The south is easily persuaded, hence brand name
Soda is what it is, comes from soda fountain, soda water etc.
Midwest on some otherworldly cute BS. Dafuq is pop, the sound it makes?!
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TIL Washington, Oregon, Idaho, Utah, Montana, Wyoming, and Colorado are part of the midwest.
Chart gaslighting the public to think Washingtonians say 'pop'. Usually people say Soda here.
The sound it makes is exactly where the name comes from. Also there were people in soda territory also calling it pop as well way back in the day. That's why the term "soda pop" exists.
You can see a D.C. newspaper from the mid 1800s calling it pop in this wiki article.
When I asked for a Dr Pepper in Tennessee the waitress said 'here's your coke'. So I said 'wait, I didn't order a coke' and she said ' it's Dr Pepper'. I thought she was flirting with me, so I started smiling at her and gave her a nice tip. This whole interaction now makes a bit more sense.
Yeah... I'm gonna need a detailed breakdown of the rationale you followed to get from "she called Dr. Pepper coke" to "she's flirting with me", if you don't mind.
He thought she was saying a small lie to get a reaction out of him. Like playing a small prank. Playfulness
Sure, lets go with that. The fact she was really cute did not cloud my judgment in any way.
That would be a seriously weird way to flirt
Could be said of 95% of all instances of flirting.
In my adolescence I thought flirting was a secret art. Turns out it really is just being kinda weird and then the other person likes it since they would have liked anything you said with that cute mouth of yours.
I dunno where they got this data from, but the PNW is definitely not "pop" country in my experience.
Yeah around here in Cascadia we just call it “the dark waters of imperialism”.
It was when I grew up there. 80s-90s.
There was still a “Pop” aisle at my QFC until at least 2014.
i don't want to be in a place that calls it pop that's stupid as fuck
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Coke is not synonymous with either pop or soda...
It is in the south, at least where i was
How do you order an actual coke in the south?
"Ill have a coke" "What kind?" "Regular" or whatever you want, "pepsi", "diet", "dr pepper" etc
The real question is "how do they order other sodas". The answer is extra steps.
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Call it a coca-cola.
"When I first come to America I wanted a cola and I say 'cola?' and they would be like 'excuse me?' and I say 'cola. Cola. Cola!' but it wasn't cola; it was cock. Right? You would say 'i want cock.'"
I'll have a coke, please.
Where was that? I was in Georgia for most of my life. Everyone I knew said Coke when they actually wanted a Coke. Soda was the generalized term.
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I think the west side is a lot more blue than that. I've never once heard somebody refer to it as pop.
Utah should be a lot more blue, everyone says "soda" here.
Same with Colorado. I don't think I heard "pop" once in the 20 years I lived there
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Where is Carbonated Beverage on the graph?
soda pop
Just a soda girlie living in a pop world fr fr 😔
I saw we saw off everything south of the Mason Dixon line and deport all the Republicans to it.
Remember the Game?
doesnt coke refer to coca cola specifically?
also pop sounds dumb as hell, soda all the way.
Not in the South lol. My grandma asks what kind of Coke I want, mountain dew or coca cola
As somebody from Tulsa I can confirm that Oklahoma is a weird mishmash of ‘anything goes’. People will literally say “soda pop”.
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Oh right. Like #368 on list of reasons to hate the South, though.
Vanu fucking sucks. New Conglomerate FTW.
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