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~~Shm.~~ Smh. The fucking people who call all sodas "coke".
Them: What kind of Ford do you drive? Me: a Chevy.
- It's from Coca-Cola (headquartered in Atlanta) having total dominance of the south for a long time.
  
  brawndo irl
  
  Atlanta is the most random place you can headquarter a company.
  CNN is headquartered in Atlanta and like what? Why?
- See also My Names Is Earl. "She was Chinese... Japanese, specifically."
- I could say the same thing about people calling all soft drinks "soda"
  
  "soda" is not also a specific drink though
  
  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…..
  
  At least it's based on "soda pop".
- What does "shm" mean? I'm currently only reading it as an onomatopoeia and I don't think that's right.
  
  Likely a typo for smh, which essentially means "shaking my head".

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.
- "Why don't my nephews visit me anymore?" --Them on their death bed
- Sprites are great, what's with all this sprite slander? Sprite, Sierra Mist, etc are the best sodas.
  
  You're missing how it works; you ask for a Coke, the server says what kind, and you say Sprite.
  
  But they're not a damn coke
  
  Why you gotta leave out the og? 7up is the quintessential lemon lime beverage. Much better in a cocktail, IMO.
- 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?
  
  Y'all slurp down sweet tea like yer granpappy's gonna whip yer ass if ya don't an'nen go an removed about insulin prices
  
  If it's carbonated.
- Same, which is why I left that fucking shithole

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.
  
  I gotta put juice in my car, it's on empty
  
  Still makes more sense than calling Sprite "coke".
  
  Although I've always referred to buckfast as "the devil's ribeana". Although I do admit that the standard name is "wreck the hoose juice".
  
  Juice loose aboot this hoose!
- Bless your heart.
  
  Well I declare
- so this
- no u

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
- I agree, but I also don't go around saying "cellophane tape" or "photocopy", and instead tend to use "scotch tape" and "xerox". Lots of other people do too. I know that's wrong too, but it at least partially explains the whole "coke" thing.
- Why though? There's no sodium bicarbonate in those, only carbon dioxide for the bubbles?

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

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?
- Don't kinky shame.

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
- All anime is pokemans and all vidya is Nintendo
- 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.
  
  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. ;)
- Is using "Kleenex" for tissues acceptable?
  
  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.
- Coke is neither a brand name nor a flavour. The brand is Coca-Cola and the flavour is cola.
  
  I always assumed the word coke is derived from coca(-cola)
  
  It literally says coke on the can, at least in my European country. In a smaller font and separate from Coca-Cola.
- 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.

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.
- Yeah honestly it sounds a little weird calling it soda lol but calling it Coke makes absolutely no sense 😅

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

Obamna
- SODA!!!

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.
- 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.
  
  Iirc when I lived there the reason is because the Cole bottling plant was there so it just came naturally as lingo
- My spouse is from the deep south and grew up saying it.

they are cutting down all the forest :c

as a non-american, the only term i'll ever accept is "sodipop"
- Excuse me, but the correct term is "sarsaparilly".
- Podake

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
- And hyper-detailed too... You can identify a US highway and part of an interstate on that second map!
- It’s a reference to this: https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2023/11/27/palestine-and-israel-brief-history-maps-and-charts
- Probably some urban-rural divide.

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
- soda pop

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

Anyone that says pop is wrong, is wrong
- the only acceptable pop is after snap and crackle
  
  My fellow lemming, it's with great pleasure that I tell you you're wrong.
- I agree! Pop is the correct term to use if you want to be correct at the expense of being cringe. Cool kids have always said soda. You nerds still can't distinguish between a float, a malt, a shake, and a soda! I can, so I have no need of this "pop".

The rest of the world: Order what the fuck you actually want instead of adding a layer of needless obfuscation.
- poor autistic bartenders in the US

Lived in Quebec, Canada up until recently. My family called it coke.
- I'm from Quebec, always called it a soft drink, or boisson gazeuse.
- I have never heard another Canadian ever call it coke, everyone where I live calls it pop.
  
  I'm pretty sure that as a Canadian you're suppose to apologize for that now.
- As in, a family member would say “can you get me a coke from the fridge?” And you’d reply “what kind?” And they’d say “sprite!”?
  Because that’s what this is referring to. I’ve never heard it anywhere outside of the south.
- You (/family) may need to speak with the Canadian Government to take a retest for your Canadian citizenship.

Never underestimate the pincer attack from the coasts

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.

I’ve heard that if you order a “Coke” in the area that says “Coke”, they’ll just give you a random soda and you have to drink it no matter what it is. That just seems plain wrong to me.
- Can confirm, I usually got Pepsi when I asked for Coke (not unexpected).

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.
- I’m in the Portland metro area. Only my grandma says pop. Everyone else I know says soda
- From Seattle. Its closer to 50/50 Pop/Soda. When you say coke, its Coca Cola specifically.
  
  Also from Seattle, never heard someone say Pop in my life.

Why is everyone arguing about shitty intra-US pronunciation differences
- You're not from around here, are ye?
- soda pop is my favorite name for soda (yes you probably don't understand what im saying

thanks obummer

Palestine/Israel 1947 borders vs today.

In Homestuck form: the Fizzcourse.
- That is amazing.
  
  It's unironically one of the best fanfics in a crowded field.

It's all faygo if we're being fair.

Wanna know what we call it in Germany? "limonade"
- Fick dich
  
  Geh scheißn

For those of you who do not understand calling it coke: where do you put your soda / pop to keep it cold? A refrigerator or an ice box?
- What does that have to do with coke? Are your icinators coca cola-branded?
  
  Imagine calling your freeze-o-tron a refrigerator
- Yeah I love an icebox-cold coke, especially wearing britches still warm from the electric washtub, right after a running-water shower in the indoor outhouse. Then I'll get on dial-up with my mainframe and watch pong kinetoscopes on Justintv.
  
  ... I feel like I just deadnamed a century of industry.
- In muh Coke Cooler, duh.

obamna
SODAAAA!!!

Good.

SODA!!!

I guess Dallas is the little bubble in Texas that uses soda. I've traveled pretty extensively through "coke" country and have yet to actually hear it.
I do remember some of the adults calling it pop when I was a kid in California. I seem to recall that pop/soda were almost interchangeable.

We are legion

What about the small blasphemous region calling it soda pop?
- They're not welcome 'round these parts
- It's weird, either call it pop (normal) or call it soda (weird but okay) but don't call it both at the same time.
  
  I'll take all 3 over someone calling it coke instead.

2079: Buffalo has the most temperate climate on the planet and still calls Pop by it's proper name.
- I wonder why calling it pop made it only to far western NY and then soda in the rest of Upstate? There was a lot of trade between Buffalo, Rochester, and Syracuse, especially with the advent of the Erie Canal.
  
  Because NYC is far more influential. We’re a soda fountain town.
  WNY is a backwards, weird place.

if you look closely there is a very tiny dot in the pnw where one person unironcially calls is "sodey"

where's soda pop

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.

Source of the data?
- “MY ASS”
  OP probably

Soft drinks ppl have been exterminated. 1 down...

I miss saying pop

Where is "soft drink" on this map?
- Soft drinks include any non hard drink, including all the non carbonated stuff. This is specifically referring to carbonated beverages.
  
  Oddly with the exception of water.
  
  Interestingly enough, I've never heard "soft drink" used to refer to anything but soda (Midwest USA here)

This is great news!

Canada has your back. It's not nearly as grim as it seems. We can fight for the world we deserve and win

The correct term is obviously "beer"

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

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

Woah, I grew up in Portland, do they really call it soda there now? That's wild.
- I move from pop to soda, and definitely brought soda back with me when I visited family.

"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?!"
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