RE: POP/ SODA

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POP/ SODA

pop

25% (7)

soda

44% (12)

other

29% (8)

Total Votes : 27

(last vote on : 8/8/2008 6:42:02 AM)
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SmileyTish -> RE: POP/ SODA (7/25/2008 10:22:04 AM)
Call it soda, and when I went to college you should have seen the looks on the people's faces from the Mid West...they all called it Pop...where I'm from If someone said give me a Pop...they had better know how to duck quickly, because our Pop was very physical.[8D]

_MavericK_ -> RE: POP/ SODA (7/25/2008 10:59:27 AM)
so according to cherryfly I'm a crazy loonie??? ... I knew it. 0.o

rogermugs -> RE: POP/ SODA (7/25/2008 11:13:42 AM)
i'm shocked that anyone calls it pop but always most horrified by those who call it soda pop or refer to all soda as coke

JimboFletch -> RE: POP/ SODA (7/25/2008 11:34:05 AM)
quote: ORIGINAL: rogermugs i'm shocked that anyone calls it pop but always most horrified by those who call it soda pop or refer to all soda as coke Same here, as long as it's a cola. But we also call 'em "soft drinks."

Covaan_Meshuga -> RE: POP/ SODA (7/25/2008 12:12:17 PM)
quote: ORIGINAL: rogermugs i'm shocked that anyone calls it pop but always most horrified by those who call it soda pop or refer to all soda as coke I'm sorry. (sniff) It's all our faults. (sniff) Will you forgive us? (sniff) We'll try to be nice! (sniff) We didn't mean to offend you, a new member. (sniff) Really. We will try to do better. Oh! Forgive us, one and all. Here -- want a coke? I have rootbeer, Orange Crush, RC Cola, and 7-Up. Which coke do you prefer? Bwahahahaha! Love you, newby!! [:D]

cherryfly -> RE: POP/ SODA (7/25/2008 3:01:56 PM)
quote: ORIGINAL: _MavericK_ so according to cherryfly I'm a crazy loonie??? ... I knew it. 0.o Ha ha! You are forgiven for calling it coke...even if it is crazy. [:D]

DreadPirateRandy -> RE: POP/ SODA (7/25/2008 3:31:23 PM)
quote: ORIGINAL: cherryfly People who call it generically coke are crazy loonies of you ask me [sm=biggrin.gif] It's the name of a kind of pop/soda for crying out loud! ha ha. It doesn't make sense why one would label all soda after one soda. That's like drinking Mountain Dew and calling it Sprite. Except, we've just run out of Sprite, so now I'm going to have to drink Sprite.

_MavericK_ -> RE: POP/ SODA (7/25/2008 3:43:45 PM)
well it makes sense to me. [8D] Soda is something I bake with -- or put out fires with, more often as not. Pop is the sound made when you smack something or open a bottle of champagne Coke is something you drink, so... On the flipside, don't ask for "coke" in the Caribbean. Youll get coke, but not the kind you wanted.

Covaan_Meshuga -> RE: POP/ SODA (7/25/2008 4:09:51 PM)
Well, ya just gotta understand! When I lived in Mississippi, my fourth grade class was taken on a tour of the CocaCola factory in 1959, and I learned that Coke was first made in the South, in 1884, by John Stith Pemberton, a druggist from Columbus, Georgia. Therefore, every pop from then on was coke.

_MavericK_ -> RE: POP/ SODA (7/25/2008 6:25:25 PM)
See there ya go. [:D]

Kerrlaw -> RE: POP/ SODA (7/25/2008 11:44:43 PM)
quote: ORIGINAL: cherryfly ...People who call it generically coke are crazy loonies of you ask me [sm=biggrin.gif]... quote: ORIGINAL: rogermugs i'm shocked that anyone calls it pop but always most horrified by those who call it soda pop or refer to all soda as coke quote: ORIGINAL: GrapeApe It doesn't make sense why one would label all soda after one soda. Have you folks ever called a cotton swab a "Q-tip", even if it wasn't a q-tip brand? Or a facial tissue a "Kleenex", even if it was made by another company? And about small adhesive bandages, ever called them "Band-Aids, even if they were made by Curad? [sm=cooltilt.gif]

uncabeeil -> RE: POP/ SODA (7/25/2008 11:51:42 PM)
quote: And about small adhesive bandages, ever called them "Band-Aids, even if they were made by Curad? Ahem, actually Band-Aids are made by Johnson & Johnson. The rest of your argument is sound, but it still don't hold water up here.

Kerrlaw -> RE: POP/ SODA (7/25/2008 11:58:40 PM)
quote: ORIGINAL: uncabeeil quote: And about small adhesive bandages, ever called them "Band-Aids, even if they were made by Curad? Ahem, actually Band-Aids are made by Johnson & Johnson. The rest of your argument is sound, but it still don't hold water up here. Right, but most of us call them Band-aids, even if they were made by Curad, Topcare, etc.

_MavericK_ -> RE: POP/ SODA (7/26/2008 12:25:33 AM)
all I know is that its a popsicle whether its Blue Bell or Popsicle brands. [8D]

Covaan_Meshuga -> RE: POP/ SODA (7/26/2008 12:34:12 AM)
Anybody wanna share a Dreamsicle with me?

Kerrlaw -> RE: POP/ SODA (7/26/2008 11:33:08 PM)
quote: ORIGINAL: Covaan_Meshuga Anybody wanna share a Dreamsicle with me? I would prefer a Creamsicle, which has ice cream instead of ice milk.[sm=chef.gif]

Covaan_Meshuga -> RE: POP/ SODA (7/27/2008 9:36:57 AM)
[;)] I just need to learn how to make a reasonable facsimile using soy milk and no sugar. Yeah. Right. That'll happen. _____________________________ If you want to freeze a white diet pop, and still retain the bubbles, which one would you choose? Do you know some that work versus some that don't?

TexasMoma -> RE: POP/ SODA (7/27/2008 2:42:07 PM)
quote: ORIGINAL: JimboFletch quote: ORIGINAL: rogermugs i'm shocked that anyone calls it pop but always most horrified by those who call it soda pop or refer to all soda as coke Same here, as long as it's a cola. But we also call 'em "soft drinks." Well, get ready for another shock! [sm=icon_smile_yikes.gif] Around our house we generally call it soda pop or coke. However, when we are really puttin' our southern twang to it we refer to it as "sodie pop".

PopsiLufsJesus -> RE: POP/ SODA (7/27/2008 3:17:48 PM)
I call it soda pop! :P

DreadPirateRandy -> RE: POP/ SODA (7/27/2008 4:07:57 PM)
quote: ORIGINAL: Kerrlaw1 Or a facial tissue a "Kleenex", even if it was made by another company? It's tissue, like toilet paper, paper towels, etc. A kleenex is a disposable handkerchief, basically another term for tissue. Kleenex isn't just a brand, it's the literal tissue. Even if it were a different brand, it would still be a kleenex; an absorbent paper tissue. This analogy doesn't really hold anything over the pop/soda/coke argument, because "coke" isn't anything outside of the Coca-Cola brand name, unless referring to cocaine. It would be more logical to call any soft drink a "beverage".

Kerrlaw -> RE: POP/ SODA (7/27/2008 10:50:37 PM)
quote: This analogy doesn't really hold anything over the pop/soda/coke argument, because "coke" isn't anything outside of the Coca-Cola brand name, unless referring to cocaine. I respectfully disagree. "Coke" is a brand name of a soft drink. "Kleenex is a brand name of a facial tissue.

DreadPirateRandy -> RE: POP/ SODA (7/28/2008 2:58:43 PM)
I respectfully agree to the disagreement. This is the definition I'm basing it off of: kleen�ex A piece of soft absorbent paper (usually two or more thin layers) used as a disposable handkerchief.

Kerrlaw -> RE: POP/ SODA (7/28/2008 3:17:13 PM)
The company that makes Kleenex brand, as well as the company that makes Band-aid bandages, have fought hard legal battles to make sure that "Kleenex" does not become the generic name for disposable tissues and that "Band-aid" does not becoem the generic name for elastic bandages. If they did become generic names, other companies could call their product Kleenex or Band-aid even thought they did nothing to promote that brand. That is why the jingle now is: "I am stuck on Band-aid brand because Band-aid stuck on me." I don't know if Coke has been so aggeressive, but I do know that Coke generraly fights for their trademarks. The point, which has gotten lost, is that in much of the south "Coke" is the generic name for soft drink. I think that Abiyah explained why earlier.

DaveW -> RE: POP/ SODA (7/28/2008 5:08:40 PM)
quote: ORIGINAL: Covaan_Meshuga Well, ya just gotta understand! When I lived in Mississippi, my fourth grade class was taken on a tour of the CocaCola factory in 1959, and I learned that Coke was first made in the South, in 1884, by John Stith Pemberton, a druggist from Columbus, Georgia. Therefore, every pop from then on was coke. But 22 years earlier (1866) Vernor's was created by James Vernor, a Detroit pharmacist. And in Michigan we called it POP!!!

DaveW -> RE: POP/ SODA (7/28/2008 5:15:46 PM)
quote: ORIGINAL: Kerrlaw1 That is why the jingle now is: "I am stuck on Band-aid brand because Band-aid stuck on me." That lyric makes no sense to me at all, band-aid brand WHAT???? They should have left it alone or rewritten the jingle.

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