SODA vs. POP: The Endless War!

[Immortalfire]

Someone should do a thread similar to this one, only it will address Terry's claim...

McDonald's has basically become synonymous with fast food, like Nintendo used to be with video gaming. When someone wants to go out to eat, odds are someone will use the term "Let's get some McDonald's" when they just mean going to a fast food joint.

Does "going to McDonald's" mean ANY fast food place?


God Bless ya, Terry t:

 

[Aesop Rocks]

I know. I just like seeing the disappointment.

YOU'RE A MONSTER!!

 

[Kelly]

No, when I want McDonald's I say McDonald's .... when I want Taco Cabana, I say Taco Cabana, when I want Popeye's Fried Chicken, I say Popeye's Fried Chicken....

I don't want no McDonald's chicken nuggets.....I want the real thing from Popeyes......

 

[Marx]

Someone should do a thread similar to this one, only it will address Terry's claim...



Does "going to McDonald's" mean ANY fast food place?


God Bless ya, Terry t:

No. McDonald's means McDonald's.

 

[Immortalfire]

Guess that settles that. lol

 

[kane9321]

SODAAAAAAAA

Wow look at what i started....awesome

 

[Orb]

Hope that helped.

 

[Aesop Rocks]

Tonic?!

 

[SuperFerret]

I believe that another term for Seltzer or soda water is tonic water. I could be wrong.

 

[Orb]

You are correct.

 

[Mrs. Sawyer]

phosphate?

I'm gonna start calling it that.

 

[spideyboy_1111]

My dad used to call it "kidney stone express". D:

you actually get kidney stones from not drinking enough water, and drinking nothing but things like soda and cranberry (or prune?) juice

 

[spideyboy_1111]

Someone should do a thread similar to this one, only it will address Terry's claim...



Does "going to McDonald's" mean ANY fast food place?


God Bless ya, Terry t:

hmmm this makes me remember another one.

Do you guys say (when you need to sneeze or have a runny nose), "I need a tissue" or "I need a Kleenex"

 

[SuperFerret]

you actually get kidney stones from not drinking enough water, and drinking nothing but things like soda and cranberry (or prune?) juice

And other reasons. You can drink only soda and juice (not that I recommend that), but you'd need to alter the rest of your diet appropriately. I assume to keep the pH balanced.

 

[Blitzkrieg Bop]

A glass of your finest of efrischungsgetränk, madame.

 

[Iron_Stark]

I call it soda. Just yesterday a lady at the checkout line asked me if I wanted my pop in my bag.

I was at a cookout once and a friend told me if I could get her a coke from the cooler since I was standing next to it, so I opened the cooler and I searched through it and told her there aren't any cokes in there. She gives me a crazy look goes over there opens it and says "look, there are a lot of cokes in there" I told her "No, there's some sprites in there, a couple of Dr. Peppers and most of it is filled with Pepsi".

She was being hard headed about it, until I ended it with, when you leave here are you going to get into your Ford and drive off? She said "No, I've got a Nissan" Which I replied "Exactly! You're not going to call everyone's car in here a Ford so quit calling every drink a Coke".


I would also have debates with a guy at my old job he would always say Coke and "I need to make a Xerox" (when he needed to make a copy). Even though the machine was a Cannon.

 

[Scourge2099]

Whoever calls SODA pop is a godless commie. Pop is s***** music they play on the radio.

 

[Harry_Lime02]

Pop for me. Always and forever.

 

[Kelly]

My nieces get all over people for saying Krogers rather than Kroger....

Some people get excited over the weirdest things...

When people come to my house, they don't have to ask me for a coke, tissue or anything or say it right or wrong....they know where its at, they go get it themselves.

 

[JStorm]

Vodka and pop. . . I'm just sayin'.

 

[Kelly]

They've found that in my house before too....lol

 

[SpideyInATree]

I call it sodypop.

I've heard it called that before. My great uncle is from Kansas City and said that's what they refer to it as there.

Here in Pittsburgh I've heard everyone always call it pop. Even in the supermarket commercials here they say pop.

I didn't hear it referred to as soda until I was visiting my cousins in New Jersey and a waitress asked, "What soda would you like?" I was confused as all hell. Because to me pop is like Coke, Mountain Dew, Pepsi, Sprite, etc. Anytime we refer to something as soda is when you take pop and put some ice cream into it and then it's a soda pop.

However, after that trip to New Jersey I was told that most of the country refers to it as soda and that people who use pop are in the minority. I've always said pop for most of my life and that's what I will always refer to it as.

 

[Kelly]

I've heard it called that before. My great uncle is from Kansas City and said that's what they refer to it as there.

Here in Pittsburgh I've heard everyone always call it pop. Even in the supermarket commercials here they say pop.

I didn't hear it referred to as soda until I was visiting my cousins in New Jersey and a waitress asked, "What soda would you like?" I was confused as all hell. Because to me pop is like Coke, Mountain Dew, Pepsi, Sprite, etc. Anytime we refer to something as soda is when you take pop and put some ice cream into it and then it's a soda pop.

However, after that trip to New Jersey I was told that most of the country refers to it as soda and that people who use pop are in the minority. I've always said pop for most of my life and that's what I will always refer to it as.

THAT IS WHERE I HEARD IT CALLED "soda pop" I could not remember where it was.....we were traveling through Kansas and stopped at a diner on the highway.....the waitress called it a soda pop, we actually had a conversation with her about calling all drinks "coke", "pop", "soda", etc....

 

[Immortalfire]

Anyone know anyone that calls all bleach "Clorox", even if its some cheap Walmart brand? My great grandma did all the time

Even as a kid, I knew that wasn't proper. As Iron Stark mentioned about Xerox, I've heard that one too. It's kind of like saying "Frigidaire the beer"

 

[Aesop Rocks]

I read Corlax. :/