pop is getting smaller and towards the midwest, eventually it will just be minisoda.
Ah, a pop joke.
Don't ya know now
Take my upvote damnit!
As a French, I find pop really endearing and might even include it in my vocabulary.
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.
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 The poorest, least educated, least healthful States in the country, where corporate branding has superceded basic terminology.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
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.
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.
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
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
In Australia, they're called soft drinks because they have little or no alcohol in them.
We call them soft drinks in America too.
I was today years old when I learned that the soft on soft drink is the opposite of hard in terms of liquor.
Dr Pepper is king either way
The Dr's less educated, libertine cousin Mr Pibb is even slightly better IMO.
Mr. Pibb, may he rest in peace, is no longer with us.. only his edgy gamer brother.
Soda is carbonated water.
Pop is dad.
It's petty popular to pop open a pop with your pop. You should pop in some time and give it a try.
Dad's is root beer (a type of pop).
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.
Born in a pop stronghold, and it is still holding. Coke is a brand, not all pop!
Pop propaganda
Sodageddon
Popaganda
Softdrink
I grew up almost exclusively hearing "pop," and use it in casual situations, but I prefer to use "soda" in public. Asking a server what kind of "pop" they have seems odd to me, but at the same time asking a friend if I can grab a "soda" seems odd as well.
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.
sodi pops
But we buried you grandpa. How can you be on lemmy?
i made a deal with the devil
don't tell gam gam
I met him in a swamp down in Dagoba Where it bubbles all the time like a giant carbonated soda S O D A, soda
I saw the little runt sitting there on a log I asked him his name and in a raspy voice he said "Yoda". Y O D A, Yoda
This is Sody Pop erasure
Had to scroll all the way to the bottom to find a fellow soda pop enjoyer. Shame.
Bring it back!
Pass me a fizzy beverage, my good sir.
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.
I say 'Soda' but with a Midwestern accent to compromise.
*Soder
GOOD! I grew up living in the north-east and we called it "Soda", then moved west and kept hearing people say "pop" and it was the most annoying thing, glad to see everyone else is coming around to the correct name.
"You want a beautiful name? Soda."
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.
Question for the folks in the gray area... Are you all referring to all brands and flavors of carbonated soft drinks as 'Coke,' or has Coca-Cola beat out all competitors there, or how does that work?
All brown sodas are Coke. Sprite and it's equivalents were separate at least where I grew up. you ask for a coke and the person taking your order asks "what kind?" and you clarify "Pepsi" or "root beer" or "coke coke".
Yes
I've lived in many locations throughout the gray area for most of my life. I've never heard "coke" used as a generic for all sodas. It's some sort of pervasive myth. Maybe that was the case at some point in history but not in the last 47 years.
Nope. I live in the DFW metro and nobody calls it coke unless it's literally a coca cola.
As a Coke, I have to say I never soda this coming
I say coke not in reference to all soda, but rather it's the only one I drink so naturally it's the only one I say vocally.
I hate when I order a coke and they're like "what kind?" Motherfucker I already said Coke.
I'm doing my part to fight back, moved to California from Michigan and my girlfriend used to say pop ironically but she's said it so much now she uses it too.
The arc of history bends toward justice.
What about Soft Drink?
Yes I'll have a soft drink
-real human
Agua con gas por favor?
Hands over a Jerrycan of gasoline and a cup of water
THE SODA HAS OVERTAKEN THE POP FRONT! COKE HEADS, FALL BACK!!
"soda" is easier to hear as it's got two syllables. This is why I switched from v3l "pop".
sodafest destiny
Grew up as a Pop but switched to Soda in adulthood. Saying "pop" sounds bizarre and crass now.
I make it a point to intentionally dead name soft drinks based on the region I am currently in.
Forcing servers to engage in neuron activation is my hobby.
Hey, can you pass me a cola coke soda pop fizzy?
I usually order "Diet Whatever"
New Mexico is still a Coke state.
I dunno about southern NM, but ABQ and North is Soda.
Same with North Carolina, though we could ask for a Pepsi, depending on preference.
We would ask for a Coke, then we would be asked what kind of Coke, then you would reply Pepsi.
Divide and conquer.
Now I get why joe screamed SODA on thet one rally.
I was expecting this and wasn't disappointed
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.
