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Originally posted by Karon Flage:

So, are carbonated drinks called soda, pop, soda pop, soft drinks or coke (used as a generic much like kleenix) where y'all are?

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Mostly they're referred to as pop, or sometimes fizzy pop. Soda is what some people put in their whisky: I don't think I've ever heard the term ""soda pop"" used by a British person, unless it was specifically used to mock an American. Coke is used as a generic term for any dark brown pop.
A soft drink is any beverage that isn't hot and doesn't contain alcohol, which is (presumably) why it's soft."

Old Scratch wrote:

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Originally posted by Karon Flage:
So, are carbonated drinks called soda, pop, soda pop, soft drinks or coke (used as a generic much like kleenix) where y'all are?

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Soda or soft drink here in Massachusetts. Coke is for Coca-cola. People who say ""soda pop"" are from someplace else.

Don't even get me started on frappes and milk shakes.

-- Scratch"

Papercut Fun wrote:

"In Canada we giggle everytime we hear you yanks use the word soda. 'Course we also giggle everytime millions and millions of you are so divided that a few hundred votes in a state populated mostly by retired Canadians make the differences in your federal elections.

Oh, and we call it Pop."

Old Scratch wrote:

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Originally posted by Papercut Fun:
In Canada we giggle everytime we hear you yanks use the word soda.

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Yes, what's that all aboot, eh?

-- Scratch"

Lord_Savaunt wrote:

" Well in the various places I've lived Soda and Pop are interchangeable terms really. I can't really recall anyone using the terms together. No I know calls it sodapop, just one or the other.

By the way I'll take it that no one else here recalls OK Soda? I only ever saw it out in Oregon. Had a weird fruit taste. The closest I could ever get to recreating it was mixing coke, sprite, dr. pepper and orange drink in various levels.

There were 3 different designs for the cans and one or two for the bottles. The one I recall most fondly had a weird optical illusion with a ladies face. If you tilted it forward it sh'ed look angry, tilt it back and she'd look pissed off.

The coolest part was the OK hotline. You could call 1-800-I-FEEL-OK and use a code found on the bottom of a can or inside a bottle cap. With that code you could listen to OK Poetry, or confessions, or leave stuff of your own. Seriously I'm not kidding.

I would almost be willing to sell a portion of my soul to get a couple of cases of that stuff.

By the way isn't it funny that certain drinks can be reffered to as soft when they reek havoc on your stomach lining?"

Karon Flage wrote:

"Oh thanks, I'm now on a quest to find old cans of OK soda just to see the Dan Clowes and Charles Burns art.

""Downbeat soft drink introduced in selected cities by Coca-Cola in mid-1994. The brainchild of Coke marketing chief Sergio Zyman (who also developed the new age ""brainwater"" Fruitopia), OK Soda targeted the Generation X marketing niche by packaging an off-tasting beverage in matte-gray cans featuring slackers drawn by comic book artists including Dan Clowes and Charles Burns. With an advertising scheme developed by Portland ad power Wieden & Kennedy, the OK Soda's launch featured offbeat slogans like ""don't think there has to be a reason for everything."" There was a 1-800-I-FEEL-OK hotline, where callers could record comments, listen to the cynical comments of others (ad agency plants, it transpired), and undergo a ""personality test"" that included such true/false statements as: ""Sometimes my TV sends special messages to me."" OK Soda's message failed to penetrate: lackluster sales led to its 1995 re-packaging as a ""unique fruity soda.""
http://www.plastic.com/article.pl?sid=01/04/10/1524220 "

While people are indulging in nostalgia for bygone fizzy drinks, might I ask if you had Quatro in the 'States? As I recall it was green and tasted similar to the way nettles smell. Hardly surprising the stuff only lasted for a couple of years in the mid 'Eighties before vanishing, really."

TerriblySorry wrote:

I got some Mormon friends who are still way overstocked with Quatro. They've been dumping huge quantities of it into the soft-punch bowl at halloween festivities for the last Lucifer-knows how many years. Along with this soda you make yourself which comes free with some kind of stuffing they import from the States. I kid you not.

I doubt you not at all, TS: you can't make **** like that up. If you could, I'd probably get published more often.
That isn't the point. This is the point. How much of the stuff did they overstock with? Did they buy up a couple of dozen vats when it ceased production, or something? It has to be at least fifteen years since you could buy Quatro, and they're still trying to get rid of it?
Still, now I know who it was who was into the stuff. Mormons."

TerriblySorry wrote:

"The only thing they don't have a supply of is teabags. Oh, and coffee. And booze, of course. Seems they got everything else you could think of. They're very dedicated to what they do."

Papercut Fun wrote:

Silly Mormons.

I've seen a collected edition of Sherlock Holmes stories that features an apology from the editor to the Mormons for the number of stories that use Mormons as villains. The guy argues that Sir Arthur Conan Doyle displays blatant hostility towards the church becuase he's a victorian Englishman who doesn't know too much about them. If that is the stance he adopts, I wonder why he even feels it's worth bothering to apologise? Does he fear that if he doesn't he might meet the sort of terrible fate described in ""A Study In Scarlet""?"

Old Scratch wrote:

"Warren Ellis just posted this over on his Delphi forum:

The OK Soda Conspiracy

Pretty eerie, considering that OK Soda came up on here not too long ago.

By the way, posting this has absolutely nothing at all to do with my desire to see ""Teabags"" become the longest thread in Lucifer Board history. I promise.

Honest.

No, really.

-- Scratch

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Mike Carey wrote:

"Well it's certainly proving to be a lot more durable than Freud. :) "

Karon Flage wrote:

"Well, teabags are both more fun and more useful than Freud."

Mr. Gage wrote:

... and adding a spot of honey and a twist of lemon to Freud gets you absolutely nowhere near anything you'd want to put your lips on.

Although Freud did give us Alfred Bester, which was nice of him."

Karon Flage wrote:

"Now Mr Gage, please don't offend any of your schoolmates. Wouldn't surprise me in the least to discover that some of them like honey on dead people kind of thing. Personally, I prefer a bit my life in my prey/date.

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Greg McElhatton wrote:

"Anyone experienced the joys of Cheerwine?

Sunny Delight is repulsive, although my friend Mike from Toronto used it as a mixer for whiskey when he was down here. *shudder*

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Papercut Fun wrote:

This thread's giving me a marketing idea. Sunny Delight IN a teabag. Now you too can carry this oddly textured refreshing beverage conveniently in your pocket or handbag.

Patent pending.

TerriblySorry wrote:

"Perhaps you could approach Kevin Costner to help promote it for you...

*sigh* still not cured "

Sunny Delight and whisky!!! I've got my hands clapped to my face in horror. It's a new form of torture - congratulations. :)
Sunny D is the only kind of soft drink you can use when you run out of cooking oil...

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...or engine grease, or fly spray (it makes their wings too heavy), or embalming fluid, or...

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Mike Carey wrote:

How about an artificial tanning agent? You too can have the Roger Moore look without going through the agony of carotin poisoning.

Supposedly there was some girl in the midlands who drank far too much of the stuff in one sitting and her face turned sort of yellow. I suspect that this story is apocryphal, which is a shame. You just want it to be true, don't you?"

Speaking of strange soft drinks, I had some Cresta (or is it Crest?) recently. I'd forgotten about it, but it was a huge brand when I was a kid - the tv advert had a polar bear with sunglasses on who said it was ""frothy, man"". Needless to say, it was disgusting. Another little pang of childhood betrayal. :)


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Mike Carey wrote:

But it *is* frothy. And they never claimed it was drinkable. You can't get them under the Trades Description Act.

Mr. Gage wrote:

"Lately I've been enjoying sports drinks like Gatorade and Powerade. Have to replace all those electrolytes, you know.

Happy Fourth of July to all of y--

Oh. That's right. Never mind."

Is this a new tradition emerging? Are you going to wish us a Happy Fifth of July tomorrow?

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Lord_Savaunt wrote:

I had a fifth of July once. That is some of the nastiest stuff I have ever... oh um look at that tree over there...yoink.

Papercut Fun wrote:

"If one were to combine a fifth of July, three fingers of Sunny Delight and a half a cup of crumbled chocolate Pop Tarts what would they end up with?"

The squits?

Karon Flage wrote:

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Originally posted by Papercut Fun:
If one were to combine a fifth of July, three fingers of Sunny Delight and a half a cup of crumbled chocolate Pop Tarts what would they end up with?

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That new dessert being served in the school cafeteria. This is what happens when being the Lunch Lady suddenly becomes fashionable among certain social classes of demons.

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Lord_Savaunt wrote:

"If one were to combine a fifth of July, three fingers of Sunny Delight and a half a cup of crumbled chocolate Pop Tarts what would they end up with?

I don't know, but if you were to add a jigger of OK Soda, a shot glass of Red Bull Power Drink, and a spoonful or two of tang then.... I still don't know."

Then you just need to stir in some marmite....

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Maybe we could call this new cocktail a Slow Nauseous Death?

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Mike Carey wrote:

Or a Gradual Debilitating Heave against a Wall.

How about calling it a Wet English Sunday?
Afterl all, it's the kind of drink that seems to go on forever, until you think the effects will never end...

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I once drank tropical punch Kool-Aid and rum...I just call that pathetic.

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