"Soda"vs."Pop"vs....?

[fireheart17]

In Australia it's called soft drink, or you ask for what you want by name eg. coke, fanta.

Makes things a lot easier when you're ordering in a restaurant or at a bar.

Also in response to someone's earlier point about "What do you call Q-tips etc." here's a short list of Aussie terms for products like that. (left is Australian, right is American)

Panadol-Tylenol (It's the same product, but not made by the same company: Glaxosmith Kline makes Panadol, Johnson and Johnson makes Tylenol.)

Beados/Bindeez-Pixos/Aqua Dots (left name is post-recall)

Jumper/windcheater-Sweater/sweatshirt (although I've heard sweatshirt being used as well here)

Duracell Bunny-Energizer Bunny (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duracell_Bunny)

Biscuit/Bikkie-Cookie (although some products here are marketed as "Cookies" and we sell "Cookies and Cream" ice-cream flavour)

Chips-Fries (although Maccas and Hungry Jacks use the term "fries", KFC doesn't)

Hungry Jacks-Burger King (there are a couple of Burger Kings in other states)

Capsicum-Bell Pepper

Gridiron-American Football.

Ute-pickup truck (ute is short for utility vehicle. I tend to label them by the model)

trackies-usually just refers to track pants.

thongs-flipflops

and subsequently

thong-G-string. (I have never seen thong used on merchandise unless it's from the US)

runners/joggers/sandshoes-sneakers (although sneakers is also used here)

Budgie smugglers/speedos-As it sounds, it's basically men's swimwear. The term "budgie smugglers" refers to a man's erm...penis resembling a budgie hiding in there when wearing them. (that's just my guess)

spag bog/bol- spaghetti bolognaise.

snag-sausage.

barbie-BBQ

Fritz/Devon ham: basically it's processed pork and is YUMMY. Kids love it and we get a lot wanting "smiley fritz".

hammered/smashed-to get drunk.

[Stormraven]

Unless they've changed since June of last year, "Mickey D's Sweet Tea," as the window posters call it, contains one pound of sugar per gallon, including the volume of ice added to the warm tea in the urn. Specifically, in this area at least, we were sent Dixie Crystals up until about a year after they installed the automatic tea machines (before that we made it in the coffee makers, and had no official amount of sugar to use) and then were switched to Peninsular, made by Michigan Sugar, probably because it came in four-pound bags instead of five which made things much simpler as we were using four pounds at a time. Because a customer asked and I looked it up for her, I know that that company gets its sugar from beets.

No corn syrup. Though we did have "tea" sweetened with corn syrup for a couple of years when they tried switching us to Nestea Nastea. Not bad stuff, really, except that calling it "tea" leads people to expect it to taste like tea, at which it fails miserably.

A pound? :Shudder: It didn't taste that sweet to me, I have to say - but then, it's been a long time since I used even as much as a full cup per gallon, so I'll certainly buy that my calibration's off.

[GINSENG]

There are actually people who call it something other than pop? O_O

I've always lived in Michigan. Everyone I've ever known calls it pop. It sounds strange to call it something else.

[jackfaire]

I am a name brander guilty as sin, If I need a copy I ask for a xerox, I call them kodak moments, I need a kleenex and yes I ask for a Coke.

[HYHYBT]

A pound? :Shudder: It didn't taste that sweet to me, I have to say - but then, it's been a long time since I used even as much as a full cup per gallon, so I'll certainly buy that my calibration's off.

It may well not have been: some people can't be bothered to stir in the sugar properly, or even try to do it *after* adding the ice. So the sugar's still there, but a lot of it sinks to the bottom and winds up going down the sink instead of the hatch.

[Stormraven]

Never mind, I just realised today that two cups is a pound, and that's what most Sweet Tea uses - 2 to 2½ cups, according to some recipes. I just never made the connection before.

[Pagan]

There are actually people who call it something other than pop? O_O

I've always lived in Michigan. Everyone I've ever known calls it pop. It sounds strange to call it something else.

Obviously, considering this is the 5th page of "we call it this".

I've always lived in New Mexico and we call it soda in English or Spanish. Sounds just as strange to me to hear it referred to as "pop".

[fireheart17]

Never mind, I just realised today that two cups is a pound, and that's what most Sweet Tea uses - 2 to 2½ cups, according to some recipes. I just never made the connection before.

Lol, given that we use the metric system down here, I have no clue how much is in a pound or what the conversion between pounds and kilos is

[Fryk]

I think a pound converts to about 2.blah dee blah blah kilos.

[Pagan]

I think a pound converts to about 2.blah dee blah blah kilos.

Ahem, putting on Pharm Tech hat here. (We had to memorize all sorts of conversions.)

1 kilogram = 2.2 pounds.

1 pound = .45 kilograms

[Fryk]

2.20459, actually. I finally looked it up.

I still maintain it's 2.blah dee blah blah

[Pagan]

2.20459, actually. I finally looked it up.

I still maintain it's 2.blah dee blah blah

But a pound doesn't convert to 2.blah dee blah blah kilos. It's the other way 'round.

[Fryk]

Shhhh, Pagan. Maybe no one else noticed. Just act natural.

[Wingates_Hellsing]

Remember, we can't see you if you stop moving.

[Fryk]

Sir Integra, you're a T-Rex with some frog DNA thrown into your sequence?