~~Shm.~~ Smh. The fucking people who call all sodas "coke".
Them: What kind of Ford do you drive? Me: a Chevy.
It's from Coca-Cola (headquartered in Atlanta) having total dominance of the south for a long time.
See also My Names Is Earl. "She was Chinese... Japanese, specifically."
I could say the same thing about people calling all soft drinks "soda"
"soda" is not also a specific drink though
The only time people say "soda" where I am, is when referring to soda water, which is a specific drink. (And imo a terrible one)
Edit: It's just an interesting difference in language, I'm not making an argument about what's right...
If only there was a way to specify between a "soda" and a "soda water"
Dude it makes perfect sense.
The “so” is the first two letters from the word and the “d” is the third letter. And the “a” is obviously because…..
I'M SHOOK
You've changed my whole world
Stupid shit like this hits hard to some folks in the south. I have family members are pissed how "everything is changing", so much in fact that this very thing caused a disturbance at a local college pub. Last year, one of my dumbass family members was thrown out for being rude. When I asked him what happened he said...
" That god damn Yankee girl wanted to know if I wanted a fucking pop. What the fuck is a pop? So I asked her. She said something like a soda or whatever and I told her, it's a fucking coke and she needs to go back to fucking Chicago and get fucked. Don't bring your stupid shit down here."
Even more f'd up, is he would have ordered a Sprite.
I dislike a few of my relatives.
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Sprites are great, what's with all this sprite slander? Sprite, Sierra Mist, etc are the best sodas.
You're missing how it works; you ask for a Coke, the server says what kind, and you say Sprite.
Why you gotta leave out the og? 7up is the quintessential lemon lime beverage. Much better in a cocktail, IMO.
While my own similar rant would have been only meant in play, this is how I feel about both o' y'all. It's a fucking soda. Gonna just go all the way and call sweet tea a coke too?
Calling it soda, good. Calling it pop, fine. Calling every soft drink a coke, fuck off.
Get this, in Scotland, pretty much any liquid is called juice.
I gotta put juice in my car, it's on empty
Still makes more sense than calling Sprite "coke".
Soda is an always has been the right term, but the people who say "coke" to mean any soda are the most wrongest people in history
Inshallah the South will no longer be a walking advertisement for coca cola 🙏
Soda: the correct way to say it
Coke: a specific brand, but I'm all for genericization
Pop: why are you calling a soft drink daddy?
Don't kinky shame.
The south is emphatically wrong on so much shit but calling soda/pop "coke" is somehow at the top of my list
Call all ice cream vanilla, or all cereal corn flakes, or all alcohol beer why the fuck not
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We call it pop up in Canada so I'm rooting for that, but I will accept some loss of territory if it helps eliminate the coke people.
That explains my confusion on why I always got told that people in the south call it all coke, but when growing up, I always heard just called soda; I grew up in NC, which is considered a southern state, but appears to have been completely taken over by the soda side at this point.
Growing up in western NC, it was always Coke when I was a kid. But then shopping carts were buggies and toilets were commodes back then too.
Buggies I've not heard, but I do have a grandmother who still calls it the commode.
they are cutting down all the forest :c
These are always so weird to me. I grew up in the rural south, and I’ve never once heard Coke used to describe soft drinks generically. In my experience when someone asks for a “coke” they specifically mean Coca Cola and would be pissed if they got something else.
If you go to Georgia, ‘coke’ is whichever cola they have. At least that’s been my experience when visiting family down there. 99% of the time you get Coca Cola, but that 1% is a kick in the nuts.
Had the same experience when I lived in east Texas and visited rural Louisiana. But it wasn’t that way when I lived in Virginia. Coke meant Coca Cola, and if you asked for coke and they had Pepsi, they’d ask if Pepsi was ok.
In western Washington, it’s a hodgepodge.
I like how it has really vague boundaries that are obviously approximate but then it pretends to do precise gerrymandering-type carveouts in the second map
Pop is slang, coke is a brand, soda is the read deal. You used to go to a business that had a soda fountain. SODA
The south: all soft drinks are Coca-Cola. We don't have anything else.
The rest of the world: Order what the fuck you actually want instead of adding a layer of needless obfuscation.
Lived in Quebec, Canada up until recently. My family called it coke.
I'm from Quebec, always called it a soft drink, or boisson gazeuse.
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