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[–] ChucklesMacLeroy@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Stupid shit like this hits hard to some folks in the south. I have family members are pissed how "everything is changing", so much in fact that this very thing caused a disturbance at a local college pub. Last year, one of my dumbass family members was thrown out for being rude. When I asked him what happened he said...

" That god damn Yankee girl wanted to know if I wanted a fucking pop. What the fuck is a pop? So I asked her. She said something like a soda or whatever and I told her, it's a fucking coke and she needs to go back to fucking Chicago and get fucked. Don't bring your stupid shit down here."

Even more f'd up, is he would have ordered a Sprite.

I dislike a few of my relatives.

[–] joeyv120@ttrpg.network 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

~~Shm.~~ Smh. The fucking people who call all sodas "coke".

Them: What kind of Ford do you drive? Me: a Chevy.

[–] mkwt@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

It's from Coca-Cola (headquartered in Atlanta) having total dominance of the south for a long time.

[–] mindbleach@sh.itjust.works 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] ichmagrum@feddit.de 0 points 1 year ago

That is amazing.

[–] BulbasaurBabu@lemmings.world 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Calling it soda, good. Calling it pop, fine. Calling every soft drink a coke, fuck off.

[–] Necronomicommunist@lemmy.dbzer0.com 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Get this, in Scotland, pretty much any liquid is called juice.

[–] ichmagrum@feddit.de 0 points 1 year ago

Still makes more sense than calling Sprite "coke".

[–] runeko@programming.dev 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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?

[–] ichmagrum@feddit.de 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

What does that have to do with coke? Are your icinators coca cola-branded?

[–] quams69@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

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

[–] Colour_me_triggered@lemm.ee 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Coke is neither a brand name nor a flavour. The brand is Coca-Cola and the flavour is cola.

[–] groet@feddit.de 0 points 1 year ago

I always assumed the word coke is derived from coca(-cola)

[–] ichmagrum@feddit.de 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Wanna know what we call it in Germany? "limonade"

[–] NoSpiritAnimal@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] ichmagrum@feddit.de 0 points 1 year ago

Geh scheißn

Why is everyone arguing about shitty intra-US pronunciation differences

[–] Vespair@lemm.ee 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

[–] sverit@feddit.de 0 points 1 year ago

Why though? There's no sodium bicarbonate in those, only carbon dioxide for the bubbles?

[–] phcorcoran@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

[–] ichmagrum@feddit.de 0 points 1 year ago

Probably some urban-rural divide.