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Unrelated, but it’s “pop”, “soda”, “soda pop”, or “coke” (regardless of brand) depending where in the US you are. It’s a regional dialect thing.
by ashtonkem 5y ago
Unrelated, but it’s “pop”, “soda”, “soda pop”, or “coke” (regardless of brand) depending where in the US you are. It’s a regional dialect thing.
- nicoburns 5y agoDoes “coke” include non-cola flavoured beverages in parts of the US? Here in the UK we tend to call them “fizzy drinks” FWIW.
- sokoloff 5y agoIn the south-eastern US, it's totally normal to order an "orange Coke" (which Coca-Cola either does not make or does not call "Coke" at a minimum).
- dhosek 5y agoI can kind of see how that came about—my kids would assume that any soda I drank was a diet coke and would refer to orange soda as orange diet coke.
- nyx 5y agoIn the American South, you're likely to hear "coke" regardless of whether it's actually Coke, or even cola-flavored. It's "pop" up north, and "soda" in the northeast and southwest (plus a couple of pockets near Milwaukee and St. Louis, which would otherwise be "pop" territory - fascinating stuff).
- tombert 5y agoWhenever I would visit family in Louisiana, it was pretty common to go to restaurants, and even at places that exclusively served Pepsi products, asking "what kind of Coke do you want?"
- zeku 5y agoYep. Coke is every carbonated sugar drink. You have to get all the way to la croix for it to stop being a coke. South-Eastern USA aka "The American South"
- JoeAltmaier 5y agoHere's some interesting regional US dialect maps: https://www.rd.com/list/regional-sayings-phrases-words/ https://www.rd.com/list/regional-sayings-phrases-words/