pop or soda???

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  • binary_jester
    binary_jester Posts: 3,311 Member
    Pop - Canada
    Weirdos.
  • MissO﹠A
    MissO﹠A Posts: 906 Member
    D.C. - Soda.
  • Sh1tsRainbows
    Sh1tsRainbows Posts: 1,227 Member
    Pop - Canada
    Weirdos.

    EH????
  • LaDiablesse
    LaDiablesse Posts: 862 Member
    I'm from the New Orleans area. You'll either here Coke (which will be followed by the question of "What kind?"), soft drink (due to all of the hard liquor that is consumed), or cold drink (Which is even written on some of the vending machines.
  • deanadimples
    deanadimples Posts: 419 Member
    I'm in Iowa....we say pop. Everyone. I've never heard a local call it anything else.
  • deanadimples
    deanadimples Posts: 419 Member
    btw....that map is AWESOME!!!
  • BecksgotBack
    BecksgotBack Posts: 385 Member
    Lived in:
    Texas it was Coke
    In Cali it was Soda
    in Florida it was Soda
    in canada it's pop.

    i will always call it pop. unless in texas and then you better call it coke. they carry guns and have good aim
  • binary_jester
    binary_jester Posts: 3,311 Member
    Pop - Canada
    Weirdos.

    EH????
    I totally read that in Bob & Doug McKenzie voices.
  • danabrown68
    danabrown68 Posts: 17
    Soft drink or soda here in VA and NC.
  • Misiaxcore
    Misiaxcore Posts: 659 Member
    City on the US border in Ontario: pop. Only time we use the word soda is if it's a "cream soda" flavour.

    Edit: Sometimes people just say "coke" around here too, but that usually means actual coke or pepsi.
  • EmpressOfJudgment
    EmpressOfJudgment Posts: 1,162 Member
    There's a map for that.

    Pop-vs-Soda-US-Map.mediumthumb.gif

    This is a topic I've discussed with friends at length in the past.

    THAT IS AWESOME!!!!!!
    It seems to be pretty accurate too, based on the responses here and in my previous discussions on the topic with friends all over the country.

    Oh yeah, I just remembered that I also used this information (without the map) as an example in the writing portion of the GRE when I took it a couple of weeks ago.
  • skylark94
    skylark94 Posts: 2,036 Member
    I grew up in Minnesota, so I said "pop". I was soooo happy when I moved to Florida and could call it "soda". I think "pop" sounds silly. Most of my southern born family calls all brands and flavors, "coke".
  • TheBraveryLover
    TheBraveryLover Posts: 1,217 Member
    Chicago - pop.
  • TheBraveryLover
    TheBraveryLover Posts: 1,217 Member
    There's a map for that.

    Pop-vs-Soda-US-Map.mediumthumb.gif

    This is a topic I've discussed with friends at length in the past.

    That's amazing and seems very accurate. I went to college in central Illinois and a lot of them said soda when 3 hours north we said pop. LOL
  • ChangingTami
    ChangingTami Posts: 109 Member
    I grew up in Ohio saying pop also but now I moved away and now say Soda......but must say that I do not drink either soda or pop and have not for almost 2 years now.
  • pain_is_weakness
    pain_is_weakness Posts: 798 Member
    I am in california and I say soda, my cousin is from tennessee and she says pop, I was like "what is that?, what is popping?"
  • branflake5
    branflake5 Posts: 332
    i still think pop sounds better, calling everything coke is weird... do they call pepsi coke? weird... i could see if u called each thing by what it is sprite dr. pepper etc. interesting tho. hmmmmm.
  • pain_is_weakness
    pain_is_weakness Posts: 798 Member
    Where I live most people cal it by what it is "i want a Dr. pepper, i want a Mt. Dew" ect
  • branflake5
    branflake5 Posts: 332
    Where I live most people cal it by what it is "i want a Dr. pepper, i want a Mt. Dew" ect

    now that would make sense, saying i want a coke; then waiting to be asked what kind seems odd.
    i am thinking too deeply into this lol
  • E_Cee83
    E_Cee83 Posts: 22 Member
    Soft drink in Australia...

    Yeah, Aussies say soft drink or call it by its name e.g. coke, pepsi max, sprite etc. or fizzy drink sometimes
  • cabaray
    cabaray Posts: 971 Member
    i still think pop sounds better, calling everything coke is weird... do they call pepsi coke? weird... i could see if u called each thing by what it is sprite dr. pepper etc. interesting tho. hmmmmm.
    Where I am in Southern Indiana, we say Coke, but generally in referring to a Cola product. So I will ask for a Diet Coke, the waitress will say is Pepsi fine, and I will say sure. For non cola products, we ask for it by name. I can't speak for everyone else that says coke, but that's how it works in our neck of the woods.
  • sassyshook
    sassyshook Posts: 213 Member
    Coke........
  • limestang
    limestang Posts: 24
    I'm from Oklahoma and i say pop!:smile
  • debbles13
    debbles13 Posts: 1
    I moved to Chicago from LA over 2 years ago, and I still say soda... I don't think I'll ever call it pop!
  • edonald774
    edonald774 Posts: 92 Member
    Actually neither... I'm from Glasgow, we call it ginger or as we pc. it... gingah.
  • Begood03
    Begood03 Posts: 1,259 Member
    Michigan here, and I say pop.
  • CarrieJ85
    CarrieJ85 Posts: 106 Member
    I'm from Indiana and I say pop but I know a lot of people from the southern part of the state that say Coke.
  • mello
    mello Posts: 817 Member
    Here in Louisiana, it's all coke. If it's carbonated and flavored, it's coke.
  • Molly_Louise
    Molly_Louise Posts: 503
    Here in England, it's generally called 'fizzy drink', 'soft drink' or more commonly, it's just referred to as it's branded name.
  • countrydarling1
    countrydarling1 Posts: 386 Member
    I knew someone that used COKE, for everything.... Can I get an orange coke... sounded odd, but they didn't say soda or pop, just coke... was a bit odd to have a diet grape coke... lol

    l almost bet they were from Texas! I say COKE for everything! What kinda Coke do you want!
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