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[#HBC | Joker]

Can I have a coke?

What kind?

Pepsi.

 

[Kantrip]

I actually say soft drink

 

[Gova]

I say carbonated beverage.

obv.

but not really.

 

[#HBC | Nabe]

It is pop across Canada. Just saying.

 

[Kantrip]

It is pop across Canada. Just saying.

Can confirm. We make fun of Americans for calling it soda.

 

[Handorin]

People make fun of the way I say Fanta. I say it like they do in the commercials (Wanna Fanta) due to my time in Germany. Not that hard typical American "A" sound.

 

[#HBC | ZoZo]

oh god i can already see the pronunciation confusion there.

 

[Circus]

"It's 10 this morning, high of 14 at noon, low of 8 tonight."

Too many numbers. Gimme a ballpark so I can keep a little bit of mystery in my day.

 

[Raziek]

It is pop across Canada. Just saying.

Can confirm. We make fun of Americans for calling it soda.

Double confirmed. (BC, Ontario and NS all verify, so it is LITERALLY across Canada.)

 

[#HBC | Gorf]

Soda is where it's at. Hispanics even agree.

Edit: what do you call the circle in the road that makes drivers drive around (counter clockwise if you drive on the right side of the road, probably clockwise if you drive on the left) so traffic flows better? Apparently roundabout isn't the standard term.

 

[#HBC | Dancer]

Fahrenheit was created as this this:

Salt water freezes at 0
Human body temp is 100

But you're sick if you're temperature is 100. Normal is 97, isn't it?

isn't it, like, 98.6?

*sigh* It almost seems like it's getting progressively arbitrary reading these posts.

And it is coke. Take orders at McDonald's and you'll see.

Customer: "Can I get a sprite with that?"

Me: "Sure, what size coke would you like?"

 

[BSL]

To be fair, EVERYONE makes fun of people who call it soda.

 

[Tom]

to be fair, no they dont

 

[#HBC | Dancer]

Soda is where it's at. Hispanics even agree.

Edit: what do you call the circle in the road that makes drivers drive around (counter clockwise if you drive on the right side of the road, probably clockwise if you drive on the left) so traffic flows better? Apparently roundabout isn't the standard term.

Roundabout! What else could you call it?

What do you call the red table sauce with a sweet and tangy flavor to it that derives from tomatoes?

What do you call deep friend thinly cut salty slices of potatoes?

A lot of people who aren't fluent in English refer to ketchup as tomatoes, and french fries as potatoes or chips. Which honestly makes more sense but **** it, this is America and we have french fires FREEDOM fries here.

The things you learn at McDonalds.

 

[Circus]

Customer: "Can I get a sprite with that?"

Me: "Sure, what size coke would you like?"

That really is the most ridiculous thing. It's like calling all condiments "Heinz ketchup."

 

[Circus]

funny ninja

 

[Gova]

All ketchup is Heinz though.

Or better be.

 

[#HBC | Dancer]

That really is the most ridiculous thing. It's like calling all condiments "Heinz ketchup."

Well it actually has to do with how we ring up orders.

Customers who walk in get the soda themselves, we just give them the cup. The easiest drink option to ring up on our registers is coke because it's the furthest to the left, and all sodas cost the same. So whenever someone asks for a specific drink, we just ring up a coke because it honestly doesn't matter, and because you're always ringing it up as coke you get into the habit of always calling it coke.

 

[Tom]

ketchup is a low iq food

 

[#HBC | Dancer]

What sauce is high iq Tom?

 

[#HBC | Dark Horse]

That really is the most ridiculous thing. It's like calling all condiments "Heinz ketchup."

Have you ever called a tissue a kleenex?

 

[Gova]

Or a cotton swab a Q-tip?

 

[Circus]

Okay, but they do the same thing at the McDonald's in the midwest (or at least around my specific vicinity in the midwest) and we still don't call everything "coke."

I get how it's a company thing. I don't get how it's a regional thing.

sidebar: I watched a couple of episodes of America's Secret Slang yesterday because I'm an interesting person who does interesting things, and it was kind of enlightening. None of it answered this burning question though.

 

[#HBC | Dark Horse]

Or a cotton swab a Q-tip?

Or Q-tip a cotton swab?

 

[Circus]

Have you ever called a tissue a kleenex?

Or a cotton swab a Q-tip?

Sure. But it's not the same thing.

Kleenex is a brand of tissue. Q-tip is a brand of cotton swab. Band-aid is a brand of bandages.

Coke is a brand of cola. Sprite is not a cola. Sunkist is not a cola. The same way mustard is not a type of ketchup.

 

[~ Gheb ~]

mustard is not a type of ketchup.

... there are people who think this?!?

 

[Tom]

What sauce is high iq Tom?

hummus
chili oil
horseradish
worcestershire
peppercorn parmesan
anything pineapple/mango + fire

 

[Gova]

No, there aren't.

Hummus is a sauce? Yeah right, pretty sure that's a paste. A delicious edible paste.

 

[Circus]

... there are people who think this?!?

No. At least I don't think so. Maybe some very young children somewhere.

I'm just doing a really bad job of making a comparison.

 

[Raziek]

Soda is where it's at. Hispanics even agree.

Edit: what do you call the circle in the road that makes drivers drive around (counter clockwise if you drive on the right side of the road, probably clockwise if you drive on the left) so traffic flows better? Apparently roundabout isn't the standard term.

Roundabout or Rotary, I've heard both. I think Rotary is the official term though.

 

[#HBC | Dark Horse]

So this is relevant

http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/...0004j1082000088000104j80k00800000050004&_r=1&

 

[Gova]

It's also pretty accurate, at least it was for me.

 

[~ Gheb ~]

hummus
chili oil
horseradish
worcestershire
peppercorn parmesan
anything pineapple/mango + fire

Don't forget Harissa :3

 

[Circus]

So this is relevant

http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/...0004j1082000088000104j80k00800000050004&_r=1&

Whoa. I had no idea Devil's Night was such a Michigan thing. Basically everyone in the mitten call's the night before Halloween Devil's Night, and then the rest of the country is just dark blue.

 

[#HBC | Joker]

So this is relevant

http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/...0004j1082000088000104j80k00800000050004&_r=1&

that thing pinpointed my location pretty spot on.

Whoa. I had no idea Devil's Night was such a Michigan thing. Basically everyone in the mitten call's the night before Halloween Devil's Night, and then the rest of the country is just dark blue.

That one kinda blew me away too.

 

[Raziek]

Very accurate for me.

Apparently "sneakers" talking about Gym shoes gave me away entirely as being from the North-east.

http://nyti.ms/1htWloB

 

[Circus]

Would be interested to see where a Canadian/European/whatever else we have back here Dgamer would get placed on that map.

 

[Raziek]

Very accurate for me.

Apparently "sneakers" talking about Gym shoes gave me away entirely as being from the North-east.

http://nyti.ms/1htWloB

Would be interested to see where a Canadian/European/whatever else we have back here Dgamer would get placed on that map.

 

[Circus]

You ninja'd me!

 

[Raziek]

I figured as much, but it was an opportunity to take anyway. <3