• BillyClark@piefed.social
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      6 hours ago

      It’s just a regional dialect thing. Where I grew up, we called it “coke,” even if it was a Dr. Pepper. That’s the only one that is truly irredeemably wrong.

      I had to train myself to call them something else. (I chose “sodas” because that was the only alternative I knew.)

          • AWistfulNihilist@lemmy.world
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            5 hours ago

            I think that’s what their saying, since coke/cocaine and coke/coca cola are both named coke because of the same chemical.

            I dunno which came first tho, far as I can tell cocaine in both drug and drink form started getting called coke around 1900-1910. The coca-cola company didn’t like the nickname, they advertised you saying the name in full, they didn’t actually copyright “coke” for coca-cola it till the 1940’s.