Paul Farquhar
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Don’t think so. Pubs - it comes out of a pipe or in bottles. Chippies and other takeaways - they sell cans from a fridge. Restaurants - bottles.
What Do You Call This Popular Beverage?
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I got in trouble with my wife over something similar.
Me: I'm going to Rita's, what something? (Rita's does Italian Ices.)
Wife: Get me a lemon ice.
... {A few minutes later} ...
Me: Here's your lemon ice.
Wife: Why didn't you get me cherry, you know that's my favorite.
Me: You asked for a lemon ice.
Wife: They're called lemon ice. I wanted cherry flavor.
Me: boggle
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Where I grew up, if you just tell the waiter you want "a coke," they will bring you whatever carbonated beverage they carry--sometimes it's Pepsi, sometimes Dr. Pepper, sometimes Coca-Cola. They usually won't ask you to clarify unless you look like you aren't a local (maybe you're wearing an I 
NY t-shirt, or driving a Prius with out-of-state tags, or whatever).
If you definitely want a Coca-Cola and no substitution will do, you have to order it specifically by name "I'd like a Coca-Cola, please.")
Not sure why, but that's how they do where I grew up. If you cut Oklahoma into four quarters, along I-35 running north-south, and I-40 running east-west, I grew up in the southeast quadrant.
NY t-shirt, or driving a Prius with out-of-state tags, or whatever).If you definitely want a Coca-Cola and no substitution will do, you have to order it specifically by name "I'd like a Coca-Cola, please.")
Not sure why, but that's how they do where I grew up. If you cut Oklahoma into four quarters, along I-35 running north-south, and I-40 running east-west, I grew up in the southeast quadrant.
That’s interesting. I’m from the U.K. and have lived in Canada (BC) for two years, and have never heard anyone use the term soda fountain (or indeed soda jerk) outside old American films, where they seem to have often been specific stores/bars selling soda from a machine (resembling a modern soda gun or bar gun), though there’s also machines in drugstores and some diners. I therefore tend to associate the phrase with both a machine that produces soda and a store that sells soda from machines, but only in the US before 1980 or so.I don't know what to tell you. It's a "soda fountain" because it dispenses "fountain soda"; sometimes also more broadly "fountain drinks", as occasionally they also dispense non-carbonated drinks like lemonade or Hi-C. Fountain vs. bottled drinks being a standard distinction at fast food and some other restaurants I've encountered in the US and in Canada. It's been a while since my last trip to Europe, but I'm pretty sure they made the same distinction in Ireland in 2018 when I was there last.
Like I said, if you're in one of those regions that uses the term "pop" instead of "soda", "pop fountain" makes sense. "Pop machine" runs into the issue of confusing it with an automated vending machine.
It is funny when folks who don't possess vocabulary for a given object express disbelief that other people do. Like Morrus leaping to the assumption that Cadence was speaking from "very limited personal experience of the world" because Morrus hadn't heard a term.
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In the U.K. and Canada (and NZ, where I’ve also lived) people seem to call the machine (usually found in pubs, bars, and some restaurants) a soda gun or bar gun. The machine that dispenses fizzy drinks in cinemas (you know, where you can press the buttons for ice and different flavours) generally seems to be called a soda machine, similarly to a Slurpee machine in 7-11 etc. But I can see why you might call it a soda fountain.
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so, what lead to the divorce?
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I hadn’t seen one in decades until I visited my German friend ( in Germany). But he mostly used it to make disgusting fizzy water, not delicious diabetes-inducing sweet beverages.
They're somewhat common here in Sweden as well – not to the point of everyone having one, but you don't get surprised when you see one. But I have some vague memories of the first time they became popular, when I was a kid in the early 80s, of there being lots and lots of different flavor syrups available for them. But nowadays, it seems they pretty much only have Pepsi and 7-up, and I believe most who buy one only use it to make carbonated water as opposed to buying it by the bottle.
