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[-] joeyv120@ttrpg.network 148 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

~~Shm.~~ Smh. The fucking people who call all sodas "coke".

Them: What kind of Ford do you drive? Me: a Chevy.

[-] mkwt@lemmy.world 49 points 1 year ago

It's from Coca-Cola (headquartered in Atlanta) having total dominance of the south for a long time.

[-] mindbleach@sh.itjust.works 31 points 1 year ago

See also My Names Is Earl. "She was Chinese... Japanese, specifically."

[-] MuThyme@lemmy.world 12 points 1 year ago

I could say the same thing about people calling all soft drinks "soda"

[-] can@sh.itjust.works 38 points 1 year ago

"soda" is not also a specific drink though

[-] MuThyme@lemmy.world 11 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

The only time people say "soda" where I am, is when referring to soda water, which is a specific drink. (And imo a terrible one)

Edit: It's just an interesting difference in language, I'm not making an argument about what's right...

[-] burgersc12@sh.itjust.works 23 points 1 year ago

If only there was a way to specify between a "soda" and a "soda water"

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[-] M500@lemmy.ml 21 points 1 year ago

Dude it makes perfect sense.

The “so” is the first two letters from the word and the “d” is the third letter. And the “a” is obviously because…..

[-] MuThyme@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago

I'M SHOOK

You've changed my whole world

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[-] ChucklesMacLeroy@lemmy.world 124 points 1 year ago

Stupid shit like this hits hard to some folks in the south. I have family members are pissed how "everything is changing", so much in fact that this very thing caused a disturbance at a local college pub. Last year, one of my dumbass family members was thrown out for being rude. When I asked him what happened he said...

" That god damn Yankee girl wanted to know if I wanted a fucking pop. What the fuck is a pop? So I asked her. She said something like a soda or whatever and I told her, it's a fucking coke and she needs to go back to fucking Chicago and get fucked. Don't bring your stupid shit down here."

Even more f'd up, is he would have ordered a Sprite.

I dislike a few of my relatives.

[-] KingThrillgore@lemmy.ml 25 points 1 year ago

"Why don't my nephews visit me anymore?" --Them on their death bed

[-] odium@programming.dev 19 points 1 year ago

Sprites are great, what's with all this sprite slander? Sprite, Sierra Mist, etc are the best sodas.

[-] hglman@lemmy.ml 62 points 1 year ago

You're missing how it works; you ask for a Coke, the server says what kind, and you say Sprite.

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[-] can@sh.itjust.works 26 points 1 year ago

But they're not a damn coke

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[-] ChucklesMacLeroy@lemmy.world 10 points 1 year ago

Why you gotta leave out the og? 7up is the quintessential lemon lime beverage. Much better in a cocktail, IMO.

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[-] Nepenthe@kbin.social 13 points 1 year ago

While my own similar rant would have been only meant in play, this is how I feel about both o' y'all. It's a fucking soda. Gonna just go all the way and call sweet tea a coke too?

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[-] BulbasaurBabu@lemmings.world 116 points 1 year ago

Calling it soda, good. Calling it pop, fine. Calling every soft drink a coke, fuck off.

Get this, in Scotland, pretty much any liquid is called juice.

[-] BulbasaurBabu@lemmings.world 12 points 1 year ago

I gotta put juice in my car, it's on empty

[-] ichmagrum@feddit.de 9 points 1 year ago

Still makes more sense than calling Sprite "coke".

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[-] Vespair@lemm.ee 51 points 1 year ago

Soda is an always has been the right term, but the people who say "coke" to mean any soda are the most wrongest people in history

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[-] SendMeBakedBeans@lemmy.world 42 points 1 year ago

Inshallah the South will no longer be a walking advertisement for coca cola 🙏

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[-] DumbAceDragon@sh.itjust.works 41 points 1 year ago

Soda: the correct way to say it
Coke: a specific brand, but I'm all for genericization
Pop: why are you calling a soft drink daddy?

[-] ghost9@lemmy.world 16 points 1 year ago

Don't kinky shame.

[-] quams69@lemmy.world 35 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

The south is emphatically wrong on so much shit but calling soda/pop "coke" is somehow at the top of my list

Call all ice cream vanilla, or all cereal corn flakes, or all alcohol beer why the fuck not

[-] nonfuinoncuro@lemm.ee 14 points 1 year ago

All anime is pokemans and all vidya is Nintendo

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[-] Laticauda@lemmy.ca 30 points 1 year ago

We call it pop up in Canada so I'm rooting for that, but I will accept some loss of territory if it helps eliminate the coke people.

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[-] CarbonIceDragon@pawb.social 26 points 1 year ago

That explains my confusion on why I always got told that people in the south call it all coke, but when growing up, I always heard just called soda; I grew up in NC, which is considered a southern state, but appears to have been completely taken over by the soda side at this point.

[-] Kid_Thunder@kbin.social 18 points 1 year ago

Growing up in western NC, it was always Coke when I was a kid. But then shopping carts were buggies and toilets were commodes back then too.

[-] CarbonIceDragon@pawb.social 10 points 1 year ago

Buggies I've not heard, but I do have a grandmother who still calls it the commode.

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[-] hobbicus@lemmy.world 19 points 1 year 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@lemm.ee 13 points 1 year 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.

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[-] itslilith@lemmy.blahaj.zone 19 points 1 year ago

they are cutting down all the forest :c

[-] phcorcoran@lemmy.world 17 points 1 year ago

I like how it has really vague boundaries that are obviously approximate but then it pretends to do precise gerrymandering-type carveouts in the second map

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[-] Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de 17 points 1 year ago

as a non-american, the only term i'll ever accept is "sodipop"

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[-] brlemworld@lemmy.world 15 points 1 year 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

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[-] rockSlayer@lemmy.world 12 points 1 year ago

Anyone that says pop is wrong, is wrong

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[-] Resol@lemmy.world 12 points 1 year ago

The south: all soft drinks are Coca-Cola. We don't have anything else.

[-] LemmysMum@lemmy.world 11 points 1 year ago

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

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[-] PrejudicedKettle@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago

Lived in Quebec, Canada up until recently. My family called it coke.

[-] isVeryLoud@lemmy.ca 9 points 1 year ago

I'm from Quebec, always called it a soft drink, or boisson gazeuse.

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[-] firewyre@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago

Never underestimate the pincer attack from the coasts

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