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

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Poll Results

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)

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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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