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

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Seems to be a Southwestern US thing, people ask you if you want a soda, you say YES, I'd like a Coke....then they say "What Kind"?

They equate the words "soda" and "Coke"....it's annoying!!

Yes, that is stupid. Coke is soda but all soda isn't Coke. 66
Well, it's a regional thing, but I agree it seems stupid. 27
Doesn't bug me.BUT, I've never had to deal with it.It might if I did. 26
Doesn't bother me, I use this terminology /I've dealt w/ it before. 16
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  • Legion
    13 years ago

    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!

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  • dappled
    13 years ago

    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?

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    • HaruHaru
      13 years ago

      Sorta has nothing to do with the question..? And where I'm from we don't even say soda, it's all referred to as Coke, Pepsi, etc.

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      • dappled
        13 years ago

        It kind of does. I answered the question and then went on to talk about things I dislike about fizzy drinks, which I think the OP was talking about too.

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    • Uzzie101
      13 years ago

      Maybe they mean "Diet" or regular?

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      • Anonymous Post Author
        13 years ago

        Or to add to the description, they ask if you want a Coke, you accept, and they come out with an orange Fanta as if it's all the same. And you're like eeew I thought you said Coke?? It's a regional thing, people just literally equate soda=coke and use the words interchangeably.

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        • thesky713
          13 years ago

          I hate it when people do that i get so pissed off at them

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        • Hmmaybe
          12 years ago

          I'm English and I don't know what soda means seeing as the word is never used here, but I suppose it is a general term for all fizzy drinks. Here if you ask for coke you could probably get any type of cola such as pepsi etc. but you deffinately won't get a fanta or anything like that.

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      • Anonymous Post Author
        13 years ago

        No, I worded my description wrong and I corrected it in the first post, so you can better understand what I meant. Sorry for the mess up.

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  • Dudascious
    12 years ago

    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.

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  • [Old Memory]
    11 years ago

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

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  • karmasAbich
    12 years ago

    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..

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  • detroitlove81
    12 years ago

    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...

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  • Haeven
    12 years ago

    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. ;)

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  • love.love
    12 years ago

    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.

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  • [Old Memory]
    13 years ago

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

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    • Legion
      12 years ago

      why can they beat you for ordering a soda?

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  • buttlicker6969
    13 years ago

    yes

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  • Anonymous Post Author
    13 years ago

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

    Sorry 'bout that.

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