This sign was on a Pepsi machine in a medical office corridor last week. I had to giggle and feel empathy for the author.
Can you read it?
To whom it may concern, Could you please refill with DIET PEPSI- PLEASE? Thank you!
Personally, I prefer Diet Coke but completely understand the desperation one feels when your delightfully fizzy drink of choice isn’t available.
Here’s hoping someone noticed and took heed. On a related note, we call it pop here in southern Ohio. Do you call it pop or soda or do you prefer the southern tradition of calling it all Coke?
We call it soda, but I know in Michigan it is pop. My husband and I gave up soda – or shall I say he mostly did. If we go out to eat, he will order a soda. But even if he knows the restaurant offers Coke products, he orders a Pepsi. Because that is what he really wants.
I still drink my Diet Coke in restaurants (sometimes) or if I’m stressed but try not to bring it home. If it’s Pepsi in a restaurant I nearly always turn it down and opt for water.
I grew up in Connecticut and call it soda. Here in Oregon I still call it soda. When I arrived 25 years ago there was more people calling it pop, but now soda is the term. This map helps explain:
https://www.reddit.com/r/MapPorn/comments/18fyz9q/use_of_pop_vs_coke_vs_soda_to_refer_to_sweet/
I don’t drink much sweetened soda. For a short time I did drink diet sodas, but unless you drink them all the time they’ll taste weird. My carbonated beverage of choice these days are flavored seltzers like Polar. You get the fizziness without the other stuff.
I drink Diet Coke sometimes in restaurants but rarely bring it into the house. I buy plain soda water at Aldi and flavor it myself. It’s typically healthier and tastes better to me. Plus, it tends to be a little fizzier and that’s the best part!
Soda in my part of the world!
After years of fighting it, I have re-embraced my northeastern Indiana heritage and proudly call it pop.
My favorite part is that this sign is in a medical building, full of people who ought to know better than to drink the stuff, whether diet or otherwise.
Oh the irony of the location! To make matters worse, there was a guy in a lab coat getting chips and chocolate. 🙂