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[Yoshi]

I generally call it Pepsi, but generically I call it pop.

Soda would either be cream soda, soda water, lime soda, or anything else that's got soda in its name or isn't a brand.

Last edited by Yoshi on Sun Jun 19, 2005 4:35 am, edited 1 time in total.

[.:Compact Disk:.]

55% General American English
25% Yankee
15% Dixie
5% Midwestern


Hmm... I have no idea what the last two mean but... meh. *shrug*

[o_0]

65% General American English
25% Yankee
10% Dixie

[Monique]

Pepsi is pepsi! Plain and simple!

[Cassi]

Oh and Sprite tastes sweeter than 7-up; again, my opinion.

Hmm. I think 7-up tastes more like a watered down and more lime-y Sprite.

[Igg]

7-Up is like crappy Sprite.

Less fruity, less sweet, more watery.

[_jaye_]

Actually, I thought 7-up came before sprite.

[rageaholic]

I call it pop. Sure if I know what it is specifically I'll say that (like pepsi) but in general it's pop. Pop cans, pop machines, so on...

[Combusken BG]

After taking that quiz it says I am:

55% General American English
20% Dixie
20% Yankee
5% Upper Midwestern
0% Midwestern

[Olivia]

I call it Pepsi. 'Cause that's what it is.

55% General American English
20% Dixie
20% Yankee
5% Upper Midwestern
0% Midwestern

I've spent too much time in the south. Get me back in the Hawaii I was born in.

[Kugetsu]

I call everything by it's name except for Root Beer, because... well, I think they all taste the same. I call Pepsi, Pepsi, and Coke, Coke. Mix them up in my presence and feel the wrath of my Giant Mallet of Doom! *cough* I don't care for Coke. Anyway, to pertain to the original poll, if I don't call a soda by it's product name, then I call it soda (like I just used).

75% General American English
15% Yankee
10% Upper Midwestern
0% Dixie
0% Midwestern

[Wind]

60% General American English
25% Yankee
15% Dixie

Wow... ph34r my mixed english

[Trinity]

I call it soda, and always have. Unless I called it something else when we lived in NY, but I don't remember. My memory of living there is just a big blank.

45% General American English
40% Yankee
10% Dixie

The Dixie must come from living in Florida, while the Yankee probably comes from me living up in PA.

Another Interesting Fact: Coca Cola actually used to be a medicine. It progressed to be sold in shops as a sweet drink, until a woman ordered some Coca Cola and the waiter accidentally mixed it with carbonated water and then gave it to her anyway. The woman said it was delicious, and thus, Coca Cola was born. Gradually the cocaine came out, though. xP

Accidental carbonation? I don't think so.
http://www.snopes.com/cokelore/carbonate.asp

And about the cocaine:

By Heath's calculation, the amount of ecgonine [an alkaloid in the coca leaf that could be synthesized to create cocaine] was infinitesimal: no more than one part in 50 million. In an entire year's supply of 25-odd million gallons of Coca-Cola syrup, Heath figured, there might be six-hundredths of an ounce of cocaine.

[Sapphire Faerie]

And about the cocaine:

By Heath's calculation, the amount of ecgonine [an alkaloid in the coca leaf that could be synthesized to create cocaine] was infinitesimal: no more than one part in 50 million. In an entire year's supply of 25-odd million gallons of Coca-Cola syrup, Heath figured, there might be six-hundredths of an ounce of cocaine.

Another thing we have to keep in mind, is that back then, small amounts of cocaine were used as an ingredient in almost everything. It's not like Coca-Cola stood alone.

[Taco]

I'm from chicago


of course I say pop.