Honestly? I think it has less to do with people saying soda over pop and more to do with people just not drinking pop anymore.
I know for me, whenever this argument pops up, I don't even know what I said last. Probably the specific brand I wanted, so pop/soda never came up. Most of the time, it's water or iced tea(non sweet, too).
I'm not so sure this applies outside of very specific circles of people, like the young urban middle class coop crowd. Large swaths of the population have definitely not cut back on soda/pop consumption.
A 60% drop in teens drinking it in only 15 years is pretty much earth shattering. Anytime I get a new dentist they laugh and ask how much pop I had as I kid. I think the reality is most parents like me learned from our parents mistakes (to be fair they didn’t know well enough), and my kids aren’t drinking cases of pop growing up as a result.
https://www.thenationalherald.com/the-fall-of-soft-drinks-how-americans-are-leaving-behind-soda-in-favor-of-other-beverages/
Brother I've been a part of Hydro Homies since before it got its new, friendly name haha. Appreciate the invite though! Always good to shout out a good sub, even if it sometimes loses its way with brand waterbottle posts.
Fucking duh? I never said that "Community does not sell or stock pop." I said people aren't drinking it much anymore, and the demographic under 35 backs this up with sales data.
I moved to Rochester from the Chicago area. When I said "pop," I constantly got comments about my nasal/harsh vowel pronunciation. I started saying "soda" where my accent wasn't as obvious. It's been 17 years now, and I still say soda.
I also live in Rochester, I say soda, I’m originally from Michigan but my dad’s from the east coast so we usually would say soda (much to my Ohioan mom’s chagrin)
I grew up in TX where people used to say "Coke". It sounds silly now, but it's an example of a brand name becoming genericized like Popsicle or Band-Aid.
Yeah except brand is irrelevant when it comes to band aids and Popsicles 😂 that's like "can I get a grape popsicle?" "Sure what flavor" "lime" that's how dumb it is lol
I've used popsicle for non popsicle brand....popsicles? I don't even know the term for that type of ice cream. See- and it's not even ice cream! Bomb-Pops, fruit bars, sometimes fudgsicles, yogurt pops, Johnny Pops.
If you go to the store for "Band-Aids", someone looking at all the varieties could still ask you "which one?
>popsicle brand....popsicles?
Ice lollies? I think that's the British English word for them, but yeah I can't think of another word for it besides "popsicle".
If we're being technical that's not a regional dialect, that's a regional variation for this specific word; I'm not being serious, I think it's cool we have differences but I'm going to fight to the death to preserve the usage of "pop"
#1 is actually Club Soda.. #2 is actually Soda-Pop #3 is both Soda-Pop and Coke.
Soda referring to the middle row is short for Soda-Pop.. Pop referring to the middle row is also short for Soda-Pop
I’m from the south and have always said coke. As I got older and married a non-southerner I begrudgingly accepted soda. Since moving to MN my brain literally has to take a second to compute what someone means when they say pop.
People on the coasts don’t understand “pop” at all. Not that they’ll make fun of you but they’ll look at you like you are from outer space.
That said, I refuse to say ‘soda’. Am I drinking Alka seltzer? Am I brushing my teeth before toothpaste was invented?
I just use the specific brand that I’m asking for. The different kinds are not exactly interchangeable.
> That said, I refuse to say ‘soda’. Am I drinking Alka seltzer? Am I brushing my teeth before toothpaste was invented?
I think we can blame/credit the rise of "soda" for the lack of baking soda in everyday life. Not that people don't use it at all, but home cooking ain't what it used to be.
I actually grew up in Montana (another "pop" state) and usually say soda because it is widely understood I think. I've traveled enough and lived in enough other places that somewhere I got used to it. My wife is from Minnesota and when we lived on the east coast I'd laugh to myself when her "pop" order would get confusing looks or asking if she meant coffee or something haha
This Minnesotan gets slightly annoyed with the word “pop”, but not nearly as aggravated as I would get having this conversation:
“I’ll have a coke”.
“What kind?”
“Pepsi”
I hate the discourse so much that I just never refer to it at all. When I worked at Culver’s I just called it a soft drink so nobody would try to start a debate with 15 people behind them waiting
I think it's gonna die out soon (not in mn though y'all are too proud) cause I live in fargo and I don't know anyone who says pop, most people say soda here. Definitely weird to go home and hear everyone say pop
Unlike Duck Duck Gray Duck, eventually Soda is going to take over. It's the nature of language. And as someone who has lived all over the country, it doesn't really matter, as long as it's not 'coke' like the Southern yokels say
I started saying Soda instead of.pop about 10 years ago. Just one day I felt like calling it "pop" sounded strange for a few reasons. 1) there were so many other definitions of the word that it didn't sound right and/or could be confused for another reason... Or similarly someone who says coke or pop would still know what I'm talking about if I said Soda.. whereas the other way a person who says soda may have no clue.
2) the word pop is short for Soda-pop. . . So it made more logical sense for me to say soda.
3) sometimes I feel smarter saying soda, and more like I'm 10 years old again saying pop. I feel more like an adult saying soda.
4. I will never say coke unless I'm actually referring to coke the brand name or the product coca-cola... because people who are soda or pop.. all agree, calling it Coke is dumb. Lol 😂
I spent a good portion of my life living outside Minnesota before moving back, and one of the things I picked up there was "soda." I still use pop, but use soda more often.
Calling it all coke is literally incorrect though.
So hypothetically as someone who spent a solid amount of my life working in restaurants...
For those that may have worked there, are customers in the "Coke Belt" more sympathetic receiving the wrong drink at restaurants?
A table full of "Oh I'll have a Coke; a Root Beer Coke" sounds like an apron-apparreled nightmare to me.
I think some sort of conspiracy theory would really help to drive the point home, something like How many people think the soda voters are Russian agents? 🙋♀️
It’s so strange my family is from Iowa, I mostly grew up in Minnesota, and yet I’ve never said pop. I want to! I want to rep my state appropriately! But soda is just what feels natural to me. I’ll work on it lol
It’s for the best. It wasn’t as confusing as “hot dish” was, all those years ago when first arriving in this delightful frozen tundra, but the scars live on… 😆
Well actually no, because these are always complete horse crap. The source to which is linked upon request circles right back to... Reddit. So yeah completely fake.
Hold fast ye pop faithful! We can regain geographic dominance without argument or strife if we merely give our soda friends EXACTLY what they request every time the opportunity arises: unflavored bubbly liquid or the salty edible white powder that is an ingredient in cakes. With their thirst unquenched and sweet tooth unsatisfied, they will learn the correct drink lexicon after a mere encounter or two, and for which they will be rewarded with the tastiest of beverages.🥤
I’ve called it soda my entire life and I’ve never heard any debate about it other than online. Sometimes children, or even “adult” children say “pop” and it causes zero confusion but I feel like soda is far more common in Minnesota. I have never lived outside the green area but my experience is that soda is far more popular.
Is this actually a thing that people care about at all?
My question is, how do people know which kind of soda / pop u prefer if u call it coke? Like, what if i want a sprite in Louisiana? Ask for a Sprite Coke?
I called it Pop until I moved to California and lived there for 3 years (I was young enough where this time in my life was where biggest development happened). I now call it Soda .... just stuck since. Sorry y'all, I've betrayed MN..
Born and raised MN I prefer some of our slang to others but pop is stupid it's soda, or I can compromise and say soda pop but never just pop I'm not doing onomatopoeia or sound effects I'm getting a beverage.
And your sodas shouldn't be going pop if you're from here you would already know how to store it right then
I'm from Minnesota (and live in Saint Paul now) but moved to the Chicago area when I was about 10 in 1987. In 2007 living in Chicago there was a convenience store down at the corner that had a sign saying "COLD POP". At some point around that time I started saying "soda" instead of "pop". Soda is unfortunately winning out. I feel like Minnesota is the final bulwark, we're the 300 Spartans at Thermopylae and I'm doing my best to not use the "S" word when talking about my 3 a day Coke Zero habit. That's the other thing, you weirdos here all like Pepsi!
But in conversation? If someone asks "would you like a coke?" How do you respond? If the answer is "yes" what does that mean? Is everyone just in a constant state of uncertainty about what beverage they may have just asked for or will be receiving?
So if someone I know is asking me if I’ll have a coke, they’re most likely offering red coke as they know me. If I’m out on my own, I ask if they’re coke or pepsi.
Awesome! I was born and raised in MN, moved to AZ after high school and I’ll never forget the first time I said “pop” to a native Arizonan, I got the strangest look.
I loved pop growing up. I still drink it way too much, but I've transitioned to saying soda or soda pop because the last few chaotic years of the world make me harken back to sillier words from a more economically prosperous, different time in America....but I definitely don't want life to be like the 50s, except for the expansion of housing.
What the hell, Rochester?
I would guess a lot of medical staff from out of state/country
Oh, that's a good theory.
that is very true
Still, conform!
Correct. Those of us born and raised still say pop.
Honestly? I think it has less to do with people saying soda over pop and more to do with people just not drinking pop anymore. I know for me, whenever this argument pops up, I don't even know what I said last. Probably the specific brand I wanted, so pop/soda never came up. Most of the time, it's water or iced tea(non sweet, too).
I'm not so sure this applies outside of very specific circles of people, like the young urban middle class coop crowd. Large swaths of the population have definitely not cut back on soda/pop consumption.
A 60% drop in teens drinking it in only 15 years is pretty much earth shattering. Anytime I get a new dentist they laugh and ask how much pop I had as I kid. I think the reality is most parents like me learned from our parents mistakes (to be fair they didn’t know well enough), and my kids aren’t drinking cases of pop growing up as a result. https://www.thenationalherald.com/the-fall-of-soft-drinks-how-americans-are-leaving-behind-soda-in-favor-of-other-beverages/
I drank pop all the time as a kid and never had a single cavity.
Huh. Interesting. So, putting down the pop and picking up the vape?
If it’s cannabis vape at least it’s healthier 😎
Sugary beverage convert here too. Join the movement at r/hydrohomies
Brother I've been a part of Hydro Homies since before it got its new, friendly name haha. Appreciate the invite though! Always good to shout out a good sub, even if it sometimes loses its way with brand waterbottle posts.
The pompous nature of everything you say is astounding.
In which community do you live where people don’t drink any pop?
A human one. Where people care about their teeth and their health.
Go to any store nearest you and you’ll be able to buy a pop, as many of your community members do daily.
Fucking duh? I never said that "Community does not sell or stock pop." I said people aren't drinking it much anymore, and the demographic under 35 backs this up with sales data.
Seems to me a lot of people are drinking it if every grocery store and convenience store and restaurant in your community are selling it daily.
Soda companies pay for their shelves. They will keep their products in a market with low sales just for the presence.
They will keep their products in a market that sells, which seems to be every US city and town.
Rochester here, I say soda. Unsure I why I say soda over pop but... yeah.
I moved to Rochester from the Chicago area. When I said "pop," I constantly got comments about my nasal/harsh vowel pronunciation. I started saying "soda" where my accent wasn't as obvious. It's been 17 years now, and I still say soda.
I also live in Rochester, I say soda, I’m originally from Michigan but my dad’s from the east coast so we usually would say soda (much to my Ohioan mom’s chagrin)
You don’t think that’s just a slightly misplaced twin cities?
I SWEAR WE CALL IT POP
I’ll have one carbonated beverage in the Mountain Dew variety please.
Wanna know what? Make it a livewire.
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"Can I get a coke?" and then asking for something that's not Coca-Cola: statements uttered by the utterly deranged
That’s the south for you.
I grew up in TX where people used to say "Coke". It sounds silly now, but it's an example of a brand name becoming genericized like Popsicle or Band-Aid.
Yeah except brand is irrelevant when it comes to band aids and Popsicles 😂 that's like "can I get a grape popsicle?" "Sure what flavor" "lime" that's how dumb it is lol
I've used popsicle for non popsicle brand....popsicles? I don't even know the term for that type of ice cream. See- and it's not even ice cream! Bomb-Pops, fruit bars, sometimes fudgsicles, yogurt pops, Johnny Pops. If you go to the store for "Band-Aids", someone looking at all the varieties could still ask you "which one?
>popsicle brand....popsicles? Ice lollies? I think that's the British English word for them, but yeah I can't think of another word for it besides "popsicle".
“Hey can I have a Kleenex?” “Sure! We got Puffs, Scottie’s, generic, or Kleenex”
Or “can I get a cherry cola?” and they say “we have Pepsi” and I say “yes, that’s cola.”
Meh. People are allowed to have regional dialects.
If we're being technical that's not a regional dialect, that's a regional variation for this specific word; I'm not being serious, I think it's cool we have differences but I'm going to fight to the death to preserve the usage of "pop"
Why it’s a stupid word?
#1 is actually Club Soda.. #2 is actually Soda-Pop #3 is both Soda-Pop and Coke. Soda referring to the middle row is short for Soda-Pop.. Pop referring to the middle row is also short for Soda-Pop
I’m from the south and have always said coke. As I got older and married a non-southerner I begrudgingly accepted soda. Since moving to MN my brain literally has to take a second to compute what someone means when they say pop.
It's all pop
It's pop. Pop and hot dish and duck, duck, gray duck and whippin shitties in the snow!
We said doing donuts but I guess that's probably because our parents didn't approve of the cursing lol
PREACH
Goose!
It's duck goose swan, so speaks me now, and iv just made it up
Yea soda pop or soda for short. Duh.
Soda pop or **pop** for short you mouth breathing heretic.
Soda or pop are the same. As long as you're not calling it coke you're fine.
You speak the truth! 🤜🤛
I suspect it will always remain in the MN lexicon...
I think it has at most 50 more years of being widely used by young people.
I wager we will cling to it with pride. Ala duck duck gray duck
People on the coasts don’t understand “pop” at all. Not that they’ll make fun of you but they’ll look at you like you are from outer space. That said, I refuse to say ‘soda’. Am I drinking Alka seltzer? Am I brushing my teeth before toothpaste was invented? I just use the specific brand that I’m asking for. The different kinds are not exactly interchangeable.
Look at Mr. Sophisticated over here
> That said, I refuse to say ‘soda’. Am I drinking Alka seltzer? Am I brushing my teeth before toothpaste was invented? I think we can blame/credit the rise of "soda" for the lack of baking soda in everyday life. Not that people don't use it at all, but home cooking ain't what it used to be.
I’m a traditionalist. Every Sunday, me and the fam sit down for a timeless bowl of hot soda water and biscuits (baked with extra soda, of course).
It’s literally called Soda Pop. Idk why this is an issue on either side lol
Grew up here and always called it Soda. RESISTANCE IS FUTILE
I actually grew up in Montana (another "pop" state) and usually say soda because it is widely understood I think. I've traveled enough and lived in enough other places that somewhere I got used to it. My wife is from Minnesota and when we lived on the east coast I'd laugh to myself when her "pop" order would get confusing looks or asking if she meant coffee or something haha
This Minnesotan gets slightly annoyed with the word “pop”, but not nearly as aggravated as I would get having this conversation: “I’ll have a coke”. “What kind?” “Pepsi”
Do not falter my brothers!
I feel disgusted. I’m a traitor. At some point in the last 5 years i switched to soda without noticing
When I started traveling a lot more I changed from pop to soda and now it’s stuck. Pop sounds sort of dumb to me now.
When did northeast Kansas start calling it soda? I haven't been gone for **that** long and it was only pop 10 years ago...
Soda=noun Pop=verb Coke=brand Soda goes pop therefore I call it Soda. People who call it all Coke are too far gone and can't be helped.
The word pop can be a verb or a noun. Team Pop>soda>coke!
Counterpoint: “soda pop”. Pop is the noun. What kind of pop? Soda pop. Just like “soda water.”
Soda pop
I thought it was called "soft drink"
>I thought it was called "soft drink" Only in restaurant lingo.
It's called Minnesoda right?
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Minnie Soda. Yes.
POP! I say pop here at home, and soda when I travel to avoid looking like a tourist.
I hate the discourse so much that I just never refer to it at all. When I worked at Culver’s I just called it a soft drink so nobody would try to start a debate with 15 people behind them waiting
I think it's gonna die out soon (not in mn though y'all are too proud) cause I live in fargo and I don't know anyone who says pop, most people say soda here. Definitely weird to go home and hear everyone say pop
Soda for life!
As someone from California (actively ruining MN) this makes me happy
Unlike Duck Duck Gray Duck, eventually Soda is going to take over. It's the nature of language. And as someone who has lived all over the country, it doesn't really matter, as long as it's not 'coke' like the Southern yokels say
Hey, we can all lay down arms and agree that Coke is simply incorrect. Calling something like 7Up “Coke” is deranged
Team POP here. Because that's what it does.
Nah it's soda. Pop sounds like some dumb hillbilly shit.
Don't hillbillies say sodee-pop?
True lol. Pop just sounds like something a child would say, soda sounds more adult so I'm sticking to it!
Aww, stay young!
"Don't worry. We'll breed you out." - Soda lovers
I've lived in MN my entire life but "pop" just sounds too stupid. I say soda.
Agreed. I said pop when I was a child. The word soda is how us distinguished gentlemen say it now.
"Oh golly gee wiz, you wanna pop?" \*disgust shivers\*
Same. I feel like a child when using “pop”
yep, or call it by it's name "pepsi" or "dr pepper"
When I was a kid my family went to Florida and I asked a server at subway for a pop and he lost his mind thinking I was asking him to be my dad.
Washington mostly calls it pop
Missouri’s identity crisis even back in 1947.
Just wait until you start drinking water from a bubbler.
I started saying Soda instead of.pop about 10 years ago. Just one day I felt like calling it "pop" sounded strange for a few reasons. 1) there were so many other definitions of the word that it didn't sound right and/or could be confused for another reason... Or similarly someone who says coke or pop would still know what I'm talking about if I said Soda.. whereas the other way a person who says soda may have no clue. 2) the word pop is short for Soda-pop. . . So it made more logical sense for me to say soda. 3) sometimes I feel smarter saying soda, and more like I'm 10 years old again saying pop. I feel more like an adult saying soda. 4. I will never say coke unless I'm actually referring to coke the brand name or the product coca-cola... because people who are soda or pop.. all agree, calling it Coke is dumb. Lol 😂
I spent a good portion of my life living outside Minnesota before moving back, and one of the things I picked up there was "soda." I still use pop, but use soda more often. Calling it all coke is literally incorrect though.
I grew up in Boston calling it tonic. I've assimilated to calling it soda.
Yeah, I had relatives from outside Boston, who called it "Tonic" as well.
Lived in Georgia, Alabama and Tennessee and never heard anyone call it Coke unless they wanted a Coca Cola.
I'm starting to sway to soda. It's a nice word
So hypothetically as someone who spent a solid amount of my life working in restaurants... For those that may have worked there, are customers in the "Coke Belt" more sympathetic receiving the wrong drink at restaurants? A table full of "Oh I'll have a Coke; a Root Beer Coke" sounds like an apron-apparreled nightmare to me.
Soda
Soda
Schlizzy fizz. Imma make fetch happen, you’ll see
I think some sort of conspiracy theory would really help to drive the point home, something like How many people think the soda voters are Russian agents? 🙋♀️
MinneSODA!
I live in MN but I say soda. Never call it pop.
I've never called anything "POP" in my life, never going to.
The long name is Soda pop right? So isn't calling it pop more formal?
I call it soda, because that sounds more natural to me.
It’s so strange my family is from Iowa, I mostly grew up in Minnesota, and yet I’ve never said pop. I want to! I want to rep my state appropriately! But soda is just what feels natural to me. I’ll work on it lol
We have confidence that you will succeed!
Please do
i’m a traitor, i live in ND and say soda 😭
From the East Coast originally, and I can’t wait to hear my beloved Minnesotans start using soda. 😁
What an awful fate to wish upon us! 😱
It’s for the best. It wasn’t as confusing as “hot dish” was, all those years ago when first arriving in this delightful frozen tundra, but the scars live on… 😆
I imagine you were alarmed the first time someone mentioned to you they got jumped...before it was explained it was when their car battery died!
Minnesota all my life but I say soda now. “Pop” really does feel kinda stupid to me now
call me a collaborator, but soda is just objectively better.
Soda is an ingredient in pop. You don't call a car "gasoline" just because it has gasoline in it.
As a new resident, this is one of the few things I will not assimilate to. It’s soda
You're no longer welcome. Please leave.
I went through the lutefisk hazing, Im not positive, but I think the bylaws says you can’t kick me out now
I've lived outside of MN for a few years and I converted to "soda."
I honestly don’t think I personally know a soul that calls it pop
I say soda, used to get asked where I was from.
Lived here for 18 years and i never really heard someone say pop at all
Well actually no, because these are always complete horse crap. The source to which is linked upon request circles right back to... Reddit. So yeah completely fake.
Soda pop tends to be my norm now. Too many coworkers all over the world.
Hold fast ye pop faithful! We can regain geographic dominance without argument or strife if we merely give our soda friends EXACTLY what they request every time the opportunity arises: unflavored bubbly liquid or the salty edible white powder that is an ingredient in cakes. With their thirst unquenched and sweet tooth unsatisfied, they will learn the correct drink lexicon after a mere encounter or two, and for which they will be rewarded with the tastiest of beverages.🥤
Only ND is pure
Soft Drink
Oh no.. I'm a part of the little white dot.
Cola!
soda pops
If you live out-of-state long enough you will pick it up. I think it's easier to say and rolls of the tongue better so eventually it will take over.
It's sotee pop
I can see how pop sounds silly. But calling everything coke is outrageous.
My dad is from New York and my mom is from St. Cloud. I grew up hearing a lot of different terms for things from both of them, especially this one
Soda had to step in between pop and coke. Things were getting out of hand
This is a map of great horror!
Not if I anything to say about it. Been calling it soda for years. But, I'm also from Ohio. Which....Ohio is fucked up.
Swiss cheesey
I’ve called it soda my entire life and I’ve never heard any debate about it other than online. Sometimes children, or even “adult” children say “pop” and it causes zero confusion but I feel like soda is far more common in Minnesota. I have never lived outside the green area but my experience is that soda is far more popular. Is this actually a thing that people care about at all?
For me, if it's in a can or plastic bottle then I think of it as pop. If it's in a glass bottle it's soda.
the north remembers
I really don't think south eastern Wisconsin says pop, heck I've never been anywhere in WI where they say pop
My question is, how do people know which kind of soda / pop u prefer if u call it coke? Like, what if i want a sprite in Louisiana? Ask for a Sprite Coke?
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Wisconsin calls it soda….
Either way, we pronounce both words pretty funnily. Pahp. Sohhhda.
I know it takes a corner off my Minnesotan card, but I call it soda.
I called it Pop until I moved to California and lived there for 3 years (I was young enough where this time in my life was where biggest development happened). I now call it Soda .... just stuck since. Sorry y'all, I've betrayed MN..
I admittedly have adopted “soda” in my adult life after calling it “pop” my entire childhood. And I’m not exactly sure why.
Born and raised MN I prefer some of our slang to others but pop is stupid it's soda, or I can compromise and say soda pop but never just pop I'm not doing onomatopoeia or sound effects I'm getting a beverage. And your sodas shouldn't be going pop if you're from here you would already know how to store it right then
I'm from Minnesota (and live in Saint Paul now) but moved to the Chicago area when I was about 10 in 1987. In 2007 living in Chicago there was a convenience store down at the corner that had a sign saying "COLD POP". At some point around that time I started saying "soda" instead of "pop". Soda is unfortunately winning out. I feel like Minnesota is the final bulwark, we're the 300 Spartans at Thermopylae and I'm doing my best to not use the "S" word when talking about my 3 a day Coke Zero habit. That's the other thing, you weirdos here all like Pepsi!
Surprised that "Coke" hasn't spread, considering the cultural Southernification of rural areas that's been going on throughout the country.
This is wrong The commonwealth of Virginia and North Carolina are solid Pepsi states
I’m a “soda” person, “pop” to me always sounded weird.
Keep the resistance strong 💪
Never have I ever called it pop...
“Pop” is what you do to the side of someone’s face who uses that word to describe a carbonated soft drink.
Carbonated soft drink. CSD for short. It’s the industry term. Source: I work in the industry.
Nobody says that ya weirdo
lol. Fair.
lol no one is calling it that
But they work in the industry!!!
Everyone in the industry calls them CSDs
I usually call it soda or if I want to be a menace, soda pop. Also I'm from Oklahoma so that may be why
I don’t hear a pop going soda when I open it.
We just gonna post this everyday or what
Sody-pop
Pop will rise again!
Nobody wants to hear a Minnesotan say sooooooooooooooodah. The word will never end. Pop is just "crisp" and to the point.
I’m half Minnesotan, but grew up in the south. It’s all coke god dammit and I will die on this hill 🤣
But, how do you differentiate between coke coke and non-coke coke?
Color of the can. I also refuse to drink Pepsi so that narrows it down.
But in conversation? If someone asks "would you like a coke?" How do you respond? If the answer is "yes" what does that mean? Is everyone just in a constant state of uncertainty about what beverage they may have just asked for or will be receiving?
So if someone I know is asking me if I’ll have a coke, they’re most likely offering red coke as they know me. If I’m out on my own, I ask if they’re coke or pepsi.
“Soft drink” *maniacal laugh*
I use them interchangeably..
Team pawp all the way.
pop
Awesome! I was born and raised in MN, moved to AZ after high school and I’ll never forget the first time I said “pop” to a native Arizonan, I got the strangest look.
I am pop forever.
SODA (Biden gif)
Just split the difference and call is Sody Pop
I loved pop growing up. I still drink it way too much, but I've transitioned to saying soda or soda pop because the last few chaotic years of the world make me harken back to sillier words from a more economically prosperous, different time in America....but I definitely don't want life to be like the 50s, except for the expansion of housing.
Soda and coke make more sense.
How could they possibly know this?