> That's what I had heard... This seems a bit odd to me, that the term "Coke" could be non-indicative of brand, but also be used (disir)regardless of the flavor of beverage desired... OK, I'll stop mangling the language now, and wait for a response.
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> Don "The Monkey'You Americans are sure weird sometimes...'man" Jackson

I don't know if that's how it is in the South. But my Californian roommate used the word that way. I often had a case of Mountain Dew stashed under my bed at school, and Andy would say, "Hey, can I have one of those Cokes?" I tried to break him of it, but he probably still calls every soft drink a Coke.

Gri"Mountain Dew is far, far superior to Coke"shny