Stuff white people like but black people like it

I grew up in the North of England (Yorkshire) where
soda = soda water (or rarely cream soda - yeuch)
pop = generic term for carbonated soft drink
coke = any cola (although the person serving would explain it was Pepsi or whatever if they didn't sell Coke, I think that's the law now too!!)
lemonade = Sprite or 7up and very rarely means real lemonade (lemons, sugar and water - much nicer).
dandelion and burdock = mmmmmm

Oh, and to the US posters, here in the UK our colas and other soft drinks are generally made with cane sugar. So they taste much better than the corn syrup versions you might be used to :)

I don't like Sprite but 7up is ok.

Unfortunately, I can't enjoy them when I visit over there (damn diabetes!).

darkmuse that is why we have...... Jones soda made with 100% cane sugar

Keep your eye out for Kosher Coke around the Jewish passover festival ;) Or get it imported :)

For those of a sugar-free orientation. Several years back (circa Christmas 2005 and January 2006), I spent the better part of those two months in Germany and grew to love Coke Light. I came back to discover that Coke Zero was basically the same thing as Coke Light: real original-flavored coke without sugar. Diet Coke was introduced at the same time as New Coke and based around it's flavor.

So, if you always liked the classic Coke flavor, but need sugar free for whatever reason, switch to Coke Zero in the US or get Coke Light in the rest of the world.

Of course, I understand Coke Zero is in Europe now too...

On the subject of Coke Zero has anyone seen that freaky commercial about facial profiling WTF

Nice thread hijack. Please keep the discussion of that to the OTHER thread (which is about Coke Zero's Facial Profiling Social Experiment).

Draugnar, my wife has diabetes too but she also can't have nuetra-sweet without getting bad headaches. So she usually drinks Zevia which is a brand of soft drinks that uses stevia for the sweetener. Just mentioning it in case you would be interested.

Stuff White people like because black people like it?

Sorry, forgot the page turning thing.

Anyway, in case you're interested, in Argentina we use the word "gaseosa", wich would be translated as "with gas".

We use Coca for the cola-flavoured drinks.

Interestingly (or maybe not so much) "Cola" means "tail" in Argentinian spanish, and "Coca" is the plant cocaine comes from, so "Coca-cola" can lead to many misinterpretations.

The word "Coke" reached this shores once, in the 90's, but it left to never return.

Portugal:
Gasosa - is still used by some, but very old fashioned
Cola - generic term for Coca-cola, Pepsi, Spur-cola, etc, but everytime you ask and they don't have coca-cola they say that they only have pepsi... Cola also means glue in portuguese.
Coca is just cocaine.
Refrigerante - this would be the generic word for soft drinks, soda's...

So in portugese Coca-Cola can be interperated as "will get you addicted(glued) to cocaine"?

mountain dew gamefuel (red) = the best beverage i have ever tasted, imo.

I like Argentinian spanish. Coca-cola is snorting coke off a nice ass...

"Stuff White people like because black people like it?"

Exactly.

Thanks Alderian. I'll have to check it out.

Acomist , are you really Japanese? hmm i live in japan and you dont sound like anyone over here, you must have been living in the states a loooong time.

btw, my mom homebrews and also makes a mean tasty lemonade
as for commercial soft/pop/fizzy drinks ill go with any kind of dry ginger ale.

Oh geez, no I'm not. That was a joke.

Well for the heck of it here is a List of my favorite fizzy
1. Dr.Pepper
2. Any kind of Jones Soda
3. Izze
4. Ginger Ale
5. Pepsi

@ Draugnar I like anything that has to do with a nice ass....

I drink Pepsi. Dr. Pepper if they serve Coke products. I do not use generic words, because if I do, I get gross things, like Coca-Cola. Ugh. I say Pepsi, and I complain if it's wrong. I demand few perfect things in my life, but the right drink is one of them.

BTW Coka Cola is my Fav...

@tailboarder - with a name like "tail"boarder, it's no surprise... <grin>

California:
soda = fizzy drinky stuff
coke = coca cola branded fizzy drinky stuff
pop = something funny to chuckle at when people with funny accents say it
dr pepper = clearly superior choice of soft drink (ok, ok... that may not be an accurate representation for the whole state)

Also, coke from other countries, the cane sugar stuff, is tasty. And on my last trip to NYC I discovered Boylan sodas, which are wonderful and put Jone's soda to shame in my book. Try the black cherry (drool)

@maxx233 - surely you meant Fresca as the clearly superior choice, at least amongst the major bottlers.

The superior choice amongst ALL bottlers is Canfield Diet Chocolate Fudge followed closely by faygo Diet Chocolate Creme Pie. Chocolate Sode! Mmmmmmmmmmm!!!!!!!!!!!!

*"Faygo" and "Soda"