That’s likely because the Internet has lied to you and ‘coke’ isn’t used in the same manner as soda / pop. Rather it’s used as an example. Like “hey, do you want a coke or something” Which means they have coke and likely other soft drinks like Sprite, Mountain dew, etc but most definitely NOT Pepsi. No one is going to look at a Dr Pepper or Sprite and call it a Coke in the South East. Source, grew up in Coke mecca / Atlanta
The worst are the places that call every soda “Coke.”
The concept makes me irrationally angry.
That’s likely because the Internet has lied to you and ‘coke’ isn’t used in the same manner as soda / pop. Rather it’s used as an example. Like “hey, do you want a coke or something” Which means they have coke and likely other soft drinks like Sprite, Mountain dew, etc but most definitely NOT Pepsi. No one is going to look at a Dr Pepper or Sprite and call it a Coke in the South East. Source, grew up in Coke mecca / Atlanta
So waiters don’t ask “what kind of coke do you want?”
People at restaurants don’t ask waiters, “what kinds of coke do you have?”
“I’ll have a coke”
“What kind?”
“Dr Pepper”
Isn’t a real exchange that happens?
Can we get a second opinion on this?
texan here: yeah it’s more “a coke or something”, never “what kind of coke do you want”. like we forgot the generic word soda/cola collectively.