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.
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It’s got what y’all crave
Yes, it’s got coke
Cocaine specifically
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
The only time people say “soda” where I am, is when referring to soda water, which is a specific drink. (And imo a terrible one)
Edit: It’s just an interesting difference in language, I’m not making an argument about what’s right…
If only there was a way to specify between a “soda” and a “soda water”
Except soda water occurs in a naturally carbonated form. It’s existed for a lot longer, I think it kinda gets the right to be referred to as just “soda”.
Whats to distinguish, they are the same drink.
If you want a pop just ask for a pop, silly goose.
Yeah that’s why we just say soda water.
Agreed, but we say pop around here.
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……
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You’ve changed my whole world
Wait, what?
Soft drink a
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”.
Huh, and here I thought “smh” was short for something like “*so much hate”. That makes more sense.
Wonder what other abbreviations, on the Internet or elsewhere, go completely and blissfully misinterpreted by folks for years.
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.
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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.
Ah, I see
But they’re not a damn coke
Correct. 🤷
Why you gotta leave out the og? 7up is the quintessential lemon lime beverage. Much better in a cocktail, IMO.
Make 7, up yours!
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”.
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Bless your heart.
Well I declare
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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?
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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
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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.
Oooh look at Mr Bougie here who has never used Ruf’N’Reddy facial tissues
“Why are these poors talking to me?” /wipes nose with Aloe infused Kleenex - Saint_Bandit, probably.
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.
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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”.
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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!
Probably some urban-rural divide.
It’s a reference to this: https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2023/11/27/palestine-and-israel-brief-history-maps-and-charts
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
