Carbonated soft drinks like Coca-Cola, Pepsi, et al, are called...

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Option	Votes
soda	37
pop	28
coke	11
Other (please specify)	8
DOGTITS	6
an ever-so-lovely refreshment	4
lol canada	3
yr mom	2
soda pop	1
poison	1
lemonade	0

― HI DERE, Thursday, 26 April 2007 18:31 (eighteen years ago)

Other (Lysol douche)

― Rock Hardy, Thursday, 26 April 2007 18:32 (eighteen years ago)

No SoCo?

― Mr. Que, Thursday, 26 April 2007 18:32 (eighteen years ago)

Where's the 'soft drinks' option?

― Matt DC, Thursday, 26 April 2007 18:33 (eighteen years ago)

Oh, in the thread title, I R moran.

― Matt DC, Thursday, 26 April 2007 18:34 (eighteen years ago)

yeah this whole thread has gone to DOGTITS

― Mr. Que, Thursday, 26 April 2007 18:34 (eighteen years ago)

dreck

― Michael White, Thursday, 26 April 2007 18:35 (eighteen years ago)

Soft drinks was a confusing phrase to me as a child since I had never heard of 'hard drinks' or even alcohol except as a JUST SAY NO to. They reminded me of a cascading waterfall of silky water down which Grimace perpetually splashed.

― Abbott, Thursday, 26 April 2007 18:39 (eighteen years ago)

No SoCoCoCo oRo?

― Ed, Thursday, 26 April 2007 18:39 (eighteen years ago)

I say "soda," though I know the correct answer for me should be "coke."

― Curt1s Stephens, Thursday, 26 April 2007 18:39 (eighteen years ago)

Coke! after Coke! after Coke! after Coca-Cola!

― Abbott, Thursday, 26 April 2007 18:40 (eighteen years ago)

I believe Fluffy Bear will say "pop." In fact, I'd place money on that.

― Sara R-C, Thursday, 26 April 2007 18:40 (eighteen years ago)

ginger

juice

― RJG, Thursday, 26 April 2007 18:41 (eighteen years ago)

NAME OF BEST OUTSIDERS CHARACTER THAT ISN'T PONYBOY

― Abbott, Thursday, 26 April 2007 18:41 (eighteen years ago)

Soh-dee pop

― kingfish, Thursday, 26 April 2007 18:43 (eighteen years ago)

Sodie-pop

XPOST!!

― nabisco, Thursday, 26 April 2007 18:43 (eighteen years ago)

OMG I am kingfish now

― nabisco, Thursday, 26 April 2007 18:43 (eighteen years ago)

Here are some links to things you disagree with:

― nabisco, Thursday, 26 April 2007 18:45 (eighteen years ago)

http://www.families-first.com/pets/images/bassettwinreindeers.jpg

― Ms Misery, Thursday, 26 April 2007 18:45 (eighteen years ago)

ginger.

― jed_, Thursday, 26 April 2007 18:46 (eighteen years ago)

harhar, do you OWN a bassett kingfish or just direly covet one?

― Abbott, Thursday, 26 April 2007 18:46 (eighteen years ago)

Used to. Priscilla the Basset Hound was the family pooch from about 1987 to 1999. We bred her once, during my senior year of HS, which was alternately hilarious and poo-intensive, having a group of basset puppies(called a "moosh") in a plastic swimming pool in the family room for 6-8 weeks. The carpet was soon replaced after the last of the basset puppies were sold off.

I do want a dog, tho. And a cat, since playing with the neighbor's cat only lasts for about half an hour.

Mock my links all ye want but ye still reads 'em.

― kingfish, Thursday, 26 April 2007 18:52 (eighteen years ago)

i think i was the only kid in my town who referred to it as soda

― deeznuts, Thursday, 26 April 2007 18:56 (eighteen years ago)

which i think is considered east coast & elitist

― deeznuts, Thursday, 26 April 2007 18:56 (eighteen years ago)

compared to DOGTITS anyway

― deeznuts, Thursday, 26 April 2007 18:56 (eighteen years ago)

DOGTITS was totally my favorite character in The Outsiders.

― kenan, Thursday, 26 April 2007 18:58 (eighteen years ago)

CORPORATE DEATH FIZZY HIGH-FRUCTOSE CORN SYRUP WATER (with benzene!)

― Oilyrags, Thursday, 26 April 2007 19:03 (eighteen years ago)

I CALL IT FIZZY DRINK. Or just 'fizzy'. Or 'fizz'. Cos I am a kiwi.

― franny glass, Thursday, 26 April 2007 19:03 (eighteen years ago)

Where is "cola"? "Diet cola, please" is what I order in restaurants, because I don't care if it's Coke, Pepsi, RC, or that W4lm4rt generic crap - brown, bubbly, bitter, cold, caffeinated, and full of brain-affecting sweet chemicals is all I ask.

― Jaq, Thursday, 26 April 2007 19:05 (eighteen years ago)

Aww sorry Kingfish that wasn't meant to be MEAN link-mocking. I totally look at the cartoons, though I worry how long your sanity can stand up to actually searching out and reading that stuff!

― nabisco, Thursday, 26 April 2007 19:05 (eighteen years ago)

I posted that picture b/c you like to post such pictures.

― Ms Misery, Thursday, 26 April 2007 19:09 (eighteen years ago)

dogtits obv

― Fluffy Bear Hearts Rainbows, Thursday, 26 April 2007 19:13 (eighteen years ago)

Oh I try not to read the stuff much, since exposure to even Michael Medved will drive you fuckin' nuts(sample recent topic: why a lack of american mass-transit means that we're freer than we were in decades past, and libruls want public transit b/c they hate freedom). The cartoons are a far more compacted shot of bilious hate and fucked ideology that can be consumed and rejected quicker than some jackass going on for 800 words about Hitlery.

anyhoo, back on topic:

Was it upper midwest slang to refer to all carbonated beverages as "Cokes" as MST3K once alleged?

xp: true, such pictures amuse me. Like hounds wearing silly hats and looking rather nonplussed about it.

― kingfish, Thursday, 26 April 2007 19:14 (eighteen years ago)

that's georgia/southern slang to call everything a coke

― Mr. Que, Thursday, 26 April 2007 19:16 (eighteen years ago)

a half hour is a really long time to play with a cat, btw. my parents got a kitten & house/catsit one day & i got sick of the dangling stick-attached-to-string-attached-to-mouse thingy after like 5 minutes, maybe i was overly aggressive but id think a cat would pass out after 30 mins of that shit

― deeznuts, Thursday, 26 April 2007 19:16 (eighteen years ago)

xpost
yes, southern.

― Ms Misery, Thursday, 26 April 2007 19:17 (eighteen years ago)

I've heard about the calling all sodas "Cokes" thing but still expect my head to reel upon actually hearing this in person one day.

― ENBB, Thursday, 26 April 2007 19:18 (eighteen years ago)

You want a coke ENBB? What, Dr. Pepper? Sprite? Diet Coke?

― Ms Misery, Thursday, 26 April 2007 19:18 (eighteen years ago)

my best friend was like that! i think he outgrew it though
xp

― deeznuts, Thursday, 26 April 2007 19:18 (eighteen years ago)

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO! It's just so wrong.

xpost

― ENBB, Thursday, 26 April 2007 19:19 (eighteen years ago)

deeznuts, what, you mean he trained himself to stop saying it? my elderly relatives and the people at the cafe down the street never outgrew it.

― Ms Misery, Thursday, 26 April 2007 19:20 (eighteen years ago)

I would love for "dope" to come back into common usage.

How much cocaine Coke actually contained and how much kick you got from it is not known (a Coke spokesman today says the amount was "trivial"). But for years Southerners called the stuff "dope" or "a shot in the arm," while soda fountains were called "hop joints" and Coke delivery trucks "dope wagons."

― Rock Hardy, Thursday, 26 April 2007 19:21 (eighteen years ago)

ha that is seriously kickass

'dope wagons'!!!

mm im not actually sure about it, i cant think of any particular instance & its possible i just stopped noticing since the majority of the time when you talk about soda yr saying a particular brand. but the majority of ppl where i grew up didnt call it 'coke' & its so remarkably ignorant that i kindve assume hes gotten past it, ill have to ask

― deeznuts, Thursday, 26 April 2007 19:24 (eighteen years ago)

Southerners called the stuff "dope" or "a shot in the arm," while soda fountains were called "hop joints" and Coke delivery trucks "dope wagons."

http://instruct1.cit.cornell.edu/courses/hist100.96/elc/grungehoax.gif

― kingfish, Thursday, 26 April 2007 19:27 (eighteen years ago)

its so remarkably ignorant

Please tell me you're not being serious here. If you are, on behalf of myself and a large portion of the Southern US, FUCK OFF!

― Ms Misery, Thursday, 26 April 2007 19:31 (eighteen years ago)

http://www.popvssoda.com/

― mookieproof, Thursday, 26 April 2007 19:33 (eighteen years ago)

http://popvssoda.com%3A2998/images/smalldrawn.gif

― mookieproof, Thursday, 26 April 2007 19:34 (eighteen years ago)

oh wait, that lexicon works on that ilm thread, too

― kingfish, Thursday, 26 April 2007 19:35 (eighteen years ago)

uncool outsiders

― sexyDancer, Thursday, 26 April 2007 19:35 (eighteen years ago)

dude, wtf, you're in boston and you've never heard any soft drink put under the umbrella "tonic"?

― chicago kevin, Thursday, 26 April 2007 19:36 (eighteen years ago)

of course im being serious mm. its not like i give a shit

― deeznuts, Thursday, 26 April 2007 19:41 (eighteen years ago)

souterners are way too defensive about anything they say or do being called ignorant

― deeznuts, Thursday, 26 April 2007 19:42 (eighteen years ago)

I was about to say that, New Englanders often use "tonic" to describe these beverages.

― Bill Magill, Thursday, 26 April 2007 19:43 (eighteen years ago)

I wonder where this defensiveness came from. (xpost)

― Fluffy Bear Hearts Rainbows, Thursday, 26 April 2007 19:44 (eighteen years ago)

I can't remember who but someone in my extended family called it "fizzy drinks" ALL the time.

― Will M., Thursday, 26 April 2007 19:44 (eighteen years ago)

wasn't "fizzy drinks" from Willy Wonka?

― kingfish, Thursday, 26 April 2007 19:46 (eighteen years ago)

I think deeznuts' last two posts, and the one he did beforwe, are fucking ignorant, but it's not like he gives a shit.

― Bill Magill, Thursday, 26 April 2007 19:48 (eighteen years ago)

im saying i dont give a shit & dont place any value judgements whatsover on your person if you call soda coke dude, i just think its kind of stupid

― deeznuts, Thursday, 26 April 2007 19:49 (eighteen years ago)

Fine, you say southerners are ignorant, I think you're ignorant. Call it a draw. I don't give a shit either.

― Bill Magill, Thursday, 26 April 2007 19:52 (eighteen years ago)

You know, I can't say that I ever have heard anyone say "tonic" before. I didn't grow up here though so that could be why.

― ENBB, Thursday, 26 April 2007 19:53 (eighteen years ago)

yeah thats what i said dumbass
xp

― deeznuts, Thursday, 26 April 2007 19:53 (eighteen years ago)

apparently root beer is the one that doesn't erode yr teeth (besides the sugar I mean)

― Dr Morbius, Thursday, 26 April 2007 19:53 (eighteen years ago)

i just think its kind of stupid

HI DERE WELCOME TO ILX.

― chicago kevin, Thursday, 26 April 2007 19:53 (eighteen years ago)

You know, I can't say that I ever have heard anyone say "tonic" before.

to be fair it was mostly people of my grandparents generation (and my uncle john) who i heard saying it. my mom would totally call it tonic when we'd go to my grandmother's place.

― chicago kevin, Thursday, 26 April 2007 19:54 (eighteen years ago)

http://a455.ac-images.myspacecdn.com/images01/29/l_d478fae298eaa7e9984a0710ce08bc0e.jpg

Just trying to keep the conversation on track.

― John Justen, Thursday, 26 April 2007 19:55 (eighteen years ago)

Other (please specify)

Mixers

― Noodle Vague, Thursday, 26 April 2007 19:55 (eighteen years ago)

Nice work deeznuts making a complete fool out of yourself on an internet thread about carbonated drinks. Your folks must be proud.

multiple x post

― Bill Magill, Thursday, 26 April 2007 19:56 (eighteen years ago)

bill do you own a lot of rifles

― deeznuts, Thursday, 26 April 2007 19:58 (eighteen years ago)

resist the urge

― Fluffy Bear Hearts Rainbows, Thursday, 26 April 2007 20:00 (eighteen years ago)

Funny, pal. Leave the thread to the people who want to talk about drinks, ok Chief?

xpost

― Bill Magill, Thursday, 26 April 2007 20:01 (eighteen years ago)

drinks like SoCo and lime!

― John Justen, Thursday, 26 April 2007 20:02 (eighteen years ago)

In Germany, they mix coke with beer. That's just plain wrong. Amirite?

Just trying to turn things back to carbonated beverages.

― ENBB, Thursday, 26 April 2007 20:02 (eighteen years ago)

yeah that is messed up

― Mr. Que, Thursday, 26 April 2007 20:03 (eighteen years ago)

What's even worse is the name that was once commonly used to describe said revolting beverage - beyond racist.

― ENBB, Thursday, 26 April 2007 20:04 (eighteen years ago)

How much do you guys normally tip on pop when you're in a vegetarian restaurant polishing your handguns, by the way?

xpost

― John Justen, Thursday, 26 April 2007 20:04 (eighteen years ago)

PICK A SIDE, NEW MEXICO!

http://popvssoda.com:2998/countystats/total-county.gif

― Pleasant Plains, Thursday, 26 April 2007 20:06 (eighteen years ago)

CERVEZAS

― Abbott, Thursday, 26 April 2007 20:07 (eighteen years ago)

TAMARINDO SOFT DRINK

HORCHATA

― Abbott, Thursday, 26 April 2007 20:07 (eighteen years ago)

I can't believe I forgot to work what bottle-opener you would use into my question.

Sorry ILX, I've let you down.

― John Justen, Thursday, 26 April 2007 20:08 (eighteen years ago)

Seriously, I'd have expected more from you.

― ENBB, Thursday, 26 April 2007 20:08 (eighteen years ago)

I'm now imagining that british people call it "Carbonated Soft Drink".

― John Justen, Thursday, 26 April 2007 20:09 (eighteen years ago)

In a monotone robot voice, of course. Which doesn't translate well to the internet.

― John Justen, Thursday, 26 April 2007 20:10 (eighteen years ago)

I think they call it lemonade in Europe, I notice that is one of the choices.

― Bill Magill, Thursday, 26 April 2007 20:23 (eighteen years ago)

Yes, how for the pink lemonades, powerades and BRISK ice teas in the fountain soda dispensar---what to call these outliers?

― Abbott, Thursday, 26 April 2007 20:25 (eighteen years ago)

cokes

― Mr. Que, Thursday, 26 April 2007 20:25 (eighteen years ago)

coke, even though i tried 'soda' for a while as a teenager

― and what, Thursday, 26 April 2007 20:26 (eighteen years ago)

UK bred husband calls it either "pop" or "fizzy pop". Over there, lemonade is carbonated lemon drink. What we call lemonade, they'd call lemon squash. He's from the middle of England though, I'm sure there are regional difference there as well.

I'd just call those by their actual names, I guess.

― ENBB, Thursday, 26 April 2007 20:28 (eighteen years ago)

That was xpost to Bill - sorry.

― ENBB, Thursday, 26 April 2007 20:28 (eighteen years ago)

SODA is king of kings, lord of lords, alpha and omega, gog and magog, the great I Am, and benny & joon.

― Abbott, Thursday, 26 April 2007 20:28 (eighteen years ago)

ok since two ppl who as far as i know are not retards have said 'coke', is this actually common lexicon in the south

not that i give a shit

― deeznuts, Thursday, 26 April 2007 20:30 (eighteen years ago)

yes

― Mr. Que, Thursday, 26 April 2007 20:31 (eighteen years ago)

among ppl less than 75 years old cuz thats the impression i got from mm's post

xp

― deeznuts, Thursday, 26 April 2007 20:31 (eighteen years ago)

do guys also call wolfes 'wooves' because he did that too

― deeznuts, Thursday, 26 April 2007 20:32 (eighteen years ago)

pop + tennis shoes

― brownie, Thursday, 26 April 2007 20:32 (eighteen years ago)

you wouldnt call a specific non-cola a 'coke', except maybe dark ones like dr pepper or whatever, but if you just want a carbonated soft drink in a can or paper cup or bottle youd say 'gimme a coke' or 'im gonna go get a coke'

― and what, Thursday, 26 April 2007 20:32 (eighteen years ago)

xps 'you guys'

― deeznuts, Thursday, 26 April 2007 20:32 (eighteen years ago)

My friend from Murfreesboro, TN, says it is the done thing in Murfreesboro.

― Abbott, Thursday, 26 April 2007 20:32 (eighteen years ago)

like, if im at the coke fountain, id say im at the coke fountain, even if im getting a lemonade or root beer, but if somebody had a lemonade or root beer id say gimme some lemonade/root beer

― and what, Thursday, 26 April 2007 20:33 (eighteen years ago)

THIS IS WAY TOO COMPLICATED!

― ENBB, Thursday, 26 April 2007 20:34 (eighteen years ago)

― deeznuts, Thursday, 26 April 2007 20:34 (eighteen years ago)

because this is what my friend used to do

― deeznuts, Thursday, 26 April 2007 20:35 (eighteen years ago)

It makes sense to me...but DO cola manufacturers try to get this shit to STOP so as to retain brand identity and enforce the idea that there's an ocean of difference between coke & pepsi? Or do you all just drink RC & Big Red down there, because that would be awesome.

― Abbott, Thursday, 26 April 2007 20:35 (eighteen years ago)

im also still curious about wolfs woovs

― deeznuts, Thursday, 26 April 2007 20:35 (eighteen years ago)

Don't forget the montana term "woofs".

― John Justen, Thursday, 26 April 2007 20:36 (eighteen years ago)

or was it more like 'woofs'

haha xp

― deeznuts, Thursday, 26 April 2007 20:37 (eighteen years ago)

No, that's what they call soda in MT. They call wolves "cokes".

― John Justen, Thursday, 26 April 2007 20:38 (eighteen years ago)

hahaha

― Mr. Que, Thursday, 26 April 2007 20:38 (eighteen years ago)

god damn ignant montanians

ok now from and whats post i see you might well call dr pepper a coke. i firmly believe this to be wrong.

if yr ordering from mcdonalds or taco bell or whatever i think its totally common, probably anywhere, to substitute coke for pepsi, sprite for sierra mist etc but coke standing in for dr peppers is DUMB

― deeznuts, Thursday, 26 April 2007 20:43 (eighteen years ago)

I can't believe that I've been so bored this afternoon that a thread about what people call carbonated beverages has kept my attention this long. I need a new job.

― ENBB, Thursday, 26 April 2007 20:44 (eighteen years ago)

ive always been fascinated by this & im ecstatic thats its finally come to the fore of my life

― deeznuts, Thursday, 26 April 2007 20:44 (eighteen years ago)

It's like the classic linguistics 101 isogloss madness.

― Abbott, Thursday, 26 April 2007 20:45 (eighteen years ago)

the light/dark beverage distinction may just be my own racist preference

― and what, Thursday, 26 April 2007 20:45 (eighteen years ago)

ive definitely asked for a coke and got a dew before

― and what, Thursday, 26 April 2007 20:45 (eighteen years ago)

DEW NOT WANT

― and what, Thursday, 26 April 2007 20:45 (eighteen years ago)

People keep on peopling, world: keep on worlding, and what: keep on anding. And it won't be too long...

― Abbott, Thursday, 26 April 2007 20:46 (eighteen years ago)

I, for one, am proud to have grown up in the landlocked Island of Soda.

Come on dudes, get with the homogenized network tv non-regional diction program.

― en i see kay, Thursday, 26 April 2007 21:22 (eighteen years ago)

Coke is what I used to ask for, except now I live in Seattle and say 'pop'. I don't know what happened. My mom totally uses 'dopes' to refer to tiny bottles of Coke, which is kind of awesome

― Morley Timmons, Thursday, 26 April 2007 21:28 (eighteen years ago)

Southerners also refer to tissue as Kleenex, gelatin as Jell-O, and flying discs as Frisbees.

― Pleasant Plains, Thursday, 26 April 2007 21:34 (eighteen years ago)

I think most people do that.

I loved that map before.

― Bill Magill, Thursday, 26 April 2007 21:36 (eighteen years ago)

In rural New England, rubber bands are elastics, garbage is rubbish, the little sprinkle things on top of your ice cream are jimmies, and occasionally you will run into an older person who would answer this thread title with "Tonic."

― g®▲Ðұ, Thursday, 26 April 2007 21:36 (eighteen years ago)

Southerners display brand loyalty. What's wrong with that? Also, I need to borry a pin, thanks

― Morley Timmons, Thursday, 26 April 2007 21:39 (eighteen years ago)

pp i dunno if yr joking or trying to make a point but everyone does that as far as i know

i think i still say 'tissue' (my dad ingrained this into me early on, because of, he says, letterman???) but i def use jello & frisbee & was unaware these were even brand names (jell-o yes but jello no)

― deeznuts, Thursday, 26 April 2007 21:40 (eighteen years ago)

oh btw those are examples of something called IGNORANCE

― deeznuts, Thursday, 26 April 2007 21:40 (eighteen years ago)

dude, what's your problem?

― Morley Timmons, Thursday, 26 April 2007 21:42 (eighteen years ago)

dammit, I just wanna discuss pop-I mean Coke!

― Morley Timmons, Thursday, 26 April 2007 21:43 (eighteen years ago)

so you do NOT use 'coke' as catchall term for 'soda' in the majority of cases. like someone is over at yr house & youve got sprite & mountain dew & dr peppers in the fridge, you wouldnt say 'do you want a coke?'

countless times as a kid i remember going to a friend's house after school and their mom would say "there's cokes in the fridge if you want one" and it didn't mean there was coca-cola in there. it meant some kind of soda. usually the supermarket brand cola because you might not remember but in the early eighties coca-cola wasn't cheap! moms balked at paying for name brand cokes.

― f. hazel, Thursday, 26 April 2007 21:49 (eighteen years ago)

guys i heard alabamans put peanuts in their cokes

― mookieproof, Thursday, 26 April 2007 21:51 (eighteen years ago)

My wife almost dumped me when we were dating in college because every time she would say she wanted a coke, I would bring her a Coke. She does not like Coke. It was a very confusing time.

― HI DERE, Thursday, 26 April 2007 21:52 (eighteen years ago)

i grew up in pop-land, went to school in coke-land, and live in soda-land

i don't know whether to cry or wind my watch

― mookieproof, Thursday, 26 April 2007 21:54 (eighteen years ago)

we always got sams choice cokes (see even i use it in that context) & my god they were worthless

yeah both my parents ALWAYS balked at paying for name brand goods, i dunno if the differential has settled down since or if was ever there in the first place but as a kid i was always pissed cuz i couldnt get what they advertised on tv

2xp thank you!!

― deeznuts, Thursday, 26 April 2007 21:54 (eighteen years ago)

i grew up in texas by the way.

― f. hazel, Thursday, 26 April 2007 21:54 (eighteen years ago)

xpost My grandfather put salted Lance p-nuts in his coke (which was actually Pepsi) all the time. It wasn't that bad.

― Morley Timmons, Thursday, 26 April 2007 21:55 (eighteen years ago)

well fuck you then man
xp

― deeznuts, Thursday, 26 April 2007 21:56 (eighteen years ago)

my experience is consistent with the colorful map!

― f. hazel, Thursday, 26 April 2007 21:58 (eighteen years ago)

Sorry, y'all. I forgot to use the http://woopig.net/board/Smileys/classic/sarcasm.gif tag after my last post.

In Wisconsin, they call drinking fountains "bubblers".

― Pleasant Plains, Thursday, 26 April 2007 22:13 (eighteen years ago)

They also call cheese "Uncle Oleg".

― HI DERE, Thursday, 26 April 2007 22:14 (eighteen years ago)

I like "bubblers"!

― Morley Timmons, Thursday, 26 April 2007 22:14 (eighteen years ago)

ginger

juice

-- RJG, Thursday, 26 April 2007 19:41 (3 hours ago)

OTM

― onimo, Thursday, 26 April 2007 22:15 (eighteen years ago)

OK WHAT'S UP WITH WARROAD MINNESOTA CALLING POPS SOME SHIT THAT ISN'T POP OR SODA OR COKE BUT IS IN FACT "OTHER"?????

― river wolf, Thursday, 26 April 2007 22:15 (eighteen years ago)

Huh?

― John Justen, Thursday, 26 April 2007 22:18 (eighteen years ago)

plz ref map above

― river wolf, Thursday, 26 April 2007 22:20 (eighteen years ago)

it's like a big green middle finger

― river wolf, Thursday, 26 April 2007 22:21 (eighteen years ago)

FUCK YOU WE HAVE OUR OWN NAME FOR POPS, LONG LIVE THE QUEEN

― river wolf, Thursday, 26 April 2007 22:22 (eighteen years ago)

That's the only part of Minnesota where you have to drive to Canada first to get a can of Jones.

― Pleasant Plains, Thursday, 26 April 2007 22:24 (eighteen years ago)

My wife almost dumped me when we were dating in college because every time she would say she wanted a coke, I would bring her a Coke. She does not like Coke.

That's mental. I want to retract my vote for 'coke'. The question is misleading, it says "Carbonated soft drinks like Coca-Cola, Pepsi, et al, are called...". Obviously drinks like Coca-Cola & Pepsi are called 'coke', but now I realise you mean "...drinks like Fanta and Tango and Sprite and Dr Pepper and 7UP and other things which are obviously not called coke". I don't think there is a generic name for these in Britain, maybe 'fizzy drinks'.

― Nasty, Brutish & Short, Thursday, 26 April 2007 22:25 (eighteen years ago)

Okay so I am 0 for 2 in the polls people like category. ;_;

― HI DERE, Thursday, 26 April 2007 22:27 (eighteen years ago)

dude you fucks call Sprite/7-Up/etc "lemonade"

― river wolf, Thursday, 26 April 2007 22:27 (eighteen years ago)

dude you fucks call Sprite/7-Up/etc "lemonade"

Yeah, we call the lemonades 'lemonade', and we call the cokes 'coke', but we don't have a name for randome things like Dr Pepper, and we don't have a catch-all term which means 'cokes, lemonades, and assorted random fizzy drinks'.

― Nasty, Brutish & Short, Thursday, 26 April 2007 22:30 (eighteen years ago)

River wolf, OTM. I wrote about this upthread. Inlaws visited recently and were very confused when they ordered lemonade got a non-carbonated lemon drink.

NBS - Lemonade in America isn't carbonated. It's like what you would know as lemon squash.

― ENBB, Thursday, 26 April 2007 22:32 (eighteen years ago)

Do you use the word 'squash'?

― Nasty, Brutish & Short, Thursday, 26 April 2007 22:35 (eighteen years ago)

only for sports, or bugs

― river wolf, Thursday, 26 April 2007 22:36 (eighteen years ago)

KETCHUP ISN'T TOMATO SAUCE.

― Pleasant Plains, Thursday, 26 April 2007 22:38 (eighteen years ago)

Nope, not in America unless we're refering to the game or the vegetable. I found that very confusing when I first moved to England. We don't even really have anything like the drink squash here. You can get unmixed juice things to which you add water (and thereby produce the squash) in either frozen concentrate or powder form but not in concentrated liquid form like you get there with Robinsons.

xxp

― ENBB, Thursday, 26 April 2007 22:38 (eighteen years ago)

My wife almost dumped me when we were dating in college because every time she would say she wanted a coke, I would bring her a Coke. She does not like Coke. It was a very confusing time.

Haha, awesome. I wish that was the cause of confusing times for all college student.

― Abbott, Thursday, 26 April 2007 22:40 (eighteen years ago)

I weep for the USA and its lack of concentrated fruit drinks made to be diluted with tapwater.

― Nasty, Brutish & Short, Thursday, 26 April 2007 22:41 (eighteen years ago)

Hello, that's like all I drink.

― Abbott, Thursday, 26 April 2007 22:42 (eighteen years ago)

No lemon barley water?

― Ed, Thursday, 26 April 2007 22:43 (eighteen years ago)

Nope, no lemon barley water.

Abbott - you're talking about the frozen stuff, right? They get concentrated juice already in liqid form that they then add water to. It's kind of hard to explain.

― ENBB, Thursday, 26 April 2007 22:45 (eighteen years ago)

oh man NBS i used to drink the shit out of that stuff whenever i visited fam

― river wolf, Thursday, 26 April 2007 22:45 (eighteen years ago)

Actually, I remember when my husband first told me about lemon barley water (before I lived in the uk) and I just couldn't wrap my head around the fact that barley was in a lemon juice drink. It sounded so very weird but I now know better and know how good it really is!

― ENBB, Thursday, 26 April 2007 22:46 (eighteen years ago)

I got some of that from the food bank. They were cran juice concentrates in soda cans. The lady was supposed to give me one 36-oz. can of (non-concentrated) juice. I convinced her she should give me 3 of the little cans because she did nt understand their purpose! Woo! I scored.

xxpost

Also lemon-barley sounds HELLA good.

― Abbott, Thursday, 26 April 2007 22:47 (eighteen years ago)

Dude - it is very good. Because I live in an area with a lot of Irish immigrants (where they also get squash) we can get lemon barley water at a local deli but it's ridiculously expensive. My husband got some little cake things he was craving last night and paid like $7 for them. I'm gonna bring an empty bag with me to England this summer and just bring back shitloads of food stuffs.

― ENBB, Thursday, 26 April 2007 22:51 (eighteen years ago)

I will totally bring you some lemon barley water and mail it to you too. I'm nice like that.

― ENBB, Thursday, 26 April 2007 22:51 (eighteen years ago)

BRING YORKSHIRE TEABAGS

― river wolf, Thursday, 26 April 2007 22:52 (eighteen years ago)

wehn come back

― river wolf, Thursday, 26 April 2007 22:52 (eighteen years ago)

rington's!

― f. hazel, Thursday, 26 April 2007 22:54 (eighteen years ago)

Oh, shit - what have I started? I'm gonna go with some huge ILE shopping list. Can probably handle Yorkshire teabags although I'll be bringing PG Tips back for myself!

― ENBB, Thursday, 26 April 2007 22:55 (eighteen years ago)

Pop, definitely.

― aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa, Friday, 27 April 2007 09:01 (eighteen years ago)

we don't have a catch-all term which means 'cokes, lemonades, and assorted random fizzy drinks'.

Where I'm from we do, it is "pop". I'm from the midlands though, like Mr ENBB.

I posted this last night but my post disappeared - my wife was confused by squash when she first came here and didn't realise it was supposed to be diluted, so she got a shock when she first went to get a drink of it. Undiluted squash = yuck.

― Colonel Poo, Friday, 27 April 2007 09:12 (eighteen years ago)

[quote]Oh, shit - what have I started? I'm gonna go with some huge ILE shopping list. Can probably handle Yorkshire teabags although I'll be bringing PG Tips back for myself![/url]

WAI to BRAKE HEART?

Yorkshire or clipper at minimum and you can do better thank that, (robert wilson brunswick BOP is a particular favourite)

― Ed, Friday, 27 April 2007 09:59 (eighteen years ago)

I voted for yr mom. I drink yr mom all the time.

― blueski, Friday, 27 April 2007 10:06 (eighteen years ago)

Where is MINERALS in that poll?

― rener, Friday, 27 April 2007 10:33 (eighteen years ago)

My wife almost dumped me when we were dating in college because every time she would say she wanted a coke, I would bring her a Coke. She does not like Coke. It was a very confusing time.

OKAY, I am still confused. What the EF did she want then? I could understand cocaine but if she asks for a coke and you bring her a Coke, then why could she be angry?

I don't care either way. The only FIZZY drink I have these days is a Schweppes Tonic.

― nathalie, Friday, 27 April 2007 12:30 (eighteen years ago)

BTW the correct answer is YR DADS PENIS

― nathalie, Friday, 27 April 2007 12:30 (eighteen years ago)

I can't remember the last time I saw Virgin Cola anywhere. I presume they have it on their own planes and trains still at least?

― blueski, Friday, 27 April 2007 12:43 (eighteen years ago)

Oh god, I want a soda pop now, but they are on another floor and I have no security pass.

Soda or Soda pop. "Soft drinks" include non carbonated drinks. Has to be carbonated to be soda.

― Masonic Boom, Friday, 27 April 2007 12:50 (eighteen years ago)

In Ireland, when I was a kid, such things were known as "minerals". "Will you have a mineral? You will!" Does anyone still say this? Cf., also, "a tin of Coke".

― bgd, Friday, 27 April 2007 13:02 (eighteen years ago)

I left work early yesterday and am amazed that this argument went on for so long. (what I'm talking about? This is ILx)

I stand by my assertion that neither me nor my fellow people of the south are ignorant, retarded or stupid for calling any and all soft drinks "cokes" no matter what some ignorant yankee says.

THIS IS WHY WE SECEDED!!

― Ms Misery, Friday, 27 April 2007 14:03 (eighteen years ago)

(xpost) Ha! Beat you to it, bgd. I think "minerals" might be an older-generation thing.

See also: TK red lemonade, RC cola, tins of shandy with actual beer in them, etc.

― rener, Friday, 27 April 2007 14:05 (eighteen years ago)

i like it when takeaway menus list 'can of drink'

― blueski, Friday, 27 April 2007 14:07 (eighteen years ago)

I think I shall now start callling cokes "minerals", though.

― Ms Misery, Friday, 27 April 2007 14:07 (eighteen years ago)

Ms Misery: definitely. But remember to say it a bit like "minrills".

― rener, Friday, 27 April 2007 14:11 (eighteen years ago)

"what poppage do you have?"

― braveclub, Friday, 27 April 2007 14:13 (eighteen years ago)

I stand by my assertion that neither me nor my fellow people of the south are ignorant, retarded or stupid for calling any and all soft drinks "cokes" no matter what some ignorant yankee says.

THIS IS WHY WE SECEDED!!

-- Ms Misery, Friday, 27 April 2007 14:03 (24 minutes ago)

How'd that work out for you?

― John Justen, Friday, 27 April 2007 14:29 (eighteen years ago)

(Don't mention the war, John.)

― Michael White, Friday, 27 April 2007 14:31 (eighteen years ago)

xpost, obv not well. I'm all for Texas becoming a republic again. We never should've joined the US.

― Ms Misery, Friday, 27 April 2007 14:32 (eighteen years ago)

THIS IS WHY WE SECEDED!!

riiiiiiiggght.

cotton and slavery had nothing to do with it.

I'm all for Texas becoming a republic again. We never should've joined the US.

AT LAST SOMETHING WE CAN AGREE ON.

― chicago kevin, Friday, 27 April 2007 14:33 (eighteen years ago)

ILX is absymal at reading sarcasm.

Kevin, have you become Pleasant Plains?

― Ms Misery, Friday, 27 April 2007 14:35 (eighteen years ago)

Texas is sooooooo stuck on itself

― Mr. Que, Friday, 27 April 2007 14:36 (eighteen years ago)

stop stating the obvious Mr.Que.

― Ms Misery, Friday, 27 April 2007 14:36 (eighteen years ago)

no, i'm just in a button pushing mood today. stupid things like parochial regionalism are just absurd to me.

― chicago kevin, Friday, 27 April 2007 14:38 (eighteen years ago)

Non-Texans are easy to wind up. ;)

― Ms Misery, Friday, 27 April 2007 14:42 (eighteen years ago)

i'm already wound up misery, i wind any tighter and i'll snap.

NEED THIS WEEKEND TO HURRY UP AND GET HERE.

― chicago kevin, Friday, 27 April 2007 14:43 (eighteen years ago)

xpost

"mineral" is also very popular in the North of England, I suspect the Irish influence is to blame for that. "pop" seems to be the usual generic term in this part of the UK, although generally we seem to just refer them by brand name.

― Stone Monkey, Friday, 27 April 2007 14:51 (eighteen years ago)

Think how great the last few years would have been if Texas had never joined the US.

― Bill Magill, Friday, 27 April 2007 14:52 (eighteen years ago)

Texas became a republic so that it COULD join the Union, it just took a while since the Republic's constitution recognized slavery.

― Michael White, Friday, 27 April 2007 14:57 (eighteen years ago)

Sam Houston cried when the legislature voted for slavery.

Bill, I greatly apologize for Bush but can't claim responsibility for him. I didn't want him either.

― Ms Misery, Friday, 27 April 2007 15:06 (eighteen years ago)

we don't have a catch-all term which means 'cokes, lemonades, and assorted random fizzy drinks'

surely we do, and it's 'fizzy drinks'?

― c sharp major, Friday, 27 April 2007 15:10 (eighteen years ago)

Every night I pray that some higher being will bless me with the judgement of L0uis J4gger and the tact of deeznuts.

― Curt1s Stephens, Friday, 27 April 2007 15:20 (eighteen years ago)

Isn't beer a 'fizzy drink'?

― braveclub, Friday, 27 April 2007 15:20 (eighteen years ago)

yes but everyone calls it beer so no need to differentiate there.

― blueski, Friday, 27 April 2007 15:25 (eighteen years ago)

well, lager's a fizzy drink, but I don't think bitter, ale, or stout are?

― c sharp major, Friday, 27 April 2007 15:28 (eighteen years ago)

Ginger or juice, along with all the other Scottishes on this thread. Though I should bow in recognition of "mixers" as well.

― ailsa, Friday, 27 April 2007 17:50 (eighteen years ago)

three years pass...

HOORAY! http://www.bevreview.com/2011/03/14/pepsi-throwback-mountain-dew-throwback-become-permanent/

http://www.bevreview.com/wp-content/image_pepsithrowback_backforgood1.jpg

― Johnny Fever, Thursday, 17 March 2011 22:11 (fourteen years ago)

i thought this was going to be about diet coke overtaking pepsi as the no. 2 soda in the u.s. Coke now has the #1 and #2 most popular sodas.

― congratulations (n/a), Thursday, 17 March 2011 22:39 (fourteen years ago)

That doesn't surprise me as much as Subway overtaking McDonald's as the biggest chain, but that's a whole different discussion.

― Johnny Fever, Thursday, 17 March 2011 22:45 (fourteen years ago)

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