What Do You Call This Popular Beverage?

[beta-ray]

Without more info (smell, etc), I'd call it a soda.

For some reason the people of my grandparents generation here called it soda water.

 

[Paul Farquhar]

Yeah, soda water is carbonated water. You put it drinks. Soda siphons were a standard wedding present in the 60s..

 

[jian]

Yeah, soda water is carbonated water. You put it drinks. Soda siphons were a standard wedding present in the 60s..

And Soda Streams were a popular family purchase (ideally as a present from the kids to the parents, as it were) in the 80s and 90s. Maybe still are? No idea. Takes a bit of the mystique out of fizzy drink delivery, I guess - you can play at being a skint pub at home and only put half the syrup dose in everyone’s drinks.

 

[trappedslider]

And Soda Streams were a popular family purchase (ideally as a present from the kids to the parents, as it were) in the 80s and 90s. Maybe still are?

Soda streams have had a resurgence in the last five+ years

 

[gnarlygninja]

My initial reaction is to say 'coke', but that gets filtered through years of learning that if I call it that I'm probably going to have an irritating conversation and the word 'soda' comes out of my mouth instead.. In my home state, there was some geography/class playing into it, so calling it coke might get viewed as backwards or country depending on how polite the other person wanted to be. But after moving to California, and dealing people acting like I'd grown a second hand that was speaking in tongues if I call it coke, I try to avoid any such regionalism.