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Chit-Chat: In the midnight hour, she cries because she's sad and alone and just a little pathetic.

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I've simply never been able to get into them. I worry about the side effects too much. Ha!
Cold water is all I need to wake me up during a boring day at work n_n
 
The only time I drink energy drinks are when they're mixed with vodka, lulz.
 
It's a big debate in the US. In the Midwest where I am it's mostly pop, but on the coasts it's soda, and - get this- in the Deep South, it's coke. No matter what. Conversations go like:

"What would you like to drink?"
"I'd like a coke."
"What kind of coke?"
"Sprite, please."
 
Oryx said:
It's a big debate in the US. In the Midwest where I am it's mostly pop, but on the coasts it's soda, and - get this- in the Deep South, it's coke. No matter what. Conversations go like:

"What would you like to drink?"
"I'd like a coke."
"What kind of coke?"
"Sprite, please."
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I would pay good money to see pop v soda being discussed in the next presidential debate.
 
Oryx said:
It's a big debate in the US. In the Midwest where I am it's mostly pop, but on the coasts it's soda, and - get this- in the Deep South, it's coke. No matter what. Conversations go like:

"What would you like to drink?"
"I'd like a coke."
"What kind of coke?"
"Sprite, please."
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I'm from the Midwest and most people here say "soda". Though I think it depends on what part of the Midwest you're from. Like I'm in the east part of Missouri and most people use soda.
 
We just call it Cola over here...
This is one of those things I deeply ask myself why people couldn't have thought of a uniform name for it >_<
 
Kouzan said:
I'm from the Midwest and most people here say "soda". Though I think it depends on what part of the Midwest you're from. Like I'm in the east part of Missouri and most people use soda.
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Amusing, eastern Missouri is the exception to the rule:

[PokeCommunity.com] In the midnight hour, she cries because she's sad and alone and just a little pathetic.


Your experience isn't really representative of the Midwest because weirdly enough you're in the one Midwest spot that isn't overwhelmingly pop.
 
The big debate over pop vs soda in the US really confuses me because here in Canada, countrywide we pretty much all call it "pop". And then in the US even across county borders it's sometimes completely different.
 
I'm really surprised at the variance in my region (mid-Atlantic coastal Virginia). That's where it almost looks like a county-by-county basis, though Hampton Roads as a whole seems to call it soda.
 
Oryx said:
It's a big debate in the US. In the Midwest where I am it's mostly pop, but on the coasts it's soda, and - get this- in the Deep South, it's coke. No matter what. Conversations go like:

"What would you like to drink?"
"I'd like a coke."
"What kind of coke?"
"Sprite, please."
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I don't understand. I thought coke is pretty universal for Coca-Cola.
 
Nope, that's how we've always done it. Someone will say "Go get me a coke," and be referring to Dr. Pepper. I can't get into saying Pop, though. :\
I occasionally say soda, though.
 
It sounds really weird to me too, but it's not like I don't use brand names for some items, like Kleenex and whatnot.

Then again, if someone brings me a no-name brand tissue instead of a Kleenex, I probably wouldn't notice whereas if someone brought me anything other than Coca-Cola when I mentioned Coke, I'd be mad. :(
 
Morkula said:
I'm really surprised at the variance in my region (mid-Atlantic coastal Virginia). That's where it almost looks like a county-by-county basis, though Hampton Roads as a whole seems to call it soda.
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The one I'm dying to know about is all those one-county areas where it's 80-100% "other". What other words are there? Fizzy drink? Nose-hurter? The Devil's Brew?
 
Funny how we're all debating about the nomenclature of a soft drink when there are much bigger problems in the world

Like how seemingly every other country calls it something around "ananas" while the Brits decided to call it "pineapple"
 
If I had to take a guess, I'd say it's because the Midwest is largely rural and thus less "cultured", and that's where the term "pop" comes from.
 
Vanille Sky said:
Why? D: The terms are interchangeable. I don't know why it'd be a big deal to call it otherwise XD
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It's just a dialect thing mainly. There are literally people that don't know what the heck "pop" is, and then when the person from down here doesn't know, and the person from up north has to describe it, the person from down here literally says something along the lines of "ohh you mean soda?" It's pretty sad how dialect like that can be unknown down here.
 
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