Do you hate it when people call just any soda a coke?

If I ask for a coke, I want a coke! I asked for a coke at a restaurant once and they gave me pepsi! Now pepsi isnt bad, but I wanted coca-cola! thats why i said i wanted coke!

Spoiler alert - incoming science and beverage rant. If you hate stuff like this, just scroll on.

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No, but I hate that on the side of a can of Coca Cola, it says "Best Served Ice Cold". I disagree. I think a nice cool drink is better than a block of Coca Cola flavoured ice that can't even be got out of the can. For the pedants who may seek to remind me that the freezing point of Coca Cola is about a degree and a half centigrade lower than distilled water, I would first say that freezing points vary with air pressure (it isn't always 101.5kPa out there). I would secondly say that just because water becomes ice at zero degrees centigrade doesn't mean that all ice is exactly zero degrees centigrade. In fact, no ice is "exactly" zero degrees centigrade. And it's disingenuous to talk about matter as being ice anyway, when it isn't all ice but rather a thermodynamic equilibrium between the three standard phases of matter (we'll ignore plasma). Although, for further pedantry, I do accept that at very, very low temperatures water cannot exist in the liquid phase and ice sublimates directly to vapour.

Would you believe I'm occasionally accused of over-thinking things?

I hate it when people call waiters and waitresses or is it 's waitstaff. In Australia if you ask for a soda people look at you funny and if you ask for coke you get a full strength coke.

i call all what you american's call soda ''juice''
or use the name for the juice like coke, pepsi, fanta etc,

Soda= coke, Pepsi, Dr. Pepper, sprite, seven up, squirt, root beer..ect.
What makes sense to me is, all soda is poison. If its carbonated, but not horrible for you, its not soda. It's a fizzy drink..

In detroit its pop... I am always pleased when a waiter tells me that its pepsi instead of coke. Not that i care but you know...

Eh, doesn't bother me that much. We're from the north, and live in the south right now, though, and some people are bothered by the way I call soda "pop" a lot of times. My parents still do, though, so I can't really help it. I try to call it soda more, but for the most part, I'm just like. Suck it up, and deal, everyone talks differently anyway. ;)

I am from a south west state and refer to all soda as coke, but I'm sure if you went to a restaurant here said yes to a coke, you wouldn't revive an orange soda. Ridiculous. Its just a regional thing. Another big one, cotton swabs are q-tips regardless of brand.

In Chicago it's pop. You order a "soda" and the waitstaff can beat you.

yes

Oh, wait, I messed up my description! It should read: "Do you want a Coke?"..."Why, yes, I would!"...."What kind?".

Sorry 'bout that.