do you drink pop or soda?

[dcgrumpy]

soda.

 

[Feralpeg]

I used to drink pop when I lived in the midwest. Now that I live in Florida, I drink soda. The only thing that changed was what I call it.

 

[lindalinda]

We dont say soda or pop.....everything is a generic coke here....like.......anybody wanna coke? sure give me a DR Pepper

 

[maryssasmom]

it is soda here

 

[Beth]

"Soft drink," here...

 

[ZachnElli]

Another midwesterner so pop it is!

 

[rbuzzotta]

it is tonic here. or just coke..............for everything then you specify, sprite, root beer etc.

do you drink a frappe or milk shake??? eat a grinder or sub??? is it sauce or gravy????

 

[T1130]

I call it soda.

 

[ClarabelleCowFan]

neither...I drink coke, even when drinking pepsi

 

[helenabear]

Being around my hubby is slowly changing me from soda to coke. I grew up with pop, but that grates on my ears now... I hated even saying that word.

 

[LadyBears]

I've never had a pop in my life (except on my rear end when i was a kid), but I've had enough sodas to fill a lake

also, Pop is another name for father or what you do to a cork on a bottle of champaign or what you do to unlock something or what is used to retrieve email from its server or part of culture (ie pop music) or short for popsicle or a small explosion.... Here in the northeast it's soda.....

 

[cabmom]

It's pop around here!

 

[WDW LifeLong Fan]

Neither.

Where I'm from every soft drink is called a "COKE"

 

[tarheelmjfan]

"Soft drink," here...

I was beginning to think I was the only one. I grew up in NC & never once heard anyone call it soda. Well, maybe the dearly departed older generation who I believe said a version like "sodar", as someone else mentioned. Everyone else calls them soft drinks in that area.

 

[Aimeedyan]

Neither - it's COKE!

 

[Alicnwondrln]

its called tonic here

 

[edcrbnsoul]

From New England we drink Tonic.
It's the way Soft Drinks were marketed when they first came out as a health elixers so they were Tonics.

Augustin Thompson created Moxie in Lowell in 1876, about ten years before Coke. He was a medical doctor who brewed up a mixture of Gentian root extract, cinchona, sassafras, caramel and other flavorings to make "Moxie Nerve Food". It was billed as a medicine which can "recover brain and nervous exhaustion; loss of manhood, imbecility and helplessness. It has recovered paralysis, softening of the brain, locomotor ataxia and insanity". Moxie Nerve Food, like all early soft drinks in America, was first created as a medicine, not a recreational drink.

After the US Civil War, pharmacists began to add medicinal roots and herbs to produce a more curative drink. Sugar was often added to counter the bitterness of these concoctions and to make a better-tasting drink. These medicinal tonics developed into today's soft drinks and New Englanders still call them tonic and get them at the corner spa. Moxie Nerve Food, named by Dr. Thompson after the American Indian Moxie Falls in Maine, became New England's tonic.

 

[Kimberly]

Being that soda is a nickname for carbonic acid, and used in everything containing carbonic acid, that can be used. Pop is actually used as a nickname for the phosphates within the soft beverage, so "pop" can be used. Coke comes from the coca plant which the taste is derived from, and later for cocaine. So I guess calling any soft beverage using the coca plant "coke" would also be correct.

That being said though, I call them what they call themselves in the Wall Street Journal... SODA Companies.

 

[Kimmielee]

It's Pop here in Michigan .... I've heard my relatives in KY call it "sodey-pop" and I was very confused when a southern friend asked me if I had coke and I said nope, I'm a Pepsi girl and she said... that's what I want!

 

[Obi-Wan Pinobi]

It's all Coke to us!