Non-alcoholic beverage choices

What do you like?

  • Pop

    Votes: 11 20.4%

  • Soda

    Votes: 19 35.2%

  • Pepsi

    Votes: 11 20.4%

  • Coke

    Votes: 27 50.0%
  • Total voters
    54
  • Poll closed .
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So the hot dog thread got me thinking. Coke or Pepsi? Soda or pop?

David
 
I have noticed that in the fine state of Texas, ALL carbonated soft drinks are referred to as Coke. As in "what kind of Coke do ya'll want?"
 
What do I like? None of the above. Water is the first choice.

What do I call that fizzy stuff? Pop.
 
In the south, "Coke" can definitely mean more than just the single beverage. I find the older generation here in the south will also use the word "pop", but I don't think I've ever heard anyone under 60 or so use it, at least where I live.

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It's Pop, Soda is for baking. As to calling it all Coke, it has always sounded odd to me, but I suppose we do it with Kleenex and Band-aid's. Coke is certainly a superior choice to Pepsi.
 
I drink soda water or unsweet tea (It used to just be called tea but at some point in the last few years I have had to start to specify)
 
When I was a kid in the 50s and 60s my father sold soft drinks, mostly Hires Root Beer. It was called pop there in Pittsburgh.

I seem to remember the 'company car' that he drove for a time was a yellow Rambler with a picture of 'Lil Squirt' on the side doors.

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A cup or two of coffee in the morning. Ice tea on a hot day, but mostly just water. I have never liked soda, except in a root beer float or a jack and ginger.
 
Fearless Tower said:
I have noticed that in the fine state of Texas, ALL carbonated soft drinks are referred to as Coke. As in "what kind of Coke do ya'll want?"
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Yes, as I young child here I remember getting so mad one time because I ordered a "coke," which in my mind was a Big Red, and there was no follow-up question and I actually got a Coca-Cola. Later in life I learned to used the more generic 'soda' or 'soda water.' Still later in life I learned to never use the term 'soda water' in any restaurant with tablecloths because that is literally what you will get.

My wife from OK calls it pop.
 
H2O, Iced Tea(unsweetened) and Coke Zero are the go to drinks in that order. Coworker recently turned me on to Pellegrino. Use to drink coffee maybe once a week but have started drinking more since being gifted a Keurig. Whether it is a coke, fanta, sprite, root beer, etc. It's all called Coke to me.
 
Why would anybody drink any of those choices? They make you fat and the diet versions make you fatter.
I like water with a lemon slice, or perhaps a small shot of unsweetened, cranberry juice.
Sometimes I'll use sparkling water or club soda.
 
Espresso, coffee if no espresso is available, water, occasional hot tea, and maybe once a week a glass of milk. Soda is poison, flavored 'coffee' drinks are candy. Just say no to that garbage.
 
To native Southerners, "Coke" is a generic term equivalent to the Northern terms "soda" and "pop" (depending on where up north you're from).

Personally, I don't drink much of any of it. Coffee in the morning, then iced tea until bed. Unsweet at home, sweet when I go out cause they don't sell enough unsweet and it has a short life unrefrigerated before tasting gross.

A water bottle goes on all XC flights, see above about unrefrigerated tea.
 
JOhnH said:
Why would anybody drink any of those choices? They make you fat and the diet versions make you fatter.
I like water with a lemon slice, or perhaps a small shot of unsweetened, cranberry juice.
Sometimes I'll use sparkling water or club soda.
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How do the diet versions make you fatter?
 
nddons said:
How do the diet versions make you fatter?
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I've seen several studies with the same result but different explanations. The more common one seems to be that they trick your body into thinking it hasn't had any nutrition and causes you to instinctively eat more.
 
Caffeine free diet Dr. Pepper, like to be way out there.
 
Down here everything is referred to as Coke. Dr. Pepper/Mr. Pibb are my preferred drinks
 
Why do I find "non alcoholic beverage" an oxymoron.
 
I have a buddy who works in a Coke Cola plant ...he said if he gave me a tour I would never drink Coke again ! :hairraise:
 
Soda pop contains lactic and phosphoric acids that are very bad for you, especially for your teeth. I used to have major acid reflux problems that immediately ceased after I quit drinking soda pop. Carbonated drinks in themselves are fine, just not soda pop.
 
Its all called coke and when Im up north and here it referred to as pop I literally shiver it sounds so wrong. I like coke and peanuts but Dr. Pepper is equally acceptable.

Otherwise I like lemonade, water, and sweet tea (the only kind of tea if you ask locals).
 
Sac Arrow said:
Soda pop contains lactic and phosphoric acids that are very bad for you, especially for your teeth. I used to have major acid reflux problems that immediately ceased after I quit drinking soda pop. Carbonated drinks in themselves are fine, just not soda pop.
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Phosphoric acid also turns calcium into something that can build bone, as well as dissolve kidney stones. It's all a matter of moderation.
 
Water, coffee, and seltzer mainly. About 75 percent of folks here call fizzy beverages "soda." Further west in the state, more people call it "pop."

Rich
 
Diet Coke drinker here. Been drinking it since they invented it and not fat, my teeth haven't fallen out, my bones haven't snapped, I haven't gotten cancer, no seizures, brain tumors... or well anything. I'm FAA standard weight. Calling all sodas (what they say out west, I only encounter "pop" from recent transplants) "Coke" seems really weird to me.
 
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