By: kitschbitch
cordial is more generally known as squash, and is a concentrated fruit drink that you dilute with water - though orange, lime and blackcurrant cordial tend to be stocked in pubs to be added to...
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'Soft drink' can also mean non-carbonated drinks. In the UK this is particularly obvious due to the prevalence of orange squash (and other cordials). What's a cordial?
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as I said in the previous thread: where I come from in the north of england: - lemonade will get you 7Up/sprite or own-brand equivalent - 'coke' will get you coca cola or pepsi (within the drinks...
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The patterns are interesting. For example, it provides strong evidence for the north/south split in Indiana. The tendency What is up with that "soda" cluster around St. Louis? The NE and California...
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'Soft drink' can also mean non-carbonated drinks. In the UK this is particularly obvious due to the prevalence of orange squash (and other cordials). (As an aside, when I was in LA for a couple of...
View ArticleBy: thomcatspike
growing up with the pop shoppe, I remember them; which made me think at the time, those calling it "pop", shopped there.
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North East UK. When I was a kid, my best friend used to call it "pop" and there used to be a lorry that delivered to his house that he called the "pop wagon" (my family bought ours at the supermarket...
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The Soda area in the middle is due to St. Louis, which, according to one person I know, is a city full of "northeastern-wannabes." I'm originally from St. Louis and I'm proud of our anti-midwestern...
View ArticleBy: johnny novak
pots, I'd say the more common Scottish term is "ginger" as in, "sees some o' that ginger a'm feeling guy drouthy."
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In the UK asking for 'Coke' will get you either Coca Cola or Pepsi. Asking for 'Soda' will probably get you tonic water. The generic term for a soft drink is 'pop', or 'fizzy pop'.
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I used to hear "Get me a coke" all the time when, yes, that could've meant Dr. Pepper. I remember writer at my college newspaper writing that "cokes" had been banned at a particular basketball game,...
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beth> Whoa, Ethereal Blight, did someone piss in your wheaties today? Why pounce on wigu like that? MeFi is slowly corrupting him. Like a simple Mesopotamian farmer who comes to Babylon he's...
View ArticleBy: CunningLinguist
The NY answers are hilarious. There's the crew that looks down on "pop" users - you might as well throw out the rest of the results between the coasts anyway! They are still in the 1950s. When they get...
View ArticleBy: dgaicun
One of the diverse (a.k.a made-up) "other" entries was 'sugedy smack-smack'. I like it.
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So you want a fucking gold star, or what? Whoa, Ethereal Blight, did someone piss in your wheaties today? Why pounce on wigu like that?
View ArticleBy: t r a c y
it's weird how this subject does the rounds every so often, not just here but on lots of other forums as well. i call it pop, after growing up with the pop shoppe, where you could mix and match your...
View ArticleBy: CunningLinguist
I'm sorry but I find calling all soda "coke" really really dopey. But hey, look how many people do it! I'm really enjoying puzzling out this map. What's the deal with the big soda area there in the...
View ArticleBy: vignettist
Tso-tso-tsola (like the way you would pronounce the word tsar/czar) [/czech pronunciation]
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I come from "Soda" land, but moved to the land of "PoP" . . . one day my young son asked for a "soda" at the local convenience store. The clerk stared at him a minute then demanded "Ya want a pop?" My...
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The Dutch call it frisdrank, 'fris' for short. Fris means cool/cold/refreshing.
View ArticleBy: bafflegab
In high school in New Orleans (early 90s), it went something like this: A: "You want a Coke?" Me: "Yeah" A: "What kind?" I also remember TimeSaver and/or Circle K doing a "Coke in the morning.......
View ArticleBy: ahimsakid
I come from "Soda" land, but moved to the land of "PoP" . . . one day my young son asked for a "soda" at the local convenience store. The clerk stared at him a minute then demanded "Ya want a pop?" My...
View ArticleBy: Ethereal Bligh
"I call it High-Fructose, Unnecessary, Tooth Rotting, Poison, Obese Children Juice.—wiguSo you want a fucking gold star, or what?
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I call it High-Fructose, Unnecessary, Tooth Rotting, Poison, Obese Children Juice.
View ArticleBy: Ethereal Bligh
As someone from deep within the heart of coke territory, I'd like to point out that this usage isn't as confusing as many people assume it must be. Don't ask me to explain it, though. Well, I'll claim...
View ArticleBy: DevilsAdvocate
From the "other" responses: "carbonated beverages in Jasper [Indiana] are called Beer"Now if you'll excuse me, I'm off to check real estate listings for Jasper.
View ArticleBy: thomcatspike
Soft drink...wonder the use of the name, because it was usually purchased at the corner liquor stores in California.
View ArticleBy: joaquim
I thought "burpwater" or "fartwater" were fairly widespread, but I only see them in the Dakotas and Nebraska.
View ArticleBy: Red58
In lots of countries (France, Italy, and ex-colonies there of), I've heard them call all sodas Fanta. Didn't Radar O'Reilly call 'em NeHi?
View ArticleBy: reklaw
Here in the south-east of the UK, "soft drink" or "fizzy drink" seem to be the most common. Saying "pop" would make you sound like an old woman.
View ArticleBy: DevilsAdvocate
"Coke" for me, and I've heard exactly the same conversation 4easypayments describes, here in central Indiana. "Soft drink" is sometimes also used if one must disambiguate.
View ArticleBy: gompa
Man, those "other" lists are a great read. A handful at random from Arizona: Ninja Juice I call them twinkies! I love twinkies! And smashing twinkie cans is soo much fun! Rocky Mountain Panther Piss...
View ArticleBy: filchyboy
In Soviet Russia for many decades the only available sweetened drink was lemonaid. When carbonated drinks began to be introduced "lemonaid" became the defacto name for any and all sweetened drinks.
View ArticleBy: Davidicus
Mass., 'soda', But I have to remember to begin to refer to it as tonic, as in: "That tonic was wikkid pissa."
View ArticleBy: soyjoy
lelilo, I think the Dutch derivation for "Dope" makes more sense. I remember my grandparents in Ohio always calling chocolate syrup dope, as in "You want chocolate dope on your ice cream?" Dope,...
View ArticleBy: purplemonkie
I'm from Rochester NY, where it's "pop." But then I moved to Ithaca for school -- less than two hours' drive away -- and quickly started saying "soda" because I was tired of getting laughed at. I...
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