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Tonic.
pop all day.
I had a university prof who grew up in one of the Dakotas, and the use of “Coke” to refer to any soft drink prevailed there as well.
One of my U buddies called drinking fountains “bubblers” which was (he said) the practice in Wisconsin, and was a strong advocate of saying “soda” instead of “pop”.
Meanwhile, there’s still cancer to cure...
It’s pop.
I grew up in Rochester, New York. It was pop then. When I moved to Auburn, NY, it was soda. I live in the Utica-Rome area now. It’s soda.
Southern born, southern bred, and when I die I’ll be southern dead. It’s Coke (duh! It’s also “Kleenex” and “Dixie Cups” — we’re impressionable that way)
My wife is from Utah by way of Michigan. It’s pop for her.
My son grunts and points. He’s a teenager.
'Soda fountains', not 'pop fountains' or 'fizzy fountains' mechanically dispense the drinks.
Customers order an "ice cream soda", not an "ice cream pop" or "ice cream fizzy".
Soda water
I grew up calling it all coke, a root beer coke, an orange coke, let’s go get some cokes, what kind of coke do you want?
Is it confusing in the South? Always having say "ginger ale coke" or "root beer coke?" And how to distinguish between a "cherry coke" soda and a "Cherry Coke" Coke?
Anyway, this civil war is just about over.
I wonder how long those soda fountain stools would hold up with modern Americans sitting on them?
“Is it confusing in the South? Always having say “ginger ale coke” or “root beer coke?”
It was always just ‘ginger ale’ or ‘root beer’.
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We didn't have it at home. We had to go to the gas station and get it out of a machine.
“Interestingly, the original Coca-Cola formula included wine”
Fake.
My folks called it (collectively) “soda pop”. I now call it “beer substitute”.
The bottle in which carbonated drinks were originally sold were all glass with a trapped marble at the top. That marble stoppered the bottle, and was held in place by the pressure in the bottle. The marble was pressed down by the thumb in order to force it down, opening the bottle. The marble was then trapped in a series of baffles just below the opening. The bottle made a loud “pop” when opened, hence the name “pop bottle”. This was a name attributed to the bottle, not the drink.
These were made in the late 1800s. The one I saw in a private collection was made somewhere around 1880. I’m trying to find a photograph.
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