re: Missouri is a partially Southern state

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Sorry if I'm being redundant, I am only trying to understand the cultural differences.

I, for one, am very, very specific with my food and drink orders, so the vagueness that asking for a "Coke" entails strikes my interest.

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Coca-Cola was invented in the 1880's in Georgia. It was so prevelant in the Deep South that it became synononmous with carbonated soft drinks. It's a lot like Frigidaire. At one time there were places that people would call any refrigerator a Frigidaire (you may still hear older people do this)...simply because the brand had become so popular that it became the representation of the industry as a whole.