Coke vs Pop vs Soda

sweetkastings · Post by **sweetkastings** » February 1, 2005, 9:46 pm

What do you call your carbonated beverage? Coke or Pop or Soda

noel · Post by **noel** » February 1, 2005, 9:49 pm

Where is the 'sweetkastings is a lazy piece of shit' option.

http://www.veeshanvault.org/forums/view ... e+pop+soda

Ebumar · Post by **Ebumar** » February 1, 2005, 9:50 pm

SHT UP YOU STUPID FUCKING RETARD. NOBODY LIKES YOU HERE, GO AWAY.

nobody · Post by **nobody** » February 1, 2005, 9:51 pm

sweetkastings · Post by **sweetkastings** » February 1, 2005, 9:53 pm

March 3rd 2003 ya haha time for a new 1

BTW STFu!

Lohrno · Post by **Lohrno** » February 1, 2005, 9:57 pm

My other poll has been so successfull I think I'll start another one to determine who should STFU.

noel · Post by **noel** » February 1, 2005, 9:58 pm

sweetkastings wrote:March 3rd 2003 ya haha time for a new 1

BTW STFu!

Make me.

I've been here longer than you, and I'll be here long after you're gone. Your opinion holds zero weight with anyone here because every single other poster finds your comments and content completely worthless. Just like your sad, pathetic, excuse for a life.

Lohrno · Post by **Lohrno** » February 1, 2005, 10:10 pm

I've even been here longer than him.

Nick · Post by **Nick** » February 1, 2005, 10:18 pm

Maybe hard but i beleive it can be done1

Nilaman · Post by **Nilaman** » February 1, 2005, 10:35 pm

/pharm

Shaerra · Post by **Shaerra** » February 2, 2005, 12:52 pm

So the dogs had this party, and put green jello on their genitals...

miir · Post by **miir** » February 2, 2005, 1:00 pm

Lohrno wrote:I've even been here longer than him.

I'm new here.

Voronwë · Post by **Voronwë** » February 2, 2005, 1:03 pm

its coke fools

miir · Post by **miir** » February 2, 2005, 1:05 pm

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Sirensa · Post by **Sirensa** » February 2, 2005, 1:06 pm

This is my favorite debate EVAR!

Pop! dawg.

Nilaman · Post by **Nilaman** » February 2, 2005, 2:27 pm

I want to farm more! This moron thought that his idea was so important he had to post the same poll on multiple message boards.

Yay! Some more VVs!

Mr Bacon · Post by **Mr Bacon** » February 2, 2005, 2:42 pm

I hope you die in a car fire.

Moonwynd · Post by **Moonwynd** » February 2, 2005, 4:57 pm

It is "soda" and I will tell you why.

The primary ingredient in this carbonated beverage is carbonated water...commonly called Soda Water.

Long before anyone called it "pop" it was called Fountain Soda. There were Soda Jerks...the people that made your drink at the Soda Shop.

Here is further information...I have taken the liberty to highlight the important parts:

The History of Coca Cola

On May 8, 1886, at 107 Marietta Street, Atlanta druggist Dr. John Stith Pemberton (former Confederate officer) invented "Coca-Cola" syrup. Dr Pemberton, like so many others of the day, called himself "Doctor", but no evidence of a formal medical degree has ever been found. After the war Dr Pemberton worked hard to rebuild his life. He stayed in his hometown of Columbus Ga. for 4 years after the war, but by 1869 he decided to move to Atlanta, where he set up business as a Druggist and Pharmaceutical chemist. By 1870 he joined with other businessmen to form Pemberton, Wilson, Taylor and Company.

Pemberton was a wizard at creating medicine, but not very good at creating a profit. It was the others that reaped the rewards of his creations. During the next 15 years he had made a name for himself with some of the mecicines that he had invented: Gingerine, Globe of Flower Cough Syrup, Indian Queen Hair Dye, and Triplex Liver Pills. Somewhere between the Liver Pills and Hair Dye he came up with the idea for a new tonic. "Coca-Cola" syrup. It was based on "Pemberton's French Wine Coca", which was patented in 1886 and sold as "an ideal nerve and tonic stimulant". He simply took out the wine and added caffeine, extract of cola and other oils. It is believed that he was trying to make a cure for headaches.

It was mixed in a 30-gal. brass kettle hung over a backyard fire. After he made a jug of the syrup he took it down to "Jacobs Pharmacy" and talked Willis E. Venabele into mixing it with water and selling it for 5cents a glass. It was marketed as a "brain and nerve tonic" in drugstores. Sales averaged nine drinks per day.

Frank M. Robinson, Pemberton's bookkeeper, was the person who suggested the name "Coca- Cola", which was chosen because both words actually named two ingredients found in the syrup. He also suggested that the name be written in the Spencerian script, a popular penmanship of that time. It was from his pen that the "Coca-Cola" signature originated. Pemberton liked the easy to remember name, so History was born.

The first year's gross sales were $50 and advertising costs were $73.96. By the next year 1887, production and sales went from 25 gallons of syrup to more than 1000 gallons of Syrup.

The original formula included extracts of the African kola nut and coca leaves, both strong stimulants. "Coca Cola" was one of thousands of exotic patent medicines sold in the 1800s that actually contained traces of cocaine.

On November 15th, 1886, John G. Wilkes (Who was drunk) walked into a drugstore complaining of a headache and requested a bottle of "Coca Cola" syrup. To get instant relief, he asked the "soda jerk" to mix up a glass on the spot. Rather than walk to the other end of the counter in order to mix it with cold tap water, the clerk suggested using soda water. The man remarked it really tasted great, and soon after "Coca-Cola" was in fizzy, carbonated form.

In 1888, Asa Griggs Candler bought the company from Dr. Pemberton. Later that same year, Dr. Pemberton died. By 1914, Candler had acquired a fortune of some $50 million. Baseball hall of famer Ty Cobb, a Georgia native, was another early investor in the company.

In 1894, Joseph A. Biedenharn, owner of the Biedenharn Candy Company in Vicksburg, Mississippi, first bottled "Coca Cola."

By 1903, the use of cocaine was controversial and "Coca-Cola" decided to use only "spent coca leaves." It also stopped advertising "Coca-Cola" as a cure for headaches and other ills.

In 1929, after his death, Griggs Candler's family sold the interest in "Coca-Cola" to a group of businessmen led by Ernest Woodruff for $25 million. Woodruff was appointed president of "Coca-Cola" on April 28, 1923 and stayed on the job until 1955.

Lynks · Post by **Lynks** » February 2, 2005, 5:09 pm

The first popsicle was made of pop. It would be funny if we said sodasicle therefore, in conclusion, the correct term is pop.

Thank you.

The primary ingredient in this carbonated beverage is carbonated water...commonly called Soda Water.

I never called it soda water in my life, nor have I ever heard someone use that term.

Shaerra · Post by **Shaerra** » February 2, 2005, 5:52 pm

Looks like it should have been called Dr. Pember.

Rivera Bladestrike · Post by **Rivera Bladestrike** » February 2, 2005, 5:52 pm

My dad worked as a soda jerk.

Diae Soulmender · Post by **Diae Soulmender** » February 2, 2005, 7:47 pm

http://www.popvssoda.com/stats/USA.html

Winnow · Post by **Winnow** » February 2, 2005, 8:32 pm

I think Coke is cutting into Soda's numbers or vice versa. There's no way Pop should be leading.

Probably need a sub-poll asking the Coke/Soda pickers if they'd go with Coke/Soda over Pop if their original choice wasn't an option.

Soda or Coke = Ross Perot...may allow pop to win.

Lynks · Post by **Lynks** » February 2, 2005, 9:11 pm

How the hell can you say Coke. When you ask for a Coke, I would assume you get a Coke.

Its like people who say Kleenex. Sorry, I dont have any Kleenex, but I do have some tissue.

Winnow · Post by **Winnow** » February 2, 2005, 9:24 pm

Asking for a coke covers Coca Cola and Pepsi. If you want something else, the waitress had better be psychic if you think you're getting a Dr Pepper by asking for a soda, coke or pop.

You could ask for a cola since Coca Cola and Pepsi Cola both include that word.

Nali · Post by **Nali** » February 3, 2005, 12:03 am

I just call it whatever im getting... you know "I want a Mountain Dew" or "I feel like a dr.pepper"

Canelek · Post by **Canelek** » February 3, 2005, 12:09 am

People up here seem to call is 'pop' a bunch. It makes me cringe. I thought 'pop' was just a MN/WI/MI thing... damn hillbillies.

Ahmik · Post by **Ahmik** » February 3, 2005, 4:34 pm

Canelek wrote:People up here seem to call is 'pop' a bunch. It makes me cringe. I thought 'pop' was just a MN/WI/MI thing... damn hillbillies.

Add SD and ND to the 'pop' states bigtime... I grew up calling it that...

I have since "learned" to call it soda. About 20 years ago some mean bitch I worked for sent me to the store with a list of things to get, she was a hard core Mt. Dew drinker... she had Coke written on the list.... I bought her a Coke.... she spent a full hour educating me on how the word 'Coke' is used as a generic blanket-statement to describe or identify all carbonated beverages and that when the term is used it is generally within an environment where the actual beverage of choice is known to all in the immediate area. "If I had just met you I certainly would have asked for a Mountain Dew, not a Coke... Airman, you know what I drink" blah blah blah

Bitch.

Lynks · Post by **Lynks** » February 3, 2005, 4:54 pm

Thats the problem when calling a general product by a specific name.

MooZilla · Post by **MooZilla** » February 3, 2005, 8:23 pm

Canada 6107 - 274

ha!

pop is more of a mid-western thing to say.

Deneve · Post by **Deneve** » February 4, 2005, 1:16 am

Rellix wrote:I hope you die in a car fire.

I was thinking of late stage testicular cancer....

nobody · Post by **nobody** » February 4, 2005, 1:46 am

soda (7 420 000 results)

versus

pop (112 000 000 results)

not really a fair fight though. soda always referes to the same thing while pop could mean...pop the cherry?

Taly · Post by **Taly** » February 5, 2005, 10:46 pm

If i ask for a coke it better be a coke or im sending it back. I call is all soda. Those who say Pop may me cringe.

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