What do you call a non-alcoholic, carbonated, and sweetened beverage?

What do you call a non-alcoholic, carbonated, and sweetened beverage?

Is it a soda, pop, fizzy drink, or perhaps something else?


I refer to my beverage as "pop" or by the name "diet coke". How about you?

 

I call it soda

 

I only drink coke, but refer to it as soda, habit I guess from when I was a kid and my mom controlled my caffeine intake.

 

Soda, but here in New England it is classically referred to as "Tonic". Go figure.
But I'm originally from Pittsburgh, where it is typically "pop".

Pittsburgh is weird, though - they call baloney/bologna "jumbo". Again, go figure.

I say "rubber bands", Pittsburghese="gum bands", Bostonian="elastics". Go figure.

 

by "pop", or by brand name -"coke", "pepsi" etc.

 

Soft drink here.

Or Coke, Seven-Up, Root Beer, etc.

 

Here we say elastic bands.

 

its called coke. i think what you call it depends on the part of country (world) you are in.

 

Odd designation for soft drinks, IMO. Makes me wonder what you call real elastic bands...

 

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Over here we call it a soft drink. When I was studying in the UK, it was called a "mineral".

 

We call it Cold Drink here.

 

Scottish people call it Irn Bru.

Sassenachs call it Iron Brew.

It's got a secret recipe that only 2 people IIRC know.

 

Actually, I believe the Scots and the Irish call it "A Complete Waste of Bloody Time!"

What the hell is a Sassenach? Isn't that the name of that hairdresser?

 

Sassenach: endearing term the Scots use for our friends south of the border.

 

You mean Americans? or Mexicans?

Are they anything like the Sasquatch?

 

Sorry Minstrel,

Wrong continent. South of Scotland, aka English people. Although I'm not quite sure if the Welsh come under the category of Sassenach too .

Derived from Saxon (methinks).

 

"'e's makin' it up as 'e goes along!" ~ Heckler in Monty Python's Life of Brian

 

"Of course they're juniper berries! They're juniper bushes!"
*see above film*

Aha, how bout a juniper berry soda? Or is that called gin?

 

hahahahhaahah LMAO mean as it sounds that made me laugh