Went to buy soda

[joeshell383]

out west everyone calls it pop
down south, its soda or "coke"

at least from my experience living in those regions

Soda, pop, sodapop, Coke (referring to any soft drink), cold drink, soft drink, cold beverage, carbonated beverage....

 

[dukebound85]

You don't get what a deposit is? It means when you return the containers for recycling you get a full refund of the deposit you paid when you purchased the soda/beer.

its the first i have ever seen of it when i have bought soda and im a pro in soda buying lol

It is designed to encourage recycling, but most states that feature such programs only apply it to carbonated beverages (soda, some energy drinks, beer, wine coolers). These policies need to be updated because of the prevalence of bottled water, bottled milk, sports drinks, and juices. In fact, I'd like to see a ~$0.25+ deposit applied to non-beverage containers. THOSE are the ones that are HUGE, contain chemical residue, and seem to be recycled very infrequently (i.e. detergent, bleach, liquid soap, hair care bottles, household cleaners, etc.)

oh i recycle all the time. however i have always used my own containers.

now im suppose to waste gas driving to a store to recycle seems stupid imo

 

[TEG]

Actually, it is because of Deposits, in Michigan, that I started to buy bottles of soda/pop, instead of cans. Plus a 6 pack of 24oz bottles, cost the same as a 12 pack of 12oz cans, you save $.60 on the change.

TEG

 

[jzuena]

Let's see if Coupe DeVal gets his way and gets the tax on flavored water passed. That'll go over real well...
Never heard "pop" used here in reference to soda...

I forgot that our state couldn't just copy the New York plan, they had to go one better and include diet drinks, too. I can see the Boston Tea Party, part 2 - The Boston Soda Party! I live right between routes 3 and 93, so I'll just choose between the malls in Nashua, NH and Salem, NH if our brain trust decides to go down that route.

We say Pop in the UK too.

I just order Lemonaid to avoid confusion... but friends who have never been to the UK before will get a puzzled look when I get something that looks like a Sprite!

 

[joeshell383]

its the first i have ever seen of it when i have bought soda and im a pro in soda buying lol

oh i recycle all the time. however i have always used my own containers.

now im suppose to waste gas driving to a store to recycle seems stupid imo

No, you just return them the next you go to the store. Why would you make a special trip? If you have relocated permanently, you'll get used to the routine shortly. Not sure about NY, but it some locales it's fun to return the bottles because of the machines that you get to use 😛

 

[MM07]

We like to keep an eye on you "foreigners" in our territory 😀

With our accents, it isn't hard for others to keep track of us when we leave New England 😛

People sure correct me a lot. 😉

We say Pop in the UK too.

I'll feel at home when I visit then.

 

[gonyr]

its the first i have ever seen of it when i have bought soda and im a pro in soda buying lol

Did you recently move to NY? The deposit has been around for about 20 years.

Also, last week the governor dropped the proposal to tax non-diet soda along with about thirty other things.

 

[fotografica]

I forgot that our state couldn't just copy the New York plan, they had to go one better and include diet drinks, too. I can see the Boston Tea Party, part 2 - The Boston Soda Party! I live right between routes 3 and 93, so I'll just choose between the malls in Nashua, NH and Salem, NH if our brain trust decides to go down that route.

And don't forget the proposed tax on alcohol as well. That's meeting some heavy opposition from liquor store owners. Deval is reaching at straws trying to find new ways to create new taxes. I'm about 15 mins from Nashua and DW Highway is hopping on weekends...

 

[dukebound85]

Did you recently move to NY? The deposit has been around for about 20 years.

Also, last week the governor dropped the proposal to tax non-diet soda along with about thirty other things.

yea i did just move here. might explain it lol

 

[jzuena]

Soda, pop, sodapop, Coke (referring to any soft drink), cold drink, soft drink, cold beverage, carbonated beverage....

I don't know, around here the response to "I'd like a cold beverage" is usually "I need to see I.D." 😀

...and "Frosty beverage" removes all doubt!

 

[joeshell383]

its the first i have ever seen of it when i have bought soda

Next time check the packaging more closely. If the packaging has state abbreviations on it, all the states that you see on the label participate in a deposit program.

Many carbonated beverages in non-deposit states feature the same label as beverages in deposit states (which may allow for arbitrage a la Seinfeld's "The Bottle Deposit" [but would be unlikely to ever result in a positive net payoff])

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Bottle_Deposit_(Seinfeld)

 

[joeshell383]

...and "Frosty beverage" removes all doubt!

I suppose so. 😉

 

[Mr. lax]

I'm guessing you are not originally from New England. No native New Englander I know uses "pop". Near Boston it is "tonic" (said like a true Bostonian) everywhere else it is "soda". The nearest place I've heard "pop" was Buffalo.

It's pop in canada

 

[yg17]

If you are overweight (I guess even if you are not) we want you drinking diet soda. But heaven forbid you actively do something to work the weight off. We have to discourage that practice right-quick.

From the midwest on I've heard pop, except in the South as well. Kind of weird to order a Coke and get asked "what kind?". I was ordering a Coke to forestall any "pop" vs "soda" vs "tonic" misunderstandings in the first place. So as not to sound like I stuttered, I just replied "Sprite".

Depends where in the midwest. In Missouri, it's soda. I had a roommate from Ohio who called it pop and us Missourians always gave him crap for that 😛

 

[joeshell383]

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[Prof.]

State Governments need $$$ and lots of it! So they're going to tax and add fees to anything they can.

 

[joeshell383]

State Governments need $$$ and lots of it! So they're going to tax and add fees to anything they can.

If you're referring to the deposit that the OP was complaining about, that's not a real tax as 100% of the money is refunded upon container return.

Overall though, I agree with your statement.

 

[Fuzzy14]

We say Pop in the UK too.

Nope, just in England.

In Glasgow we call it 'ginger' 🙂

 

[jzuena]

And don't forget the proposed tax on alcohol as well. That's meeting some heavy opposition from liquor store owners. Deval is reaching at straws trying to find new ways to create new taxes. I'm about 15 mins from Nashua and DW Highway is hopping on weekends...

Hopefully he doesn't try the old State Trooper stakeout at the NH liquor store at the border trick. Although I liked NH's response the last time: they arrested the undercover state troopers since they did not have a NH license to carry firearms and just assumed "We're State Troopers from MA, we can do anything we want". Never mess with another state's tax revenues.

I'm about 20 minutes from either DW highway straight to the Pheasant Lane Mall area in Nashua or Route 93 straight to the Rockingham Mall area in Salem, so I'll even have choice which town I avoid MA tax in!

(I assume you mean tax increase on alcohol, since I have a hard time believing we aren't already paying some kind of tax on it)

 

[fotografica]

Hopefully he doesn't try the old State Trooper stakeout at the NH liquor store at the border trick. Although I liked NH's response the last time: they arrested the undercover state troopers since they did not have a NH license to carry firearms and just assumed "We're State Troopers from MA, we can do anything we want". Never mess with another state's tax revenues.

I'm about 20 minutes from either DW highway straight to the Pheasant Lane Mall area in Nashua or Route 93 straight to the Rockingham Mall area in Salem, so I'll even have choice which town I avoid MA tax in!

(I assume you mean tax increase on alcohol, since I have a hard time believing we aren't already paying some kind of tax on it)

Oh of course..I'm sure there's some kind of "tax" buried in there somewhere already..I'm talking about his new forms of "revenue enhancement"

Craving new revenues, Gov. Deval Patrick is on a kid-in-a-candy-store spree to tax everything from bon bons to booze - angering businesses, amusing lawmakers and leaving consumers stuck with the bill.

The governor wants to rake in $121.5 million by eliminating a 5 percent sales tax exemption on all candy, soda, sweetened beverages, liquor, and even fruit cocktails with less than 50 percent fruit juice.

 

[r1ch4rd]

Nope, just in England.

In Glasgow we call it 'ginger' 🙂

I stand corrected!