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I love Dr Pepper, it is definitely my favorite pop. To control the damage to my waistline, I drink the Zero Sugar variant. It is surprisingly close to the reg
by rootusrootus 2y ago
I love Dr Pepper, it is definitely my favorite pop. To control the damage to my waistline, I drink the Zero Sugar variant. It is surprisingly close to the regular stuff. Like, close enough that I once inadvertently picked up a pack of regular Dr Pepper when I meant to get Zero, and I did not notice until I was a few bottles into it that I was drinking regular Dr Pepper.
I still love the real sugar kind best, like Dublin Dr Pepper. Just slightly more complex flavor, a bit fruitier. I'm still miffed that Snapple cracked down on them selling it direct to consumers.
- thebruce87m 2y agoI always associate the word “pop” with America. It has at least two uses in the US ( fizzy drink / father ) that don’t exist in the UK.
- bowsamic 2y agoI’m from the West Midlands in the UK and there a lot of people call it “pop”
- thebruce87m 2y agoInteresting, there’s even a Reddit thread about it: https://www.reddit.com/r/AskUK/comments/qo491p/does_anyone_actually_call_fizzy_drinks_pop_if_so/ https://www.reddit.com/r/AskUK/comments/qo491p/does_anyone_a... Note for non-UK people, any references to “north” in the thread are for the north of England only. English people will call the north of England “the north” even in a UK context.
- bowsamic 2y agoIt’s further complicated since the West Midlands will be considered north by southerners but south by northerners
- thebruce87m 2y agoReminds me of game of thrones when they go north of the wall and get called southerners. It’s all the south or deep south to me!
- Turing_Machine 2y agoOr like the way that in the U.S. north a Yankee is someone from New England, in the U.S. south a Yankee is anyone from the U.S. north, and in much of the rest of the world, a Yankee is anyone from the United States.
- brk 2y agoIt's really regional to the midwest part of the US, use of the term can be a giveaway to someone's area of growing up.
- vundercind 2y agoIt’s regional here, too. Soda is common in much of the country, pop in others (especially the Midwest), coke(!) in the South. Businesses often use “soft drink” regardless of region but people rarely say that (but it’s not that weird if they do)
- rav3ndust 2y ago> coke(!) in the South Haha. Can confirm. I am from Arkansas, and before they passed on, my grandparents usually kept a variety of soda in the house for us grandkids (they never drank it, they of course loved their coffee). it didn't matter what kind of soda was actually in the fridge, every soda was a coke. my grandma would grab a dr. pepper or a pepsi and say "ya'll want a coke?" good times. miss those two.
- runamuck 2y agoWe never say "Pop" in New York.
- rootusrootus 2y agoOh, I believe most of the US has now flipped over to calling it soda, even in the PNW where I live. I even call it that myself sometimes. But I have a streak of contrarian in me so I like to keep calling it pop -- that is what we always called it growing up.
- hi-v-rocknroll 2y agohttps://popvssoda.com https://popvssoda.com ^ Roughly accurate but not 100% because my mother's family used "pop" in N. Texas.
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- fiendishdrboo 2y agoI've grown fond of the 'wild cherry' zero sugar variant- these are almost always sold out at my local grocery stores.