Discussion Your word for soft drinks

[itachi565656]

I always thought that soft drinks are milkshakes....=|
haha=]

 

[Jdude]

I've always called it Soda

I noticed that no one has mentioned Fountain Drinks

 

[itachi565656]

^Ya good point=]

 

[Gr1mmy]

I call it soda... rarely...

I always call the soda, by its name. So... Sprite, Coke, Pepsi, Ginger Ale, all that.

 

[yoniekai]

lol we call it here softdrinks. "soprinks" specifically. never soda, that word will never be used to call softdrinks here, it feels too foreign. sopdrinks or calling the brand name, either way

 

[ravestar]

Tell me if you guys have heard this one before... "Tonic." Apparently, it's only used in Massachusetts or something? I'm like Gr1mmy -- I try to use the name of the drink whenever possible, but if I have to be generic, I guess I'd call it soda.

 

[LadyHatake]

Usually I've always heard tonic used as an elixer or fixative, or as a carbonated drink with quinine in it. Kinda like a carbonated water, almost.

 

[Sherbetmayhem]

LOL what a cool thread! Well, in most of England the world is 'pop'. But some people call them 'fizzy drinks' or sometimes even just 'fizzy', like "Do you want some fizzy?"

XD soda pop :P

 

[DemonDays]

LOL what a cool thread! Well, in most of England the world is 'pop'. But some people call them 'fizzy drinks' or sometimes even just 'fizzy', like "Do you want some fizzy?"

XD soda pop :P

I beg to differ. I know hardly anyone who calls it pop.
Most people from where i am (northeast) call them fizzy drinks. Or non-alcoholic.

 

[rikki]

During my high school years, I had this 1 Texas Teacher who had classic lines such as:
"Are you packing gum?"
"Are you drinking fizzy pop?"
He was the only person I heard that says 'pop' for soft drinks.
I usually hear "Soft Drinks" but sometimes I be a weirdo and say "Carbonated Beverage", acting smug. :P

 

[Windmillblade]

here in NY in all of my 23 yrs of living i have never heared anyone refer to soda as any of those other names unless its a brand.

 

[EvilGenious]

I'm from the Appalachian mountains, and here, we call it pop. I have heard the other term before, and usually compromise with them by calling it "soda pop".

 

[D3M1URG3]

I live in Florida, and we call it Soda -- never any of the others listed except if it's Coke.

 

[DangerousDave]

I come from Australia, so we like to call our soft drinks "Soft Drinks". Some of the older generation also refer to it as "Lollie water" and alcoholics call it shit.

"Coke" obviously just refers to Coca Cola in Australia and Soda is probably used more to describe Soda water than soft drinks. I don't hear the term "Pop" being used to often in Australia for soft drinks, to me Pop just refers to crappy music or even a reference to your grand dad or something.

 

[Zwivix]

Ehh I use soda as a general term for all kinds of carbonated drinks except mineral water, that stuffs just nasty!.

Coke when someone says it usually gets me to think of the drug...unless I know that their talking about soda.

Pop is only used by old-timers here in California.

I've heard people call it a Fountain Drink...Also Old-timers.

 

[feder]

I'm from the midwest (Indiana, actually) and we call it pop, so that's what I call it. Soda to me is carbonated water...

 

[black_crow]

Where i live people call it soda
they only call it coke if it is actually a coke brand

 

[LB56]

From my experience, Coke is only used as a generic term for soft-drinks in Georgia, Alabama, and parts of Tennessee. This stems from the ubiquitous nature of Coca-Cola products in this region as the drink originated in Atlanta. In most instances, if you were to order a Pepsi product in a random hole-in-the-wall restaurant in Georgia you'd probably just get a bunch a strange looks. However, when you order a drink, you typically have to order it by it's name (Coke, Sprite, Mr. Pibb, etc..).

The only circumstance in which Coke is used as a stand-in for all drinks is the the context of someone saying, "I'm going to get a Coke." In this case, Coke can mean anything, and the person typically comes back with something other than your standard Coca-Cola.

 

[Baron Hugenstein]

Generally, i refer to them, or hear people refer to them as Cola.
I rarely hear Soda or Pop, Coke.

 

[Grimory]

we here got used to calling it softdrinks.. sometimes, soda