Soda or Pop?

[Alice28]

Soda is what I call it...grew up in CA. However here in Oregon, most people seem to call it pop.

 

[my3kids]

Soda in the Mid-Atlantic Region

 

[GailT]

I call it tonic. Funny, Last time I flew I asked the flight attendent for some tonic and she gave me tonic water, YUCK

 

[powellrj]

In central Indiana its pop, as in "We are out of pop" I could NEVER refer to it as coke....dh would never forgive me!!!

 

[tinksgirl]

Soda I live north of Boston it has always been soda for me.

 

[cabmom]

Pop, up here!

 

[dizneenut]

POP!

 

[Galahad]

Pop almost always.....sometimes Soda but never the generic "Coke".....

We used to have a store here in Indy years ago that sold a variety of carbonated drinks in mix and match cases in returnable bottles called "The Pop Shop". It was a great deal. After the bottle deposit it cam out to about 9 cents a bottle.

 

[dianeschlicht]

POP!

 

[marymrg]

I say soda (grew up in Central NY) and the rest of my family says pop.


My grandmother used to say "soft stuff"!

 

[BibbidiBobbidiBOO]

It is a SODA. Though we usually call it Coke or Diet Coke or whatever it actually is!
I would NOT want to be asked if I wanted a "Pop"!

Hey-where is Pop Daddy?

 

[Virgo10]

Originally posted by rbuzzotta
Tonic here!!! It's all tonic!!

Absolutely!

Roberta

 

[TiggerPiglet]

We call it soda

 

[WishingStar]

It's pop here.

 

[Chattyaholic]

Pop here, too.

I'm a waitress and one time when I asked a guy what he wanted to drink, he said "soda water." I gave him a puzzled look (as I was thinking he must want baking soda mixed into a glass of water!), and his wife rolled her eyes at him then turned to me and said "he wants a Coke." Why didn't he just SAY that then.

 

[KristaTX]

In the TX/OK area you're most likely to hear the term "cokes" when people are speaking in general. Soda probably comes in second, but pop, sodapop, and cola are not totally unheard of around here.

I have never heard it called tonic by anyone until this thread.

I don't use if often, but I like the term sodapop best. It sounds so bubbly and old-timey .

Krista

 

[piglet too]

Growing up it was always "pop" for me here in Chicago-land. But then I went to school in NE Missouri and started calling it "soda" and still do.

 

[tkd lisa]

I grew up in Indiana, so in my mind, it's always pop. Now that we live on the east coast, I usually say soda, but it's after my mind thinks pop.

 

[Michelina]

Soda!

 

[campingcorgi]

Cokes or cold drink here--usually coke as in 'What kind of coke do you want?'