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Polls => Polls => Topic started by: Areya on November 26, 2011, 11:15:28 PM

Poll
Question: You want a carbonated beverage.  What do you say?  "Give me a  ____?"
Option 1: Soda votes: 5
Option 2: Coke votes: 2
Option 3: Pop votes: 1
Option 4: Cola votes: 0
Option 5: Some other name votes: 1
Title: Drink Moniker
Post by: Areya on November 26, 2011, 11:15:28 PM
Oldie but goldie.

Around these parts we call everything a coke!
Title: Re: Drink Moniker
Post by: Majestica on November 27, 2011, 03:12:27 PM
It's POP damnit!
Title: Re: Drink Moniker
Post by: Ryudei on November 28, 2011, 09:09:18 PM
I'm sure I've asked this before but I've forgotten the answer so remind me:  In areas where you call soda "coke", how do you specify that you want a coke?
Title: Re: Drink Moniker
Post by: Majestica on November 28, 2011, 09:31:42 PM
In my experience, you say "I'll take a coke." and they say "Sure. What kind?" lol
Title: Re: Drink Moniker
Post by: Ryudei on November 28, 2011, 10:59:07 PM
And then you say "A coke dammit!"

But really, do you say Cola instead?  Or do you have to say Coca-Cola?  Or maybe coke-coke!  What do they do!
Title: Re: Drink Moniker
Post by: Ennaor on November 28, 2011, 11:57:18 PM
Coke or Pepsi?
Title: Re: Drink Moniker
Post by: Ryudei on November 29, 2011, 12:12:08 AM
That's a totally different discussion!  Though I'll drink either.
Title: Re: Drink Moniker
Post by: LoneKenT on November 29, 2011, 04:41:00 PM
Canned drink in Indonesia.
Toronto is pop.
Title: Re: Drink Moniker
Post by: Zerila on November 30, 2011, 02:59:49 AM
It was always "pop" while growing up. But now that I'm better traveled and so much more sophisticated, it's "soda" :P
Title: Re: Drink Moniker
Post by: Majestica on November 30, 2011, 03:32:04 AM
lol well I grew up in Ohio, and we called it pop. Even at the grocery store, the aisle sign said "Pop" ;) I moved to Japan, then to SC and then to Florida and I still call it pop, and my kids call it pop so NYA :P (Much to their daddy's dismay! heehee)
Title: Re: Drink Moniker
Post by: Kyuuketsuki on November 30, 2011, 11:34:49 AM
It's "boisson gazeuse" in French (carbonated drink), but they almost always just say "soda".
Title: Re: Drink Moniker
Post by: Suji on December 01, 2011, 01:01:59 AM
I grew up with everything being called "coke" too, even pepsi or mountain dew or anything from a soda fountain, basically. if you actually wanted coca cola, you had to clarify by saying you wanted a "coke coke" ;)
Title: Re: Drink Moniker
Post by: Areya on December 01, 2011, 01:32:10 AM
Yeah, Suji knows what I mean.

It's funny though, when I went to Phoenix on a band trip, a girl at a concession stand actually said "coke" too.  Usually it's the South where that term is prevalent, from what I've seen.

Soda doesn't really bug me, but "pop"...  *shudder*
Title: Re: Drink Moniker
Post by: Majestica on December 01, 2011, 02:02:22 AM
What's that? I couldn't hear you... I was opening my can of pop.
Title: Re: Drink Moniker
Post by: Areya on December 01, 2011, 02:17:42 AM
*steals your can of coke*
Title: Re: Drink Moniker
Post by: Ryudei on December 01, 2011, 03:39:44 AM
(http://popvssoda.com/countystats/total-county.gif)

The lines have been drawn!
Title: Re: Drink Moniker
Post by: Zerila on December 01, 2011, 06:53:14 AM
Oh, wow! My whole state is solid blue! Well, except for a little green... since blue equals "pop" and I say "soda", that means that I am such a unique snowflake! :P
Title: Re: Drink Moniker
Post by: Ennaor on December 27, 2011, 06:23:09 PM
Now what do you call your hats? http://waywordradio.org/great-knitted-hat-survey.html (http://waywordradio.org/great-knitted-hat-survey.html)
Title: Re: Drink Moniker
Post by: Ryudei on December 28, 2011, 01:29:30 AM
Trust an engineer to turn this into something infinitely more complicated...

;p

I think I'd call those all beanies but I'm definitely too lazy to make sure!
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