us say, boisson gazeuse (soda), which is the correct term.

NO ONE would ask for a Coke, meaning a Pepsi instead. There is a big turf war in Quebec. One of the only places in the world where Pepsi is more popular than Coke. It's somewhat political. Coke is red, the colour of the Canadian flag. Pepsi is blue, the colour of the Quebec flag. In some parts of Montreal, calling a Quebecer 'a Pepsi' is an insult. But it's dated now. It was mostly used in the 70s during the heyday of Quebec's francophone 'quiet revolution' movement.