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Incidentally, I (and all of my friends) grew up calling it coke and switched to soda when we realized that we were outside the norm. We still haven't figured out why we said coke to begin with.
Actually, this map is even better http://popvssoda.com:2998/countystats/total-cou...
I put Sweet'n Low in just about everything that I drink and diet drinks really fizz and sometimes overflow. One of the engineers that I work with thinks that it is a sodium component in the Saccharin.
Many years ago while in a seminar, I opened a packet of Sweet'n Low and poured it into the top of a can Diet Coke. Only a half inch of the liquid remained after the overflow occurred and covered a nice white tablecloth where I was sitting.
Now I am playing around at work dropping different things into my Diet Coke to see what kind of reaction occurs. Salt gets a fizz. NoDoz, potassium and ascorbic acid have no visible reactions. Adding coke to my glass is causing an Alka Seltzer type of fizz.
Plop plop fizz fizz.
New blog post: An Explosion In The Kitchen Of Mentos Proportion http://bit.ly/onkwJ
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I had to take a medicine that was dissolved into "any drink I wanted" once, and I selected soda for it, too. It crossed my mind that it might explode (or at least fizz quite a bit), but it wasn't a grand catastophe like yours. (Also, do you come from the dialectal region that refers to soda as coke or as pop? I can't remember what the south does.)
Yes, where I grew up every soda is a coke.
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Yes, where I grew up every soda is a coke.
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Pop is what we say up here.
When I was young ("and they packed me off to school"), most stores that sold sodas had either a horizontal drawer type refrigerator/ice box or a soda fountain. The ones that I remember always had Coca Cola on them.
I commuted to work (75 miles each way) from Monroe, North Louisiana to Vicksburg, Mississippi for several years in the late 80's. In Vicksburg was the old Biedenharn Candy Company building where Coke was originally bottled. The Biedenharns eventually ended up in Monroe.
Randy, Not volatile, but different is adding 1/3 part coffee with 2/3 part diet coke. Add Sweet'n Low and you should get a nice foamy head on top. Try next to a sink just in case there is an overflow of foam.
RaLph (From the names of my children: Rachel, Laura and Joseph)
I am still trying to get hold of some left over coffee here at work to mix with my diet soda (Diet Coke). Ah! Found some and it worked as advertised. Coffe+Diet Coke+Sweet'n Low=Foamy Head (Shasta Root Beer)
Regarding the map. If you select a specific state it shows survey numbers from the different counties categorized into Pop, Coke, Soda or Other. I was wondering why Orleans Parish (County) had a survey number of 113 for Coke to 104 Other. There are 2 engineers here at work who grew up in New Orleans and they said that one segment of the population refers to sodas as "cold drinks". One of the engineers actually started using that term. He also calls an automobile inspection sticker a "Brake Tag". What is an automobile inspection called in other places?
Cold drinks? My stash of Diet Cokes are consumed at room temperature.
In Florida we don't have auto inspections :).