slo’s TUESDAY 1/23 poll - Soda vs Pop vs Coke 🥤

[hhisc16]

DW is from OR and says soda.
I am from SC and say Coke.

It will be interesting to see what DD calls it!

 

[hhisc16]

I used to be an AP Human Geography teacher.
I always made my students take the NY Times dialect quiz (free).
It is really cool to see how close to your hometown the quiz gets. The students liked it as well.

Here it is for anyone interested:
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2014/upshot/dialect-quiz-map.html

 

[The Mayor]

Tonic here in MA.

 

[PollyannaMom]

I used to be an AP Human Geography teacher.
I always made my students take the NY Times dialect quiz (free).
It is really cool to see how close to your hometown the quiz gets. The students liked it as well.

Here it is for anyone interested:
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2014/upshot/dialect-quiz-map.html

Are you supposed to answer as your current self, or thinking of your childhood? - I moved as an adult, so my pronunciation of individual words matches my hometown, but my choices between different words for the same thing sometimes matches my new area.

 

[soccerdad72]

I flip flop between pop and soda. Growing up in NW PA, it was always pop. And around Ohio, it's mostly pop. But my wife grew up on the East Coast, so it's been soda to her, so I can go either way.

I don't drink soft drinks anymore for the most part, but if I was out at a restaurant, I'd actually just order specifically what I wanted, which was usually Diet Coke. And then they'd ask if Diet Pepsi was ok.

 

[_19disnA]

Seems similar to another recent thread. If you are ordering in a restaurant, "Coke" is a brand name of a specific type of soda/pop. I can't recall anyone in the various places I have lived referring to it generically as coke. Whether you refer to it as soda or pop seems to be a regional thing.

Soda/pop also comes in orange or lemon/lime, so if your try to order those when out as a coke not sure what you might get.

 

[HopperFan]

Originally NJ so we say SODA when referring to all flavors ...
Moved to GA as kid and learned you call everything by it's actual name ...
So if you say COKE in GA that means Coca Cola, no other brand or flavor.
I think the south map is misleading because COKE is COKE and there is no substitute.

When I moved back to NJ/NYC I had to learn quickly to verify in restaurants what cola brand they were carrying as it was often NOT COCA COLA. Growing up we didn't go out to eat nor was soda in the house so I had to learn all the local vernacular.

 

[ford family]

Pop - UK

ford family

 

[lovesmurfs]

Midwestern transplant. Raised in NJ, where soda wasn't ever even discussed. Called it soda when I was in college (Indiana University) and was laughed at. Now in Chicagoland, I still call it soda, but I don't much care what others call it.

 

[tony67]

Mostly we called it tonic, which was a headache back when I went to basic training.

In the south (at least in my experience in the 80s) they called it pop.

Other than that I also have called it Coke generically, and mostly call it Soda now, but rarely drink it now.

 

[hertamaniac]

You might as well draw a vertical line down the center of PA. East of Harrisburg = Soda, West = Pop

 

[MIGrandma]

Pop - Michigan

Me too

 

[Dan Murphy]

Now in Chicagoland, I still call it soda,

 

[Debbie Jean]

Grew up in Boston. It was always tonic in our house.

 

[disneydreamer1980]

Soda-Maryland

 

[amcnj]

The generic term for me has been soda. But I do remember the term soda pop too. But I can’t remember if that was from tv and movies or did some kids around me actually say that?

 

[MamaMermaid]

Florida - Soda

But my parents (from OH and WV) said Pop

 

[seshat0120]

I've spent my entire life just outside of Boston and it's always been tonic. I have gotten in the habit of using soft drink since I've spent more and more time working with people who are not natives of Massachusetts and have been a bit puzzled by the generic use of tonic.

 

[fly girl]

Pop ~ Ohio

 

[mamamary]

Soda - NY and Maryland