Pop vs. Soda vs. Coke

[bigfish98]

Pop

 

[sunman76]

coke here

 

[ak1]

I just get beer. It makes it easier

 

[boardpuller]

I can't remember the original, Till I was 6 Dad worked a traveling carnival, lived in Chicago till after high school then USMC and   ARMY for 20 + so I've called it whatever. 

 

[harleysmoker]

A very interesting thread?

We are addressing regional differences.

Also, we are addressing generational differences.

Keep it coming folks!  We can learn a lot here?

How about Coke? Pepsi? Or Royal Crown Cola?

Which did you buy?  Was it because of price?  Was it because of the price of the larger bottle?

Do you even remember when it came in a bottle? (I dare not ask if any old farts here had bottle cap collections)

Did the filling station let you take the bottle with you? (the bottles were worth 2 cents. Or do you remember?)

Then again, do you know what a "filling station" was?

OMG, an old man is digressing again!

Good luck and good smoking.

When I was a kid (I'm 43 now) when we went to my grandmas she always had Coke in the small bottles. It was kind of cool going there and having one. My mom always bought Pepsi in an 8 pack carton, 16 oz. bottles If I remember right. We would collect them and go to the carry out and get 10 cents per bottle for candy.

I have seen Coke in bottles in some Mexican restaurants here in the USA, and I'm pretty sure in Mexico they still sell it in bottles.

I have had RC also a few times as a kid.

 

[snowsmoker]

I here alot of people in MN call it pop, I like to call it soda just to be different.

 

[custom99]

I just get beer. It makes it easier

Best answer here.

 

[rookiesmoker18]

Soda where im from.   Also what does everyone call a water fountain?   Around here we call it a "bubbler",   much to the annoyance of my wife who is from Iowa and insists  its a water fountain. Think around here we will stick with bubbler

 

[venture]

Harley?

My guess would be that those larger bottles of Pepsi or RC were 12 oz?

Pepsi and RC competed on price and size cause Coke basically owned the market.

I remember when Coke first came out with the 12 oz bottle.  We thought it was too much to drink at one time, so we would share it with someone. 

Don't be getting any ideas about my beer, now!

We would take our red wagons and scrounge up the bottles all afternoon for two cents each.  The local park was a gold mine, cause the tourists who stopped for lunch would just throw the bottles in the trash barrels. (yes, many people on the road then took their own lunch with them.  Restaurant meals would cost you a dollar!) Then the guy at the grocery store would give us the third degree when we tried to sell them to him?  He suspected we went to his shed out back and were trying to sell him back his own bottles.  Maybe it could have been because his son was one of us?

Great memories from over 50 years ago!  What a great time to grow up in America!

Good luck and good smoking.

 

[michael ark]

Coke.:biggrin:

 

[chipheb]

In the Boston area, we called it tonic back in the day. Most people call it soda now. Some older folks still say tonic.

 

[solaryellow]

In the Boston area, we called it tonic back in the day. Most people call it soda now. Some older folks still say tonic.

Tonic eh? That is the first I have heard of that one.

 

[dsorgnzd]

In rural western North Carolina back in the 1950's, a carbonated soft drink was commonly referred to as a "dope". 

Here's a map you might find interesting: http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/3331/1734/1600/Popsodacoke.1.gif

Early Pepsi ads emphasized their  12-ounce bottles vs. Coke's 6-ounces:  

"Pepsi Cola hits the spot,

Twelve full ounces, that's a lot,

Twice as much for a nickel, too.

Pepsi Cola is the drink for you."

 

[dward51]

Lived most of my life in a suburb of Metro Atlanta which is the home base of the Coca-Cola company.  As I recall, if it was non-alcoholic and came in a can or pop-top bottle, they called them all "coke", and like was pointed out in a earlier post, you had to define what type of "coke" you wanted.  Sprite, Mellow Yellow, etc....

As to preference.  In my grayer years I find I buy Diet Rite, which is a RC Cola product (another Georgia company I might add).  Has that nice cola bite, but it uses splenda as the sweetener and is also caffeine free.  I moved to splenda as my sugar free sweetener for coffee years ago (I buy the liquid as the packets are about 98% filler).  Diet Rite does not leave me with an after taste like the other sodas with low calorie sweeteners do.   Now if I buy something cold outside the house I prefer Pepsi diet products over Coke diet products.   Yeah, I know.  It's heresy for a Georgia boy to like Pepsi over Coke....

My wife's family is from the Boston area and everything is a "pop" in their area of town.  You have to use the right accent when you say "pop" too.

We could diverge into everyone's favorite cold adult beverage, but that's another thread.....

 

[jkc64]

I remember in Milwaukee we called it soda but the people from Illinois, Iowa and Minnesota called it pop. Since I usually always drink water when I'm out it makes it easy. Waters water everywhere.

Not in Mexico

 

[rtbbq2]

I live in Minnesota and it's pop here.. Some years ago I traveled the country and found people who call it soda in the eastern US. In the south it's all Coke if I remember. Even if its a 7up or Sprite.  Every damn thing is a coke to da-folks in the south...Here's one...In Minnesota we call our summer retreat a cabin. Just 50 miles east of her in Wisconsin, it's called a cottage....

....So it it a cabin or cottage?....

 

[solaryellow]

I live in Minnesota and it's pop here.. Some years ago I traveled the country and found people who call it soda in the eastern US. In the south it's all Coke if I remember. Even if its a 7up or Sprite.  Every damn thing is a coke to da-folks in the south...Here's one...In Minnesota we call our summer retreat a cabin. Just 50 miles east of her in Wisconsin, it's called a cottage....

....So it it a cabin or cottage?....

Much more reasonable than "bubbler" vs. drinking fountain. When we first moved to SE WI, I had a coach tell me to hit the bubbler during our first day of two-a-days for football and it confused the hell out of me. After a minute I realized everyone else was headed to the water fountain so I followed the herd. lol

 

[mr500]

I say pop mainly but sometimes  soda. This is funny. I use to travel the USA for work and it blew my mind the first couple of times down south when I would order a pop or soda and they would just look at me and not have a clue what I was talking about. Then I would just say  "I want a Coke". Then they would ask "What kind of Coke?" It took me a while to figure out what the heck was going on. Then I realized that they call it coke instead of pop or soda.

It's just funny saying "I want a Coke". "What kind of Coke?" "A Coke, Coke" or "Mountain Dew Coke" Funny stuff.

Yeah thats the way I grew up. being from Alabama, we just said coke...then what kind hahah..Do not know why it was like that but it was just the same...I remember back when dad would buy them in theses huge 32 oz glass bottles with the aluminuim cap on them. Was a 6 pk. Then the 1 and 2 liter hit the market and was BAM. I would ride around as a kid collecting bottles to selll to the stores for ANOTHER coke and junk food.

RC cola and a moon pie was da bomb.  Remember the machines with the doors that u opened on the side and you had to pull out the bottle soda you wanted. usually a RC..

And I do remember the "fillin stations" ahah. Grew up calling them that.. "Just run up to the fillinf staion and get you a coke" hahahah

LMAO

 

[rtbbq2]

Everything is a Coke...Kind of make things simple....I think?.....One thing is for sure, WE ARE ALL AMERICANS...........

 

[venture]

Does anyone remember that great drug store thing?

The coke and other syrups in the big bottles upside down on the taps.  A glass of ice.  The syrup in.  Carbonated water added.  Chocolate, lemon or cherry flavor added if you wished.  Then the whole thing served to you by a real person? (Sometimes she was really cute, too!)

All this for a nickel for the small glass.  If I had mowed a lawn for a neighbor widow that day, I might have spent the money to go for the large glass for a whole dime.

All the glasses were the traditional Coke glasses, though.

The friendship and fellowship at the drug store counter came at no extra charge. (The date with the cute little thing only happened occasionally)

Good luck and good smoking.