Why are Carbonated Beverages Called "Soft Drinks"?
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The term “soft drink” though is now typically used exclusively for flavored carbonated beverages. This is actually due to advertising. Flavored carbonated beverage makers were having a hard time creating national advertisements due to the fact that what you call their product varies from place to place. For instance, in parts of the United States and Canada, flavored carbonated beverages are referred to as “pop”; in other parts “soda”; in yet other parts “coke”; and there are a variety of other names commonly used as well. Then if we go international with the advertisements, in England these drinks are called “fizzy drinks”; in Ireland sometimes “minerals”. To account for the fact that they can’t refer to their product in the generic sense on national advertisements, because of these varied terms, these manufactures have chosen the term “soft drink” to be more or less a universal term for flavored carbonated beverages.
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"I'll have a Coke please."
"Sure what kind? We have Sprite, Ginger Ale, and ... Coke."
Thought Coke only referred to Coca Cola?
Nefus1988 in the south it means "soda"
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that is totally not true, i live in texas, and no one calls soda , "coke", we only call coca cola , "coke"
I live in Arkansas, and we often call soda "coke." So saying it is "totally not true" is totally not true.
If anyone actually didn't think it's obvious: Soft drinks contain no alcohol, hard drinks contain alcohol. It's really that simple.
Just as in, Kool-Aid is advertised as a "soft drink" as well, despite being noncarbonated. ;)
Haven't heard anyone call milk or water a soft drink
"Roast foul?" That does not sound very appetizing. Roast fowl would taste a lot better.
I would love to see a video on chronic pain disorders and treatments especially about fibromyalgia
In Québec, soft drinks are commonly called "liqueur"... Which is ironically also the official term for "hard drinks".
No in Ireland we call then fizzy drinks too
In France we use the angicism "soft drink" to describe any non-alcoholic beverage in parties and party preparations groceries. Often to insist on the fact their purpose is to be mixed with strong alcohol...
About carbonated beverages, we would most likely call them "soda" although some prefer "boisson gazeuse".
But soda is more specific to sweet carbonated beverages, as we also drink a lot of carbonated water...
On the west coast of Australia it's called 'cool drink'.
I confirm that and add that in my experience 'cool drink' is mostly used when talking to kids, and usually the older generations use the term - seems to be going out of fashion. When speaking between adults it's usually 'soft drink', especially in the context of a party/restuarant/etc where there are alcoholic beverages available as well.
I went a grocery store in Ireland and asked for a soda. They didn't know what I was talking about lol.
We don't even use the term grocery store either 😁
I'm from Minnesota and we say "pop". It's a Midwestern thing. I can understand how people from the Northeastern and the Western states call it "soda". What I can't understand is Southern people calling all soft drinks "coke". When I say I want a "coke" I want a Coca-Cola.
People find it weird to call any type of soft drink a "coke" but it makes perfect sense. It's the same reason we call all facial tissues "Kleenex" even though Kleenex is a specific brand. It's called a generic trademark. Coca-Cola and Kleenex dominated the market with their respected products and so therefore became a generic trademark simply because everyone associated any product of that nature with the dominate one.
When I visited the UK, my gf and I went to a burger king (it was the only thing open) and tried to order a soda. We asked "what kind of sodas do you have?" and the woman looked at us confused and said "we don't have any soda". We were pretty confused because we saw the soda machine behind her. First I thought they were out, but then I saw someone else go and fill up a cup.
After a moment of thought I just asked for a coke which she then gave to us. Apparently, in the UK, Soda means "tonic water", which means that she probably thought we were alcoholic -_-
true.
We call it limonade of frisdrank (fresh drink) in the Netherlands. Soda is for cleaning or washing and pop just means a doll or puppet.
Kool-Aid (at least during the 1980's) marketed themselves as the 3rd best selling "soft-drink" (implied after Coca-Cola and Pepsi) despite the fact that they were not carbonated
In New England, the word for soda pop is (or used to be) "tonic," so if you want tonic water, you have to ask for a quinine. Otherwise, the waiter will want to know what kind of tonic you want: Coke, Pepsi, 7-Up, root beer, etc.
In French they're called "boissons gazeuses", which means "gaseous drinks".
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Here's a good topic of discussion for a future video.
Why are the majority of soft drinks, at least in the UK, in can sizes of 330ml, beer 440ml and fruit juice cartons (such as Ribena) odd sizes, at 288ml. When was this set as the standard and by who? Does it vary around the world? I think the US has 355ml can.
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In Australia we call them soft drinks.
and fizzy drinks.
I would like to see a discussion of the claim that soft drinks and coffee actually dehydrate rather than hydrating the body (despite their high water content), including a consideration of sugar-free and caffeine-free beverages.
I use both "soda" and "pop" to refer to carbonated soft drinks but that's because I've lived on both sides of the soda/pop line, which is considered to be near Rochester, NY - I grew up near Syracuse on the "soda" side of the isogloss, but I've lived in the Buffalo metro area for most of my life, on the "pop" side. Actually, I might say "some soda", but "a can of pop"...
I saw both too!!!! No worries!!!!!!!!!!! Lol. :).
Wait, the Irish called it what?
Minerals?
Don't Even Bother: as in 'mineral water' AKA 'sparkling water', because they fizz. It's actually quite a sensible choice of term.
Yes we do, I don't understand it either.
simhopp, "mineral water" has historically referred to lightly carbonated water, so no, it's quite sensible, especially given the usage goes back to the original invention of seltzer. Go back, take a read of the history, and you'll realise what I mean when I write "sensible".
"soft" drink because it doesn't contain alcohol as opposed to a "hard" drink which is alcoholic.
So... based on the comments, is Australia the only place that almost exclusively calls them soft drinks? Actually, when served with alcohol they're sometimes called mixers or when talking to children sometimes people say fizzy drink but not really. I think almost everyone calls them soft drinks.
pop in canada and soda in america
Erica Crombie The American midwest is largely pop, the south is largely soda with coke pockets.
Thank you.
Thank you for mentioning Ireland. We are usually forgotten about.
I've had some trouble ordering drinks in various parts of the country. In Georgia, they did not even know what I meant when I said pop.
I've always considered a soft drink, anything non-alcoholic. Minerals is a pub term for soft drinks, which I had never heard of before I started working in them.
Love the picture of orange Nesbitt. Haven't seen any in years but it was my favorite growing up.
I like that he adds in the UK sometimes. It's nice to hear about my own country for a change instead of it's larger and more popular offspring
I am originally from Michigan and we called it pop. When I moved to North Carolina I was told they called all soft drinks "Coke" whether it was a Pepsi, Dr Pepper or, Sprite. Waitresses would ask you "What kind of Coke do you want?"
England don't just call them fizzy drinks they're pop as well !!
I am a native California and I grew up calling them Soda Pop. I now live in Texas and allot of the natives call them cokes. Seems weird to me.
in japan they call all sodas, and any non alcoholic flavoured drinks "juice"
oh...and in northern england (where im from) pop refers to any non alcoholic drink -- sodas are called "fizzy pop"
do they really call it juice in Japan? that's what we call it in Scotland too, well fizzy juice in fact
We've called fizzy drinks "pop" as well in a lot of parts in Britain. People probably think it some urban term for drugs nowadays.
To sort of add to definition: fizzy drinks were originally called soda pop because they used soda ash to create the fizz and this would cause the bottle to pop when opened.
Why don't analog volume knobs increase volume evenly over their range like digital ones do?
logarythmic, not linear.
On a lot of software based volumes knobs and sliders both are available to choose from.
Short answer: the way humans perceive volume is more complicated than you think it is, and eliminating some of the need to design physical hardware makes it easier to make a precise, and "responsive" volume knob. (Not that all digital volume knobs are all that good, or that there aren't a lot of great analog volume knobs out there.)
Basically, perceived volume does not directly correlate to the actual amount of sound energy bieng emitted. Humans are much more sensitive to small changes in sound energy levels when the overall level is lower than when it is higher. That means that to create an incremental increase in volume (as perceived by humans), you need to actually multiply the actual sound level, not add a set amount to it. (In other words, use a logarithmic scale) In fact, when you double the amount of energy bieng emitted, it's only perceived as a slight increase in volume.
So, this means that for a good analog volume knob, you need to design analog components to do this multiplication. This isn't really all that hard, given how much time has spent developing this technology, but on cheaper hardware, often the engineers will settle on a "good enough" solution that doesn't give a perfect volume scale, but is cheaper and easier to manufacture. In a digital system, however, it's even more trivial to write code to multiply sound levels, such that even the cheapest implementation can do it perfectly.
I should also note that bad components down the chain from your volume knob (such as amps, speakers, etc.) can have non-linear volume responses, which can distort the volume adjustment even further. In fact, these days, there are so many well-developed volume circuits out there that you can basically just drop into a larger design, (and most engineers hate re-inventing the wheel) that this is almost certainly the cause of any "bad" volume knobs you encounter, unless it's on a particularly cheap piece of hardware.
thanks for the great response. I read it like three times and I'm happy I understand it
Good explanation. Human hearing doesn't exactly mirror a logarithmic scale either, but it's a fairly good approximation.
Those fletcher and munson curves. :D
Carbonated bottled beverages companies were many back in the day, almost as many as small local breweries. While there were some companies that jumped for a franchise license, many went out of business once the steel and then the aluminum can became prominent.
*BELCH*
In Scotland we call fizzy drinks "juice". Well, pretty much anything that isn't alcoholic is known as juice.
That's interesting. In the US we call drinks "juice" as long as they contain fruit juice. "Apple Juice" or "Orange Juice". Legit fruit (not just flavor) being the key. There is also "Orange Drink" and "Grape Drink". Which are basically sugar water that are flavored LIKE the fruit on the label.
TopherFM yea the whole juice thing here is pretty weird I admit. It's just a cultural abnormality. We scots have weird names for everything.
across the pond we call them fizzy wizzle piz pops
Muskoka, Ontario Canada here, majority of people just say pop. Soda is more reserved for carbonated water aka "Club Soda", "Sparkling Water" "Tonic Water" or "Seltzer" - *Also,* "Mineral Water"
They are not called SODAs or SOFT DRINKs, they are called COKE
Water is my favorite soft drink
"Soda" is the correct term. "Pop" is used by yokels. "Coke" is just stupid as a generic term.
Very cool. Hi Simon
awesome channel
Thanks :-)
In Texas we call it either "Soda water" or just "Soda"
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Who drinks mixer on its owns. SAVAGES
nice haha
As someone who enjoys single malt scotch whisky and other quality spirits I would consider anyone who MIXES their drinks a savage. ;)
You dont enjoy a good GandT then.
slippytiger You got me there!
I not being serious about mixing of course, some drinks are great for mixing, such as gin, the Singapore Sling is one of my favourite cocktails. :)
Tl;dr - 0:10 to 0:21
Bonus fact of where the word "Pop" for soda came from @ 1:24
in glasgow we call it ginger i think it comes from ginger ale
Cowboys had a slang term - “belly wash”
I call them soda and seltzer.
Funny. I live in Oklahoma and I've always called it soda.
The map is right, I live in Ohio, everyone always calls it pop
In Minnesota It's called POP.
So the question is, where did the term, "hard" in this context come from...
The first result on google says it comes from "Hard Cider"..
But then I don't know if it was called that because it is alcoholic, or because it's the originator of the term.. I also don't know why they called it "*hard* cider" to begin with.
My grandfather called them Tonic.
Why does fluff get stuck in my belly button ?
0:15 for the answer
I needed a pop so I had coke but looking down my pants I realized it was a soft drink.
nitramletnan "I needed a pop" the term pop is used incorrectly. Also how would looking down at your hands help determine that it was a soft drink.
Maybe you've figured it out between then and now, but I won't know until you've answered back. Anyway, It's a bit of crude humor. The phrase "pop a woodie " is sometimes used for a "hard-on" which is another slang term for a male erection. He looked down at his pants and didn't see a hard-on , so decided it was a soft drink.
Get your sody pops kids!
Eyy Scientology ad played for me.
I assumed they were called "soft drinks" because they made your teeth soft. I once had a soft drink and I thought my teeth were dying since they felt so weird after. Poison water I tell you.
Right. It has a negative effect on bones , too.
Got a like for saying Irish people call them minerals
In my experience, in the south, people who call soda “coke” are typically of an older generation
You look like Michael Stevens in this one.
or could the northwest call it pop because when soda cans freeze over they pop?
Q: why is jumping out of an airplane called Bailing Out?
Because hard drinks are made with hard liquor?
Hell yeah, got it right! In Dutch we call them fresh drink.
why bluetooth is called bluetooh
It's not called "Bluetooh"..... It's called "Bluetooth"!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Lol. :).
.....Irish people crave that mineral
I call it sodi pop #pappa bless
The way you said advertisements lol
cool video
He’s BRITISH??? Some how I didn’t realize this until he said “advertisement”.
People should call them bubblies that's a much better name,I think.
We just call them drink
sody pop.
soap pop
What does he mean that you will go pop if you drink to much of them?
My guess, either you will burst, from the gas build up, or maybe it means you will fart. in some places "pop off" means fart.
JuddMan03 Maybe burp? Good guesses though. Thanks for the quick response. I really like the series. Totally addictive.
WTF the whole Midwest calls it pop except for the St Louis area.
Exceptions include WI.
It makes your bones soft. That is why it is called a soft drink.
i love how triggered Americans get when us Canadians call it pop i just about had one knock me out XD
0:33 wtf did you just say? adverse-it-meants? are you serious??
That’s how English people pronounce advertisement.
Burning water till I drop!
soft-kill?
whenever I hear it called pop I don't understand what the person is talking about for a few srconds
So, by putting alcohol in my soft drink, I make it a hard drink?
i call them, disgusting drinks!
Because it makes your teeth soft
why do say advertisement like that?
Because he's posh.
sodie pop
Because they are non alcoholic
Wierd, i never heard any soda refered to as a soft drink in any add
I always thought it was because they don't make you hard
I thought soda was the universal term for a soft drink...
All of you other Americans are weird.
I thought you were Mexican.
Is this guy actually mispronouncing shit or is he just trollin'? lol