A new soft drink poll!
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Topic: A new soft drink poll!
Posted By: topofsm
Subject: A new soft drink poll!
Date Posted: May 29 2009 at 02:12
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So, after a minute of searching, I found this poll had been done before. But they were locked, so I'm bringing up another heated debate on what you should call it.
Anyways, what do you normally call soft drinks. Yes, I know that the CORRECT way to say it is soda, but people from other places say otherwise *shakes head, losing faith in humanity*.
 Anyways, vote and discuss. If English isn't your first language, tell us what you've been taught to say. -------------  |
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Posted By: Dean
Date Posted: May 29 2009 at 03:00
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To a Brit soda is something you put in whisky - fizzy water with some sodium bicarbinate (aka soda) in it.
The only fizzy pop that we call "soda" is cream soda, which is vanilla flavoured carbonated sugar water (ie it tastes like ice cream). ------------- What? |
Posted By: Dalezilla
Date Posted: May 29 2009 at 03:07
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Pop. I think this poll has been done before though. I remember some guy explaining in a very clever way why pop is the right word to use. Actually it might've been a "pop vs. soda" poll. Edit: read the original message. |
Posted By: Atavachron
Date Posted: May 29 2009 at 03:10
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when I was in Europe I'd ask for water and they'd bring mineral water..uhm, big difference OK?! |
Posted By: Dalezilla
Date Posted: May 29 2009 at 03:19
Haha, that reminds me of when I was in LA. I asked for Root Beer, but they gave me Dr.Pepper. Then I told them that I wanted Root Beer. Then they gave me another Dr.Pepper. 
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Posted By: moreitsythanyou
Date Posted: May 29 2009 at 03:21
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Sody Pop
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Posted By: Atavachron
Date Posted: May 29 2009 at 03:35
that's crazy, L.A. is the capital of fastfood, they must've been on dope |
Dalezilla wrote:Posted By: Vompatti
Date Posted: May 29 2009 at 03:56
| Coke. Obviously it only applies to Coke, but that's about the only thing I drink besides coffee anyway. |
Posted By: crimhead
Date Posted: May 29 2009 at 13:40
| Soda, but I don't drink it anymore. |
Posted By: TheCaptain
Date Posted: May 29 2009 at 20:39
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I call it a CFB (carbonated fountain beverage) within a small group of friends, but when I'm with people that still have a shred of sanity left, I say "pop" although I'm not opposed to "soda."
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Posted By: SaltyJon
Date Posted: May 29 2009 at 21:10
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Pop it is!
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Posted By: topofsm
Date Posted: May 29 2009 at 21:23
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I find it surprising that pop's taking all the votes. When I think of pop referring to a soft drink it makes me think of the 50s and stuff like that, like some of the movies that emulated that era. I love arguing about this kind of stuff by the way.
Also, the children's game duck-duck-goose where I come from is called duck-duck-greyduck in Minnesota. Don't ask me how it came up in conversation. ------------- |
Posted By: KoS
Date Posted: May 29 2009 at 21:34
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Posted By: Ivan_Melgar_M
Date Posted: May 29 2009 at 21:38
Gaseosa. 
Iván ------------- 
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Posted By: Atkingani
Date Posted: May 30 2009 at 07:34
Here we say "refri" which is short for refrigerante.  ------------- Guigo ~~~~~~ |
Posted By: Petrovsk Mizinski
Date Posted: May 30 2009 at 07:40
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I tend to say Soda on most forums I go on because most people are American and it saves the hassle of people asking what you're talking about. But in Australia, the same applies as with the British it seems if Dean isn't talking crap, which I assume he isn't. Soda water is the stuff you mix alcohol with and Creamy soda is the only fizzy pop drink here. In the real world Australia, soda is generally referred to as soft drink. ------------- 
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Posted By: Raff
Date Posted: May 30 2009 at 07:40
| I'm not into soft drinks (though I'll have the occasional Coke), but if I have to choose, I'll go for lemonade - especially the strawberry- or raspberry-flavoured one. |
Posted By: valravennz
Date Posted: May 30 2009 at 08:24
Here in NZ most call it "Soft Drink" - "Soda" is the aerated water that goes with Whiskey etc and is also termed a "Mixer" along with other aerated drinks such as Lemonade, Coke, Ginger Ale etc.  -------------  "Music is the Wine that fills the cup of Silence" - Robert Fripp |
Posted By: Slartibartfast
Date Posted: May 30 2009 at 08:41
Oh yeah, like we really need another soft drink poll.  I'm going to have to go with cool clear water, the best soft drink ever invented.  Coke Zero and the Sprite version aren't bad. I do Kool Ade's with stevia sweetner. Kroger's got a nice unsugared Gatorade alternative. But really, nothing beats good water. Maybe a good lemonade. ------------- Released date are often when it it impacted you but recorded dates are when it really happened... 
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Posted By: Raff
Date Posted: May 30 2009 at 08:50
Hear, hear  ! Though I'm partial to some nice, home-made iced tea, with fresh fruit in it. I'll start making it soon! |
Posted By: A Person
Date Posted: May 30 2009 at 11:52
| Here in Michigan everyone calls it pop, but I say coke most of the time because I usually drink Coca-Cola. I have always thought that soda was also the another name for carbonated water. |
Posted By: Epignosis
Date Posted: May 30 2009 at 13:42
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Beer.
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Posted By: limeyrob
Date Posted: May 30 2009 at 15:16
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Dandelion and Burdock.
2 categories - D&B made with D&B flavourings = pop
D&B made with D&B extracts = nectar (Barrs or if you are feeling loaded then Fentimans)
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Posted By: progkidjoel
Date Posted: May 30 2009 at 23:28
I also live in Australia, and I only really hear people call it "Soft Drink", so I'll go with that. ------------- 
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Posted By: Statutory-Mike
Date Posted: May 30 2009 at 23:51
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I absolutley love the way 'pop' sounds ------------- 
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Posted By: Atavachron
Date Posted: May 30 2009 at 23:58
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^ well then you're on the wrong website k-ZING ! |
Posted By: Dean
Date Posted: May 31 2009 at 05:24
I think you'll find the correct Prog response is : 'Cha-cha-chaa Cha-chaaa!' ------------- What? |
Posted By: aapatsos
Date Posted: May 31 2009 at 09:17
 Soda it is generally |
Posted By: topofsm
Date Posted: May 31 2009 at 15:20
Does that by chance roughly translate to 'gaseous'? I'm wondering because I'm still learning spanish. ------------- |
Posted By: akamaisondufromage
Date Posted: May 31 2009 at 15:49
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Fizzy pop not coke as that goes up your nose (The bubbles of course) ------------- Help me I'm falling! |
Posted By: John McIntyre
Date Posted: May 31 2009 at 16:03
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When I were a lad, pop = lemonade (even if it didn't have lemon flavouring) = sweetened fizzy water. As far as I'm concerned, soda (water) is water with just CO2 in it. We do get stuff in the UK called CREAM SODA, which I believe is vanilla flavoured pop, but I've never seen it used as a mixer. In Glasgow and the West of Scotland, they have a drink called GINGER, which is just another word for pop - mind you, they're very strange in Glasgow! Here in Scotland, we also have Barr's IRN BRU (pronounced Ion Brew), which is partly used as a hangover cure (it works with me to some degree) AND a mixer, particularly with vodka. I no longer drink Coke, after I saw what it did to a couple of copper coins! ------------- I am one of only about 1,800 people in the world with an original M400 Mellotron! |
Posted By: Ivan_Melgar_M
Date Posted: May 31 2009 at 21:04
The correct term is "Bebida Gaseosa" and would be "beverage with gas".
Iván -------------
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Posted By: Canprog
Date Posted: June 01 2009 at 18:02
| In Canada its Pop. |
Posted By: Slartibartfast
Date Posted: June 01 2009 at 18:34
I hate to be the bearer of bad news, but you have hydrochloric acid in your stomach. Run away! Run away!  ------------- Released date are often when it it impacted you but recorded dates are when it really happened...
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Posted By: manofmystery
Date Posted: June 01 2009 at 18:58
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"Pop" is all we accept here in the western part of PA, if you say "soda" then your a filthy easterner -------------  Time always wins. |
Posted By: Atavachron
Date Posted: June 01 2009 at 20:06
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^ the reverse is true, though, if we're talking across country |
Posted By: KoS
Date Posted: June 01 2009 at 20:10
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"Pop" sounds cheesy and pornographic if taken out of context. |
Posted By: JJLehto
Date Posted: June 01 2009 at 23:28
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It's Soda!!! I almost got beat up in Pittsburgh for saying it too |
Posted By: John McIntyre
Date Posted: June 02 2009 at 15:07
That's baaaaaaad acid man!
I knew there was some acid in my gut, but I didn't know it was hydrochloric! God, that's bloody frightning! Now I know why it's (accurately) called heartburn!
Trapper John McIntyre ------------- I am one of only about 1,800 people in the world with an original M400 Mellotron! |
Posted By: topofsm
Date Posted: June 02 2009 at 18:13
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^From somebody who just recently finished a biology course I can say that the digestive juices in your stomach are potent enough to dissolve nails. Soda acid is milder, though if you drink too much of it your tooth enamel can deteriorate. But in my opinion what's the point of having good tooth enamel if you can't drink soda, especially since I brush my teeth every morning and night.
Quoted for truth. ------------- |
Posted By: markosherrera
Date Posted: June 23 2009 at 00:30
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http://softdrinker.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/06/canada_dry.jpg - http://softdrinker.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/06/canada_dry.jpg ------------- Hi progmaniacs of all the world |
Posted By: refugee
Date Posted: June 23 2009 at 09:28
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There’s way too much pop in this thread. Let’s agree on calling it prog instead. Waiter! One lemon prog, please! ------------- He say nothing is quite what it seems; I say nothing is nothing (Peter Hammill) |