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Hospital bound
Where I live you would be heading for the nearest ER if you drank either "soda" of "pop". (I live in a non-English speaking country).
/Bru
Yes
When I was very young "soda" meant it was made from a fountain and "soda pop" came from a bottle. I used to love to have sodas such as a lime ricky or egg cream from my great uncle's drug store and seltzer at my grandmother's home from spray bottles like those used in vaudeville and early comic movies. Coke was the main soda pop used in the machines in my area. One needed to pull the handle. By 1960 everything was "soda." I didn't hear "pop" until I met someone from the Midwest. She also used "sack" for a non purse "bag."
Pop vs Soda Map
Here's a map, county by county of the US:
http://bigthink.com/ideas/21360
And here's a simplified version of the same thing:
http://orgs.svsu.edu/clubs/vanguard/stories/265
But these boundaries have changed in my lifetime. When I was a kid in Southern Missouri, the word was "pop" or "sody pop". Third preference was for "coke" and the younger people mostly said "coke". When I came to California, "soda" became the preferred word but "pop" was used for candy-like flavors like Nehi, Shasta and Barqs.
Barqs made the best (cheap) cream soda back then, the second best orange and decent flavors of grape and lime. They also made a drink which they refused to market as a root beer back then, they just called it Barq's. And they made two sodas whose color was red and no one could figure out just what flavor they were. :) One tasted vaguely of raspberry and the other of cherry but they were labeled red cream and red. Just red.
Hugs,
Erin
= Give everyone the benefit of the doubt because certainty is a fragile thing that can be shattered by one overlooked fact.
I can handle Barqs from a
I can handle Barqs from a fountain, but not in a bottle. And when I drank pepesi, I could take Coke (brand that is) from a fountain (Mostly because McDonalds didn't do Pepsi) but not in a can or bottle.
Having a southern heritage my
Having a southern heritage my dad instinctive said "Coke" for any soft drink. I went a step farther, and I just ask for any soft drink by it's brand name. Simple, and any culture would get it.
depends
Most of the time it's pop for me, but some brands are sodas. Specifically, A&W products are soda's, any kind of Creamed/brewed soda pop is a soda to me as well, of which there are many.
I have favorites of various soft drinks btw... Only Sunkist makes a good Orange Pop, for example, (even if those silly Californians insist on labelling it an "Orange Soda"), A&W makes the best cheap root beer and cream soda, but even IBC is better if you want to raise your price range at all, if it has to be a cola, it's Pepsi, but I really don't like cola too much...
Oh, and for Faygo, yes, I'm a midwesterner, and we love the stuff here, anyways, Faygo makes a drink called "Rock & Rye" which is absolutely one of a kind and phenomenal. No other soda pop compares.
Abigail Drew.
A father of a friend insists on
Verners (sp?) Ginger ale. I guess it's made in Michigan. See I live in Michigan and yes, Faygo is big, but each time I've tried it over the last 8 years, I get a chemical aftertaste that is just nasty, so I gave up on it and it's in multiple flavors, not just one.
Vernor's
It's the only ginger ale worthy of the name. Back in the '70s they advertised that it was aged two years in oak barrels and it had such a kick to it, it would make you sneeze just bringing the glass to your mouth to drink. Then they had a long strike and ran through most of what they'd put up before it got settled, so they stopped aging it so long. It's still far and away the best I've ever tried though.
Faygo is pretty much pure chemicals so I'm not surprised it would have a chemical aftertaste. Heck, it should have a chemical fore- and midtaste too. As a kid I didn't really notice it among all the other petroleum-based "foods" we ate, like Otter Pops and Oscar Meyer wieners and Kraft American cheese singles.
Rum & Rock & Rye
Just try it. If you drink, anyway. Which I don't anymore since I started getting a three-day hangover from one glass of wine.
But if you do... just sayin'.
None of the above.
Literally. I have no word of choice because I don't need one. I don't buy such things, I don't keep them in the house, and I certainly don't drink them in places where you pay.
In addition to water, milk, and fruit juice, I drink beer, wine, and spirits, tea, coffee and cocoa. Those latter six contain quite enough poison for me thankyouverymuch, without having to consume any of those chemical concoctions that we are discussing.
All of those latter six contain toxic components to a greater or lesser degree.
Actually our water can be very toxic http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Camelford_water_pollution_incident , milk is inimical to the lactose intolerant, and most fruits contain something that is not good for you - for example d-limonene in orange juice "with bits".
I'll just have to die.
Xi
actually...
"most fruits contain something that is not good for you"
Care to back that up? The only real example I can think of is the arsenic in apples, which is so far below toxicity levels to be laughable. Your own body will wash out the arsenic from apples long before you even eat your next meal.
As for d-limonene, which is actually found in more than just orange juice, pretty much the majority of citrus fruits and their juices contain some... Anyways, d-limonene is toxic to rats and mice at a certain threshold, BUT, not to humans AT ALL. The worst it'll do to you is give you some gastrointestinal distress while it cleans you out. ;P
D-limonene is essentially a super solvent, it doesn't bind to anything "permanent" in the human system, so it flushes through and pulls a few disgusting bits we don't want with it. It also acts as a powerful cleaning agent, and is used for that purpose in so-called "citrus" cleaners.
Oh, and something I found interesting, it binds to fats and cholesterol... hmmm.... sounds like a nice candidate for a weight loss "cleanse".
If anything, d-limonene actually sounds like it's quite helpful in certain amounts.
Abigail Drew.
Toxic fruit
To avoid boring everyone else I will send a PM.
XI
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