I call it soda...... or carbonated syrup.:p
Whenever we go out to eat my dad always says that he wants a coke. By that he means Coke or Pespi. If they don't have coke, they ask if Pepsi is fine. :p He's learned to say "May I have a cola" instead.:p
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I call it soda...... or carbonated syrup.:p
Whenever we go out to eat my dad always says that he wants a coke. By that he means Coke or Pespi. If they don't have coke, they ask if Pepsi is fine. :p He's learned to say "May I have a cola" instead.:p
I have a lot of extended family in Michigan and an uncle in Connecticut so I've heard all of these. When I was little, I used to just crack up at the way my relatives talk.Quote:
Originally posted by moosmom
In Connecticut, carbonated beverage is called Soda. In Michigan they call it Pop.
Lollipops in CT are called Suckers in Michigan
Shopping carts in CT are called Buggies in Michigan.
I call them suckers btw (as I think most Texans do)
Also, there's the access road vs the feeder road!
Robyn, your husband sounds funny :)
Oh how I *wish* it wasn't "THAT long ago..." :(Quote:
Originally posted by Cincy'sMom
I do remember the glass bottles, Phred.
It wasn't all that long ago :)
But since the "REAL" Glass Coke Bottles - are now considered :eek: ~
"Antiques" or "Collectables"... :(
Be Careful what you "remember", Amy...
You'll get tossed into :eek: the Ole Ph@rts Gang
here on Pet Talk!
:D
Generically speaking it is "pop" or "soda pop" my father would say.
Like Kay's father, I've learned to order "diet cola" (even tho I prefer pepsi!)
We call them "pop" or "soft drinks".
Coke and Pepsi are called by their proper names only. You never ask for a Coke and expect a Pepsi. You would definately NEVER ask for a Coke if you were wanting a root beer or any other non-cola beverage.:)
Water is called water.
I call it cough syrup. He he he! Seriously though.....I don't like most sodas at all, and I think Coke, Pepsi, Dr. Pepper.......all of those DARK sodas taste like cough syrup. I don't touch any black/brown soda. I can drink sprite, orange soda, cream soda, etc. if there's nothing else available, but Coke, Pepsi, Dr. Pepper, Root Beer, etc. is stuff I won't ever put in my mouth. I can't stand their taste and sweetness and bubbles. Yuck. :p
As to what we call them, I have called them *soda* throughout my life, and NEVER knew there were people that call ALL sodas *Coke*. How wierd! :p I've heard people calling soda *pop*, but never *coke*. Coke for me is just *Coke*, as in Coca-cola. Any other soda is *soda*.
When we went to South Dakota, we went to an "old time" Western town. They had some different little shops. At the outside of one shop, you could buy pop. They came in glass bottles. Of course they weren't from your time ;) but I thought it was kind of neat.Quote:
Originally posted by Cinder & Smoke
:D
Hey all you "Ole Ph@rts" ;) ...
Member When...
"Coke" and "Pepsi" ONLY came as COKE or Pepsi...
"Orange Chush"...
"Dad's" and "A&W" ROOT BEERS...
and when they ALL came in real GLASS Bottles? -
with Bottle CAPS that needed an *Opener* to get the darn thing off??
Then along came CANS - STEEL Cans withOUT "snap-tops"...
so you had to find a Church Key to get into the dang CAN!
"Those were the Daze..." :D
:rolleyes:
/s/ Ole Phred :p
At our grocery store, we can still get "Crush" and "Dad's" pop in the glass bottle, too. :)
:eek:Quote:
Originally posted by Dogz
... They came in glass bottles.
Of course they weren't from your time ;)
"... from YOUR time..."
:eek:
BYTE your Lip!!
:(
You can buy coke a cola in the small 600 ml glass bottles here in NZ.
I'm just playing with you, Phred!!Quote:
Originally posted by Cinder & Smoke
:eek:
"... from YOUR time..."
:eek:
BYTE your Lip!!
:(
Slap my hand please!
Has anyone seen those little mini soda cans?
Pffft I need about 20 to wake me up some mornings lol
Coke!
lol I call it pop. Or just the name of whatever it is (ie: pepsi, coke, mountain due) My dad would be on my case if I called everything coke haha
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Originally posted by NoahsMommy
I call it soda if I'm talking about it in general.
If I want something, I call it by product name...Pepsi, Sprite, etc.
:D
Me too:)
I call it soda... my cousins, being from the midwest, call it pop, but with their accents it kinda sounds like PAP. :)
I call it soda. None of this southern stuff like caling everything "Coke" for me!
Sheesh, both of my parents are from the south, but I find most things about the south annoying and slow... Where did I come from? Lol
lol I'm from Michigan... and I've NEVER heard anyone call a shopping cart a buggy! Maybe this is because I'm from Amish country and buggies are rampant. If you said "A buggy ran into my car in the parking lot" it would be too confusing!Quote:
Originally posted by moosmom
Since moving to Michigan, I've learned a totally different language here...
Shopping carts in CT are called Buggies in Michigan.
Dad-
Every time I've EVER heard you talk about pop, you call it a beer! Or aren't you willing to own up to this?:D
I call any of them coke. Even weirder b/c I don't care for coke, the actuall drink. I'm a Pepsi person, lol!
:D Ok Carole - if you are going to the store to buy an assortment of things like Coke, Sprite and Fanta - collectively, what is it you are buying?? Cold drinks? Carbonated drinks? Soft drinks?:D ;) :p If *I* am going, I am buying an assortment of cokes!!Quote:
Originally posted by carole
I am a little confused, but in NZ all carbonated drinks would be anything ranging from coke to sprite, to fanta,lemon and paeroa, all sweet fizzy drinks, we don't call them pop, or even sodas, we have ice cream sodas, which are usually sprite and ice cream mixed together.:)
I'm a soda girl.
I hear it called both pop and soda around here.
Never Coke though... that's so weird :eek:
Then where the heck am I from? :confused: :confused: :confused: I call it tonic. Yankee term around these here parts!Quote:
Originally posted by sirrahbed
Back in the 60's we lived in NewHampshire and I remember that carbonated drinks were called "tonic" - are they still???:rolleyes:
another southerner:D ..you and Laura!!
I was born in western New York and lived there until I was 13. We called it pop up there. When I moved to Florida everyone laughed when I said pop, so I started saying soda. When I got married I started saying coke a lot (for everything) because that's what Justin's family calls soda, and I picked it up.
I only drink sprite though, I don't like any other flavors. Mostly I drink water or milk, or sometimes juices.
Well I'm from Illinois and when I moved out here to Boston, it was a whole new language! I was used to soda, pop, and soda pop (sodie pop if you say it like Andy on Andy of Mayberry). My first day of work here, a birthday party was being planned. Everyone was already bringing necessary food dishes so I was told to bring the tonic. I asked, "Oh, we're going to have gin and tonic during work time?" I was stared at with no answer. In my head I thought "She doesn't mean hair tonic, does she?" The eventual response was, "Bring a 2 liter of Diet Coke".
Then it was learning:
Illinois vs Boston:
Washrag vs facecloth
liquor store vs packie
grocery shopping vs food shopping
milk shake (has ice cream in it) vs milk shake (is shook milk)
basement vs cellar
lunch vs dinner
rubber band vs elastic
I am sure there must be others but who cares.. Tonic was and still is the most baffling to me (but I SAY it regularly now!) And no ice cream in a milk shake!
When I was younger the tops were loops with a tab that you peeled right off the can. We used to make verrrrrrrrrrryyyyyyyyy long chains out of the old style pop tops! Long enough to play jumprope LOL! There were actually books that showed you how to make clothing from the pop tops. Talk about weird! :rolleyes: baby boomer here....
Calling every carbonated cold beverage a "coke?" Weirdos!! :p
I'll call it a coke If I'm getting coke. If I'm getting sprite (or apple beer which is my carbonated cold beverage of choice) I'll call it by it's name. Other than that it's either soda or pop. I think I say soda more, but I'm not sure.
I call it soda if I'm generalizing. My mom has always called it pop though.:)
If I want a particular kind of soda then I call it by that name.:)
I call them Cokes!
Oh, by the way, could I have a coke please, and make it a Mellow Yellow?
Willie:D
Its a
pop!
WELL POP..POPPPPPP..POOOPPPPPPPPPPP...It'll be! It is after all FOURTH OF JULY WEEKEND! So POP AWAY!Quote:
Originally posted by shais_mom
Its a
pop!
My travels to MI have resulted in.Quote:
Originally posted by moosmom
Since moving to Michigan, I've learned a totally different language here.
In Connecticut, carbonated beverage is called Soda. In Michigan they call it Pop.
Lollipops in CT are called Suckers in Michigan
Shopping carts in CT are called Buggies in Michigan.
"Down State" means just that, the southern part of the State where in Ohio we say, "down South/or southern Oh". Down South in Michigan mean *cringe* Ohio or lower.
Never heard it called a buggy tho.
A snowmobile/sled to Ohioans is a "machine" to my Michigan relation.
** A friend of mine, her husband works for Coke and She is originally from Georgia. Her son has grown up calling it "Coke". Except for if it is a Pepsi place of business, they said to Him we don't have Coke what do you want and he insisted on a COKE!!
He had to be snuck a Pepsi!! :p
This has given me an idea for another thread... Off to start it....
I never knew that just ordering a soft drink around the world could be so confusing! Here they would normally be called soft drinks, cold drinks or fizzy drinks.
In Glasgow they call it "ginger" though.
I am with you on this one wolf q, why on earth would you call any other drink a coke, coke is coke, and fanta is fanta, strange, we are the same here Killearn Kitties, fizzy drinks or soft drinks or cold drink covers all the different kinds of carbonated drinks.
So tell me when you order at Mcdonalds if you want a sprite you ask for a coke hmmm more confused than ever lol.:confused: :confused: :)
This is funny!
When I was a kid (way back in the dark ages - old ph@rts gang!!) we called it - MINERAL!! Honestly! Sometimes Pop as well.
Now I refer to whatever I want by name - coke, fanta, sprite, lemonade etc etc.
Dennis - What is Moon pie?
KK - I wonder if the Glaswegian Ginger comes from Ginger Beer - 'cos YEARS ago most people I knew made their own - it was good too!
It nice to know even the Americans call the same thing differently!!! It's not just us!
:D
Lynne
Aah, it maybe does come from Ginger Beer, Lynne! I'm glad you suggested that, because I've been sitting here hoping that no-one was going to ask me the origin of that one.:D
KK - He he he he - leave it to the oldies!! :D :D
Lynne
here in Japan if we are off base we call it Coh-Kah Coh-la. A lot of Japanese people know some english, but apparently Coke and Soda aren't very common terms??
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Originally posted by carole
I am with you on this one wolf q, why on earth would you call any other drink a coke, coke is coke, and fanta is fanta, strange, we are the same here Killearn Kitties, fizzy drinks or soft drinks or cold drink covers all the different kinds of carbonated drinks.
So tell me when you order at Mcdonalds if you want a sprite you ask for a coke hmmm more confused than ever lol.:confused: :confused: :)
Carole:
In Kentucky, people here say Coke. Usually, it's only used in sentences like, "I'm going to the store to pick up some Cokes" and other general statements. If I go to McDonald's I say, "Can I have a #9 with a Large Sprite please?" Or whatever. Rarely will you actually have people ask for a Coke at a restaurant and mean something else.
I am originally from Dayton, OH and there it's all called "pop." I got laughed at my first few weeks of college in Kentucky and called a "Northerner" or a "Yankee" (yes people still use that term) because I said pop, so I started switching to saying Coke more and more.
Moosmom - my boyfriend says "buggy" too!!! (I say "cart" or "shopping cart"). He's from southeastern Kentucky. He also calls a skunk a "polecat" and his mom calls us "young'ns!!!" :D :D :D :D
QSA & Leslie - I am glad I found someone who calls them tonic ! I was pretty sure I remembered that from a long time ago but have not heard it again.
This thread has been fun:D
We call it a soft drink around here, lol. Or by it's brand name.
When we went to Toronto, they searches us before allowing in a theme park and the guard asked me "Do you have any pop cans?" I was like, "What the heck are you talking about?" :p