Let's Settle This Once And For All!

[launderess]

What does one call soda? "Pop" or "Soda"?
*LOL*

 

[polkanut]

It's a regional thing. In house we use them interchangeably, but never together, that is too redundant.

 

[cehalstead]

depends...

on one's geographic region. here in the northernmost region of the south, most folks call it "pop". my family calls it a "soft drink". i guess this came about to distinguish it from a "hard drink"...one that contained alcohol....

 

[sudsmaster]

Some people call it "soda pop".

Bartenders and waitresses seem to prefer "soft drink".

The governor of New York used to call it a "Spitzer".

 

[aquarius1984]

Here in the UK

tis called Pop

 

[foraloysius]

Dutch: Frisdrank

 

[joeinfl]

I'm from Maryland and we always said "soda" or "coke"

My cousins in Indiana said "pop" I always thought they were odd. )

 

[petek]

In Canada it's mainly pop. A little bit of useless info is that in Canada only pop or cola's that are "brown" in color can contain caffiene. 7-Up, Mtn Dew etc cannot.

 

[JerseyMike]

LOL. Here in New Jersey we call it Soda. (I never heard it called pop until we went to visit some family who live in Michigan.)

Mike

 

[maytagbear]

Who cares?

Please pour me one, right the heck now!

(preferably sugarfree and caffeine free.)

Lawrence/Maytagbear

 

[58limited]

In Texas we generically call most soft drinks a "coke" but we also use "cola" or "soda"

 

[appnut]

Wanna coke? Yeah, I'll take a Sprite or Dr. Pepper if ya got one, thanks!! or Sure, what do ya have?

 

[jaxsunst]

In Arkansas and Tennessee, it is a coke.

 

[DADoES]

Soda water.

Or coke as per Bob above.

Or, my-quirky-self ... fluid.

 

[appliguy]

In South Dakota.....

Where my mom is from it is called Pop. If you ask for soda they bring you soda water. PAT COFFEY

 

[perc-o-prince]

Born/raised in Buffalo. Pop was any carbonated, flavored beverage. Coke was Coke. Soda was soda water. But "a" soda was ice cream with soda water and some flavoring (not to be confused with a float, which was ice cream, usually vanilla, and your choice of pop, i.e., a Coke float or root beer float). Milkshake was ice cream, milk, and maybe flavoring.

Here in MA, soda is any carbonated, flavored bev. What is a milkshake nearly everywhere else is a frappe here.

It's like when Ron said he was bringing spinach pies to the party. We know 'em as calzones (they were yummie no matter whatcha called 'em!).

It's all in where ya live!

Chuck

 

[jmirawm]

in Arkansas

We are "going to go get a coke" whether that is Pepsi - Dr. Pepper, Mnt Dew, Coca Cola, etc.

 

[rickr]

We call it soda, but have cousins only 60 miles south of us, and they say it's "pop"

 

[sudsmaster]

I call it a major cause of adult-onset diabetes :-(

 

[brisnat81]

In AU, it's softdrink.

Soda is Soda water and Pop isnt used in common language at all.

 

[rp2813]

Interesting question. I just got copied on an e-mail that provides a long list of ways to know for sure if someone is from Chicago. One is that carbonated beverages are called "pop."

In our house it's soda. However, the term "soda pop" does have its place as well. I recall advising an oenophile relative how much I disliked white zinfandel and he emphatically agreed and advised that it was like "soda pop" and that term did seem to imply "sweet" better than just "soda" would have. He's originally from New Orleans. I don't know what they call it there, but I suspect soda/pop is kind of an incidental beverage in those parts anyway.

 

[dubstar85]

Pop isn't a UK wide thing. In central/ northern Scotland I've never head of anyone calling it pop. Glaswegians call it "Ginger" after Irn Bru which is a distinct shade of orange. My family and friends (probably in a reflection of how bad Scottish diets are) call it juice.

Whenever i've been to the US/Canada its been Soda i've been hearing!

David

 

[hooverwheelaway]

Awww...

I saw the title of this thread, and thought... "Ooh, Laundress is going to finally show us a picture of him/herself...

*nuts*

 

[hooverwheelaway]

And I refer to it as soda.

~F

 

[frigilux]

Minnesota: It's called pop. If you say 'soda', you risk sounding affected.

 

[swestoyz]

Most of Iowa - it is pop. It doesn't take long though when traveling into Missouri from the north that they don't know what pop is.

I've been known to call it by both, depending on mood. Sometimes it sounds better if you throw a bit of soda into your sentence, where pop just doesn't have the flare.

 

[polkanut]

The retired owner of Pepsi here in Wausau will correct anyone he hears using the word "pop". He's 86yrs. old and still drinks 2-3 12oz. Pepsi's a day, and no diabetes whatsoever. He does add a little Jim Beam bourbon just like his mother did. According to my wife, his mother even kept a pint in her desk, strictly for "medicinal purposes". HAHA

 

[whirlcool]

In Minnesota and the upper midwest, I have heard the terms "Pop" & "Soda" used interchangably.

In Texas, like 58Limited stated, people usually refer to the drink by brand name rather than pop or soda.

 

[gyrafoam]

In Atlanta it's "'Co-Cola".
To me everything else is a soda.

 

[mattywashboy]

over here we seem to be more formal, we call it 'soft drink', so u ask ur guest if they would like some soft drink then offer them the range of choices. Being a british boy i used to call it 'pop' when i first arrived but that was met with some very confused looks and no progress in getting a drink.
Matt