In Homestuck form: the Fizzcourse.
That is amazing.
It’s unironically one of the best fanfics in a crowded field.
Rise up, sodarians! The only thing you have to lose is your pop.
can i keep my cocaine
I miss saying pop
everyone knows it’s fizzy juice
I like how it has really vague boundaries that are obviously approximate but then it pretends to do precise gerrymandering-type carveouts in the second map
Probably some urban-rural divide.
And hyper-detailed too… You can identify a US highway and part of an interstate on that second map!
It’s a reference to this: https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2023/11/27/palestine-and-israel-brief-history-maps-and-charts
Palestine/Israel 1947 borders vs today.
SODA!!!
We are legion
Where is “soft drink” on this map?
Soft drinks include any non hard drink, including all the non carbonated stuff. This is specifically referring to carbonated beverages.
Interestingly enough, I’ve never heard “soft drink” used to refer to anything but soda (Midwest USA here)
Oddly with the exception of water.
These are always so weird to me. I grew up in the rural south, and I’ve never once heard Coke used to describe soft drinks generically. In my experience when someone asks for a “coke” they specifically mean Coca Cola and would be pissed if they got something else.
My spouse is from the deep south and grew up saying it.
If you go to Georgia, ‘coke’ is whichever cola they have. At least that’s been my experience when visiting family down there. 99% of the time you get Coca Cola, but that 1% is a kick in the nuts.
Had the same experience when I lived in east Texas and visited rural Louisiana. But it wasn’t that way when I lived in Virginia. Coke meant Coca Cola, and if you asked for coke and they had Pepsi, they’d ask if Pepsi was ok.
In western Washington, it’s a hodgepodge.
Iirc when I lived there the reason is because the Cole bottling plant was there so it just came naturally as lingo
Stupid shit like this hits hard to some folks in the south. I have family members are pissed how “everything is changing”, so much in fact that this very thing caused a disturbance at a local college pub. Last year, one of my dumbass family members was thrown out for being rude. When I asked him what happened he said…
" That god damn Yankee girl wanted to know if I wanted a fucking pop. What the fuck is a pop? So I asked her. She said something like a soda or whatever and I told her, it’s a fucking coke and she needs to go back to fucking Chicago and get fucked. Don’t bring your stupid shit down here."
Even more f’d up, is he would have ordered a Sprite.
I dislike a few of my relatives.
While my own similar rant would have been only meant in play, this is how I feel about both o’ y’all. It’s a fucking soda. Gonna just go all the way and call sweet tea a coke too?
If it’s carbonated.
Y’all slurp down sweet tea like yer granpappy’s gonna whip yer ass if ya don’t an’nen go an bitch about insulin prices
“Why don’t my nephews visit me anymore?” --Them on their death bed
Sprites are great, what’s with all this sprite slander? Sprite, Sierra Mist, etc are the best sodas.
Why you gotta leave out the og? 7up is the quintessential lemon lime beverage. Much better in a cocktail, IMO.
Make 7, up yours!
You’re missing how it works; you ask for a Coke, the server says what kind, and you say Sprite.
Ah, I see
But they’re not a damn coke
Correct. 🤷
Same, which is why I left that fucking shithole
The correct term is obviously “beer”
Source of the data?
“MY ASS”
- OP probably
I’ve heard that if you order a “Coke” in the area that says “Coke”, they’ll just give you a random soda and you have to drink it no matter what it is. That just seems plain wrong to me.
Can confirm, I usually got Pepsi when I asked for Coke (not unexpected).
No-it’s would you like a Coke? Sure. I’ll have a Double Cola.
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