Pop or Soda or Coke?

[Full Quiver]

coke

[one love]

if you call everything "pop" or "coke" what do you get when you order that way? If you say "can I get a pop" what do they bring you?

[Pastor Gary]

I once ordered "sweet milk" in KY and the waitress was confused and thought I wanted goat's milk. Of course, whole milk is always "sweet milk" in the south.

That's because nobody outside the south DRINKS buttermilk! Buttermilk is only a cooking ingredient in most places, so when one says "milk" it is ASSUMED they simply want whole milk, and the descriptive "sweet" is not necessary.

[Steve]

The servers always asked "What kind of coke do you want".....THEN the further description takes place. It always starts as COKE though.

[Tracy]

For generic use, I use the term "soft drink." Where'd that come from?

[soulsearcher]

For generic use, I use the term "soft drink." Where'd that come from?

Maybe, as opposed to "hard liquor" - "soft drink"?

Anyway, just as PG said, in Alabama when we asked for a "coke" the question then was, "What kind?" Then we could say, "Orange Crush."

Now, it's "soda."

[RamboPreacher]

I grew up where people said "Let's go get a coke..." and then one ordered Dr. Pepper and the other Mountain Dew... not a "Coke™" in sight! That didn't make sense to me then, and doesn't now.

It is, generically, SODA. Who ever heard of a "Pop-jerk" or a "Coke-jerk"?

what's a soda-jerk?

[Poimen]

It's predominately Coke here. Probably because of the strong Coca Cola connections in Alabama and the deep South.

Otherwise alternatively it is genrally soft drink. As Mike said, I have always understood it to be in contrast with hard drink or hard liquor.

[rjjunior]

"Coke" for soda is evidence of excellent branding. Others?
Kleenex (for tissue).

[Full Quiver]

If I am ordering at a restaurant I say specifically what I want. If I am talking in general I might say I drank 2 cokes today when in actuality they were probably Pepsi's or Dr. Pepper's.

[Gerald Creasy]

It's predominately Coke here. Probably because of the strong Coca Cola connections in Alabama and the deep South.

I once met two old sisters that were the nieces of the man who's calligraphy is seen in the Cursive "CocaCola".

[PastorDaniel]

I'm from an area where everything is Coke....However, being in the military and exposed to so many different people from so many different areas...I picked up the term Soda...

I usually say "Would you like a soda? We have Coke, Pepsi, Mt. Dew, or Sprite." Or "I'd like a Soda...What kind do you have?"

Something like that....

[sweetpea]

I always ask my quest,what would you like to drink? Then I tell them what we have,I never hear pop or soda unless the people have moved from another area. I hear soda mostly from people that have moved to MS from Missouri.

[dolfan]

I usually say Mt. Dew, as in Diet Mt. Dew. But, default, lifelong, I have said "Coke". Most of the time I refer to them as "cold drinks", though, when speaking generally.

[dolfan]

Of course, whole milk is always "sweet milk" in the south.

See, I just went and learned something new today. I never heard of "sweet milk" before.

It's sweet milk if it isn't buttermilk.