Coke? Soda? Pop?

[billy]

I remember Fizzies....and tang.
Also, Royal Palm soda.

[David]

RC Cola!

The offical soft drink of trailer parks.

[civil42806]

See that's what trips me out about this whole debate. If a customer would obviously order a sprite, why not just say sprite the entire time? If they don't have it I’m sure they'll say "no sprite, but we do have 7up"

This whole dilemma can be solved by stating exactly what you want. No need for code words like soda/pop/cola/coke-even-though-that's not really what you want.

It’s like going to a microbrewery and saying "hi there, one beer please!"

So thats why the guy at the bar is always pissed when i come in!!!!

[Springfielder]

Us true Southerners just say Coke....haha.....Hearing "pop" makes me think Yankee!

I'm from up north and we never called it pop, we call it soda

[Bewler]

I usually call it beer

[BridgeTroll]

More often than not it was Kool Aid for me... Ohhh Yeahhhhh....

[billy]

Seabo Wine

[civil42806]

I don't drink soda very often, but that's the word I use. If I was asking for a soda though, I would ask for the specific soda brand I wanted. Of course, I'd have to reword that whole last sentence and it wouldn't make much sense if I did as David is suggesting. Let's try it...

I don't drink Sprite very often, but that's the word I use. If I was asking for a Sprite though, I would ask for the specific Sprite I wanted....

WOOHOO! Makes yo head spin dont's it!?

By the way since we are on the subject of carbonated beverages johnny "Michael Jackson" rocks.   Okay everyone try to figure that one out

[blizz01]

Cheerwine - why can't they get that stuff over the North Carolina border? (although Mojo's brings it down by the glass bottle).

[Omarvelous09]

i say soda...was born and raised in jax, and i didn't know people called every kinda soda "coke" until a few months ago. 

[Ron Mexico]

I just drink water from the bubbler

[thekillingwax]

Soda for sure. I honestly haven't run into too many people who call everything "coke" and I have some pretty hee-haw kin up in georgia. But hearing someone ask for a "pop"? It's like fingernails on the chalkboard to me.

[samiam]

Growing up in Atlanta we called all carbonated drinks coke. Do you want a Coke? yeah grab me a Pepsi haws.

[hanjin1]

i'm with the "call every soda a coke" group. like orange coke=fanta, grape coke=welch, pepsi coke=pepsi... you get the idea

[Burn to Shine]

I used to call it all "coke" until I switched to all diet soda.  Now I call it soda.  I can't say really why but I've also considerably lost my southern accent to some to degree since moving South.  It's an enigma.