Soda, Pop, or Coke What do you drink?

[vetusvates]

Well, Carol, if one were to say to one's mother, sister, brother, significant other, hey, let's go get a coke...then that means it could be anything carbonated. One won't know for sure precisely what kind of "soda/cola" until one gets there and decides.

But as the years have gone by, I think we are more specific. Sometime (in the 80's, maybe) they stopped asking what kind and if you said coke without thinking, then a Coca-Cola is what you got. I 'think' that is what later prompted drive-thrus to now ask "what flavor drink would you like, sir/ma'am?"

Pops is a friendly term of endearment for an elderly man, white or often black. I have probably never said the word "pop" in my life. In fact, I will pay $10 to the first person, here or in Daytona, who can trick me into saying something so out of character as the word "pop".
I might even buy them a coke. But I will ask them what kind they'd like beforehand.

 

[Stormy]

BK and Wendy's have the best DP...Taco Bell is the worst. It's very odd that they taste different at all. I prefer 20oz bottles over cans and fountain...

They taste different because each food place has a different mixture that is supposed to go better with the food they serve. Same with if you go to a different country and get a dr pepper. They have a different mixture that tastes better to the native taste buds.

 

[vetusvates]

For example : Wade's joke was so funny that it made Nanci snort coke out of her nose.
But what make it even funnier is that it was a Grape Nehi.

 

[carol]

BK and Wendy's have the best DP...Taco Bell is the worst. It's very odd that they taste different at all. I prefer 20oz bottles over cans and fountain...

Those soda spigots on the soda machines get really mildewy if you don't clean them often. My first job was working for a hot dog joint. We had to clean the spigots weekly. I wonder if other places do....

Pops is a friendly term of endearment for an elderly man, white or often black. I have probably never said the word "pop" in my life. In fact, I will pay $10 to the first person, here or in Daytona, who can trick me into saying something so out of character as the word "pop".
I might even buy them a coke. But I will ask them what kind they'd like beforehand.

Before my trip to Ohio, I never heard anyone say "pop" outside a 50's movie. CA sheltered I guess. We can be in our own little world over here.

 

[vetusvates]

Before my trip to Ohio, I never heard anyone say "pop" outside a 50's movie. CA sheltered I guess. We can be in our own little world over here.

I know.....
Now that I think of it, I might say "popping" regarding snakes, so that doesn't count.

I guess in the south "coke" has/had a generic meaning like "beer".

 

[dionythicus]

I don't drink much in the way of carbonated drinks, but I usually call them all sodas.

 

[vetusvates]

I don't drink much in the way of carbonated drinks, but I usually call them all sodas.

I don't either. I almost never drink soft drinks. And I don't know why.

But I wasn't being negative about "pop". I think that with the internet, and in forums (in the loosest sense of the word) like this, has arisen a broader more universal awareness by which will likely evolve a more uniform, consensual spoken and written vernacular.

 

[v_various]

whoa, shows what I know. I thought all Americans said "soda"! All the ones I know do, anyway.

Up in Canada it's "pop".

 

[Darcpixie]

It's still Pop. Darn it. MOUNTAIN DEW *zombie*

What we get for being in Ohio, I guess.

 

[dogsNdragons]

POP, born and raised in OH.
Sometimes, I still say it even after living in FL since '79.

 

[mike17l]

Hey Eric, what does the water in corn do to the corn when it is heated in hot oil?

What kind of corn am I talking about?