carbonated beverages

What do you say?

  • Coke

    Votes: 3 13.6%

  • Pop

    Votes: 8 36.4%

  • Soda

    Votes: 11 50.0%

  • Soft Drink

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • Soda Pop

    Votes: 0 0.0%
  • Total voters
    22
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Just a simple poll here, what do you call this stuff? Southerners always call it "coke" which drives me insane. Helloooo? "Coke" is the name of a BRAND, it's not a general term! Blah. Then there's northers who say "pop" which just sounds silly to me, and over in the west coast they say "soda", which is what I say as well.
 
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I call them sodas. I think it's kind of weird when people say "pop". lol.
 
well, I call a coke a coke, but for carbonated beverages in general, i call it soda.
 
See an actual Coke should be called a Coke, but these idiot southerners call Coke and Sprite and root beer and anything else brown or amber colored "coke."

Oh and they call everything clear Sprite, so a Sierra Mist or 7Up is simply "Sprite."
 
Sprite is better than 7up or mountain dew. But I call them all the same thing. XD
 
I call 'soft drinks' soda. I only say coke when referring to Coca-cola. I prefer Pepsi though. ^_^

Sprite is better. Ewww Mountain Dew taste gross. My boyfriend drinks it. >_< It's a good drink to stay up when gaming all night.
 
Well "pop" is still better than calling everything "coke" <.<

Hmmm....I forgot to put "soft drink" into the poll...I don't have a way to edit it either. Ah well.
 
Funny thing is, I never really heard Soda used often until I moved to North Carolina.

I haven't witnessed anyone referring to everything as Coke though. But then, NC is the birthplace of Pepsi.
 
I call them sodas. I am from the south here in the states. I work at a place where I have to get drinks for people. Most of them say, "I'd like a coke please." I go and get them their coca-cola and then they say, "Oh, I'm sorry. I meant Dr. Pepper." I wish people would say coke ONLY when they mean coca-cola.
 
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I call them sodas. I am from the south here in the states. I work at a place where I have to get drinks for people. Most of them say, "I'd like a coke please." I go and get them their coca-cola and then they say, "Oh, I'm sorry. I meant Dr. Pepper." I wish people would say coke ONLY when they mean coca-cola.
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People like that should be slapped. How the hell are you supposed to know they meant Dr. Pepper when they asked for coke?
 
Right. And that's exactly what I want to do with them. It has happened numerous times and it pisses me off. Most of the time when someone asks for a coke I'll ask them to be specific. But almost everytime I forget to ask, that's when the customer asks fer something else.
 
Only coke gets called coke or maybe cola in my books.

I generally call carbonated drinks pop. Most people where I live do.
 
I say coke when I want a coke, sprite when I want a sprite, and whatever else when I want whatever else. But in general I call my carbonated beverages soda. Most people here in Ohio called them "pop" and it can be very annoying.
 
I usually call it Coke or Soda Pop. :wacky:
 
dimmufan said:
I call them sodas. I am from the south here in the states. I work at a place where I have to get drinks for people. Most of them say, "I'd like a coke please." I go and get them their coca-cola and then they say, "Oh, I'm sorry. I meant Dr. Pepper." I wish people would say coke ONLY when they mean coca-cola.
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I work at Arby's, so I deal with the same crap. What's really odd is that when people tell me the actual name of the drink they want (be it tea, Dr. Pepper, Mountain Dew or whatever), they come into the building where they get their own drinks! But in drive-thru, where we have to get them, 95% of the time we either have to ask them or they just say "coke", in which case we just give them Pepsi and if they don't like it they can shove it.
 
We call it pop where I come from! When I used to live in NYC, no one at like the restaurants knew what pop was it seemed unless I called it a coke or pepsi.
 
When I was in the Philippines, we all referred to them as "soft drinks". In Cali, I called them "soda"...here in Ohio, I still call them "soda", and people give me weird looks and correct me by saying, "No, it's called 'pop', dear." =/
 
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