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Coca-Cola rebrands products in Germany amid US image crisis – DW – 09/08/2025 (www.dw.com)

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[–] TheBat@lemmy.world 0 points 10 months ago (1 child)

Still a soda tho. 👎

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[–] Jajcus@sh.itjust.works 13 points 10 months ago (3 children)

No one in Europe calls it that, though ;-)

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[–] 123@programming.dev 4 points 10 months ago (1 child)

I get a chuckle every time people call it a "Cola drink". In Spanish (LatAm) it means "butt drink" 👀

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[–] Tja@programming.dev 5 points 10 months ago

In spanish (Spain) it means tail drink, which most often a referring to the penis.

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[–] TheBat@lemmy.world 3 points 10 months ago (8 children)

What's it called there then? Carbonated sugar water?

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[–] MrScottyTay@sh.itjust.works 14 points 10 months ago* (1 child)

Fizzy drinks, pop.

Soda is used to describe specifically soda water alone. At least in my experience

Kind of like how cookies are a type of biscuit rather than the name used for all biscuits.

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[–] Rothe@piefed.social 15 points 10 months ago (1 child)

That very much depends on the country and the language. Claiming there is a standard word in Europe for anything is pretty much nonsense.

It is called "sodavand" in Danish for example, while fizzy water is called "danskvand".

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[–] MrScottyTay@sh.itjust.works 8 points 10 months ago

Yeah that's why I said "in my experience"; I'm aware other places would have different names and was only speaking for my area, of which I'm unaware of its bounds. It's likely just the UK but don't know if the same kind of logic is used for other English speaking Europeans or not (when speaking English and not the native language of their region anyway).

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[–] antithetical@lemmy.deedium.nl 5 points 10 months ago (1 child)

In the Netherlands it is usually grouped as frisdrank, loosely translated as fresh-drink.

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[–] TheBat@lemmy.world 3 points 10 months ago (1 child)

It's not fresh. What a silly place. 🤪

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[–] antithetical@lemmy.deedium.nl 1 point 10 months ago*

Well, fresh in this context as refreshing. For freshly pressed juices we use vers or vers geperst sap.

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[–] bort@aussie.zone 3 points 10 months ago

Soft drink over here in Australia (at least in NSW) 👋

Also what the wiki page is called so I'm gonna say we are right and everyone else is wrong 😂 https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soft_drink

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[–] troed@fedia.io 2 points 10 months ago (1 child)

In Sweden our tasty sugar drinks are "saft" (uncarbonated) and "läsk" (carbonated).

The word ending "-igt" is used to describe that something "is like".

"saftigt" means "mmm, juicy, good" "läskigt" means "scary"

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[–] Dojan@pawb.social 3 points 10 months ago (1 child)

Läsk is from old German löschen meaning to quench. Läskande similarly means quenching.

Läskig is a false friend.

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[–] troed@fedia.io 1 point 10 months ago

I made a funny.

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[–] hakunawazo@lemmy.world 2 points 10 months ago

Limo?

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[–] Peppycito@sh.itjust.works 2 points 10 months ago (1 child)

Booblenpuppen.

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[–] TheBat@lemmy.world 2 points 10 months ago

Hehe boob

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[–] First_Thunder@lemmy.zip 2 points 10 months ago (1 child)

In portuguese: refrigerantes, as in the same thing as you’d call the freakin liquid inside an air conditioner system

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[–] TheBat@lemmy.world 2 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Drink refrigerantes and you'll feel cool for the rest of your life. 🥶

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[–] july@leminal.space 1 point 10 months ago

In my country we call it juice

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[–] Tja@programming.dev 2 points 10 months ago

I do, when speaking English. Each language has its own word, of course: refrescos, Erfrischungsgetränke, napoje gazowane, etc.

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