I did have a Polish uncle (by marriage) that would ask for "a dark dope"..... which was code for Dr. Pepper. We didn't want to be like uncle Bill, so we just called everything "cokes"
The Vols beat the scat out of the fancy purple kitty mounting cats as Clean Living Prevails! GBO! Bring on the Tiggers of CO MO. Leave Dorkface behind if you don't mind.
I only remember calling drinks what they were called. I would ask for a sprite...or an orange drink...or a mello yello. Never understood the point of asking if they had soft drinks in the house, that was a given back then.