What do you call carbonated drinks?

_jade_em_ · **Posted:** Sun Sep 17, 2006 3:36 am

Soft drinks.

My God, all those other names are ridiculous -.-

TiCup · **Posted:** Sun Sep 17, 2006 3:56 am

Soda. I'm from California. ^^ When I moved to Ohio everyone called it pop, and always knew I wasn't a native because I called it soda. I just started calling it pop because I got tired of explaining that I was from California.

Then I moved to northern Virginia, where everyone calls it soda, so now I am at peace. :lol:

That map is awesome, btw. *shows it to all her friends*

Combusken BG · **Posted:** Sun Sep 17, 2006 12:09 pm

Meer wrote:

What the....? O_o
How can you call fizzy drinks coke? I've never heard anyone refer all soda in general as coke, this mystifies me. Coke is one brand of soda. You can't call a Pepsi or Mountain Dew Coke. That... that makes no sense! Ahh my brain is gonna implode! XD

Heh, I call it soda.

I have a funny story about someone saying something about a pop machine, and someone mishearing it as pot machine. But it was only really funny if you were there.

Why do some people call them soda?

I mean I could understand if someone wanted a cream soda and they said that were getting a soda when refering to cream soda. But using soda to refer to anything besides cream soda just doesn't make any sense to me.

Kugetsu · **Posted:** Sun Sep 17, 2006 5:36 pm

*quotes Shapu*

Shapu wrote:

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.

Twinkle · **Posted:** Sun Sep 17, 2006 7:58 pm

Igg wrote:

I call them 'fizzy drinks'.

Gosh, you bunch of freaks.

Same. Go Brits!

Xandra · **Posted:** Sun Sep 17, 2006 10:53 pm

Soda- I've never called it anything else. I've lived in California and Maryland, and according to that map, that's pretty much all anyone in both states calls it. Soda.

Besides, it sounds cooler. Soda!

Christopher · **Posted:** Mon Sep 18, 2006 4:32 am

Since I stopped drinking them I've come to referre to most fizzy drinks as liquid lard or sugar, and cola is specifically known as tar.

zorg · **Posted:** Mon Sep 18, 2006 8:00 am

Christopher wrote:

Since I stopped drinking them I've come to referre to most fizzy drinks as liquid lard or sugar, and cola is specifically known as tar.

Now thats fighting back. I did however learn, while flicking thru channels on TV, that coke ISN"T a spermicide.

Just so you know.

And its soft drink

stones · **Posts:** 105 **Joined:** Fri Sep 15, 2006 12:05 pm

*throws toga party* im a flavored water kind of person. it tastes better and its better for you. also its good for your complexion... TO-GA, TO-GA. will anyone join?..... no..... ok

Anoohilator · **Posted:** Wed Sep 20, 2006 7:41 pm

ryan.riverside wrote:

So where is the Carbonated Drink Name Breakdown Map of the United Kingdom?

There's no need for one - it's referred to as Fizzy Drinks in everywhere that isn't the midlands.

Twinkle · **Posted:** Wed Sep 20, 2006 8:42 pm

Anoohilator wrote:

ryan.riverside wrote:

So where is the Carbonated Drink Name Breakdown Map of the United Kingdom?

There's no need for one - it's referred to as Fizzy Drinks in everywhere that isn't the midlands.

I live in the Midlands and it's fizzy pop round here. What do we supposedly say?

Anoohilator · **Posted:** Wed Sep 20, 2006 9:45 pm

Ginger said that it's called something else *shrug*

Pixa · **Posted:** Wed Sep 20, 2006 10:32 pm

I refer to the product by name. For example:
Coca Cola = Coke
Orange Tango = Tango

And so on, and so forth. Fizzy drinks as a group, I suppose. Not pop.

kiay · **Posted:** Thu Sep 21, 2006 2:12 am

I've always said soda, I never even knew that you could call it pop or fizzy drink. When I think of fizzy drink, I think of apple cider (the kind with lots of bubbles, how is it called again?) for some reason or those other drinks that have bubbles in them, I don't see how soda can be the same thing is fizzy drink. Pop also sounds strange to me, soo, umm, yay soda!

werepup · **Posted:** Thu Sep 21, 2006 7:47 am

Twinkle wrote:

Anoohilator wrote:

ryan.riverside wrote:

So where is the Carbonated Drink Name Breakdown Map of the United Kingdom?

There's no need for one - it's referred to as Fizzy Drinks in everywhere that isn't the midlands.

I live in the Midlands and it's fizzy pop round here. What do we supposedly say?

Uh, Scotland is part of the UK - there's lots of names for fizzy drinks - ginger, juice, jeg and skoosh... there's probably more in dialects I don't know.

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