Soda, Pop, or Coke? (Parent Responses)

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<p>cangel- my uncles used to talk about the fact that they used to order a “Pepsi Dope” or “Coke Dope.” The legends that cocaine was in the early formulas in some form in the early days is disputed by folks I know working at Coke and giving the official responce to an evidently common question about the early formula…</p>

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<p>I grew up in Louisville, KY and now live south of Cincinnati, Ohio. I have always said, “would you like a soft drink?” </p>

<p>Just in case you can’t tell from the info in the little grey box, I’m 50 and female.</p>

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<p>Born and raised in NC, and we have always said “soft drink” meaning coke, pepsi, etc. And jsut for the record, I have never heard anyone add an “s” to Walmart around here.</p>

<p>Age 40
NC</p>

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<p>Coke but then you have to ask what kind. EVERYONE drinks Dr. Pepper or Diet Dr. Pepper (except the rich women who drink Diet Coke).</p>

<p>Grew up in Oklahoma.
51</p>

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<p>Soda. Thinking about it, if I were ever to ask for one I would always ask by brand name.
Grew up in California, educated back East, New Yorker for an all-to-brief period of time, returned and living in CA.
Late 40’s.</p>

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<p>Soda. the only place in pennsylvania that calls it pop is the south western part. i’m 22 and from PA.</p>

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<p>Isn’t this like the sub sandwch/hoagie/grinder comparison?? What do you call those? Here in the south it is a sub sandwich.</p>

48

<p>In New Jersey (at least central to north), it’s a sub.</p>

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<p>Coke</p>

<p>Female
the south
same age as Tupperware </p>

<p>My aunt grew up in Safford, AL in the early 1900s. She told me they always called 'em “dopes.”</p>

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<p>Pop
Male
IL/IN
45</p>

51

<p>UMdad and Momofonly,</p>

<p>I’ll never forget when I was about 3 years old I was taken to Ford’s World Headquarters Building on the Southfield FWY to see Santa Clause dropped on top of the Building (must have been about 40-50 stories high). He was then shuttled down to the ground for us kids to hug. I remember being told that the Ford Family knew Santa Clause and he was invited to come down from the North Pole, by the Ford Family, every year and, of course, he always came.</p>

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<p>“Soda” (for anything carbonated)
Now in AZ, but born and raised in upstate NY
Female
50-ish</p>

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<p>gym - where i live it’s a hoagie, but at my school it’s a sub.</p>

<p>Just like where i live we call a fried egg a “dippie egg”… because you dip in it…</p>

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<p>Woodwork,</p>

<p>What a great memory :)</p>

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<p>Coke
raised in VA
female 41</p>

<p>But my children call it pop because we lived in Chicago when they were little. When we moved to Texas people were perplexed when they asked for a pop–because “pops” is another term for paddling/corporal punishment down here.</p>

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<p>My H, raised in Va., calls his Dad “Pop”</p>

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<p>When my brother came home to NY from college in the midwest, he would go out to the store for a “sack of pop”. I had to engage my automatic American English translator to understand that he was referring to a can of soda in a paper bag. Where we grew up, a “sack” was a very large bag - could be fiber such as a potato sack (see, e.g., sack races) or paper (sack of cement), but not a little brown paper bag.</p>

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<p>Huh. When I took a class a couple years ago about drug addictions (prereq for CADC certification) it wasn’t “legend”, but stated as fact in our textbook. At the time of the advent of Coke, cocaine was not a controlled substance.
I also seem to remember (although I could be wrong about this) that people went to the drugstore for the soda fountain and this was where that began.</p>

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<p>Cocaine use and whether you needed a presciption depended on what state
you were in. CT required a prescription in 1905 & expanded this law in 1913 to include heroin, morphine and opium</p>

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<p>One of the ingredients in the well-guarded Coca Cola formula is “spent coca leaves”. Always wondered what they “spent” them on…</p>