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[โ€“] WagnasT@lemmy.world 72 points 2 years ago (4 children)

pop is getting smaller and towards the midwest, eventually it will just be minisoda.

[โ€“] milicent_bystandr@lemm.ee 10 points 2 years ago

Ah, a pop joke.

[โ€“] UltraMagnus0001@lemmy.world 6 points 2 years ago

Don't ya know now

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[โ€“] ArbitraryValue@sh.itjust.works 54 points 2 years ago (1 children)

We have them on the run, boys!

[โ€“] BillMurray@lemmy.world 19 points 2 years ago (2 children)

If they showed Canada on this map, you'd think otherwise...

[โ€“] eezeebee@lemmy.ca 12 points 2 years ago (1 children)

We're up here drinking our pop while sitting on the chesterfield

[โ€“] psvrh@lemmy.ca 6 points 2 years ago
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[โ€“] djsoren19@yiffit.net 32 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (7 children)

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.

[โ€“] Flocklesscrow@lemm.ee 8 points 2 years ago

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 The poorest, least educated, least healthful States in the country, where corporate branding has superceded basic terminology.

[โ€“] Darkassassin07@lemmy.ca 5 points 2 years ago

Would you like a Coke?

hands you an orange crush

[โ€“] bitchkat@lemmy.world 4 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Have you ever asked for a root beer and been given a Dr pepper?

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[โ€“] doggle@lemmy.dbzer0.com 24 points 2 years ago (3 children)

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

[โ€“] Allonzee@lemmy.world 11 points 2 years ago

I mean, I assume part of that standoffishness is simply local pride since Coca Cola is headquartered there.

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[โ€“] Sendpicsofsandwiches@sh.itjust.works 19 points 2 years ago (2 children)

It's pop and I will die on this hill

[โ€“] Dhar@lemmy.ca 19 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Hello. My name is Inigo Montoya. I prefer the word soda. Prepare to die.

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[โ€“] saltesc@lemmy.world 13 points 2 years ago (1 children)

In Australia, they're called soft drinks because they have little or no alcohol in them.

[โ€“] Zarxrax@lemmy.world 12 points 2 years ago (1 children)

We call them soft drinks in America too.

[โ€“] Albbi@lemmy.ca 14 points 2 years ago

I was today years old when I learned that the soft on soft drink is the opposite of hard in terms of liquor.

[โ€“] Kolanaki@yiffit.net 12 points 2 years ago (3 children)

Soda is carbonated water.

Pop is dad.

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[โ€“] criitz@reddthat.com 12 points 2 years ago (1 children)
[โ€“] subtext@lemmy.world 9 points 2 years ago

Sodageddon

Popaganda

[โ€“] randon31415@lemmy.world 11 points 2 years ago

Born in a pop stronghold, and it is still holding. Coke is a brand, not all pop!

[โ€“] HootinNHollerin@lemmy.world 11 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Dr Pepper is king either way

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[โ€“] lugal@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 points 2 years ago
[โ€“] swag_money@lemmy.world 9 points 2 years ago (2 children)
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[โ€“] JackGreenEarth@lemm.ee 8 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Fizzy drink for me in the UK, although most other people I know call it 'sparkling'

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[โ€“] Darkassassin07@lemmy.ca 8 points 2 years ago

Pass me a fizzy beverage, my good sir.

[โ€“] Signtist@lemm.ee 8 points 2 years ago

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.

[โ€“] thesporkeffect@lemmy.world 7 points 2 years ago (2 children)
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[โ€“] ZombiFrancis@sh.itjust.works 7 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I say 'Soda' but with a Midwestern accent to compromise.

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[โ€“] Albbi@lemmy.ca 7 points 2 years ago (1 children)

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

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[โ€“] bananasuit@lemmy.world 6 points 2 years ago

"You want a beautiful name? Soda."

[โ€“] paddirn@lemmy.world 6 points 2 years ago

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.

[โ€“] hihellobyeoh@lemmy.world 6 points 2 years ago

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.

[โ€“] bcgm3@lemmy.world 5 points 2 years ago (4 children)

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?

[โ€“] xanu@lemmy.world 8 points 2 years ago

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".

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[โ€“] Not_mikey@slrpnk.net 5 points 2 years ago

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.

[โ€“] JamesStallion@sh.itjust.works 4 points 2 years ago (1 children)
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