Agreed. I've been in Georgia all my life and have never, ever heard anybody from here refer to all soft drinks as 'Coke.' I call it what it is: a drink. I might call it by it's name, ie, "hand me my Sprite," but I wouldn't call a Dr. Pepper a Coke. I get the stupid chain forward email that says all southerners call it coke, and that's absurd. On that note, fuck pepsi. Coke ftw.
Gulf coast motherfuckers! It's SODA. Pop is what you do to a virgin's hymen, coke is what you snort off of a stripper's tits.
Fuck Pop dude, seriously. "Pop" is the most ridiculous fucking thing I've ever heard in my life. When someone calls it pop, they may as well just drag their fingernails across a chalkboard, because that's the cringing sensation I get. This is funny because I was just about to bitch about someone saying "pop" in another thread, but realized other than that complaint I had nothing else to say on the topic, so I declined. I remember there was a semi-retarded and really fucking dirty kid in my neighborhood growing up, and his family called it pop. Ugghhhhhh, fucking STOP IT!!! I'm surprised my option was on the poll: Coke, no matter what it is. When we were kids my cousin from Connecticut asked me this same question, and I replied that we call it Coke regardless. My exact line was this: "I'll tell the waitress that I want a coke, then she'll ask what kind of Coke, and I'll reply 'Mountain Dew.'" His exact response was "No fucking way!!" then we started laughing hysterically. It's funny how you remember some things so vividly, as that conversation took place well over 15 years ago, but I remember it so clearly - even what restauraunt we were in. Now a days I'll refer to it as Soda in certain situations so I don't sound retarded, but I still prefer the all encompassing "Coke".
I voted the Coke, even if it's a Pepsi option because I had to make a conscious effort around 16 to call it soda. In Austin, everything was Coke. This became confusing once I moved to Denver. Now it's "soda", I conformed, damnit!
Soda. I live in the South, and like some others, I have always thought it was a North and South thing. I have family in Michigan and they call it pop. Makes me cringe every single time. Why the fuck would you call every single type of soda coke? That is like calling every single different kind of beer one name. Fucking ridiculous.
So, when you need a tissue to blow your nose, you always say, "Can you hand me a facial tissue?" and you never say, "Can you hand me a Kleenex?" unless you have specifically already identified the brand on the box as Kleenex? Jell-O? You say lip balm, not Chapstick, flying disc instead of Frisbee, and table tennis instead of Ping Pong, right? Some people do say, "Coke" to include the family of carbonated sodas, because, like the other examples, it's the best and most dominant player. I'm from Georgia, and that's how I cast my vote. If I specifically want a Sprite, I'll say that, but if I'm getting the drinks for a party, I'll say beer and cokes.
I'm from Texas (originally west Texas, now in north Texas) and I call carbonated soft drinks Coke. The only drink that isn't called a coke is Dr. Pepper. Around here, you don't fuck around with Dr. Pepper; people take that shit seriously.
I am in the midwest, specifically Kansas City. In Kansas City, it is pop. In St. Louis, which is four hours east, it is soda.
I don't get this. How can everything be called a Coke? I could maybe understand calling it cola, but Coke? That's a brand, not a type of beverage. Southerners are a strange breed.
"Coke" is a type of sweet carbonated beverage, it tastes significantly different than Sprite sweet carbonated beverage or sarsaparilla-flavored sweet carbonated beverage or Crush sweet carbonated beverage. I can't tell the difference between Kleenex facial tissues and Scott facial tissues, or between a Frisbee-brand flying disc and a generic one. Those examples listed have little distinction in their consumer-detectable qualities. Sodas have a significant amount of distinction in their consumer-detectable qualities.
West coast. I call it pop and I think the majority of Oregon does as well, but more and more Californians are moving up here and trying to change things up.
Born and raised n Cali, and I never heard it referred to as anything other than soda until I dated a girl that had just moved from Kansas after my senior year. Sounded cute though, “its shake and bake, and I helped”
Chicago. Pop (pronounced Paaaaaaaaaap, while pinching your nose). When I'm trying to be hi-falutin', I'll call it Soda pop.
99% of the time that's true. But when I am hungover, nothing is better than pepsi in a can. It sucks in a bottle, but that can of pepsi mixed with 3 or 4 advil gets me back to normal in about 30 minutes. Oh, and this Coke all the time thing is still bugging me. If I went to someones house and they asked if I wanted something to drink, "Do you have any coke?" would get me 1) a Coke or 2)a "no". It would not get me a "What kind of Coke?" Doesn't this create awkward situations where you ask if they have any coke, they bring you a coke, and you say "Ummm, I don't like Coke, do you have a sprite?" Honestly, the only kind of pop I order is Coke. In all my life I have never ordered a Coke and had the server ask me What kind of Coke I would like. This is stupid foolish. Pop is a dumb word for sure, but at least you know what I mean when I say it. Saying you want a Coke should not be followed up with the obligatory "What kind of Coke? Or... did you... did you mean Coke Coke?"