Posted on 03/09/2006 2:25:29 PM PST by nickcarraway
It's like this:
"You wanna Coke?"
"Awrite."
"What kind?"
"You got orange or root beer?"
"Naw, just regular Coke and Sprite."
"Gimme a Sprite."
I was always a drinker of regular Pepsi until about 2 years ago when I was diagnosed with sugar, and now drink different flavors of diet Pepsi. I don't care for their diet Pepsi cola. I prefer their diet Pepsi Twist, Vanilla, Wild Cherry, Lime and Pepsi One. I also drink A&W diet Root Beer and diet Creme Soda.
I grew up in Rochester, New York and it was POP there. I moved a couple of hours east of Rochester, and they call it SODA here.
in alabama we say coke....and the map reflects that too...
Grew up calling it "Coke" (mostly West Texas w/ parents from the South), picked up "soda" from my San Antonio born-and-raised husband.
I never knew New Englanders called it soda as well.
Yahoo! Mountain Dew!
That's my favorite.
We called colas "Coke" (RC, Pepsi, Co'Cola). Anything else was a "cold drink" (Tab, Sprite, 7up, flavored drinks).
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I'm a Type II Diabetic who used to drink several sodas a day. I switched to Powerade and (unsweetened) iced tea. Powerade has about 1/4ths the sugar of a Mountain Dew or original Coke. I don't even know about iced tea but, lacking sweeteners, I presume the sugar count is low.
I can't necessarily blame sodas for my condition, though. Fast food staples and desserts are just as culpable.
Then again, I see really obese people who don't have my problems so how can you conclude there is a definitive link?
So what are "others"?
Texans refer to all pretty much all carbonated beverages as "coke", as in "Let's go get a coke". Some people say soda-water, as well.
I have a vending route (and I sell a ton of drinks). If someone asks me for a coke while I'm filling a machine, I'm always careful to ask "what kind".
"Soda sales fall... Dentists and Dieticians hardest hit"
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