What do you call carbonated beverages?

[Maurepas]

inspired by the OP induced threadjack in the Prayer thread...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Names_for_soft_drinks
What do you call your soft drinks?

Just softdrinks, soda, cokes... (pains me to say this, lol) pop?

I generally say coke, like most in the South, but, Im picking up soda, just because its more descriptive (ive often sent drinks back when they actually gave me a coca cola when I said coke, lol) and I dont like brand dominance...

How bout you?

[New Kereptica]

Soda, but I live in Chicago, so many other people call it pop. Every time I hear that, I die a little in side.

[Buffett and Colbert]

Sand

[Galloism]

Usually I refer to it by the specific name of the beverage that I am drinking.

However, generalizing, I say soda.

[The Beautiful Darkness]

Soft drink. And this thread needs a poll.

[Maurepas]

Soft drink. And this thread needs a poll.

With my ungodly OP power, granted,

[Conserative Morality]

Soda, of course. It would be unholy to refer to it as anything else.

[Melkor Unchained]

Usually I refer to it by the specific name of the beverage that I am drinking.

However, generalizing, I say soda.

This. "Pop" sounds funny to me. But 99.9999% of the time, I'll just call it "Pepsi" or "Coke."

[Cameroi]

in the unholy land of cameroi, carbonated beverages are generally referred to as belch water.

[Prusland]

Lol what? who calls it.....soda. it sounds funny, sooodaah. its just pop.

[Dolphin Girl]

Les boissons gazeuses.

[Takaram]

When I'm ordering a drink, I will say coke, but that is only because I am ordering a Coke. When referring to the class of beverage, I say soda.

[Prusland]

Where you guys from? Britain or china?

[Smunkeeville]

Out of habit "coke" which is different than "Coke(tm)"

I'm trying to transition to "soda" though.

It's really hard.

Regionally:

Soda is coke.
Adhesive bandages are Band-aids.
Jetted tubs are Jacuzzis.
Tissues are Kleenex.
Sofas are Davenports.
Refrigerators are Frigidaires.
Acetaminophen is Tylenol.
Ibuprofen is Advil.
Portable computers are laptops.
Pens are Bics
Cloth bandages are Ace bandages....
etc. for infinity.

We brand things here like nobody's business.

[Chrobalta]

Pop of course.
Though I usually specify what I want exactly.

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/e ... vscoke.png

[Tunizcha]

Pop of course.
Though I usually specify what I want exactly.

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/e ... vscoke.png

Are you in my head?

[Chrobalta]

Pop of course.
Though I usually specify what I want exactly.

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/e ... vscoke.png

Are you in my head?

0_o
Your head is where?

[Dolphin Girl]

Sofas are Davenports.
Pens are Bics

I find these two to be odd.

[Maurepas]

Out of habit "coke" which is different than "Coke(tm)"

I'm trying to transition to "soda" though.

It's really hard.

Regionally:

Soda is coke.
Adhesive bandages are Band-aids.
Jetted tubs are Jacuzzis.
Tissues are Kleenex.
Sofas are Davenports.
Refrigerators are Frigidaires.
Acetaminophen is Tylenol.
Ibuprofen is Advil.
Portable computers are laptops.
Pens are Bics
Cloth bandages are Ace bandages....
etc. for infinity.

We brand things here like nobody's business.

Seriously, brains hardwire things like nobody's business...I'll end up saying coke, and catch myself and be like "damn"

[Smunkeeville]

Sofas are Davenports.
Pens are Bics

I find these two to be odd.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Davenport_(sofa)
http://www.officemax.com/catalog/sku.js ... u=10011024

Oh, and permanent markers are "Magic markers" or "Sharpies" depending on size.

[Maurepas]

I had to change the poll, seems I forgot subconciously blocked out, an option by mistake,

[Almajoya]

inspired by the OP induced threadjack in the Prayer thread...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Names_for_soft_drinks
What do you call your soft drinks?

Just softdrinks, soda, cokes... (pains me to say this, lol) pop?

I generally say coke, like most in the South, but, Im picking up soda, just because its more descriptive (ive often sent drinks back when they actually gave me a coca cola when I said coke, lol) and I dont like brand dominance...

How bout you?

Heh, me too, Southerners in the house! Coke, all of them coke.

Oh, and while we're on the subject, I just studied the history of brand names losing their identities. Like people who say "Xeroxing" (heh, Firefox even recognizes that as a word) instead of "copying." It's a brand's worst nightmare.

It also happened to escalators, which I find amusing. What were they before, "moving staircases"?

[Smunkeeville]

inspired by the OP induced threadjack in the Prayer thread...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Names_for_soft_drinks
What do you call your soft drinks?

Just softdrinks, soda, cokes... (pains me to say this, lol) pop?

I generally say coke, like most in the South, but, Im picking up soda, just because its more descriptive (ive often sent drinks back when they actually gave me a coca cola when I said coke, lol) and I dont like brand dominance...

How bout you?

Heh, me too, Southerners in the house! Coke, all of them coke.

Oh, and while we're on the subject, I just studied the history of brand names losing their identities. Like people who say "Xeroxing" (heh, Firefox even recognizes that as a word) instead of "copying." It's a brand's worst nightmare.

It also happened to escalators, which I find amusing. What were they before, "moving staircases"?

People only bitch about branding things when it's branding things they wouldn't brand.

Oh, crayons are Crayolas and that little thing I used to demolish my vanity was a Sawzall even though it wasn't.

[Tunizcha]

Pop of course.
Though I usually specify what I want exactly.

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/e ... vscoke.png

Are you in my head?

0_o
Your head is where?

My head expands at a rate of 32.2 ft/s².

[The Beautiful Darkness]

Soft drink. And this thread needs a poll.

With my ungodly OP power, granted,