Soda Wars: What do YOU call it? (serious)

Kelly Antilles · Post by **Kelly Antilles** » 2002-10-15 09:33am

useless trivia here:

Coke was born in Atlanta, Georgia.
Pepsi was born in North Carolina.

Concidering they both are products of the South, could that be the reason why Southerners always distinguish it as being either Coke or Pepsi?

Dirty Harry · Post by **Dirty Harry** » 2002-10-15 09:37am

I call it coke.Shit, now that I think of it, I haven't drunk Pepsi in years.

Guest · Post by **Guest** » 2002-10-15 02:23pm

Soda or brand

Mr. Mister · Post by **Mr. Mister** » 2002-10-15 07:51pm

Hmm... I hadn't thought about Pepsi being from the South... But nobody goes and specifies about RC Cola, do they? No.

Now, I'm from Atlanta, and a perfectly normal thing to say/hear is as follows:

Person One: Hey, you want a Coke or something?
Person Two: Sure, what do you have?
Person One: Well, I got some Sprites, and a couple Dr. Peppers.

or, my favorite:

Person One: Hey, want something to drink?
Person Two: Sure. You got any Cokes?
Person One: Yeah. Let me see what I have... I've got a few ginger ales and a can of Orange Crush.
Person Two: Orange Crush.

Rule of thumb: if it fizzes, it's beer or Coke. Coke is a kind of Coke.

Cal Wright · Post by **Cal Wright** » 2002-10-15 09:37pm

Slight flaw there Kelly. What I'll call 'true' southerners that were pretty much born and raised here say coke. No differentiating from pepsi or coke. it's just coke.

Kelly Antilles · Post by **Kelly Antilles** » 2002-10-15 09:38pm

DG_Cal_Wright wrote:Slight flaw there Kelly. What I'll call 'true' southerners that were pretty much born and raised here say coke. No differentiating from pepsi or coke. it's just coke.

That is probably because Coke was distributed wider than Pepsi earlier.

Cal Wright · Post by **Cal Wright** » 2002-10-15 09:40pm

That would be it. It's the real thing after all.

funny thing is, I drink Pepsi more than coke.

An nonsense joke for you too. I asked this girl in my class, her name, guess what is Kelly, LOL, what she called it, and she was with me on the coke thing, Then she started making fun of how people say 'pop'. lol. it was pretty good.

Kelly Antilles · Post by **Kelly Antilles** » 2002-10-15 09:46pm

DG_Cal_Wright wrote:That would be it. It's the real thing after all. funny thing is, I drink Pepsi more than coke.

An nonsense joke for you too. I asked this girl in my class, her name, guess what is Kelly, LOL, what she called it, and she was with me on the coke thing, Then she started making fun of how people say 'pop'. lol. it was pretty good.

I'm sure verilon would agree with me here, but when I worked at the movie theater, people would come up and ask for a pop or a soda. I would stand there and go "what?" At that point I would list every drink we have.

People are morons.

Sylvar Fyre · Post by **Sylvar Fyre** » 2002-10-15 10:11pm

I call it soda, even if I am from the midwest, where it's pop.

At least I know what "pop" is. My cousin from New York, seriously didn't know that pop meant soda.

Stuart Mackey · Post by **Stuart Mackey** » 2002-10-15 11:45pm

Sylvar Fyre wrote:I call it soda, even if I am from the midwest, where it's pop.

At least I know what "pop" is. My cousin from New York, seriously didn't know that pop meant soda.

In NZ 'pop' is your grandfather.

Slartibartfast · Post by **Slartibartfast** » 2002-10-16 01:27am

I once boarded a plane to the US, and all the attendants were english-speaking only (which is quite stupid in an international flight, BTW, but I've never used the same airline again) and the woman approached me with her little beverage cart and asked me if I wanted something to drink.

"Can I have a soda?"
Blank stare

"You know, a can of pop..."
Blanker stare

"Can I have a Sprite with ice, please?"

She gave me a Sprite with ice.

Stuart Mackey · Post by **Stuart Mackey** » 2002-10-16 01:32am

Slartibartfast wrote:I once boarded a plane to the US, and all the attendants were english-speaking only (which is quite stupid in an international flight, BTW, but I've never used the same airline again) and the woman approached me with her little beverage cart and asked me if I wanted something to drink.

"Can I have a soda?"
Blank stare

"You know, a can of pop..."
Blanker stare

"Can I have a Sprite with ice, please?"

She gave me a Sprite with ice.

the moral of this story is: Just because they speak English does not mean they know American cololquilisms for fizzy drinks.

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