Pop, Soda, Soda-Pop, Or Coke?

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  1. Mattekat

    Mattekat Ice Queen of The North

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    Pop, soda, soda pop, soft drink.... I kind of use all of these interchangeably.
     
  2. audrey_the_endotherm

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    I feel like we've had this discussion before.
     
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  3. Yogamat

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    Soft drinks.(Australian).Funny in the UK,people ask for a "tin of coke"not a can of coke!lol
     
  4. autophobe2e

    autophobe2e Senior Member

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    lived here 24 years, never once heard anyone say that.

    We do occasionally refer to canned beer as "tins" or "tinnies" (but you'd never hear: "a tin of beer") and to pints as "jars" though, so I'm certainly not saying we aren't ridiculous, but I've never heard anyone say "a tin of coke".
     
  5. Yogamat

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    Ive heard it plenty of times.Maybe it depends which area of the UK you live in?Although Ive lived all over the place,and heard it heaps.
     
  6. mallyboppa

    mallyboppa Senior Member

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    This Guy is Amazing ( I might Have Posted this Before ) So Shoot Me !

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gPbh6Ru7VVM&feature=youtu.be
     
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  7. Terrapin2190

    Terrapin2190 I am nature.

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    I just call it corrosive sugar filled bubbly stuff which comes out of a dispenser that probably wasn't cleaned in the past 2 weeks.

    I'll take a juice! :)

    That was SO COOL!!!

    We've got a local soda pop shop here in St. Louis (not really local from where I am), but it's not nearly as cool as that. We actually have a few I think, but not nearly as passionate and adamant towards small business as that is. Where's that located anyways? I'd take a road trip just to check out his store and talk with him a bit!
     
  8. autophobe2e

    autophobe2e Senior Member

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    I've certainly lived all over the shop, and I've never heard it, odd stuff.
     
  9. themnax

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    you loose. actually i cook for myself all the time. not saying i actually make anything fancy very often, but as for fast food, about twice a month is average. it is two out the 3 times a month i eat anyplace other then my own little kitchen. the other one is usually some kind of buffette. never the same one twice in a row. the whole point of eating anyplace but my own cooking where i live by myself is to eat something different. about once a month i buy a bottle of something carbonated at the store. if its orangina, i will get that in the liter bottle, which is about half the price of the four little bottles that add up to the same amount. like with the fast food, i get something a little strange and a little different each time. no way to know if they come off the same lines, but i avoid big name branding, just on gp's. and i look for odd little places.
     
  10. hotwater

    hotwater Senior Member Lifetime Supporter

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    I’ll call it whatever it happens to be Coke, Pepsi, Orange Crush, Mountain Dew, but as a generic term I call it Soda.

    Coca-Cola was the first real energy drink. Around 1900 it contained 8.46 mg of cocaine and was further enhanced by a heavy dose of caffeine from the coca nut


    Hotwater
     
  11. secret_thinker

    secret_thinker Lifetime Supporter Lifetime Supporter

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    soft drink or cool drink.
     
  12. audrey_the_endotherm

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    I love his enthusiasm, I want to visit his shop and have a conversation with him.
     
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  13. I'minmyunderwear

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  14. newo

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    FIZZY DRINKS?!! THAT'S THE LAMEST YET!
     
  15. MeAgain

    MeAgain Dazed & Confused Lifetime Supporter Super Moderator

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    When I was a mere tad I traveled from Pittsburgh to New York City to see an Uncle. We went into a shop of some kind and sat down at the snack counter and he asked me if I wanted a soda. I said sure and envisioned a nice tall serving of an ice cream soda with whipped cream and a cherry on top. I figured he musta been rich.

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    All I got was a bottle of pop.
     
  16. expanse

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    I say pop.

    By NoxiousGas's map, I see that 80 to 100% of people living where I grew up say pop. I live about 60 miles away from my hometown now(in the same state), but 50 to 80% say coke here. I rarely hear pop.
     
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