Different regions of the US, and different parts of the world call it different things. I'm from Chicago, and we call it "POP"! If I'm watching a movie or TV show and someone is supposed to be from Chicago and calls it "soda" I know it's BS. (The same thing with "Sah-Sidge" no self respecting Chicagoan would call it "Saw-sage")
What do you call it, and in the thread portion, tell me where you are from, (it can be basic, like "the southwest" "The northeast" "The North Pole" " OZ" etc.
I'm from the Midwest, Iowa to be exact, and I call it pop. Now my husband who grew up in California will call it soda every so often. He's been living here long enough I think "pop" has ingrained in him
For the first 23 years of my life, I lived in Ohio and only called it "pop." Then I moved to Florida and everyone called it "soda," so I started doing so too. I still call it "soda."
BTW, you missed an option. In many places in the American South, it is called "Coke." Seriously. A typical conversation might go like this:
Person 1: "What do you want to drink?"
Person 2: "Coke."
Person 1: "What kind?"
Person 2: "Dr. Pepper."
Ok I call it "soda", but my accuracy is off today it seems as I noticed I accidentally vote for "soda pop".
Anyway I grew up in NJ, everyone called in soda. Spent 2 years in buffalo NY there was a mixture of people who called it soda and people who called it pop, I now live in FL people call it soda.
For the first 23 years of my life, I lived in Ohio and only called it "pop." Then I moved to Florida and everyone called it "soda," so I started doing so too. I still call it "soda."
BTW, you missed an option. In many places in the
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For the first 23 years of my life, I lived in Ohio and only called it "pop." Then I moved to Florida and everyone called it "soda," so I started doing so too. I still call it "soda."
BTW, you missed an option. In many places in the American South, it is called "Coke." Seriously. A typical conversation might go like this:
Person 1: "What do you want to drink?"
Person 2: "Coke."
Person 1: "What kind?"
Person 2: "Dr. Pepper."
I KNOW! Crap. I realized that when I finished and the survey went live! Southerners call all pop "Coke" or "Co'Cola" ;
And they look at you like you're a communist or a terrorist if you don't want your tea "sweet." We had a few close calls at Waffle Houses in the South. We like our tea, like.....tea, not like.....pop.
I'm not from the South, but I call everything Coke. (Really makes my man laugh, even after all this time! LOL) I don't know anyone else who calls it that though. If I don't call it Coke, then I use the word soda. Calling it "pop" would never even occur to me. But I find those kinds of regionalisms absolutely fascinating.
No, really, people usually use the regional dialect from where they grew up.
That's why I said suburbs
I didn't spend much time in New England growing up, but I was there long enough to learn how to talk, so when I'm really tired or drunk, I have an accent too. My husband thinks it's hilarious.
For the first 23 years of my life, I lived in Ohio and only called it "pop." Then I moved to Florida and everyone called it "soda," so I started doing so too. I still call it "soda."
BTW, you missed an option. In many places in the
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For the first 23 years of my life, I lived in Ohio and only called it "pop." Then I moved to Florida and everyone called it "soda," so I started doing so too. I still call it "soda."
BTW, you missed an option. In many places in the American South, it is called "Coke." Seriously. A typical conversation might go like this:
Person 1: "What do you want to drink?"
Person 2: "Coke."
Person 1: "What kind?"
Person 2: "Dr. Pepper."
Dr. Pepper is a Pepsi product.
But you're not entirely wrong. Coke = Sprite, Coke, Diet Coke, Fanta and Mr. Pibb.
I had the perfect coke commercial the other day. Went to grab a bite at Sbarro and I asked for coke to drink. I just barely heard the cashier say 'is Pepsi ok?'. After my brain processed what my ears heard I immediately said No, Dr. Pepper please. My husband and the other cashier started a mini-conversation about how Pepsi shouldn't be served in the area without a Coke fountain in there somewhere. The cashier handling my drink immediately sparked up and defended Pepsi.
Growing up in Missouri had me calling it 'pop' (strawberry pop, please; it naturally went with barbecue). Moved to Florida when I was ten, and I somehow began calling it 'soda' and still call it soda no matter what now. While living in Montana I heard it called 'soda pop'. Did have one friend call it 'fizzy shit'.
For the first 23 years of my life, I lived in Ohio and only called it "pop." Then I moved to Florida and everyone called it "soda," so I started doing so too. I still call it "soda."
BTW, you missed an option. In many places in the
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For the first 23 years of my life, I lived in Ohio and only called it "pop." Then I moved to Florida and everyone called it "soda," so I started doing so too. I still call it "soda."
BTW, you missed an option. In many places in the American South, it is called "Coke." Seriously. A typical conversation might go like this:
Person 1: "What do you want to drink?"
Person 2: "Coke."
Person 1: "What kind?"
Person 2: "Dr. Pepper."
The Coke conversation is 100% accurate. Coke is also offered as a nonspecific drink choice, as in "Want a Coke?" after which you would specify which kind. *nods*
For the first 23 years of my life, I lived in Ohio and only called it "pop." Then I moved to Florida and everyone called it "soda," so I started doing so too. I still call it "soda."
BTW, you missed an option. In many places in the
...
For the first 23 years of my life, I lived in Ohio and only called it "pop." Then I moved to Florida and everyone called it "soda," so I started doing so too. I still call it "soda."
BTW, you missed an option. In many places in the American South, it is called "Coke." Seriously. A typical conversation might go like this:
Coke, like Kleenex or Band-Aid, is a brand name that is definitely interchangeable with the item name. When I was in Egypt, I was always offered a "coca", short for Coca-Cola. In the traditional glass bottle too.
I grew up calling it pop. I grew up in Detroit. Now I'm in the absolute middle--of-nowheres-Mi dwest-blah, and people around me call it soda often enough that I've picked it up too. Also, for some reason, since I quit drinking it, I started calling it soda more. Huh.
I order a "Coke" and I expect people to respond by saying, "What kind?"
When we moved to the East Coast(about 15yrs back) and I remember the first time I placed an order. I actually got a Coke, I was mad and couldn't figure why they didn't ask me what kind I wanted. Thank goodness I am a quick learn!
