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Pop or soda?

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  • Alliwan
    Alliwan Posts: 1,245 Member
    its soda! Pop is a sound, not a drink. Its soda. Read the label, it says SODA :happy:
  • RedHeadDevotchka
    RedHeadDevotchka Posts: 1,394 Member
    I'm an army brat who moved around while growing up, it was always coke (no matter what it was) or soda until I moved to Wisconsin, now it's pop. They also call drinking fountains "bubblers" and they "itch a scratch", instead of "scratch an itch"...that one drives me crazy! :)


    Guilty of using that last term :blushing: bc sometimes you just gotta itch that scratch, lol
  • jpschabell
    jpschabell Posts: 18 Member
    Soft drink. "Would you like a soft drink?" My husband - "we need soft drinks when you go to the store". Northern Kentucky is where we are. If someone says "pop" or "soda" we know they're from someplace else :)
  • SofaKingRad
    SofaKingRad Posts: 1,592 Member
    F*ckin A, it's SODA!
  • Laura_Suzie
    Laura_Suzie Posts: 1,288 Member
    I'm from California. EVERYONE calls it soda. My family from Ohio makes fun of me and insists it's "pop". haha
  • AlayshaJ
    AlayshaJ Posts: 703 Member
    I grew up in Cali.. I say soda. I hate the word 'pop'. Makes me want to 'pop' people on the mouth.
  • mrsmel55
    mrsmel55 Posts: 168
    I am from South Louisiana and everything is a coke....the question is what kind of coke do you want....LOL
  • hiker359
    hiker359 Posts: 577 Member
    Defy them all and ask for a fizzy drink!
  • krazykristen123
    krazykristen123 Posts: 103 Member
    I call it Coke (:
    Must be a Texas Thing!
  • goodeater24
    goodeater24 Posts: 41 Member
    In the midwest it was always pop. Although a college friend from a small town in Illinois called it sodi. On the west coast is soda.
  • stepharega
    stepharega Posts: 211 Member
    Its pop! I don't drink it anymore but its still pop!
  • louisey112
    louisey112 Posts: 573 Member
    Pittsburgher here...definitely pop!
  • comogirl
    comogirl Posts: 154 Member
    It's soda, always has been soda and always and forever will be soda! What is this 'pop' business??
  • xlolitabandita
    xlolitabandita Posts: 242
    I call it "soda pop." I don't know why, I grew up between Virginia and New jersey and from what i can remember everyone has always just called it soda where I've lived...I just like adding the word pop, i guess. =]
  • _HeyMommy_
    _HeyMommy_ Posts: 323 Member
    When i lived in Cali.. it was soda. Now that i live in Washington, it's pop. :0/
  • jfrog123
    jfrog123 Posts: 432 Member
    I'm a Hoosier, born and raised in southern Indiana. Here it is pop, lol.
  • ElizaRoche
    ElizaRoche Posts: 2,005 Member
    First term back in 1700s was ´soda water´.. so the most accurate one would be soda, dont even know where the term ´pop´ came from.
    Again, for me a pop its a popsycle, not a drink.
  • tosmoothash
    tosmoothash Posts: 187 Member
    NC here & we call it soda. I do have family in NY, Baltimore, and Jersey area and they all say pop or soda pop. I guess that it all depends on where you are from?! *shrugs shoulder*
  • iuew
    iuew Posts: 625 Member
    everyone in my region has always called it "pop." i've always referred to it as soda. i'm not sure why that sounds more correct to me.
  • llamalland
    llamalland Posts: 246 Member
    Pop in the Midwest. Soda on the West Coast. Bad whatever you call it everywhere.

    might be soda in California, it's pop in Oregon and Washington....l prefer mine flat & caffeine free. ( on the one or two occasions during the year I drink a pop, that is.)
  • luvsunshine1
    luvsunshine1 Posts: 878 Member
    "what kind of coke do ya want?"
    "I'll take a Pepsi"

    .. I'm originally from Texas, everyone calls it Coke haha


    This! When someone says pop, I always want to say but what about mom
  • beach_please
    beach_please Posts: 533 Member
    I'm in Pennsylvania and I always hear it called soda.
  • juliecat1
    juliecat1 Posts: 3,450 Member
    "what kind of coke do ya want?"
    "I'll take a Pepsi"

    .. I'm originally from Texas, everyone calls it Coke haha

    From the Hoosier state.... This is how we do it too.
  • cobracars
    cobracars Posts: 949 Member
    Co-Cola
  • PsiChi
    PsiChi Posts: 157
    Everything here is coke lol
  • LemonBurns
    LemonBurns Posts: 538 Member
    In Canada - it's POP - but whatever it is, I don't want it - I broke that addiction! YAY ME!
  • trblmakr23
    trblmakr23 Posts: 44
    Always called it Soda or Coke. I even have a cat named Soda. :P
  • skpstone
    skpstone Posts: 26 Member
    Carbonated beverage or Softdrink. :D
    Australia...
  • Snowflake1968
    Snowflake1968 Posts: 7,061 Member
    It was pop on the west coast where I grew up, and is still pop in Saskatchewan. But I know that I've gotten funny looks in a number of the southern states when I've asked for pop, rather than soda.

    It was always POP in Eastern Canada as well... I think it's just some states that call it Soda
  • alovesopure
    alovesopure Posts: 610
    Were calling it soda here :tongue:
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