Soft drink? What's that?

 

Crappy story....

I went to college at the University of Tennessee, I'm from NY where its predominately Soda (western NY its Pop) anyway, I looked in the fridge and saw it was full of Dr. Pepper, but it was my roomates, and being the first or second day I didnt touch.
Pan ahead about an hour, I say "I'm going down stairs to get a drink", and he says "theres Coke in the Fridge" I say "No, theres not", He says "Yeah". I walk across the room open the fridge, see the Dr. Pepper and say "No, theres no Coke in this fridge" He walks across looks in and says "what are you talking about its full of Coke!" I explain its Dr. Pepper and not Coke. It took us a while to figure out what the hell each other meant, but that was my first lesson in stupid terms used by other areas of this country.

Dont even get me started on "Fixin" and "Reakon"

 

None of the voting options - I call 'em "soft drinks."

 

That's such a southern thing. I live in NYC but worked in Louisiana for 9 months in 2004 and EVERYONE used "fixin"...i was at the airport waiting to pick up my coworker who was flying in from Dallas and I asked the agent at the check-in counter in the Monroe airport what the ETA was and she said "it's fixin to come in"...WTF?

Back on topic...I think they call it "pop" in Canada too. I have some Canadian cousins. We called it "soda" in NYC.

 

Related and also confusing - what do you call carbonated water from the tap? Back East , at least near New York, it's seltzer. I hear soda water occasionally, but also club soda which is wrong ( I think club soda has salt or something). And if you ask for soda water with lime you occasionally are queried by the waitress - "Is Pelligrino OK?" [ No stupid bitch I don't want a $3.95 bottle of fizzy water ].

 

also ...lemonade in the UK is not the same as lemonade in the US. i ordered it once in England and they gave me lemon soda. i thought i was going to get lemon juice + water + sugar. the lemon soda tasted more like sprite with extra lemon.

 

[QUOTE=Elistan,Jan 19 2005, 03:42 PM] None of the voting options - I call 'em "soft drinks."

 

I grew up in Wisc where it was soda and I was stuck outside Atlanta for 10 days in some job-based technical training. It took me like 2 days to figure out that the guys training me were referring to ALL soda as Coke. And at lunch, I'd ask for Iced Tea and they kept calling it Sweet Tea.

The building we were in had a very loud intercom system and the guy doing most of the announcements sounded like he was right out of Duke's of Hazzard. I told my trainer that, (whom I already had pinned as the closest thing to a true hill-billy I'd ever met) and he said "that guy's straight from the hills." It's almost like a Jeff Foxworthy joke.

And all I heard about those 2 weeks was NAS-COR!

 

Well I all ways thought that Bourbon and Water was a soft drink, and coke's were carbonated beverages.

 

Sweet Tea and Iced Tea are actually 2 different drinks. If you order Iced tea, and they say "Sweet Tea?" you can say "yes" or "no, do you have any Iced tea" If they do they will bring you cold tea unsweetened.
If you drink plain iced tea with or without lemon in the north, it is nothing like sweet tea, that stuff has some King Kong type of sweetner in it. Lipton sells a sweet tea flavor iced tea in stores and it does taste like it, but its not as sweet.

SgtSaunders will back me up on this, since hes not from the south, Sweet Tea is not plain Iced tea.