148 points
*

Shm. Smh. The fucking people who call all sodas “coke”.

Them: What kind of Ford do you drive? Me: a Chevy.

permalink
report
reply
48 points

It’s from Coca-Cola (headquartered in Atlanta) having total dominance of the south for a long time.

permalink
report
parent
reply
25 points

brawndo irl

permalink
report
parent
reply
7 points

It’s got what y’all crave

permalink
report
parent
reply
1 point

Atlanta is the most random place you can headquarter a company.

CNN is headquartered in Atlanta and like what? Why?

permalink
report
parent
reply
31 points

See also My Names Is Earl. “She was Chinese… Japanese, specifically.”

permalink
report
parent
reply
9 points

I could say the same thing about people calling all soft drinks “soda”

permalink
report
parent
reply
38 points

“soda” is not also a specific drink though

permalink
report
parent
reply
9 points
*

The only time people say “soda” where I am, is when referring to soda water, which is a specific drink. (And imo a terrible one)

Edit: It’s just an interesting difference in language, I’m not making an argument about what’s right…

permalink
report
parent
reply
21 points

Dude it makes perfect sense.

The “so” is the first two letters from the word and the “d” is the third letter. And the “a” is obviously because……

permalink
report
parent
reply
9 points

I’M SHOOK

You’ve changed my whole world

permalink
report
parent
reply
4 points

At least it’s based on “soda pop”.

permalink
report
parent
reply
4 points

What does “shm” mean? I’m currently only reading it as an onomatopoeia and I don’t think that’s right.

permalink
report
parent
reply
6 points

Likely a typo for smh, which essentially means “shaking my head”.

permalink
report
parent
reply
2 points

Huh, and here I thought “smh” was short for something like “*so much hate”. That makes more sense.
Wonder what other abbreviations, on the Internet or elsewhere, go completely and blissfully misinterpreted by folks for years.

permalink
report
parent
reply
123 points

Stupid shit like this hits hard to some folks in the south. I have family members are pissed how “everything is changing”, so much in fact that this very thing caused a disturbance at a local college pub. Last year, one of my dumbass family members was thrown out for being rude. When I asked him what happened he said…

" That god damn Yankee girl wanted to know if I wanted a fucking pop. What the fuck is a pop? So I asked her. She said something like a soda or whatever and I told her, it’s a fucking coke and she needs to go back to fucking Chicago and get fucked. Don’t bring your stupid shit down here."

Even more f’d up, is he would have ordered a Sprite.

I dislike a few of my relatives.

permalink
report
reply
25 points

“Why don’t my nephews visit me anymore?” --Them on their death bed

permalink
report
parent
reply
19 points

Sprites are great, what’s with all this sprite slander? Sprite, Sierra Mist, etc are the best sodas.

permalink
report
parent
reply
62 points

You’re missing how it works; you ask for a Coke, the server says what kind, and you say Sprite.

permalink
report
parent
reply
5 points

Ah, I see

permalink
report
parent
reply
26 points

But they’re not a damn coke

permalink
report
parent
reply
3 points

Correct. 🤷

permalink
report
parent
reply
10 points

Why you gotta leave out the og? 7up is the quintessential lemon lime beverage. Much better in a cocktail, IMO.

permalink
report
parent
reply
5 points

Make 7, up yours!

permalink
report
parent
reply
13 points

While my own similar rant would have been only meant in play, this is how I feel about both o’ y’all. It’s a fucking soda. Gonna just go all the way and call sweet tea a coke too?

permalink
report
parent
reply
2 points

Y’all slurp down sweet tea like yer granpappy’s gonna whip yer ass if ya don’t an’nen go an bitch about insulin prices

permalink
report
parent
reply
1 point

If it’s carbonated.

permalink
report
parent
reply
1 point

Same, which is why I left that fucking shithole

permalink
report
parent
reply
116 points

Calling it soda, good. Calling it pop, fine. Calling every soft drink a coke, fuck off.

permalink
report
reply
28 points

Get this, in Scotland, pretty much any liquid is called juice.

permalink
report
parent
reply
12 points

I gotta put juice in my car, it’s on empty

permalink
report
parent
reply
9 points

Still makes more sense than calling Sprite “coke”.

permalink
report
parent
reply
3 points

Although I’ve always referred to buckfast as “the devil’s ribeana”. Although I do admit that the standard name is “wreck the hoose juice”.

permalink
report
parent
reply
1 point
1 point

Here is an alternative Piped link(s):

Juice loose aboot this hoose!

Piped is a privacy-respecting open-source alternative frontend to YouTube.

I’m open-source; check me out at GitHub.

permalink
report
parent
reply
11 points

Bless your heart.

permalink
report
parent
reply
2 points

Well I declare

permalink
report
parent
reply
6 points

so this

permalink
report
parent
reply
3 points

no u

permalink
report
parent
reply
51 points

Soda is an always has been the right term, but the people who say “coke” to mean any soda are the most wrongest people in history

permalink
report
reply
3 points

I agree, but I also don’t go around saying “cellophane tape” or “photocopy”, and instead tend to use “scotch tape” and “xerox”. Lots of other people do too. I know that’s wrong too, but it at least partially explains the whole “coke” thing.

permalink
report
parent
reply
2 points
*
Deleted by creator
permalink
report
parent
reply
2 points

Why though? There’s no sodium bicarbonate in those, only carbon dioxide for the bubbles?

permalink
report
parent
reply
42 points

Inshallah the South will no longer be a walking advertisement for coca cola 🙏

permalink
report
reply
3 points

Heretic.

permalink
report
parent
reply