Return of the Random Poll
You’re at a restaurant with a self-serve soda machine. The person in front of you fills their cup using several different flavors of soda. You call this a:
- Suicide
- Mixed drink
- I don’t know, I don’t really have a name for it
- Eww
For the record, where I grew up we always called them suicides - presumably to exaggeratedly imply that you’re taking your life into your own hands if the mixture tastes gross - but that seems like a fairly unknown piece of slang around here, and googling ‘suicide drink’ will get you nowhere (except maybe onto a watch list). I still make them, despite the fact I feel a bit like a kid when I do - my tried-and-true is equal parts Diet Pepsi and Mountain Dew, with a bit of Dr Pepper to give it a kick, but something cherryish or fruit punchish can be substituted for the Dr Pepper.
- Suicide
- Mixed drink
- I don’t know, I don’t really have a name for it
- Eww
For the record, where I grew up we always called them suicides - presumably to exaggeratedly imply that you’re taking your life into your own hands if the mixture tastes gross - but that seems like a fairly unknown piece of slang around here, and googling ‘suicide drink’ will get you nowhere (except maybe onto a watch list). I still make them, despite the fact I feel a bit like a kid when I do - my tried-and-true is equal parts Diet Pepsi and Mountain Dew, with a bit of Dr Pepper to give it a kick, but something cherryish or fruit punchish can be substituted for the Dr Pepper.