Diet A&W tho

Oh, it's in the wrong category. Should be in "corn syrup" toward the top.

And I like them all except for the bottom 3.

Edit; now that I think of it, IBC is one of my favorite diet root beers, and both are available in every store around here. I almost always get the diet. Stewart's, otoh, actually is my favorite diet root beer, but I almost never get it because regular Stewart's is much better, imo. That's the difference.

Diet root beer:
1) Stewart's
2) IBC
3) A&W

Have tried no relevant others.

drinking pop sounds like a 1950's term.

i certainly don't call a pepsi coke. thats just dumb.

calling soda coke as a universal is grade A dumb. do people say yea i'll have a sprite coke please? pop is forgivable though still odd - i had no idea until i went to college that people my age actually called it that. either way we should embrace regional dialect differences since they're all going away

Have never had someone ask for coke and then be like "Wtf I wanted [other soda]"

I think that is an urban legend

it took me a couple years to not be weirded out by people in minnesota saying pop. I still never say pop, but im used to hearing it now i guess. Agree it should have died in the 50's/60's

I get tilted by people who call tissues "kleenex." Otoh "bandaid" doesn't bother me.

lol puffs facial tissue

Was going to respond to this then I see jefe did. There are many things that are known by a specific brand name. Kleenex is the most obvious I can think of. A lesser-known one is Frisbee for flying disc (lol). Next time some hipster comes up to me with a non-Frisbee brand flying disc and says "hey, wanna play Frisbee Golf?" I'm going to slap him across the face and say "you must mean flying disc golf, you unbelievably inconsiderate bastard, you. But yeah, I will play. But not before I blow my nose with this FACIAL TISSUE, you sonofabitch."



In restaurants I've seen this plenty of times:

"What can I get you two to drink?"
"I'll have a water."
"I'll have a Coke."
"Alright, one water, one Coke...what kind?"
"Diet Dr. Pepper."
"Alright, those'll be out shortly. Y'all come back now y'hear?"

OK the last line I just added to rustle jimmies. Never heard that last line but everything prior was accurate. Tilting as ****. Mostly because the person ordering should just say YES I'LL HAVE A DIET DR. PEPPER please, and skip the extra step.

time to put my other cat to sleep i guess. back legs are starting to get pretty weak and she has had a couple spills. shes 19! had a good life. we are going on vacation for 2 weeks so dont think she will last

It was a good run, Frisky




Gonna be weird having no pets in my house

yeah i've lived in the south for ~ 18 years and have never heard people call soda coke. i'm sure those people are out there and they're undoubtedly full blown ******s. how hard is it to call a drink by its name.

if i was that waiter i'd tell the guy to stop being a ****ing jackass and tell me what he wanted. he has to ask the dope what he wants to drink twice?

Doesn't surprise me, Californians are obnoxious sodaists. I actually switched to saying soda as a freshman in college because two girls from California corrected me every ****ing time I said pop and it was easier to let the terrorists win (ok, maybe I was in the friend zone).

People saying pop don't seem so militant about it. The only thing like that I've ever seen was at Pens games when they would ask "soda or pop?" during those little player Q&A bits on the screen during TV breaks. The crowd would all yell pop and cheer or boo based on their answers.

A car is a car and a soda is a soda, but who cares. Why would you not just order the specific drink you want?

They're also called soft drinks.

The reason you don't hear people ask a waiter for a coke then clarify is the same as the reason you don't hear them ask for a soda then clarify. Not too tough to understand why that doesn't happen a lot.

However it's pretty normal to ask a guest what they want and if they ask what you have you say "water, coke, and beer." Just like beer doesnt mean a specific type of beer, coke is the category for all similar types of beverage. One might then ask "what types of beer do you have?" Or "what types of coke do you have?"

Similarly, people who ask for a bandaid and get a different bandage, Tylenol and get a generic, Kleenex to mean facial tissue, or any number of other things would be referencing the whole category not the specific brand.

Who are all these adults who are supposedly buying coke/soda/pop/soft drinks for one another anyway

I think the difference is that people don't care if you give them a generic bandage or a Band-Aid brand bandage. Same with tissues, same with Frisbees. Same with Thermos.

But Coke is very different from Sprite, Mountain Dew, 7up, Diet Coke, Root Beer, Dr. Pepper, Mr. Pibb, etc. So asking for a Coke when you want a 7up is monumentally ******ed.

Not so for Kleenex, Band-Aid, Frisbee, etc. The disparities in product are negligible. Nobody would ever be handed a non-Band-Aid brand bandage and yell "HEY! I said I wanted a BAND-AID, not this generic piece of ****."

Never seen someone ask for a Coke when they want a 7Up.

Like, if I go to a local place and they ask me what I want to drink I usually say "Coke and a water please." The Coke part means Coke/Pepsi, not Coke/Pepsi/Random list of drinks.

agree. I have never seen them ask for a soda either and expect it to get them a 7 up.

If soda was actually a generic term then why does no one ever ask a follow up question when someone orders a "vodka soda?" OMG, how does the bartender know exactly what they want. If you try to order a "vodka coke" you may get asked if you want "vodka sprite."

Georgia:
"Coke, please."
*Hands over a orange soda*
"Thanks"

club soda tho

What does it mean if you say "Soda and a water please." Is that how you order a drink of their choice from the category of carbonated beverages?

Sorry yeota, **** sucks.

a vodka coke sounds disgusting