Is it Pop or Soda?

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  • dubist
    dubist Posts: 279 Member
    its all crap if you ask me.
  • WAHMto5
    WAHMto5 Posts: 375 Member
    Lived most of my life up North (Northern Illinois) until about 6 years ago and then we moved down South to Georgia, but will always be "Pop" to me;) Still get funny looks every time I order one or say it to someone down here.
  • foot1647
    foot1647 Posts: 92 Member
    Soda is a drink made out of soda water. Pop is just a verb.
  • Tony_Brewski
    Tony_Brewski Posts: 1,376 Member
    It all depends where you are from. Myself I prefer "Sodapop" myself or "Swhale" when ordering beer its "suds"
  • Scottish_charlene_84
    Scottish_charlene_84 Posts: 986 Member
    Here in Scotland we call fizzy juice 'Ginger'
  • megabyt23
    megabyt23 Posts: 580 Member
    It's coke...no, I don't care if it's dr. pepper, sprite, or orange soda...it's all coke. lol

    I'm from the South.........and almost everyone I know says "coke" unless they're from the northeast or midwest. haha
  • dnunny70
    dnunny70 Posts: 411 Member
    A few posters already nailed it.

    Grew up calling it -pop (from New York State)
    Moved to FL when I was 20 something-Soda

    Now we live in NC-it's still Soda and will remain soda!

    Our family does laugh at us! LOL
  • celewis2011
    celewis2011 Posts: 243 Member
    I am in Minnesota which should be pop , my family acts like they have no clue what i am talking about when i ask for a soda , lol
  • cingle87
    cingle87 Posts: 717 Member
    Well since we english people invented the language ( you can thank us later) its Fizzy pop

    /thread
  • Katrioustu
    Katrioustu Posts: 2,461 Member
    P-O-P
  • Contrarian
    Contrarian Posts: 8,137 Member
    Pop. That is why The Pop Shoppe was called The Pop Shoppe. Also, rhyming.
  • Orfygirl
    Orfygirl Posts: 274 Member
    Soda of course.
  • vtmoon
    vtmoon Posts: 3,436 Member
    May I have a fizzy drink, please?
  • NutellaHorom
    NutellaHorom Posts: 5 Member
    in australia its soft drink
  • Sublimely_Self_Righteous
    Sublimely_Self_Righteous Posts: 429 Member
    Soda. Obviously.
  • HiKaren
    HiKaren Posts: 1,306 Member
    Hey! Pop that Soda Can open would ya! Slurp... Love my Diet A&W Rootbeers... Best Soda Pop in the World! :wink:
  • sirabbadon
    sirabbadon Posts: 27 Member
    these maps should help answer your question, and put into perspective the distribution between pop, soda, and coke throughout the nation. there are lots of fun maps here too.

    http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2013/06/06/50-fascinating-maps-that-show-the-difference-in-the-way-americans-talk/
  • Mother_Superior
    Mother_Superior Posts: 1,624 Member
    I'm cheating by combining them. It's soda pop

    I cheat at Scrabble too.
  • karen19711
    karen19711 Posts: 99 Member
    Pop in Canada......Soda in States............Smile K xo
  • superfox12082
    superfox12082 Posts: 512 Member
    Obviously, it's pop. It was a rhetorical question.

    Ha ha! This!!
  • SweeDecadence92
    SweeDecadence92 Posts: 218 Member
    In Scotland Juice, Fizzy Juice or Ginger.I've never heard anyone call it "pop" or "soda" before, it sounds very awkward to me.
  • Hodgenska
    Hodgenska Posts: 55 Member
    Neither! Coke! :)
  • aquarabbit
    aquarabbit Posts: 1,621 Member
    Pop!
  • DainaLC
    DainaLC Posts: 18,937 Member
    Soda!
  • aquarabbit
    aquarabbit Posts: 1,621 Member
    Pop in Canada......Soda in States............Smile K xo

    Not in Michigan! I think Minnesota too. But I guess anywhere you're on the border with another country you're kind of a mix. So I guess it makes sense that we might say some of the same things! It took me years to lose my accent. Everyone thought I was Canadian when I first left home.
  • _Pseudonymous_
    _Pseudonymous_ Posts: 1,671 Member
    I grew up calling it Coke. Didn't matter if it was Dr. Pepper, Pepsi, or Coca Cola. I never thought anything of it until I lived in Nebraska. I never lived down the "what kind of coke do y'all have?" The McDonald's drive through people are probably still laughing at me 8 years later...
  • spider_mark51959
    spider_mark51959 Posts: 2,873 Member
    I call it soda, But 'tonic' is still common up here in New England
  • Donna6017
    Donna6017 Posts: 176 Member
    Western New York POP


    ^^^ this^^^^
  • UnwrappingCandy
    UnwrappingCandy Posts: 418 Member
    It's a fizzy drink. :wink:
  • MizVandyk
    MizVandyk Posts: 602 Member
    I'm from the south, its all coke then you ask what kind :wink:
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