Bidens America

Verat, 5 months ago

I say “cola” if it is a cola type drink, and soda if it isn’t. Raised in the Midwest for background.

Darken, 5 months ago

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Verat, 5 months ago

Personally I have never heard of that one, nor the drink, how is it pronounced?

chetradley, 5 months ago

How funny would it be if one state was completely colored red and it was “but of the old sweet and bubbly” or some shit.

HiddenLayer5, 5 months ago

I really want coke to be more common as referring to soda pop on general because I want to see Coca Cola freak out as they lose the trademark to genericization.

SpaceTurtle224, 5 months ago

SODA!!!

Socsa, 5 months ago

The correct term is obviously “beer”

dejected_warp_core, 5 months ago

Where is “soft drink” on this map?

darthskull, 5 months ago

Soft drinks include any non hard drink, including all the non carbonated stuff. This is specifically referring to carbonated beverages.

Ultraviolet, 5 months ago

Oddly with the exception of water.

Sidhean, 5 months ago

Interestingly enough, I’ve never heard “soft drink” used to refer to anything but soda (Midwest USA here)

brlemworld, 5 months ago

Pop is slang, coke is a brand, soda is the read deal. You used to go to a business that had a soda fountain. SODA

pewgar_seemsimandroid, 5 months ago

soda pop

cupcakezealot, 5 months ago

everyone knows it’s fizzy juice

LemmysMum, 5 months ago

The rest of the world: Order what the fuck you actually want instead of adding a layer of needless obfuscation.

pkill, 5 months ago

poor autistic bartenders in the US

Siethron, 5 months ago

St. Louis in 1947, We’re Different from CHICAGO we’re calling it SODA!

Starkstruck, 5 months ago

obamna

SODAAAA!!!

banneryear1868, 5 months ago

"I get a coke. I get a coca-cola. I’m sorry, okay? I say I’ll get a coke. Then there’s these people out there, and maybe there’s some here tonight… they say “I like Pepsi! HUH?!”

QuaternionsRock, 5 months ago

What the hell was that

banneryear1868, 5 months ago

This is storytelling, this is Cosby comedy, this isn’t “bing bing bing,” it’s going to require a little bit of your attention.

pewgar_seemsimandroid, 5 months ago

where’s soda pop

ohlaph, 5 months ago

I had friends from the south and would ask me if I wanted a coke, but would bring everything but a coke.

And we still say pop in the PNW.

jaschen, 5 months ago

From Seattle. Its closer to 50/50 Pop/Soda. When you say coke, its Coca Cola specifically.

maxy, 5 months ago

Also from Seattle, never heard someone say Pop in my life.

jaschen, 5 months ago

I hear it from places on the Eastside.

BowtiesAreCool, 5 months ago

I’m in the Portland metro area. Only my grandma says pop. Everyone else I know says soda

hobbicus, 5 months ago

These are always so weird to me. I grew up in the rural south, and I’ve never once heard Coke used to describe soft drinks generically. In my experience when someone asks for a “coke” they specifically mean Coca Cola and would be pissed if they got something else.

June, 5 months ago

If you go to Georgia, ‘coke’ is whichever cola they have. At least that’s been my experience when visiting family down there. 99% of the time you get Coca Cola, but that 1% is a kick in the nuts.

Had the same experience when I lived in east Texas and visited rural Louisiana. But it wasn’t that way when I lived in Virginia. Coke meant Coca Cola, and if you asked for coke and they had Pepsi, they’d ask if Pepsi was ok.

In western Washington, it’s a hodgepodge.

yokonzo, 5 months ago

Iirc when I lived there the reason is because the Cole bottling plant was there so it just came naturally as lingo

CoggyMcFee, 5 months ago

My spouse is from the deep south and grew up saying it.