How do pop machines do this?

[GodlessAstronomer]

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.)

The chart describes generic terms, so those don't fall under "other".

 

[coldmeat]

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

agreed. We can't have a single thread about soda or pop without it turning into this.

 

[mfenn]

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

not sure if this has been mentioned yet, but what the fuck is pop? Is it the sound made by a shotgun loaded with rock salt?

 

[GuitarDaddy]

I call it "Sodey Pop".

The old folks in my family called it "Sodey water"

 

[TuxDave]

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

So you agree it's soda. Good.

 

[destrekor]

thread derail hilarity

anywho...

I still want to know the magic of whatever machine you describe. Other than attributing the lack of explodey fizz to just that, magic.

But it also depends on the machine. A lot of the new ones are pretty fanciful inside, a relative graceful descent to the tray.
But I still display caution whenever I get pop from a machine, as one too many times crack it open - speewww everryyyyywherrreeee. Gotten good at the art of crack, fizzz "oh shit, screw back tight!" Anymore it's just a game of waiting a certain amount of time, never predetermined... I just get that feeling it's safe.

 

[feralkid]

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.

Hahahaha

No thanks, but let me have a Westinghouse milkshake.

 

[Lifted]

Hahahaha

No thanks, but let me have a Westinghouse milkshake.

:awe:

 

[ussfletcher]

I'm pretty sure the term 'pop' was coined by the Faygo company, because the drinks popped in your mouth. Hence the names 'Red Pop' and 'Orange Pop'. The term stuck, and as this was in the Midwest when manufacturing was strong, it became the popular term.

 

[QurazyQuisp]

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.

Not sure how long ago your wife went to college, but Western Michigan most definitely calls it Pop. I've lived there for the past 17 years of my life.

 

[rcpratt]

Not sure how long ago your wife went to college, but Western Michigan most definitely calls it Pop. I've lived there for the past 17 years of my life.

Yeah...I lived in Grand Rapids for 8 years and the Detroit area for 11 and have never heard anybody refer it to anything but pop.

 

[waggy]

It probably has to do with the angle it lands at, I think it often hits a sloped ramp and slows gradually. If you were to drop it on the ground, it would hit and likely bounce a couple times.

they had something on the "science" shows about t his (think it was how its made) and they said the angle and height make it so it does not explode.

 

[pray4mojo]

lol @ the south.

 

[Platypus]

Wonder why central Indiana is so red on that map, I grew up there and never once heard anyone call it coke, only pop.

I can't really recall the last time I ever had to use either term in a conversation, the very rare occasions I drink it I just call it by the brand name.

Soda or pop both make sense as far as I'm concerned, calling every type of either of those 'coke' is patently retarded.. there simply cannot be a justification made for it in my opinion.

 

[dank69]

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.

'Soda' as I (and the rest of the civilized world) use it, is short for 'soda pop.' Just like 'pop' is also short for 'soda pop.' Both are correct, and both are defined in the dictionary. If you ask for a 'pop' in NYC, they will know what you are talking about, but will also most likely assume you are a hick.

So using your own post we arrive at soda = soda pop = soft drink = cola and anything else with sugar and soda.

Oh, and 'pop' has evolved in the civilized world to be slang for 'beer.' As in:
Bitch, grab my friend and I a couple of pops while you are in the kitchen!

 

[sdifox]

Wonder why central Indiana is so red on that map, I grew up there and never once heard anyone call it coke, only pop.

I can't really recall the last time I ever had to use either term in a conversation, the very rare occasions I drink it I just call it by the brand name.

Soda or pop both make sense as far as I'm concerned, calling every type of either of those 'coke' is patently retarded.. there simply cannot be a justification made for it in my opinion.

Many a product is so dominated by a particular brand that the brand name is often used in stead of the actual product name. Brands like Kleenex and Xerox for example.

 

[Dr. Mcbudstoke]

it's because it's cold

 

[R Nilla]

Can't we all just get along? It's called a synonym.

 

[SphinxnihpS]

Soda is a sodium containing compound.
Coke is a fuel or a catalyst made from coal.
Soda-pop is a drink made from carbonated water, sugar (or artificial sweetener), and flavoring. It's name is derived from soda-water (a misnomer of carbonated water), and pop, the sound bubbles make when they burst. Soda-water is so called because of one the chemicals involved, sodium bicarbonate i.e. chalk.

Soda-pop is however somewhat of a mouth full. Personally, I'm glad we no longer have to call it something like Dr. Aderton's Pepsin Bitters, but obviously, it had to be shortened to something. Soda-pop is just too long, has a hyphen, and lazy humans just won't put up with saying shit like self contained under water breathing apparatus, when they can just say scuba. As a result, today we have two competing but unequal abbreviations for soda-pop; both born of necessity, but one born in utter ignorance.

The term pop was first used in 1861, and is still the best abbreviation of the correct term. Soda is incorrectly used. Soda is actually an abbreviated term for sodium bicarbonate, or any similar sodium containing compound. Using the term soda to mean soft drink, without the modifier pop, is plain wrong, not to mention it sounds awful. Pop is not only more accurate (at least it describes something about the stuff), it's simply more memorable, more creative, and more musical. No wonder it came first, and remains the de facto nomenclature for soft drinks by people with brains. Soda comes out of your mouth like sludge. Pop, pops! You may laugh at me when I say that there is a proper way to abbreviate something and a wrong way, but ask yourself this, what do we call those little plastic hybrids of forks and spoons? That's right, spork, not foon. Why? both are equal in terms of their derivation. What makes the spoon so damned important that it starts the word, and what makes the fork so important that we use most of its sound? Musicality is the answer. One simply sounds better than the other one.

How's that soda taste? Like fucking chalk!

GET WITH THE FUCKING PROGRAM CALIFORNIA.

 

[MikeyIs4Dcats]

Many a product is so dominated by a particular brand that the brand name is often used in stead of the actual product name. Brands like Kleenex and Xerox for example.

and drywall
and velcro

 

[oznerol]

and drywall
and velcro

And band-aid and Q-tip.

 

[So]

Wow... I guess that Nevada residents call soda whatever in the hell they want

We call it soda, just like all the other normal people. The three people in each of the counties that are different colors don't represent a statistically significant sample.

 

[Kirby]

my hs principal called it co-coler

 

[SphinxnihpS]

and drywall
and velcro

You mean Sheetrock, not drywall.

 

[Jeff7]

Different kinds of soda react differently. And it depends on the initial pressure in the container.
Orange soda tends to have fairly short-lived bubbles, but birch beer's fizz remains in-place for quite a long time.

(I prefer flat soda, so I have much experience with these sorts of things.)