soo much diet pop *burp*

[CZroe]

Heh, my friend LIVES off of Mellow Yellow.

I guarantee you he has over 300 cans in his basement (His room) right now and it's not because he collects them. He just drinks them faster than he can dispose of them. You should have heard the withdrawl rage when he realized that he was out of Mellow Yellow, out of money, and the Root Beer he had previously bought was caffine-free! He had a headache for days.

You can always tell when he's getting his ass kicked at Quake3 when you hear the stacked-up cans on his desk rattleing. He's literally playing "through" the pile of cans.

 

[jagr10]

Originally posted by: CZroe

Originally posted by: thraashman
Stop calling it pop. It's all coke. No matter what it actually is, it's called coke. There's no pop, there's no soda. You damn yankees.

Heh heh, when I visited family for a few months in West Virginia I could not get them to quit calling it pop! Last I checked, they're not Yankees "Pop" isn't universally understood to mean carbonated beverage because it's not even nationally understood to mean that. No one in Georgia (The origin of Coca-Cola) calls is "pop" or "soda-pop" or "soda." I have seen some people who strangely call it all just "Coke." Pepsi didn't help back in '98 with their "Pepsi Pop-Culture" game. Nearly no one got the cola reference there.

When Penny Arcade mentioned "Sourdough Jack" in one of their comics (About the game Starfox Adventures being another "fetch quest") it took a stroke of unimaginative memory to understand that they were taking about fast-food and even then it was only after regional-effect enforcement recieved from visiting California a few times (I remembered the e-coli scare at Jack-In-the-Box). I would never make a regionally understood reference nationally if I were writing it so niether should they. I would never mention a Hardee's "Famous Star" or "All-Star Burger" and it doesn't help that Hardee's changes the sandwich names almost every year (They can't even decide if they're a chicken place or a burger place. Now I hear that they even call themselves "Carl's Jr" in come places). Also, I've heard numerous references to "In-n-Out Burger" all over the place when they are HIGHLY regional to California (ie, Hollywood). But then Fresh Prince mentioned "the Piggly Wiggly" (Better known as "Bruno's"). Obviously that writer was from 'round here

Most people in The South (And West?) have no idea what someone means when they say "give me a pop" so I wouldn't use it. I'm sure soda is understood more universally.

In Canada everyone uses "pop". I notice on U.S. tv shows they always call it "soda". Whenever i go to the U.S. I just say "soda" so that nobody gives me funny looks.

 

[feralkid]

<<<<I would never mention a Hardee's "Famous Star" or "All-Star Burger" and it doesn't help that Hardee's changes the sandwich names almost every year (They can't even decide if they're a chicken place or a burger place. Now I hear that they even call themselves "Carl's Jr">>>



Actually, Carl's Jr. has been around forever....albeit regional....a few years back, they bought up Hardee's (which way before that bought up Sandee's) The Carl's Jr, logo is a star with face on it....."famous star".

 

[Shawn]

Originally posted by: thraashman
Stop calling it pop. It's all coke. No matter what it actually is, it's called coke. There's no pop, there's no soda. You damn yankees.

It's called soda damn it!

 

[Mallow]

caffine = blocker of aldosterone = no reabsorption of salt = no reabsorption of water = lots of pee pee!

 

[Sluggo]

Originally posted by: thraashman
Stop calling it pop. It's all coke. No matter what it actually is, it's called coke. There's no pop, there's no soda. You damn yankees.

Exactly.

Typical conversation here:

Person 1: "I'm going to the store, you want anything?"

Person 2: "Yeah, get me a coke."

Person 1: "What kind?"

Person 2: " Dr. Pepper"

Person 1: "OK"

 

[UnatcoAgent]

Originally posted by: Sluggo

Originally posted by: thraashman
Stop calling it pop. It's all coke. No matter what it actually is, it's called coke. There's no pop, there's no soda. You damn yankees.

Exactly.

Typical conversation here:

Person 1: "I'm going to the store, you want anything?"

Person 2: "Yeah, get me a coke."

Person 1: "What kind?"

Person 2: " Dr. Pepper"

Person 1: "OK"

Lol

 

[feralkid]

Originally posted by: Sluggo

Originally posted by: thraashman
Stop calling it pop. It's all coke. No matter what it actually is, it's called coke. There's no pop, there's no soda. You damn yankees.

Exactly.

Typical conversation here:

Person 1: "I'm going to the store, you want anything?"

Person 2: "Yeah, get me a coke."

Person 1: "What kind?"

Person 2: " Dr. Pepper"

Person 1: "OK"

Is there like a map or something that delineates the territorial terminology? I've known about the Southern "coke" thing; I grew up in MinneSoda where they call it "pop" (I guess the Canadian influence); and now, in the Southwestern U.S. it's called "soda".