What do you call a carbonated cold beverage?

[RubyMutt]

I'm a soda girl.

I hear it called both pop and soda around here.

Never Coke though... that's so weird

[QueenScoopalot]

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???


another southerner ..you and Laura!!

Then where the heck am I from? I call it tonic. Yankee term around these here parts!

[BitsyNaceyDog]

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.

[leslie flenner]

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!

[QueenScoopalot]

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! baby boomer here....

[wolf_Q]

Calling every carbonated cold beverage a "coke?" Weirdos!!

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.

[krazyaboutkatz]

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.

[trayi52]

I call them Cokes!

Oh, by the way, could I have a coke please, and make it a Mellow Yellow?

Willie

[shais_mom]

Its a

pop!

[QueenScoopalot]

Originally posted by shais_mom
Its a

pop!

WELL POP..POPPPPPP..POOOPPPPPPPPPPP...It'll be! It is after all FOURTH OF JULY WEEKEND! So POP AWAY!

[shais_mom]

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.

My travels to MI have resulted in.

"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!!


This has given me an idea for another thread... Off to start it....

[Killearn Kitties]

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.

[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.

[lynnestankard]

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!


Lynne

[Killearn Kitties]

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.