• @quams69
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    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

    • @netwren
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      71 year ago

      Florida here. I don’t say Coke for all soda just for a dark cola. But Coke is just the first brand I think of/want when it comes to Soda. Like the most ubiquitous.

      If I want a Root Beer I’m gonna ask for that. But I’d never fucking say Pop.

      I’d say Soda for the general.

      • @dezmd
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        21 year ago

        Florida here, I say Coke for standard cola style soda and will use it to reference soda in a general manner if discussing with someone obviously from the South. I use soda as well.

        My wife grew up with pop and Pepsi as her regional standards. I make sure to reinforce soda and Coke as the correct standards since I’m not insane. ;)

      • @[email protected]
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        231 year ago

        Yes, because there’s no real difference between Kleenex and other brands of tissues. There’s a huge difference between a coke and a sprite for instance.

          • @dezmd
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            31 year ago

            “Why are these poors talking to me?” /wipes nose with Aloe infused Kleenex - Saint_Bandit, probably.

    • @[email protected]
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      11 year ago

      In reasonably confident that this is how people ask for a cola, not for any soda pop. The default soda in America is a cola, which we have the two primary brands (coke and Pepsi) and all the small time competitors. No one says ‘I’ll have a coke’ when they want a sprite.