Pop or Soda
 

I live in Minnesota and have always called it pop. When I went to Wisconsin for school, everyone calls it soda. I know it is called both by different people and by other names by some. I was wondering what you call it. Also, where are you from because it seems to be a local thing. If you call it somthing else, what do you call it?

I don't know anyone in Canada that calls it soda (unless they are ex-pat Americans).

We call it pop.

It's much easier to just ask for a beer, it's the same in any language, midwestern, southern, yankee... tastes better too.

Here in NC we call it "drink" or "soft drink." I used to call it pop when I was like 6. I've never called it soda and probably never will. All of my northerner friends call it soda, though.

-Lasereth

proof that "pop" is correct: http://popvssoda.com/

:lol: :D :crazy:

I call it "Liquid Death" because of the 9 tablespoons of sugar that are in a can of Coke.

good point....

i dont drink "soda" but i do drink beer.

Call it soda here, but when I go to Minnesota to visit family, have to switch into "pop" mode. I hear pop and think of popsicle.

For the folks that call it Pop -- is the sugar free version, diet pop? (that just sounds strange to me) Diet Soda sounds more normal.

how is diet pop strange sounding? :confused:

I never call it diet pop, I usualy just call it diet, or ask for a specific diet.

I hate when people call it pop. It's not pop it is soda!

In the South, it's all Coke. Even if it's Pepsi, it's still Coke.

"dricka". ;)

I use it interchangeably. Some times pop, other times soda, other times drink. Or I'll just say "Can I get a ____ (name of drink)"

Seriously though, what's this big controversy about it?

It's soda...always was, always will be.

Being from Ohio, it was always "pop," but since I've lived elsewhere, I started calling it soda for whatever reason.

My mom said the next time I ask for a soda, though, she's going to hand me a box of baking soda :rolleyes:

It's SODA! *walks away*

ROCK ON! SODA ALL THE WAY!!!
*walks away*

just soda.

Its pop. Soda sounds rather...not like pop. :)

Amen, brutha! :thumbsup:

Soda fo sho.
*walks away*

Ka-ching.

Of course, I don't drinks cokes anymore, so it's not like I care much nowadays.

Come on, everybody knows it's sodapop.

Just like the word taxicab.

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

Interesting regional difference there.

coke.. but a lot of times i will just call it what it actually is, "hey, care to get me a mountain dew while you're up?"

Used to call it coke all the time. Couldn't figure out why everybody would get confused.

Now it's soda.

In Wisconsin we all called it soda..now that I live in the north west everyone calls it pop.

IT'S SODA!!! READ THE LABEL ON ANY STORE IN ANY STATE!!! IT WILL SAY SODA! No seriously if you look at a label or reciept it will say soda. Proves soda is right...

Soda or Pop works.

Coke however, does not work. It's a brand name damnit.

This is one of THE things that pisses me off more than any other in Ohio. I hate it when people call it "Pop." Its not pop, pop is a fucking verb, not a noun. It's soda.

Re: Pop or Soda
 

I grew up in Maryland and live in Florida. Only person I knew in those areas that called it "pop" was my grandmother, which is odd because she lived in that area all her life. I have friends in Wisconsin, and I hear pop quite a bit up there.

WI seems to be a transitional state for dialects. I hear people with no accent, a Chi-caaaaaaah-go accent, and the full-blown northerners who sound like the people in "Fargo".

Wow, I never realized so many people called it pop. I live in St. Louis and lo and behold, just about everywhere around St. Louis county calls it soda. I went to Cincinatti over the weekend and I had to do doubletakes everytime somebody asked me if I wanted pop at a restaurant. Crazy...

that map thing is cool but I think we have more ppl in oregon that say soda then what the map shows.

Bah! The difference between the amount of people who say pop and those who say soda is pretty small, only 2%.

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Down here in the south everthing is coke

Pop here in Toledo!

I, like a few others I see, have always called it soda. Doesn't matter what flavor...

I guess "What kinda pop do you have?" just doesn't sound right because of my upstate New York upbringing...

Going to school outside of Boston, they were really bizarre - to the best of my knowledge Tonic was a Soda, Soda referred to Club Soda only. (I never could quite figure out what you got if you ordered a Gin and Tonic) But what do you expect from an area that doesnt put ice cream in a milk shake.