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I've never heard much of the generic term "coke" for just any ol' kind of soft drink. Coke always to me has meant Coca-Cola, Pepsi meant Pepsi, DP meant Dr Pepper, etc. Here in Nashville you hear a lot of references to "pop" or "soda"...wierdos. lol. And it's never just "pop" (like the weasel goes), it's pronounced in a way I just can't get my mouth to work. I don't drink many carbonated beverages, no matter how they say it's a soft drink, it still burns a hole in my face.
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Can't believe no one has mentioned NuGrape, a quintessentially southern beverage. Us Crackers like to pour our peanuts into the bottle and drink it all together.
It's obviously Coke, but sometimes I think it's Dr. Pepper because I know so many people that prefer Dr. Pepper over Coke. And that map that shows how Southerners call a soft drink "Coke" is BS to me. From my experience, people call it specifically what it is, if it's a Coke, then it's a Coke, if it's a Pepsi, then it's Pepsi. When people are talking about soft drinks in general, they say "drink" or sometimes "soda" (this is what i've grown up saying) I've even had conversations w/ my friends about this and they had no idea about the Southerns & Coke stereotype. On the map, it said 80%-100% of my county used the term "Coke" I'd like to know where they got their data.
As long as I've lived in Texas, I've never heard anyone refer to soda as coke. When they say coke ,they want a coke.
Can't believe no one has mentioned NuGrape, a quintessentially southern beverage. Us Crackers like to pour our peanuts into the bottle and drink it all together.
Can't believe no one has mentioned NuGrape, a quintessentially southern beverage. Us Crackers like to pour our peanuts into the bottle and drink it all together.
In Alabama, we put peanuts in our RC Cola.
I'd say Coke is the biggest soft drink in the South, but Pepsi is HUGE in the Carolinas, and Dr Pepper in Texas...although no self-respecting fountain would be found without Dr Pepper or a tastealike in most of the South. Mountain Dew is also a necessity of life.
You don't or rarely find them in fountains, but Sundrop, RC Cola, Grapico and Orange Crush are also essentials.
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I've never heard much of the generic term "coke" for just any ol' kind of soft drink.
You need to get away from the urban area a bit more. It's quite common.
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Here in Nashville you hear a lot of references to "pop" or "soda"....
Ask the speaker, and you'll probably find a transplant from the north. NO native Southerner calls a soft drink "pop." Like you said, our mouths just won't work that way.
As long as I've lived in Texas, I've never heard anyone refer to soda as coke. When they say coke ,they want a coke.
That is kind of interesting, as my own native Texas experience is very much reflected by the map data...which is "coke" is far and away the popular generic term for a soft-drink in the state.
With that said though, I can think of a noteable exception, and that is in a large part of the black community (Spade and I have talked about this one before). Anyway, the para in my class is a black woman, and the one before her was a black man. This subject came up once and they both confirmed that "soda" is the preferred term among African-Americans. So this fact could have a lot of bearing on our respective different experiences!
As long as I've lived in Texas, I've never heard anyone refer to soda as coke. When they say coke ,they want a coke.
I have to agree with you here. If I ask for a coke someone is going to get me a Coca Cola. I've never heard someone ask for a coke and actually want a different soft drink. Maybe it's just a country thing.
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I've noticed that in South TX, Big Red is very popular.
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