Pop Vs Soda

[jibby06]

Hey

I'm hoping there wasn't a post like this already, I searched too, but who knows. Anyways, I'm just wondering what you guys refer to these drinks as. Do you call them Pop, Soda, Coke, Cola, or anything else? Im just wondering because me and my friends all say pop except for my one friend who says soda. Sometimes when we ask for pop she would be, "we don't have any pop, but we do have some soda." It's just funny, she's not being serious or anything. I think it also depends on location. I think in certain places they say different things. Here in mich, majority of the people i know say pop. So anyways, what do you say?

[Markoman01027]

I am used to saying "I am going to grab a coke" and when I do, I usually pick up a Pepsi and still say " I got a coke" LOL

[TennBikeBerk]

Everybody around here, that I know, says soda. (Southern California)

I went to Canada a while ago, and the word there is definitely "pop."

[bigandy]

I say soda.

[diver203_98]

Even though I drink Coke, I always call it a soda. I don't drink Pepsi unless it is killing me and I don't have a choice. But what ever I get, it is still a soda.

[ric449]

I just say the name of the drink, I never hear anyone here in the UK saying they are going to get a pop/soda.

[mikeL]

Up here in Northern Lower Michigan, we call it pop, when I was in the service I was stationed in California, and Kentucky if I said pop people would look at me, and raise their fist, and say I'll give you a pop, needless to say I had to learn to call it soda. Until I was sent to Germany where I found out the word beer is international

Mike

[Gorestink]

its all juice to me, except the almighty pervading beer... my grandad says pop =)

[ktkendall]

I'll have a Soda Pop

[mbossman2]

in the south (where I currently am) coke is a generic term referring to any carbonated soft drink. When I lived in Buffalo (Great Lakes region), it was pop. Everywhere else I have been it is referred to as soda

[Force Flow]

Soda or the name of the drink.

My aunt that moved here from colorado always says "soda pop".

[HAL9000]

Tis pop here.

[Panama Red]

Seems that most of the Great Lakes area uses 'Pop'. That would include me!

[Propain]

pop around here yall , I reckon soda is mo southern eh , actually the term refers to old soda fountain yall had in them olden days eh

[Jaggannath]

The name of the drink, fizz, or soft drink... both soda and pop are uniquely American in my experience...

[Geonosis]

I call it Soda, but I have heard others call it pop, and even coke (I am guilty of it), but I cant really imagin an other :\

[raftero]

i recon in texas were multi-cultural youall, soda, pop, soda pop,coke,soft drink,cold drink, they all are used and understood to mean a carbonated drink.

[ktkendall]

If Yunz want to come over here to the burgh to visit someday, I'll take ya downtown for a hoagie and a pop, and we'll snap people with gumbands after that....

[Tin]

im a Michigan boy, so its pop .

[glc]

When I was in Massachusetts in the late 60's/early 70's, it was "tonic". Order a tonic here and you get Schweppes quinine water. It's generally "pop" or the actual name of the drink here, but a lot of people who aren't Midwest natives call it soda, we know what they mean.

[mc2phat]

I've lived all over the US. I picked up "coke" from VA/NC/TN when I was little; still use it. In the DC area, to the best of my recollection, everyone called the drink by its brand name, maybe "soda" was the default. In the area I'm in now, I hear all three. I'd say "coke" and "soda" are what I hear the most. Think I'll pop down to the coke machine and get me a soda.

[Hi Ho]

I either say pop or Coke. I always drink Coke or Coke products.

[Punked Out Comp]

Everyone here says soda but when i visit my dads family in canada its pop, so i call it pop there too. ( I also say the temperture in celcius, speak with an accent and say after after everything.)

[Colonel Sanders]

Coke for me, and I always drink Vanilla Coke, unless I'm at a restraunt in which case I drink Coke or Dr. Pepper but never Pepsi (to a Coke drinker like me, Pepsi is deadly).

But I generally call everything by it's proper name.

L J

[Sanguimancer]

I say soda, but everyone around me says pop. I got "soda" from my mom, who was born and raised in Philidelphia.

"I found out the word beer is international"

Aber es ist bier. Or in other words, its "bier" which is pronounced "beer".

[doctorgonzo]

This is the Midwest, and it's 'pop' here.

And what an age we live in! There's even a web page devoted to this great debate: http://www.popvssoda.com/

[jibby06]

haha i've seen that before...that's funny.

[nocturnx]

Hmm I tend to say both, sometimes Ill ask for pop and sometimes Ill ask for soda. Dont know why, never thought about it.

[HellFish]

Being from the deep South, I've always said Coke and always heard everybody else say Coke. If there were ever a big ice chest full of drinks, Pepsi, Coke, Sprtie, etc. we all said, "here's an ice chest full of Cokes"

As I type this I'm drinking a Sprite, but I classify it as a Coke.

My wife who is Canadian, says soda, but the rest of her family says pop. Crazy Canadians.

[SonicVanguard]

Another "pop" or whatever I actually want (Coke, Sprite, Root Beer...)

I remember being down south a few years ago and I ordered a coke. I was asked if I wanted a Coke coke, Sprite coke, Orange coke, Diet coke or Root Beer coke. I was dumbfounded. I later chalked it up to a regional 'thing' - but at the time, I didn't know how to respond.

Dave.