Where to get cheap DIET Soda in Chicago? (Knoxville, Columbus: transplants, buy)

[Avengerfire]

Originally Posted by MyssaTx

In Texas we dont say Soda or Pop...

Anywaaays we say coke.
Coke is for anything and everything... Dr.Pepper is Coke..Sprite is Coke....Root Beer is Coke.. Coke is Coke...

That will not fly here. It will not fly most anywhere north of the Mason-Dixon line.

You better be prepared to use the proper names for the name brands or types of soft drink otherwise people will laugh at you,look at you funny, or ignore you. Possibly they will do all three.

I am not trying to be mean.

[Gelasia]

Well for me personally I dont drink Coke.
Im sort of a health freak so I only drink water and if Im not drinking water it is because Im drinking wine or a beer.

But you just say im gonna have a coke and than you specify to the waitress

But outside of ordering you would simply call it coke.

[j33]

Originally Posted by Avengerfire

That will not fly here. It will not fly most anywhere north of the Mason-Dixon line.

You better be prepared to use the proper names for the name brands or types of soft drink otherwise people will laugh at you,look at you funny, or ignore you. Possibly they will do all three.

I am not trying to be mean.

Or they'd just bring you a Coke. I know from my days working at a restaurant, if someone ordered a Coke, that is what I brought them, it never occurred to me that I might have guess they really meant some other sort of soda, hell, if I could have read minds, I wouldn't have been working at a restaurant.

[Avengerfire]

Originally Posted by MyssaTx

Well for me personally I dont drink Coke...


...But you just say im gonna have a coke and than you specify to the waitress

But outside of ordering you would simply call it coke.

Yeah I know this. I have spent a lot of time in the South.

I will repeat to you however you need to (without saying "coke" first) in Chicago:

Be prepared to use the proper names for the name brands or types of soft drink otherwise people will laugh at you,look at you funny, or ignore you. Possibly they will do all three.

[surlycue]

Originally Posted by Avengerfire

Yeah I know this. I have spent a lot of time in the South.

I will repeat to you however you need to (without saying "coke" first) in Chicago:

Be prepared to use the proper names for the name brands or types of soft drink otherwise people will laugh at you,look at you funny, or ignore you. Possibly they will do all three.

Well with the big, teased hair and long Texas drawl she's pretty much screwed from the get go.

[ERS-One]

I import my diet soda from Houston.

[grapico]

Originally Posted by MyssaTx

In Texas we dont say Soda or Pop

Have no idea why they are calling it Soda if they are from Houston

Anywaaays we say coke.
Coke is for anything and everything... Dr.Pepper is Coke..Sprite is Coke....Root Beer is Coke.. Coke is Coke...

no coke! pepsi!

[Basekamp]

"buy me a soda and try to molest me in the parking lot, eh, eh?" - The Pixies - Bone Machine.

[long101]

If you cant afford to spend a buck on a 2 liter of pop you dont belong in Chicago

[Lookout Kid]

Originally Posted by Basekamp

"buy me a soda and try to molest me in the parking lot, eh, eh?" - The Pixies - Bone Machine.

The Pixies were from Mass. The probably call shakes "fraps".

In Wisco many people say "pop", and it's one of the things that outsiders make fun of Wisconsinites for. I've only heard a few people in Chicago use the word "pop", and it actually sounds funny to me now after all of these years. 90% of people in Chicago say "soda". I don't care what Avengerfire says.