Discussion Your word for soft drinks

[vintagemistakes]

coke seems to be the generic term used when you're at a restaurant and want a drink of that nature...

However, for the specific type of drink... its called Soda.

 

[soDeq05]

Its called soda.

 

[M3J]

I call it soda, it makes better sense than pop to me. And I think coke is short version of Coca-Cola. Cola is what Coke and Pepsi are. To me anyway. <_<

 

[Evil3ye]

^I prefer Pepsi tho :/

 

[terrance007]

For me it's coke. I'm coke lover and most of my friend are the same.

 

[Xadyu]

I call it fris or frisdrank.

But when I'm speaking/writing english I prefer the world Soda, but that's probably because that's how I learned it ages ago.

 

[nalex94]

In Milwaukee at least, its always Soda or Coke. i guess people from Wisconsin say pop but he only people ive heard say that are my 75 year old grandparents.

 

[pirateninjahunter]

I like coke.
But I don't drink that much coke, only a little bit at the end of a meal.

 

[Bugzee]

Wheres my fiz? Coke if nothing else!

 

[benelori]

Well in romanian suc(juice) is used for everything, and even most of the hungarians use this term...but see horsee's post for more info

 

[Asarii]

I'm actually surprised that "soda" is used more than "pop". Although I shouldn't really be since it's regional. Where I'm from, "soda" is not used very often.

I usually refer to brand names when referencing a specific drink. I prefer Coca-Cola over Pepsi. :P

 

[steelwingcrash1]

Ahh... what a very useful thread for me to vent out my frustrations.

You see, people, I grew up in a variety store ever since I was a small kid (so I am pretty proud to say that I am good with numbers *LOL*)

Anyway, we vend soft drinks to people; and in our place, the word soft drinks was most commonly called as Coke (even if you are buying another brand) because this was the most popular of all of our soft drinks during that time (this occurred around 2000).

Man: Hey, kid, can I please buy coke?
Me: Okay, sir. (So I get one coke, open it, and place it inside a drinking plastic.) Here it is.
Man: I meant Sprite. Sorry, kid.
Me: FU.

That stupid guy is so stupid and I hate him for that.

 

[saladesu]

That reminds me of the time when there was this pretty cool (but it got irritating after a while) drink we had some years back here in Singapore. There were 2 kinda of cans you could get - "Anything" or "Whatever", with one (I forget which) being fizzy drinks (coke, sprite, F&N etc) and the other being non-fizzy drinks (ice lemon tea, green tea etc).

So an exchange at the drinks stall could go like
Stall owner: Hi, what would you like?
Person: Anything

or

Stall owner: Hi, what would you like? A beer? A coke?
Person: Whatever

The concept was cool, but it flopped in the end after the novelty wore off and people weren't interested in buying an "Anything" to see what drink they got or to see the look on the stall owner's face when they're like "wait, do you really mean that... Oh, you want a can of 'Anything'"

Other than that, people just call soft drinks, "soft drinks"

 

[Kaiten]

I rarely drink dark 'soda' (what we call soft drinks round here) like Coke or Pepsi but prefer lemon-lime, orange, or grape soda. For whatever reason when I go to restaurants I order Sprite, irregardless of what they serve. I get the "is Sierra Mist okay, we don't serve Sprite" response .__.

I buy Sierra Mist for the house, not Sprite, since they started using real sugar in Sierra Mist again. That does not stop me from referring to all lemon-lime sodas as Sprite

 

[steelwingcrash1]

Sierra Mist is the name for your lemon-lime sodas? That's a pretty cool name.

In our country, we have Pop (what you would call a dark soda) and Royal (an orange soft-drink).

But trust me, back in my days, whatever soft drink you order, people would call them Coke. Damn. >_<

 

[Queenofmuffins]

I voted for 'other' because we don't use the word 'soda' or 'pop' in my country. :3

We just called them soft drinks, unless we mention a specific brand.

I rarely drink dark 'soda' (what we call soft drinks round here) like Coke or Pepsi but prefer lemon-lime, orange, or grape soda. For whatever reason when I go to restaurants I order Sprite, irregardless of what they serve. I get the "is Sierra Mist okay, we don't serve Sprite" response .__.

I buy Sierra Mist for the house, not Sprite, since they started using real sugar in Sierra Mist again. That does not stop me from referring to all lemon-lime sodas as Sprite

What is Sierra Mist? I've never heard of that. :O

You have grape soft drink!? I am so jealous~
I first tasted that in Japan, and it was *heaven*. I feel in love with Fanta Grape, and "Melon Cream Soda". I even tried to bring a big 1.25 Litre bottle back into Australia. XD

Speaking of soft drink, I always find it fun to compare ours with America. For example, you guys have "Root Beer"... we have Sarspirilla, which is delicious. They have the same flavour but when I tried some Root Beer in Okinawa it was waaay too sugary for me. ;A;
When I met up with some Americans in Hong Kong, they kept telling me how delicious the Coke was, and how they wanted to ship it back home. It tastes normal to me. Apparently, you guys use High Fructose Corn Syrup in your Coke, and it tastes different to our Coke!

Also, I remember in Malaysia how at the 7/11s' you could purchase huge drinks ("Big Gulps", I think?) They were huge! It cost about $2 for a 32-oz drink of whatever soft drink you wanted. (Extra for melon milk, which I bought. XD)
But according to my American friend, that's really expensive as you can buy even bigger soft drinks for about 99cents there. I still don't know if he was joking or not. XD

 

[cracker]

Soft drinks, I've always found that term kinda weird since sodas on a whole are so damn acidic (harsh) but I guess compared to an alcoholic beverage its pretty meh...

I seen people get tipsy from Smirnoff, like 1...lol lightweights

 

[mikkih]

I rarely drink dark 'soda' (what we call soft drinks round here) like Coke or Pepsi but prefer lemon-lime, orange, or grape soda. For whatever reason when I go to restaurants I order Sprite, irregardless of what they serve. I get the "is Sierra Mist okay, we don't serve Sprite" response .__.

I buy Sierra Mist for the house, not Sprite, since they started using real sugar in Sierra Mist again. That does not stop me from referring to all lemon-lime sodas as Sprite

Voted: soda.
I usually drink coffee and green tea, so I don't drink soda that much. I almost always order Sprite regardless which restaurants I go to - like Kaiten. I also buy Sierra Mist for the house, sometimes Sprite, and almost never buy 7 Ups. I only tried Natural Sprite once so far.

 

[k-dom]

I'm glad there are soft drink which are not soda since I don't like them much otherwise I would be alcoholic. So that's what we call the him France : sans alcool ( without alcool )
Btw how do you drink your water, mineral or from tap with gas or without ? I know that in Germany they tend to drink it with gas but I don't know if it's the case elsewhere

 

[igotthegoods]

Awww, I'm sad to see that 'pop' is so far behind in the poll. Not surprised, of course, but just disappointed. My Midwesterners are not representing. Though I still generally use the word 'pop', I'm more conscious now of using it around people who call it something else. Usually, I'll go with 'soda' when I'm around them just to avoid the funny looks.

As far as water goes, I usually drink either tap or bottled water without carbonation. It's much more common in the US to drink water without carbonation than with.