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Question for the folks in the gray area... Are you all referring to all brands and flavors of carbonated soft drinks as 'Coke,' or has Coca-Cola beat out all competitors there, or how does that work?
All brown sodas are Coke. Sprite and it's equivalents were separate at least where I grew up. you ask for a coke and the person taking your order asks "what kind?" and you clarify "Pepsi" or "root beer" or "coke coke".
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I've lived in many locations throughout the gray area for most of my life. I've never heard "coke" used as a generic for all sodas. It's some sort of pervasive myth. Maybe that was the case at some point in history but not in the last 47 years.
Nope. I live in the DFW metro and nobody calls it coke unless it's literally a coca cola.