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pop is getting smaller and towards the midwest, eventually it will just be minisoda.
Don't ya know now
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That's because Soda was originally said by the most population dense areas of the country.
By default, that gives it a huge advantage in terms of shifting the cultural language. Especially since Hollywood often controls the cultural shifts and narratives of colloquial language.
So this isn't too surprising. It's kind of like the whole "Land doesn't get a vote" thing when you look at the Red vs Blue district voting graphs, without taking into account the majority of people live in the blue areas, and very few people, comparatively, live in the red areas.
This visualization is pretty much the same thing.
As inconsequential as it is, it makes me mildly sad to see things like this become more homogeneous.
While this example is likely inconsequential, consider that it may be a good thing that without regional dialects we may become better at communicating with each other in general.
Maybe the Pop and Soda users can at least band together to get Coke removed forever before returning to their own fight. I don't know really know which of those two I prefer, but it is insane to refer to a Mountain Dew as a Coke.
Not at all surprised where it's concentrated though. The poorest, least educated, least healthful States in the country, where corporate branding has superceded basic terminology.
I'll never forget my horror when I asked for a medium coke and the lady just handed me some random beverage. She didn't even ask what kind of coke I wanted.
Though nowadays the only coke I drink is la croix.
Would you like a Coke?
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I'm from GA, and I never understood people calling all soda a coke. Giving someone a Pepsi when they asked for a coke is enough to start an altercation around here -- they are not at all considered interchangeable
I mean, I assume part of that standoffishness is simply local pride since Coca Cola is headquartered there.
It's pop and I will die on this hill
Hello. My name is Inigo Montoya. I prefer the word soda. Prepare to die.
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Meanwhile in my part of the world
L E M O N A D E
for literally every fizzy drink
I stopped needing to refer to carbonated beverages in everyday language like decades ago
Congrats
You have transcended the want for fizzy
Now upon your tongue, only pizzy.
Pop propaganda
Sodageddon
Popaganda
Soda is carbonated water.
Pop is dad.
It's petty popular to pop open a pop with your pop. You should pop in some time and give it a try.
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Born in a pop stronghold, and it is still holding. Coke is a brand, not all pop!
Softdrink
I grew up almost exclusively hearing "pop," and use it in casual situations, but I prefer to use "soda" in public. Asking a server what kind of "pop" they have seems odd to me, but at the same time asking a friend if I can grab a "soda" seems odd as well.
Pass me a fizzy beverage, my good sir.
This is Sody Pop erasure
Had to scroll all the way to the bottom to find a fellow soda pop enjoyer. Shame.
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I met him in a swamp down in Dagoba Where it bubbles all the time like a giant carbonated soda S O D A, soda
I saw the little runt sitting there on a log I asked him his name and in a raspy voice he said "Yoda". Y O D A, Yoda
I mean, I moved to Michigan from one of the soda areas, and I give people shit when they say pop so. Am I the baddie, no it is they who are wrong.
"You want a beautiful name? Soda."
As a Coke, I have to say I never soda this coming
I say coke not in reference to all soda, but rather it's the only one I drink so naturally it's the only one I say vocally.
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I make it a point to intentionally dead name soft drinks based on the region I am currently in.
Forcing servers to engage in neuron activation is my hobby.
Question for the folks in the gray area... Are you all referring to all brands and flavors of carbonated soft drinks as 'Coke,' or has Coca-Cola beat out all competitors there, or how does that work?
All brown sodas are Coke. Sprite and it's equivalents were separate at least where I grew up. you ask for a coke and the person taking your order asks "what kind?" and you clarify "Pepsi" or "root beer" or "coke coke".
I've lived in many locations throughout the gray area for most of my life. I've never heard "coke" used as a generic for all sodas. It's some sort of pervasive myth. Maybe that was the case at some point in history but not in the last 47 years.
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I'm doing my part to fight back, moved to California from Michigan and my girlfriend used to say pop ironically but she's said it so much now she uses it too.
THE SODA HAS OVERTAKEN THE POP FRONT! COKE HEADS, FALL BACK!!
Hey, can you pass me a cola coke soda pop fizzy?
Grew up as a Pop but switched to Soda in adulthood. Saying "pop" sounds bizarre and crass now.
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