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[โ€“] WagnasT@lemmy.world 74 points 10 months ago (4 children)

pop is getting smaller and towards the midwest, eventually it will just be minisoda.

[โ€“] milicent_bystandr@lemm.ee 11 points 10 months ago

Ah, a pop joke.

[โ€“] UltraMagnus0001@lemmy.world 6 points 10 months ago

Don't ya know now

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[โ€“] ArbitraryValue@sh.itjust.works 55 points 10 months ago (1 children)

We have them on the run, boys!

[โ€“] BillMurray@lemmy.world 20 points 10 months ago (2 children)

If they showed Canada on this map, you'd think otherwise...

[โ€“] eezeebee@lemmy.ca 12 points 10 months ago (1 children)

We're up here drinking our pop while sitting on the chesterfield

[โ€“] psvrh@lemmy.ca 6 points 10 months ago
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[โ€“] djsoren19@yiffit.net 32 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (7 children)

Maybe the Pop and Soda users can at least band together to get Coke removed forever before returning to their own fight. I don't know really know which of those two I prefer, but it is insane to refer to a Mountain Dew as a Coke.

[โ€“] Flocklesscrow@lemm.ee 8 points 10 months ago

Not at all surprised where it's concentrated though. The poorest, least educated, least healthful States in the country, where corporate branding has superceded basic terminology.

[โ€“] Darkassassin07@lemmy.ca 5 points 10 months ago

Would you like a Coke?

hands you an orange crush

[โ€“] bitchkat@lemmy.world 4 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Have you ever asked for a root beer and been given a Dr pepper?

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[โ€“] BeMoreCareful@lemmy.world 4 points 10 months ago

I'll never forget my horror when I asked for a medium coke and the lady just handed me some random beverage. She didn't even ask what kind of coke I wanted.

Though nowadays the only coke I drink is la croix.

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[โ€“] doggle@lemmy.dbzer0.com 24 points 10 months ago (3 children)

I'm from GA, and I never understood people calling all soda a coke. Giving someone a Pepsi when they asked for a coke is enough to start an altercation around here -- they are not at all considered interchangeable

[โ€“] Allonzee@lemmy.world 11 points 10 months ago

I mean, I assume part of that standoffishness is simply local pride since Coca Cola is headquartered there.

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[โ€“] Sendpicsofsandwiches@sh.itjust.works 19 points 10 months ago (2 children)

It's pop and I will die on this hill

[โ€“] Dhar@lemmy.ca 19 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Hello. My name is Inigo Montoya. I prefer the word soda. Prepare to die.

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[โ€“] saltesc@lemmy.world 13 points 10 months ago (1 children)

In Australia, they're called soft drinks because they have little or no alcohol in them.

[โ€“] Zarxrax@lemmy.world 12 points 10 months ago (1 children)

We call them soft drinks in America too.

[โ€“] Albbi@lemmy.ca 14 points 10 months ago

I was today years old when I learned that the soft on soft drink is the opposite of hard in terms of liquor.

[โ€“] Kolanaki@yiffit.net 12 points 10 months ago (3 children)

Soda is carbonated water.

Pop is dad.

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[โ€“] criitz@reddthat.com 12 points 10 months ago (1 children)
[โ€“] subtext@lemmy.world 9 points 10 months ago

Sodageddon

Popaganda

[โ€“] randon31415@lemmy.world 11 points 10 months ago

Born in a pop stronghold, and it is still holding. Coke is a brand, not all pop!

[โ€“] HootinNHollerin@lemmy.world 11 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Dr Pepper is king either way

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[โ€“] lugal@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 points 10 months ago
[โ€“] swag_money@lemmy.world 9 points 10 months ago (2 children)
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[โ€“] Signtist@lemm.ee 8 points 10 months ago

I grew up almost exclusively hearing "pop," and use it in casual situations, but I prefer to use "soda" in public. Asking a server what kind of "pop" they have seems odd to me, but at the same time asking a friend if I can grab a "soda" seems odd as well.

[โ€“] jerkface@lemmy.ca 8 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I stopped needing to refer to carbonated beverages in everyday language like decades ago

[โ€“] WordBox@lemmy.world 6 points 10 months ago

Congrats

You have transcended the want for fizzy

Now upon your tongue, only pizzy.

[โ€“] JackGreenEarth@lemm.ee 8 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Fizzy drink for me in the UK, although most other people I know call it 'sparkling'

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[โ€“] Darkassassin07@lemmy.ca 8 points 10 months ago

Pass me a fizzy beverage, my good sir.

[โ€“] ZombiFrancis@sh.itjust.works 7 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I say 'Soda' but with a Midwestern accent to compromise.

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[โ€“] thesporkeffect@lemmy.world 7 points 10 months ago (2 children)
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[โ€“] Albbi@lemmy.ca 7 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I met him in a swamp down in Dagoba Where it bubbles all the time like a giant carbonated soda S O D A, soda

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[โ€“] paddirn@lemmy.world 6 points 10 months ago

GOOD! I grew up living in the north-east and we called it "Soda", then moved west and kept hearing people say "pop" and it was the most annoying thing, glad to see everyone else is coming around to the correct name.

[โ€“] hihellobyeoh@lemmy.world 6 points 10 months ago

I mean, I moved to Michigan from one of the soda areas, and I give people shit when they say pop so. Am I the baddie, no it is they who are wrong.

[โ€“] bananasuit@lemmy.world 6 points 10 months ago

"You want a beautiful name? Soda."

[โ€“] Gingerlegs@lemmy.world 5 points 10 months ago (2 children)

As a Coke, I have to say I never soda this coming

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[โ€“] Not_mikey@slrpnk.net 5 points 10 months ago

I'm doing my part to fight back, moved to California from Michigan and my girlfriend used to say pop ironically but she's said it so much now she uses it too.

[โ€“] bcgm3@lemmy.world 5 points 10 months ago (4 children)

Question for the folks in the gray area... Are you all referring to all brands and flavors of carbonated soft drinks as 'Coke,' or has Coca-Cola beat out all competitors there, or how does that work?

[โ€“] xanu@lemmy.world 8 points 10 months ago

All brown sodas are Coke. Sprite and it's equivalents were separate at least where I grew up. you ask for a coke and the person taking your order asks "what kind?" and you clarify "Pepsi" or "root beer" or "coke coke".

[โ€“] Akasazh@feddit.nl 6 points 10 months ago
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