The south is emphatically wrong on so much shit but calling soda/pop "coke" is somehow at the top of my list
Call all ice cream vanilla, or all cereal corn flakes, or all alcohol beer why the fuck not
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Coke is neither a brand name nor a flavour. The brand is Coca-Cola and the flavour is cola.
I always assumed the word coke is derived from coca(-cola)
Calling it soda, good. Calling it pop, fine. Calling every soft drink a coke, fuck off.
Get this, in Scotland, pretty much any liquid is called juice.
Still makes more sense than calling Sprite "coke".
For those of you who do not understand calling it coke: where do you put your soda / pop to keep it cold? A refrigerator or an ice box?
What does that have to do with coke? Are your icinators coca cola-branded?
I like how it has really vague boundaries that are obviously approximate but then it pretends to do precise gerrymandering-type carveouts in the second map
Probably some urban-rural divide.
Wanna know what we call it in Germany? "limonade"
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Why is everyone arguing about shitty intra-US pronunciation differences
Soda is an always has been the right term, but the people who say "coke" to mean any soda are the most wrongest people in history
Why though? There's no sodium bicarbonate in those, only carbon dioxide for the bubbles?