Uh, by the brand name. People who call it pop should succeed from the union and get absorbed into Canada, I will not tolerate your alien ways. Pop is a nickname for dads and grandpas.
Who the hell calls every drink a coke? That's just weird. It's soda. Or you can call it a soft drink. But pop sounds fucking stupid, and coke is a brand name.
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It's at least somewhat common in europe. Some countries refer to all soda as coke.
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Living in the uk and spending at least a couple of months a year in other areas of europe I can honestly say I have never heard anyone call fizzy drinks coke. Coke is often used as a generic term for cola but you'd never hear anyone call a 7-up coke.
A lot of people do use "coke" to refer to them as a whole, but that's not uncommon. "Hoovering" at least used to be very common for referring to vaccuming and google has become the generic term for using a search engine, even when not using google. "I'm going to google it".
" Who the hell calls every drink a coke? That's just weird. It's soda. Or you can call it a soft drink. But pop sounds fucking stupid, and coke is a brand name. "
I worked as a waiter in Auburn last semester. It was pretty common to have people ask "what kind of coke do you have?". I used to do it too. This is the deep south though. And I think we're the only area that does it. "
Aw, you totally wasted your 1000th post on me. But yeah, it's weird to call it Coke. But I guess it's kinda like people calling every tissue a Kleenex. "
" Who the hell calls every drink a coke? That's just weird. It's soda. Or you can call it a soft drink. But pop sounds fucking stupid, and coke is a brand name. "
I worked as a waiter in Auburn last semester. It was pretty common to have people ask "what kind of coke do you have?". I used to do it too. This is the deep south though. And I think we're the only area that does it. "
Aw, you totally wasted your 1000th post on me. But yeah, it's weird to call it Coke. But I guess it's kinda like people calling every tissue a Kleenex. "
Genericized trademarks are pretty common these days. Americans call any gelatin-based dessert Jell-O, in the UK we often call vacuum cleaners 'Hoovers', sticky tape is referred to as 'Sellotape', and so on. Coke does seem really strange, though.
I'd usually just say a can of juice, or a fizzy drink, but...
My friends and I have our own ridiculous lingo, so a Coke eventually became known as a 'solid', which is now the accepted generic term for a can of fizzy juice, as far as I'm concerned.
"Pop" is correct. POP. The term just screams salty syrupy zit pus.
I fixed it!
But for real, "pop" has no substance. It's empty. Airy. Devoid. It is the polar opposite to the drink in question.
And that map is hot bullshit! I've lived in Washington for twenty years, and I've NEVER heard anyone call it pop except for this one guy who was from Idaho. It's SODA.
I'm from the UK and call them fizzy drinks. Gets right to the point. I feel like it's the one name for them that is as universal as the word carbonated. You know exactly what you're getting. You Americans overcomplicate things.
Mods will lock stuff cus they feel like it, yet let 3 year old threads be necro'd.
Makes no sense.
Why would you start a new thread when there already is one? That's something I've never understood.
Why would you rather revive a dead thread where most of the people who were part of the discussion aren't going to reply? Why not simply make a new conversation on the same subject?
Almost every other forum autolocks topics after a period of time. Giantbombs forum policies are frankly awful.
I'm from Australia and most people here call it "soft drink", weird huh. I almost think people should be calling it soda, or pop. Definitely not soft drink...
Any other Aussies care to weigh in?
Soft drink is valid, makes sense since it's not a hard drink.
Pretty sure I've said this in another thread but...
I grew up saying "Pop," and I'll still call most big brand carbonated beverages that (Pepsi, Sprite, Coke-a-cola). But there's another breed artisan drink that will come in a glass bottle and often use cane sugar. I'll call brand like Jones, Boylan, Pop Shoppe (yeah) "Soda". These smaller brands have limited distribution, but you might have similar ones in your region.
Western Canadian, by the way.
Edit: I do like "Fizzy Drink," maybe I'll start saying that now, despite the fact it will annoy the people around me.
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