How do pop machines do this?

[Red Squirrel]

I always found it funny that people call soft drinks coke, or soda. Both of those are a type of soft drink. (soda = cream soda).

 

[Zedtom]

Machines that are outside have both a cooling unit and a heater to keep the bottles from freezing.

 

[HybridSquirrel]

fuck is pop?

This

 

[Auggie]

Most vending machines stack the cans or bottles up high, but the actual opening they come out of is just a tiny bit above the little swing door, so it only drops a few inches. Also, the swing door absorbs some of the energy as the can/bottle comes through it, so it usually doesn't really fly out of the machine.

This is the most thought that I've ever put into vending machines.

 

[NoCreativity]

Western Michigan area is wrong. They are "soda" drinkers. My wife went to college on that side of the state and came back calling pop soda. Her brother did the same.

Isn't the proper term soda pop?

I do like the map though.

 

[Mike Gayner]

lol @ pop.

 

[MikeyIs4Dcats]

the fact of the matter is that a can of pop only drops about 6 to 8 inches in freefall. The rest of the time it is just stacked in a series of internal guides. The can or bottle freefalls, hit's the ramp, and slides down. It does not violently roll or fall from great distance, therefore it does not become agitated. Engineering in action.

 

[dank69]

I always found it funny that people call soft drinks coke, or soda. Both of those are a type of soft drink. (soda = cream soda).

No, soda != cream soda. Cream soda = cream soda. Soda = cola, orange soda, grape soda, cream soda and many other carbonated beverages. Pop = popsicle except to really old people and hicks. Even if you aren't a hick, you sound like a hick to the civilized world if you call carbonated beverages 'pop.'

If you call all soft drinks 'coke' and/or all soda machines 'coke machines' well then you are a victim of your stupid environment.

 

[zinfamous]

WTF is pop?

 

[Colt45]

It only falls like a foot, and somewhat gracefully... different than dropping a can from waist height, with nothing to slow the fall.

 

[lokiju]

You mean a high fructose corn syrup laden carbonated beverage machine?

 

[Cheesetogo]

Pop = popsicle except to really old people and hicks. Even if you aren't a hick, you sound like a hick to the civilized world if you call carbonated beverages 'pop.'

If you call all soft drinks 'coke' and/or all soda machines 'coke machines' well then you are a victim of your stupid environment.

Try not to be such an idiot.

 

[ElFenix]

the AFC south is the coke belt. there are no teams outside of the AFC south that are in the coke belt, and all teams in the AFC south are in the coke belt. note there is a pocket of coke around indianapolis, and a pocket of soda around miami.

 

[edro]

De-railed!!!!!!

 

[zinfamous]

Haha, this is awesome.

being from NC, I'd have to say this seems pretty accurate.

While "Coke" is quite accurate, I would guess the frequency of "other" in the chart relates more to my experience, assuming that "other" means: "call it what it is" (Coke, Sprite, Mountain Dew, Pepsi, etc.)

 

[PepePeru]

I call it "Sodey Pop".

 

[Evadman]

I hate going to FL sometimes. Here is a typical conversation in a resurant:

Waitress: Would you like a coke?
Me: yes.
Waitress: What kind?
Me: Coke
Waitress: We don't have Coke
Me: WTF. Then why did you ask if I wanted a Coke?
Waitress: Sorry, but we only have Pepsi
Me: Now I know why you are a waitress in a crappy restaurant. Make yourself useful and get me a mountain dew.

Bunch of idiots. Ask for a coke, then they ask what kind, and you specify sprite, mountain dew, pepsi, Coke, etc. Coke means carbonated beverage south of the mason dixon line.

 

[Lifted]

No, soda != cream soda. Cream soda = cream soda. Soda = cola, orange soda, grape soda, cream soda and many other carbonated beverages. Pop = popsicle except to really old people and hicks. Even if you aren't a hick, you sound like a hick to the civilized world if you call carbonated beverages 'pop.'

If you call all soft drinks 'coke' and/or all soda machines 'coke machines' well then you are a victim of your stupid environment.

Wow, you have the balls to call people stupid after giving us this little gem

"Soda = cola"

If we are trying to be 100% correct, then

soda = soda water, often sold as club soda or seltzer.

cola = coke, pepsi, rca, etc. this one should be easy considering the names are coca cola, pepsi cola, rca cola.

soft drink = cola's and anything else with sugar and soda.

soda pop = soft drink

There really is no arguing with this. The fact that people in certain regions refer to cola's and soft drinks by the wrong name does not make them correct.

 

[zoiks]

I've always been amazed at how when you open a soda from the machine it does not explode, regardless of the fact that it fell into the hatch quite violently. Try dropping a bottle of soda on the ground and opening it, it will spray all over! Is there a science to the way the soda falls in the machine and the way the fall is designed?

corrected.

 

[Thump553]

I'm amazed that someone at East Central University spent the time and effort to study the distribution of the different names for soda. You think that was because of:
(a) a government study grant,
(b) a desperate attempt to dig up some field of study to achieve a doctorate/tenure
(c) the result of a drunken bar conversation carried over into real life, or
(d) all of the above.

BTW, it's childish to call it pop and just plain stupid to call all soda coke.

 

[Colt45]

Give the pop/soda/coke thing a rest. it's getting weak.

 

[gorcorps]

Give the pop/soda/coke thing a rest. it's getting weak.

Is there a gun to your head making you read this shit? No? Then quit reading it and your problems are solved. Easy... Like yer mum

 

[OOBradm]

fuck is pop?

Nope, fuck is not pop.

 

[GodlessAstronomer]

I like how on that map pop = blue and coke = red.

 

[GodlessAstronomer]

No, soda != cream soda. Cream soda = cream soda. Soda = cola, orange soda, grape soda, cream soda and many other carbonated beverages. Pop = popsicle except to really old people and hicks. Even if you aren't a hick, you sound like a hick to the civilized world if you call carbonated beverages 'pop.'

Soda = sodium compound, ie baking soda.