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Christopher wrote:This shall solve everything (since America is everything)
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Ginger Harp Seal Pup wrote:shapu wrote:Soda, because that's what it is.
I disagree. I call it pop, but it would be wrong to say it's pop simply because that's what it is. Soda is what you like to call it, but it has many other names. Soda, from what I can remember, is an American term for a fizzy drink. It's a regional thing.
Answer is in the um...mild debate XD
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Sat Sep 16, 2006 1:42 am
shapu wrote:Christopher wrote:This shall solve everything (since America is everything)
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That's an especially interesting map because there's a great historical anachronism as part of it. If you look at Saint Louis (that big yellow blob in the middle) you'll see that everyone there calls the drink "soda," even though nobody else around it does. The reason is that 7-up was invented in St. Louis in 1929 - it was called "Bib-Label Lithiated Lemon-Lime Soda" at the time and quickly became a very popular drink during prohibition's ending days. It later became 7-UP lithiated lemon-lime soda, and later just 7-up.
So everyone there ordered soda, which is what their kids learned to call fizzy drinks.Ginger Harp Seal Pup wrote:shapu wrote:Soda, because that's what it is.
I disagree. I call it pop, but it would be wrong to say it's pop simply because that's what it is. Soda is what you like to call it, but it has many other names. Soda, from what I can remember, is an American term for a fizzy drink. It's a regional thing.
Answer is in the um...mild debate XD
No, I mean that's what it technically is. Soft drinks and soda water are carbonated with a material called Bicarbonate of Soda (or at least, they were). So they're soda drinks (and that's why they're called carbonated drinks as well).
Although I suppose cola is also a correct term, for the darker caramelized drinks.
Sat Sep 16, 2006 1:59 am
mazil wrote:Soft drink. I'm sad it's not a poll option!
Edit: That map is cool! I didn't know that pop/soda/soft drinks were also called "coke". Doesn't that get a little confusing when you want an actual Coca-Cola coke?
Sat Sep 16, 2006 2:02 am
Dragonfire wrote:mazil wrote:Soft drink. I'm sad it's not a poll option!
Edit: That map is cool! I didn't know that pop/soda/soft drinks were also called "coke". Doesn't that get a little confusing when you want an actual Coca-Cola coke?
Well, if we want something like Sprite, we say Sprite. If we want Pepsi or Coca-Cola we say coke.
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