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One of those xkcd things where I don't quite get it. A take off on this sort of thing:
Around here, 'tonic' was often used to describe what most people call 'pop', 'soda' or 'soda pop', but it seems to have died off since about the '80s.
I'll never understand the "Coke" thing.
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I'm a soda guy from Eastern PA living in the pop region of Western PA.
"The White Zone is for loading and unloading only. If you got to load or unload go to the White Zone!"
Yeah. I'm squarely in the soda belt, but I get pop, too. Using 'Coke' for any carbonated beverage is just dumb.
Also, lol Alaska, what are you doing?!
Please don't ask questions, just use google.
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I'm only here to reglaze my bathtub.
That would be a Jimmy Buffett reference applied to the wrong beverage.
It has a lot to do with the Coca-Cola Corporation's hq being in Jawja.
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On a slightly related note.....all the Canadians I know refer to Electrical service as....Hydro! I couldn't figure out why everyone was bitching about their water bill???? Most probably the reason is that electrical service in British Columbia is supplied by... BC Hydro.....but my friends in Alberta also call electrical service as Hydro....
Then theres.....Q Tips......
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Is that not because it's just a short form for hydroelectricity?
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Well yeah....assuming all your power is generated by hydroelectric dams.....
The Ice Cream Lady Wet her drawers........To see you in the Passion Playyyy eeee - I. Anderson
"It's kind of like deciding not to date a beautiful blonde anymore because she farted." - Top Cat
I was expecting to be kinda meh, but it made my nips stiffen - Jerjo
(Zamran) "that fucking thing man . . . it sits there on my wall like a broken clock " - Helix
Social Media is the "Toilet" of the Internet - Lady Gaga
I always thought a "grinder" was when you took a hoagie/sub/hero and put it in the oven to toast.
Sure. I get that one. They pretty much dominated the market. But there's no variety in a Q-tip. It is what it is.
Calling a root beer a "Coke" is just stupid.
Music isn't about chops, or even about talent - it's about sound and the way that sound communicates to people. Mike Keneally
waterdontwoik.jpg
"Hey, no wonder the water don’t woik! The pipe is plugged up with wires!"
I thought you meant regional-only beverages - Mr. Pibb, RC Cola, Moxie, etc.
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I'm 57 years old, and I've lived in Ohio all but 3 years. I've never heard "pop" referred to as "medicine." For that matter, when I lived in Okla, I never heard it called "sugar oil" either. I would say the graphic is suspect.
I have lived in Michigan my entire life and have never herd the term "Kids Coffee" anywhere anytime. Not sure where they got some of these, but it appears bogus to me. Here it is "pop" . Soda is something you make with ice cream and pop. My mother's side of the family was from the south and when growing up my grandfather called everything a "coke". But, I have never heard of "Kids Coffee"...
In Michigan, it's called "pop". My relatives in Texas refer to anything that's carbonated as "coke". The OP's graph is fraudulent or facetious.
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Naw, that's an ice cream soda.
"The White Zone is for loading and unloading only. If you got to load or unload go to the White Zone!"
"Pop" is what the weasel does.
Or....it's bad music.
Music isn't about chops, or even about talent - it's about sound and the way that sound communicates to people. Mike Keneally
There was a time when pop was good music."Pop" is what the weasel does.
Or....it's bad music.
"The White Zone is for loading and unloading only. If you got to load or unload go to the White Zone!"
And the Weasel didn't only pop, he posted on PE.
Growing up in NYC, it was always "soda". When I got to Madison in 1971 it was "pop" (I actually didn't know what it was the first time I heard it used). Over the last 48 years I hear "pop" less & less and "soda" more & more in WI.
I'm sure that social media has contributed heavily to the migration of terms.
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Yeah, it's not (that) serious.
I used to live where we called it soda pop, or by the brand name.
Now I just don't drink it.
I might move to where they call it Ichor, or Fizz Ooze.
"It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it."
-- Aristotle
Nostalgia, you know, ain't what it used to be. Furthermore, they tells me, it never was.
“A Man Who Does Not Read Has No Appreciable Advantage Over the Man Who Cannot Read” - Mark Twain
Just so you know, Randall Munroe, who draws the XKCD comic seen in the OP, is pulling your leg. Few, if any, of the names he came up with are used anywhere in the country. Regional terms do exist, but they are not as wild as those shown on his map.
I grew up in Rhode lsland and it was always "soda." For several summers we went to sleep-away camp in northeastern New Hampshire. Up there it was "tonic" (pronounced "tawnic"). The New York and southwestern Connecticut kids at camp called it "pop."
Of course, in Rhode Island we had weird names for everything. An Italian sub sandwich ("sangwich") was a "grinder" while all others were "subs." A milk shake with ice cream was a "cabinet." Some called pancakes "johnny cakes."
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