Some literal tech bro students gave me the whole “har har where the fuck you from” rotting in my early 20s and I never said “pop” again.
Maybe the Pop and Soda users can at least band together to get Coke removed forever before returning to their own fight. I don’t know really know which of those two I prefer, but it is insane to refer to a Mountain Dew as a Coke.
Not at all surprised where it’s concentrated though. The poorest, least educated, least healthful States in the country, where corporate branding has superceded basic terminology.
Would you like a Coke?
hands you an orange crush
I’ll never forget my horror when I asked for a medium coke and the lady just handed me some random beverage. She didn’t even ask what kind of coke I wanted.
Though nowadays the only coke I drink is la croix.
Have you ever asked for a root beer and been given a Dr pepper?
Just the other day, I tried to order a root beer at a taco bell and the guy said they didn’t have it, did I want a dr pepper instead. I was speechless for a second because it was so baffling that he thought that was the closest replacement.
Then he listed the other options and I got a Baja blast, not because it’s the closest thing to root beer but because hearing that one reminded me that I don’t really care that they don’t carry root beer.
Though still, wtf @ them not carrying root beer.
And Taco Bell sells pepsi so if they did have root beer, you’d have gotten Mug which is better than Barqs. Jersey Mikes is great because they sell Stubborn root beer (a Pepsi “craft” brand) which is pretty good for a crafty pop.
It’s not all that different from Kleenex, Scotch tape, Xerox, etc. Sometimes brand names become the common name for a product.
A Kleenex and any different facial tissue are very similar. A Coke and an Orange carbonated beverage are very different.
Yeah imagine if we started calling all paper products of any kind “kleenex?” Yeah write that down on a sheet of Kleenex and mail it to me in a Kleenex box.
I mean, I moved to Michigan from one of the soda areas, and I give people shit when they say pop so. Am I the baddie, no it is they who are wrong.
I say ‘Soda’ but with a Midwestern accent to compromise.
*Soder
pop is getting smaller and towards the midwest, eventually it will just be minisoda.
Ah, a pop joke.
Don’t ya know now
As a French, I find pop really endearing and might even include it in my vocabulary.
Take my upvote damnit!
Meanwhile in my part of the world
L E M O N A D E
for literally every fizzy drink
Where do you live? That’s horrifying
Fizzy drink for me in the UK, although most other people I know call it ‘sparkling’
In Australia it’s soft drink, which sounds a bit silly now I say it but it’s better than fucking coke. I guess soft might refer to non-alcoholic.
We have them on the run, boys!
If they showed Canada on this map, you’d think otherwise…
We’re up here drinking our pop while sitting on the chesterfield
Tabernac!
How aboot some fizzy maple.
THE SODA HAS OVERTAKEN THE POP FRONT! COKE HEADS, FALL BACK!!
That’s because Soda was originally said by the most population dense areas of the country.
By default, that gives it a huge advantage in terms of shifting the cultural language. Especially since Hollywood often controls the cultural shifts and narratives of colloquial language.
So this isn’t too surprising. It’s kind of like the whole “Land doesn’t get a vote” thing when you look at the Red vs Blue district voting graphs, without taking into account the majority of people live in the blue areas, and very few people, comparatively, live in the red areas.
This visualization is pretty much the same thing.
As inconsequential as it is, it makes me mildly sad to see things like this become more homogeneous.
While this example is likely inconsequential, consider that it may be a good thing that without regional dialects we may become better at communicating with each other in general.
I’m from GA, and I never understood people calling all soda a coke. Giving someone a Pepsi when they asked for a coke is enough to start an altercation around here – they are not at all considered interchangeable
I mean, I assume part of that standoffishness is simply local pride since Coca Cola is headquartered there.
You ever say “Scotch tape” when referring to a transparent tape that wasn’t made by 3M?
Is it any different?
I’ve been asked if I want a coke before and was handed a diet ginger beer. in what world are those interchangeable?
It’s like asking for a piece of Scotch tape and being handed a piece of painters tape
I stopped needing to refer to carbonated beverages in everyday language like decades ago
Congrats
You have transcended the want for fizzy
Now upon your tongue, only pizzy.
“soda” is easier to hear as it’s got two syllables. This is why I switched from v3l “pop”.
It’s pop and I will die on this hill
Hello. My name is Inigo Montoya. I prefer the word soda. Prepare to die.
You dropped a D bro
You will get the D later ;)
Can you show me any other examples of when people use the latter part of the word when shortening it? Or is this somehow the only acceptable one for you?
Soda is carbonated water.
Pop is dad.
Soda is carbonated water made with sodium bicarbonate and citric acid (as opposed to natural carbonated water and modern injected carbonation). Pop is something that goes pop.
Dad’s is root beer (a type of pop).
It’s petty popular to pop open a pop with your pop. You should pop in some time and give it a try.
