Soda or Pop?

[CheshireVal]

Coke here. Though usually people ask for what they want by name "Pepsi," "Sprite," "Diet Coke," etc. But if you're at a place with a serve-yourself fountain, you just say "coke" to get the cup.

 

[Kimickey]

Soda!

 

[aunt lissa]

I call it Soda!

 

[cindysteve]

Originally posted by ibouncetoo
Grew up in NW Indiana, and we used both...at the same time.
Do you want a soda-pop? May have been a family thing. I find now I use them interchangably, or I say 'do you want a cola?'

No ibouncetoo, it's not just a family thing. In Chicago I call it a soda-pop or a soda or a pop. Coke is only for "Coca Cola".

 

[faithinkarma]

In Quebec we called it a soft drink

My daughter in Ontario says pop

In CNY we say soda

 

[Roemama1]

We call it soda here in Syracuse, NY. But have friends in Rochester about 1 hour away that all they say is POP. Weird how it's so different so close by.

 

[MARRAR]

Pop, a soda has ice cream in it.

 

[catsrule]

pop

 

[edcrbnsoul]

I was at one time a tonic guy, but WDW broke me of that at an early age (4th grade), when I was at the PR pool with my parents my mom gave me some money so I could get a drink, I went up to the snack bar all proud to do this by myself and asked for a tonic, the attendent told me they didnt have any(I thought this guy was just being mean I saw all these people walking away with their cokes)I went back empty handed and told my mom, she explained the tonic,soda,pop thing to me. This was also the first trip I found out I had an accent(We're going over to the pahk latah) hey you talk funny!

 

[powellrj]

Originally posted by 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.

I remember the pop shop. Its was like a big warehouse that you would pick up an empty case and fill it up and pay as you left. I wonder what happened to them. We use to get pop from them all the time, and then they just went away???