A Whole New... Dr. Pepper...

[Mr_Pleasington]

Uh, don't you live in St. Louis? That's only 4 hours from where I grew up, and we say pop. Don't you hear it all the time?

Nope, everyone here says soda.  You have to get to Kansas or Iowa before you start to consistently hear pop.

[Peter Ahlstrom]

I say "carbonated stuff" and never touch it. Sometimes I say "soft drink." I make it a point not to say "pop" or "soda."

[House of Mustard]

I say pop.

Also, the Webster's Dictionary defines pop as: "a flavored carbonated beverage."  It's not even listed as slang -- it's just a plain old definition.  So, everyone who says that it's incorrect is wrong.  So there.

[fuzzyoctopus]

Why is it when I try and end an argument with "so there" it never works?

[Mr_Pleasington]

Why is it when I try and end an argument with "so there" it never works?

Well, it used to.  Then everyone turned 10.

[House of Mustard]

Zing!

[Gemm: Rock & Roll Star; Born to Rock]

DO NOT DRINK! I implore you! I'm not sure if this was what did it, but it came back up last night! It could have been a number of things, but I don't want to take that chance. If any one of you have this, get rid of it, NOW! It may even give you the most horrible thing ever. Montazhumma's Revenge! Oh, what a malicious day!

[Mad Dr Jeffe]

sometimes the other can apply to another brand name , some people call all soda Nehi for example. I use Coke and Soda interchangably and people here know what I mean...

[fuzzyoctopus]

I tried some of this today. It was pretty good but I couldn't taste the vanilla really.
And yes, it does come in regular and not just diet.

[JP Dogberry]

See, this is my anticapitalist method of putting Coke out of business:

1) Refer to other soft drinks as "Coke". By law, when common usage makes a brand generic, they lose the copyright.

2) Release a drink called "Jam's Brand Coke" or similar.

[The Holy Saint, Grand High Poobah, Master of Monkeys, Ehlers]

i reckon they'd just stop selling in Australia. I don't think that's the law in the US. For example Xerox. people used to say "I'll xerox this document for you" constantly. But it didn't do anything to the company's business.

[Mr_Pleasington]

And look how many people refer to any facial tissue as Kleenex

[fuzzyoctopus]

And Band-Aids.  no one refers to them as anything other than band-aids.

[Gemm: Rock & Roll Star; Born to Rock]

What are they suppose to be though? I've never known a band-aid to be anything other than a band-aid.

[fuzzyoctopus]

you can get generic ones "bandage strips" or something.