Soda, Pop, Soda Pop?

[WynterWynd]

Well, what do you call it?http://www.emotipad.com/newemoticons/Pepsi.gif

[DianaStormDancer]

we call it soda but when my southern relatives came up to visit we started sayin pop cause they do....lmao it was kinda funny.

[WynterWynd]

:lol:

I call it Soda most of the time, but I totally understand aobut the Southern relatives and the Pop........I do the same thing:p

[Sowelu]

VroomBroom it's so GOOD to see you back here!!!!!!!!!!!!_twohorns_ :heartthro _pounce_
oh yeah...

I call it soda!
When I lived in North Hollywood everyone I knew called it pop.

[WynterWynd]

_pounce_ back at ya babe!!!

[halfwaynowhere]

well, i used to call it "Coke", regardless of what type it was, or who made it... but i was 6 or something... now i call it soda... i don't think i've ever called it pop, although its a funny enough term that i might use if i felt like being random...

[Sea-Witch]

Pop.

I won't presume this is true for all of Canada, but in the areas I've lived in, it has always been called pop. When I was growing up, the only time I ever heard it referred to as soda was in American tv programmes.

I'm another of the folks who usually just calls it Coke. LOL

[LacyRoze]

I've always called it soda and never heard the word "pop" used until we moved to N.E. Arkansas..

[Trithemius]

I've always called it pop. I have an uncle who calls it sodie pop.

[~BEBZ~]

Egads! Not this! My hubby and his whole family says soda, I say pop, I annoy them, they annoy me, they correct me, I tell them where to shove it!:D lol

[Avalonia]

Soft drink. I rarely call it "pop" or "soda".

[Athena-Nadine]

I call it soda. I always have. I never heard it called pop until I moved to CO. It's silly and I refuse to say it, no matter how many other people around me do. :D

[EponaCapaill]

Soda here.

[~BEBZ~]

I call it soda. I always have. I never heard it called pop until I moved to CO. It's silly and I refuse to say it, no matter how many other people around me do. :D
Ha ha! I gotta find you and say it about fifty times to annoy you!

[Rick]

Typical conversation in here in Oklahoma:

1st person: Ya wanna Coke?

2nd person: Sure. What kind ya got?

1st person: Dr. Pepper.

[WynterWynd]

:rollingla Sounds like when I lived in Texas!

[Sowelu]

Typical conversation in here in Oklahoma:

1st person: Ya wanna Coke?

2nd person: Sure. What kind ya got?

1st person: Dr. Pepper.


LOL...I've had that happen too!

Pepsi goes MUCH better with anything!...lol:hehehehe:

[Trithemius]

Typical conversation in here in Oklahoma:

1st person: Ya wanna Coke?

2nd person: Sure. What kind ya got?

1st person: Dr. Pepper.

:lol:

[Flaire-FireStar]

Sodee pop. :lol:

[Kaija]

I grew up with Soda, then moved to Ohio where it was Pop.. I can now go smoothly back and forth between the two... So, it depends on where I am and who I am with..

[WynterWynd]

Sodee pop. :lol:


Thats what my grandad used to call it:bubbles:

[LadyTrinity]

pop. im canadian....eh? :rollingla

[Brónach Druid]

I call it soda.

[SilentDreams]

In Australia it's "soft drink" so I tend to call it that. I'm trying to get used to saying "soda" though (and I'm trying not to use British or Australian spelling for anything anymore either).

Oh don't do that! Changing what you call soda is fine. But don't get rid of your nice spelling. I much prefer birtish and australian spelling. I use it myself often.

[Lynleigh]

Soda, but where I live people mostly call it pop.

[Strega Del Vento]

I call it "Soda". My Best Friend, on the other hand has lived here in Memphis all his life and calls any soda no matter what kind it is, "Coke". So I always have to ask him "What color?". Nine times out of ten, it's "Green" (Sprite).

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[wolf]

Here in Philadelphia, it's soda.

Especially when it's Frank's Black Cherry Wishniak.

[MoonKnight]

I call it pop.

[Childof_theMorrigan]

i dont know why... but soda sounded more 'distinguished' if you can be distinguished by drinking a carbonated cola LOL i stopped calling it pop because my whole family called it pop and i thought it sounded ridiculous

it has been so long now... 15 yrs or so since I started calling it that... now I dont even notice who calls it what anymore

[Haruka2077]

I say soda, but I'm different than most of the people around here. I also say thinks like "post box" instead of mailbox. Dunno where I get that from. _whistle_

[Catiana]

soda

[Mirrored Wolf]

i say pop , its friggen pop!!! soda? = :sick: pop? = :colorful:

[MoonKnight]

Pop vs. Soda (www.popvssoda.com)

http://www.popvssoda.com/countystats/total-county.gif

[WynterWynd]

What an interesting map!!!:smile:

[Mindflayer]

Ok, this is it:

Soda - the proper term

Pop - used by those who can't pronounce Soda (HA! :p)

Coke - Used by people who can't tell the difference between colors.


It's SODA! Get it right! :D

[ryv]

I've always called it soda, and sometimes soda pop...there are quite a few here in the south who call it Coke no matter what type of soda it is, lol

[BelovedDru]

Pop, soda, fizzy stuff, cancer in a can--whatever my mood makes me say.

[WokeUpDead]

Soda. Anything else is wrong and punishable by a kick in the face.

[Isil Darkmoon]

Typical conversation in here in Oklahoma:

1st person: Ya wanna Coke?

2nd person: Sure. What kind ya got?

1st person: Dr. Pepper.

EXACTLY!

Note: Your poll has been stealth-edited by the Texan Admin (who's currently stuck in Indiana). Because you didn't include the option to have a "coke coke" or "coke sprite" :razz:

[Childof_theMorrigan]

very cool map! i live in a county and state that's mostly 80 to 100 % pop... and i still say soda lol

[Élistariel]

I'm in North Carolina. I call them soft drinks, if I'm referring to them in general. Usually our waiters just ask if you'd like something to drink. If you ask for a coke, you get a COKE.
I usually call them by name. It depends on if the place has Pepsi or Coke producks.
Pepsi/Coke
Mellow Yellow/Mountain Dew
Sprite/7up
Cheerwine

If you ask for a coke, and they don't have COKE, they'll ask if you'd like a pepsi instead.

Then again, I'm a sweet iced tea girl myself.

[Jenne]

VB!! Great to have you back!


Uh, "other"--I say "coke"--do you want a coke? RARELY I say soda. Back in Missouri (where my family is from), it was "sodie" or "pop"...

[DarkDancer]

Pop.

[wolf]

very cool map! i live in a county and state that's mostly 80 to 100 % pop... and i still say soda lol

Where were your parents born and raised?

As far as the map ... I found the isolated pockets of "soda" in "pop" territory to be very interesting.

[WynterWynd]

EXACTLY!

Note: Your poll has been stealth-edited by the Texan Admin (who's currently stuck in Indiana). Because you didn't include the option to have a "coke coke" or "coke sprite" :razz:

Heeeeeeyyyyy, at least I remembered to put the 'other' option:razz:

:lol:

[bbnflpn]

i call it soda, or diet coke cause that is what i drink. i found that alot of people call it pop that live in the midwest. and it bugs me to no end

[RubyRose]

Soft drink. Or I call it by whatever the label happens to be. Which is either, Lemonade or Coke mostly.

[Xentor]

Soft drink, here too.

[~Broken Lily~]

In England we don't really call it soda or pop. We ask for a brand specifically or what the drink actually is.

[Old Witch]

Coke!!!

[magick186]

I say soda because i was born in NH, and so was my family and thats what they have always called it...
but down here in the south every soda is referred to as coke. :foh:

[la tortuga]

When I was a Student Ambassador in Europe, we had kids from Texas and Iowa. I'm from Texas and I got into a heated discussion about whether it was called "soda" or "pop". I've always called it "soda", personally.

Edit: -looks at map- Hey, the county I'm in calls it "coke". Pshaw! Half the people here only drink Dr. Pepper!

[arctic splash]

I prefer pop but I call it soda because a lot of people here don't even know what pop is!

When I'm in Germany I call it cola and when I go to the Midwest (as I will next Friday!) I call it pop. :)

[xstarE_nitex]

soda... although lots of people here in illinois call it pop.. and it just annoys me for some reason... I used to say coke no matter what it was...

[Yellowblue_dawn]

I call it soda and i'm from the south

[Chibi-Fallon]

Pop. That's what people here call it.
Some magazine (like Newsweek or Time) published a little map that had the areas all mapped out.

[WandererInGray]

Use them all pretty interchangably. :lol: It drives people crazy for some reason.

[Asrai]

I call it pop.

[Philbo]

Soft drink.

[frigga]

we call it soda but when my southern relatives came up to visit we started sayin pop cause they do....lmao it was kinda funny.
That's weird. I'm from the North and down here in the South they call it soda! So I tend to call it waht it is...Sprite, Mountain Dew, what's ever on tap!

[Emerald Lily]

I used to call it by what it was, 7up, fanta etc. Now i call it pop. Picked it up when i lived in the West Midlands, England!

[LyraDragonStar]

depends. On what? I do not know. Sometimes I'll call it soda, other times I'll call it pop or by it's name. So..yea.

[Old Witch]

I ordered...orderd? neither looks right...any way I asked for Coke at Applebees a week ago...They brought me Pepsi, took a big swig, nearly barfed....

People like me better order by name, Pepsi makes me ill......

[evilslinkycat]

heh, I call it coke even though I drink mostly pepsi. Don't know why, but I do

[Pol]

I detest the word pop. As any good southern boy should, I call it all coke. No matter what. It's coke. I'd like a coke please. What kind. Seven-up, please. Right away.

But in Iowa? I'd like a coke please. OKAY. They never asked what kind. I never got to tell them I actually wanted rootbeer.

I'll use soda sometimes. That helps with the confusion.


..Coke.

[Pol]

That's weird. I'm from the North and down here in the South they call it soda! So I tend to call it waht it is...Sprite, Mountain Dew, what's ever on tap!

I too am a bit confused by the bit about southerners coming up and calling it pop. But, I guess maybe I'm thinking they're not particularly from the 'South,' but from a southern state like Arizona, that is literally southern, but not culturally.
Because in all of my days, it's Pop in the north, Coke in the south, and Soda all over.

[Calen]

Pop.

I won't presume this is true for all of Canada, but in the areas I've lived in, it has always been called pop. When I was growing up, the only time I ever heard it referred to as soda was in American tv programmes.

This Nova Scotian says pop, as do the majority of people she has listened to long enough for fizzy beverages to come into the conversation.

[Élistariel]

I've already replied, but I'll reply again.
Pop is what I call my grandfather. I can't imagine wanting to drink Pop. :sick:
I can handle the word soda.
Coke? NO NO NO NO NO! :rant:
Coke is a brand of drink. You ask me for coke, you get COKE.
There is no drink called Pop, Soda, or Soda Pop.

There is NO such thing as sprite coke.

People mistakingly call it coke because it's well known an popular. Like people calling all tissues kleenex.

ugh! Kleenex are tissues, tissues aren't kleenex. Same with drinks.
Coke is a type of soda/pop, Soda is NOT coke.

[Lunacie]

Growing up we used to go out for "cokes", even if we wanted an ice cream cone. For awhile I would say "pop", sometimes "soda". I looked at the map and sure enough, the county where I grew up voted "coke" and the county where I live now voted "pop". Guess it's not a biggie to me. I usually ask guests if they want something cold to drink and then tell them what I have in the fridge. :)

[Isil Darkmoon]

Coke is a brand of drink. You ask me for coke, you get COKE.

There is NO such thing as sprite coke.

People mistakingly call it coke because it's well known an popular. Coke is a type of soda/pop, Soda is NOT coke.

Actually, in trying to be too correct, you're wrong. "The Coca-Cola Company" is the business. "Coca-Cola" (also packaged under "Coke Classic" and "Coca-Cola Classic" ) is the drink in the red and white can.

The Coca Cola Company has NO product on the market simply called "Coke"

The South, with our "sprite cokes", is about the only place where that partciular drink is requested under its PROPER name of "Coca-Cola", instead of asking for a product that doesn't exist, if you want to get that nitpicky about it.

Quit assuming that those of us that don't speak "correctly" (in your book) don't "know better". Regional colloquialisms and dialects are NOT the same as ignorance. You can ask for "soda" all you want--and around here, there's as good a chance you'd get club soda or seltzer as you'd get what you actually wanted.

[Galaxia]

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[Nordic_Storm]

Everyone here says Pop, I say coke, I was born and partly raised in Tennessee so its coke and you just specify what kind i.e. Cola, Sprite, Dr. Pepper

[WandererInGray]

I've already replied, but I'll reply again.
Pop is what I call my grandfather. I can't imagine wanting to drink Pop. :sick:
I can handle the word soda.
Coke? NO NO NO NO NO! :rant:
Coke is a brand of drink. You ask me for coke, you get COKE.
There is no drink called Pop, Soda, or Soda Pop.

There is NO such thing as sprite coke.

People mistakingly call it coke because it's well known an popular. Like people calling all tissues kleenex.

ugh! Kleenex are tissues, tissues aren't kleenex. Same with drinks.
Coke is a type of soda/pop, Soda is NOT coke.


Wowzers! :bug: Could we be a little more uptight about what we call something? It's really not that big of a deal.

[wolf]

I was raised in the midwest, but my parents were both Native Pennsylvanians. Because of them I managed to avoid learning a lot of midwestern words for things, including "pop", which when purchased at a store might be given to you in a "sack."

My "soda" comes home in "bags," thank you very much.

My mother, sister and I moved back East after my parents divorced.

Anyway ... I went back to the Midwest on a trip and my childhood friend asked me what kind of pop I would like, and I couldn't for the life of me figure out why she was offering me frozen flavored sugar water on a stick ... it took us a while to get past this communications breakdown.

[Pol]

I've already replied, but I'll reply again.
Pop is what I call my grandfather. I can't imagine wanting to drink Pop. :sick:
I can handle the word soda.
Coke? NO NO NO NO NO! :rant:
Coke is a brand of drink. You ask me for coke, you get COKE.
There is no drink called Pop, Soda, or Soda Pop.

There is NO such thing as sprite coke.

People mistakingly call it coke because it's well known an popular. Like people calling all tissues kleenex.

ugh! Kleenex are tissues, tissues aren't kleenex. Same with drinks.
Coke is a type of soda/pop, Soda is NOT coke.


Whoa, someone has a serious case of thinking their culture is superior.

People do not 'mistakingly' call it anything. They call it what it is called in their dialect or regional culture. It has nothing to do with popular brands. It has to do with a word in common usage to refer to one thing: something that is flavoured and fizzy.
I'm sorry you thought you knew more than everyone else on the subject. :abadpoker

[DragonsChest]

It's a Coke to me.

[kissesree]

I call it soda, but I suppose its a regonal thing.

[goblinhill]

Hi my two penn'orth

Soda comes in a soda siphon is fizzy, bitter, otherwise unflavoured and you put it in whisky.

Pop is the generic term for sweet fizzy drinks like Coke, Tizer, Irn Brew, Dandelion and Burdock, Ginger Beer, Lemonade etc etc

Soda Pop is an exotic drink which happens to people in Hollywood movies

I ran a tea rooms and on the Menu board fizzy drinks were "Mineral waters" - very Miss Marple :hehehehe:

N.B. Coke is not a drink it is a basic food group

So, a question from darkest Europe. If I asked for a whisky and soda would they put a coke in it or even a Dr Peppers !!!!???? :ahhhh:

[misschief]

I too am a bit confused by the bit about southerners coming up and calling it pop. But, I guess maybe I'm thinking they're not particularly from the 'South,' but from a southern state like Arizona, that is literally southern, but not culturally.
Because in all of my days, it's Pop in the north, Coke in the south, and Soda all over.that's pretty much what i was going to say. :lol:

[PoisonIvy]

My family in Ohio says "pop" and my family in Tennessee says it "coke".

I have to be bilingual. :crylaugh:

[wolf]

So, a question from darkest Europe. If I asked for a whisky and soda would they put a coke in it or even a Dr Peppers !!!!???? :ahhhh:

Not unless you specifically asked for whiskey and Coca Cola (Coke), although I have no idea why a reasonable person would ever want that. I can't understand diluting good whisky, anyway ...

That kind of soda is "Club Soda" ... and it's cousin that goes nicely with gin is Tonic Water.

Southerners correct me if I'm wrong .. but if you were to order a Rum & Coke, you get the brown kind in it, right?

This whole discussion is interesting in that it seems that New England is no longer calling the fizzy drink product a "phosphate" ... which they did, at least through the 60s.

[DarkWaltz]

I ticked pop but because I am English it can be pop fizzy pop or if I am ordering in mcdonalds a soft drink.Oooh and sparkling too :p

[goblinhill]

Not unless you specifically asked for whiskey and Coca Cola (Coke), although I have no idea why a reasonable person would ever want that. I can't understand diluting good whisky, anyway ...

Well you wouldn't want to adulterate a good single malt but a blended whisky . . . deserves all the soda that it gets


That kind of soda is "Club Soda" ... and it's cousin that goes nicely with gin is Tonic Water.

Tonic water is quinine flavoured so that tastes good even without the gin, unlike soda water which is kinda full of fizzy nothingness IMO


Southerners correct me if I'm wrong .. but if you were to order a Rum & Coke, you get the brown kind in it, right?

I'm holding my breath waiting for the answer to this one!


This whole discussion is interesting in that it seems that New England is no longer calling the fizzy drink product a "phosphate" ... which they did, at least through the 60s.

Do you mean that people actually bought a drink for fun which they called a "phosphate"?? :hairraise

[donatello51]

I have always called it soda. my father called it pop. But then he's 78 and lived through the great depression and the second world war. Things were called by different names back then. He's lived in California all his life both in the southern part and now in the northern part and has never mentioned hearing it called soda until the 60s. I guess we are not much of a world traveling nor country wide traveling family. But I'm only ever heard pop used by my father when refering to and flavor os soda. And I think of it as a quiant throwback to his childhood and the times he grew up in. In reality its more akin to what you call your male parent. Father...pop... dad... poppa... sir... or something else entirely. :fpipesmok

[SS'sBaby]

Call it Coke myself.

[Bix]

Everything is a Coke in Texas.

[innocent]

Its a nice cold Cola for me! Although I have a tenency to call it Pop if it comes in a glass bottle.... dunno why...

[Koehnae]

I grew up with a Northern dad and a Southern mom, so I tend to call it soda some days and pop on others. Although, as I think about it, I would say that Coke products tend to be "soda" and Pepsi products tend to be "pop." Can't really say why that is, 'cause I don't know why I do that.

I think I'm going to have a beer... its less confusing.

:drinking:

[Karma Chameleon]

Well, what do you call it?http://www.emotipad.com/newemoticons/Pepsi.gif

I call it a four letter word that starts with c, and no it isn't coke.

[Aquarian_Moon]

I call it by all three names, to be honest. I guess I might use pop more frequently though, and so decided to vote for that one...

[WitchOfEndor]

I call it Pop, also elixir of life, my personal crack cocaine etc. I get sort of cranky if I don't have my Diet Mt. Dew. LOL I kind of Over dosed on Pepsi & decided the dark color pops were evil so I've moved on to the toxic yellow colors now. :lol: Gotta have diet cuz I'm diabetic so I have to at least have the caffine. :spaceman: :hairraise ahhhh caffine, think I need to have a pop fix now.

[WynterWynd]

Hmmm....when I lived in Texas, one of the bars we frequented would serve the dark rum with Coke:hrmm:

[StarCraftLia]

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[Noriohtle]

soda is the fizzy water added to syrup to make POP

[Rayzer]

Personally I say soda

[BrigidMoon]

Soda. Northerners call it that in New England.

[Akir]

It's coke... no matter what it is or what it taste like... it's coke. I'm from Tennessee and everyone calls it coke!

[RowanMegaera]

pepsi, and if they respond they only have Coke, I order tea.

[Rayzer]

:lol: Gotta have diet cuz I'm diabetic so I have to at least have the caffine. :spaceman: :hairraise ahhhh caffine, think I need to have a pop fix now.
What about the sugar free energy drinks? Like diet Rockstar? those have more caffeine than mtn. dew or mellow yellow

[MoonDust]

soda

[BlueMoon13]

Then there's the annoying as nails on a blackboard Bostonian tonic-pronounced "twahnic" :ahhhhhhh:

[Infinite Grey]

Soft drink, softie

[Darkdale]

Cola.

[misty]

I usually call it soda, but every once in a while I slip up and say pop, lol!

[MoonKnight]

I usually call it soda...
Traitor. ;)

[teishabee]

Always pop over here in uk.

[atropa]

It's coke lol! In the south anyway, as in "I'm going to the store, do you need anything? Yes, will you get me a coke? What kind? Orange."

[atropa]

I detest the word pop. As any good southern boy should, I call it all coke. No matter what. It's coke. I'd like a coke please. What kind. Seven-up, please. Right away.

But in Iowa? I'd like a coke please. OKAY. They never asked what kind. I never got to tell them I actually wanted rootbeer.

I'll use soda sometimes. That helps with the confusion.


..Coke.

EXACTLY!! rofl!

[atropa]

And any type of bleach is Clorox, and any type of tissue is Kleenex, as someone pointed out in an earlier post. Not that they agreed with it. I promise I won't post anymore lol.

[AuroraSilvermist]

It's soda. And I used to think that was an upper Midwest thing, but I've heard variations even just within Wisconsin. When my family moved 40 miles west of where I grew up I was the oddball because I was the only one saying, "Let's walk down to Lon's and get a soda." Everyone else called it pop.

And yep, my aunt and uncle live in Mississippi--it's all Coke, regardless of whether it's actually even a cola. :lol:

[AuroraSilvermist]

And any type of bleach is Clorox, and any type of tissue is Kleenex, as someone pointed out in an earlier post. Not that they agreed with it. I promise I won't post anymore lol.

The makers of Kleenex actually run ads in magazines for writers (such as Writer's Digest) reminding them that Kleenex isn't a generic term but a brand name, and therefore should be capitalized. :lol:

[WynterWynd]

poor, poor, Soda Pop:( ............no one calls it Soda Pop :p

[DianaStormDancer]

poor, poor, Soda Pop:( ............no one calls it Soda Pop :p


ah hey VB ya got a sodapop?:bouncysmi make mine MT.DEW

[WynterWynd]

:rollingla I don't have any Mt Dew sodapop, but I do have some Coke-a-cola sodapop:p

[DianaStormDancer]

:smooch: ah ok Ill go with the Coke-a-cola sodapop but I don't have time to teach the world to sing at the moment:durrrr: :dancy:

[WynterWynd]

awe come....we can grow apple trees!:smile:

[DianaStormDancer]

ok but if that freaky guy who wears the pot on his head comes around he aint getting any of my sodapop!

[WynterWynd]

OK, no freaky pot-heads:rotfl: (man, that blocks out sooooo many locals around here:hehehehe: )

[SisterCajunBadGirl]

Born and raised in the Deep South, and have always called it Soda. I never heard "Pop" til I came to Canada. No lie LOL .. the only other name I've heard it called by my Elders was "Cold Drink" .

[TaysatWesir]

I call it soda plain and simple. I haven’t heard the word soda pop. :hmmmmm:

[DianaStormDancer]

OK, no freaky pot-heads:rotfl: (man, that blocks out sooooo many locals around here:hehehehe: )


:holycow: :hairraise AH! no no no you silly goose:nyah: ! that would leave me out too:fpipesmok :fpeace: :smoke: ....hahahahahahahaha...I was makin reference to Johnny Appleseed! :alol: