Why would you not just ask for a Dr. Pepper originally? The back and forth seems unnecessary regardless of what your generic term is.
I generally do now since i lived outside the south for a decent period but it's not an abnormal conversation to have.
I would never order this drink - but if you liked rum and coke would you go to a bar that only has pepsi products and order a rum and coke or a rum and pepsi?
ill have you know that ive been studying the regional names of sodas since before you were even a twinkle in your pappys eye
Granpa used to tell me to go get a coke out of the fridge and sometimes I’d get an orange crush. But I’m also built different.
Wait are you saying instead of jet ski you say Ski Doo? Or are you going back to the snowmobile/snow machine conversation?
I’ve lived in the south my entire life and have never witnessed this actually happening. Sounds very dumb. if I ask for a coke, I’m given a coke. If they don’t actually have coke, they ask if Pepsi is ok.
who here is old enough to remember older relatives calling it dope or sodie-pop or even sodie-water. that's really region specific.
Same. I'm really not sure where this is happening. I've spent a lot of time in pretty rural areas of the south and have never met somebody dumb enough to call generic soda coke.
That’s what I said. I’m not sure where the disconnect is. It’s when they think their local lexicon is the standard countrywide. Not being able to acknowledge that their version isn’t the standard. If dbl said, “yeah I call root beer, coke, I know most of the rest of the country thinks that’s silly but I stan for it” then that’d be one thing.
Exactly. There is a reason why they were called “soda shops.” Never once have I heard about the old time “coke shops” or “pop shops.”
Spent the past week in rural VA and TN. Always fascinating. At a Buc-ee’s in the middle of nowhere, TN but also not far from Knoxville on a Saturday morning on homecoming was something.
*after he was called out, in his original post he never specified while we were talking about national terms.
lol called out? We were discussing people from a specific region. That region uses Coke as the generic term for soft drinks. Everyone but you understood I was referring to the region that has people that say Cocola. We're clearly talking about a certain group, not nationally.
Will The Banks pull a dbl and double down and dig in when he was clearly wrong? Or will he take the L and admit to his mistake?
whereabouts in VA? j/w as Owsley said, those are your Appalachian-Americans, very distinct from your more traditional run-of-the-mill Southerner.