Term used Pop or Soda?

[germ539]

Since my question about bringing pop (pepsi) on the transportation thread got a few going on this subject. I'd thought I'd try a poll on which term people use the most. The data that someone put on the trans thread was from 2002, maybe we can get a more accurate number now.

Let's see what everyone thinks!!

 

[ncmickeyluvr]

Soda.

I grew up in Massachusetts and live in NC, I've never heard someone call it Pop in real life. Only on tv.

 

[Sgt Mickey]

I said soda since that is what I call it now. I grew up in upstate NY calling it pop and didn't call it soda until I moved to Texas.

 

[MIGrandma]

We call it pop.

 

[TinksThree]

We say "coke" regardless of the brand.

 

[mrodgers]

Soda has ice cream in it, thus, it is pop.

 

[kathie859]

We always called it "soft drink". My cousin, who only lived about 60 miles from me, called it "pop" when we were kids.

 

[brerrabbit]

We say "coke" regardless of the brand.

I second this one. In Texas where I grew up everything is a "coke", what kind do you want? Sprite, Diet Coke, Dr. Pepper. This is true of natives but a lot of transplants use soda and pop.

 

[Geoff_M]

We say "coke" regardless of the brand.

Same in East Central Indiana... Any carbonated soft drink = "Coke"

Funny conversation I've had with a lot of people after moving to Michigan:

(I walk into a room holding a Pepsi)
Friend: I thought you said you were going to get a "Coke"?
Me: I did!

 

[EMom]

I second this one. In Texas where I grew up everything is a "coke", what kind do you want? Sprite, Diet Coke, Dr. Pepper. This is true of natives but a lot of transplants use soda and pop.

I'm a Texan and it's all Coke. You can also say, "cold drink," but Coke is the norm, no matter WHAT the drink. I'm not contradicting myself, however, because I am a Coke drinker.

 

[Shyvioletisme]

I second this one. In Texas where I grew up everything is a "coke", what kind do you want? Sprite, Diet Coke, Dr. Pepper. This is true of natives but a lot of transplants use soda and pop.

see I was born and raised in Central Texas and never heard just coke. It was always soda or Dr. Pepper. I always hear that people in Texas say coke, but honestly I never heard it here. Also my DH's Grandma calls it pop, but she is from Colorado.

 

[sms]

drink or soft drink. southern girl here! hey ya'll!!!

 

[ZuZugal]

When living in

Illinois - soda

Kansas - pop

Georgia (Atlanta) - coke

We lived in southwest Kansas for just a few years. We were having dinner in the Petroleum Club, and I wanted a Sprite or 7up, and not knowing which the restaurant served I ordered a "white soda". The server brought back plain carbonated water (soda without the syrup. blech!)

 

[brookmey]

I grew up in MI and we call it pop.

Now I live in southeastern TX and I've heard both soda and Coke. The Coke thing confused me at first. When we first moved here, DH and a waiter at Applebees had a "Who's On First" experience. DH ordered a Coke, an actual Coke, and the waiter asked him what kind. DH looked at him like he was an idiot and again said a Coke. The waiter then listed all the soft drinks available. It was pretty funny watching them go back and forth.

My kids call it soda, even though DH and I still call it pop.

 

[DebbieB]

Pittsburgh - it's pop. I was in a hotel in NJ once and asked a maid where the pop machine was and she looked at me like I was asking for drugs.

 

[ols386]

I say "pop"

 

[tar heel]

I grew up fairly near Mt. Airy, NC, the model for Mayberry. There was no consistency about what we said, but no one said "soda." I knew people who said "pop," people who said "soft drink" and people who just said "drink." Actually, "drink" was probably what was used most. In a Southern Baptist community, that term sure didn't refer to a martini!

 

[jen0610]

Northeastern IN - we have always called it pop. I took a lot of abuse when I worked at the Coke plant in AL. Every time I said I was going to go get a pop, one of the route drivers would say I didn't need to go get one, they would pop me one if I needed to be popped. I'd just roll my eyes at them.

When living in

Illinois - soda

Kansas - pop

Georgia (Atlanta) - coke

We lived in southwest Kansas for just a few years. We were having dinner in the Petroleum Club, and I wanted a Sprite or 7up, and not knowing which the restaurant served I ordered a "white soda". The server brought back plain carbonated water (soda without the syrup. blech!)

I almost always let DH order his drink first. If we don't know or see on the menu it noted Coke or Pepsi prodcuts, he'll say Coke or Pepsi. Once the waitstaff says which it is, if they say Coke, my order rolls off out - Cherry Coke, Dr. Pepper, Mr Pipp???? Which ever they have, is what I go with. It use to be hard to find somewhere that carried Cherry Coke, without it having to be made in the bar, but more places are carring it.

 

[jlewisinsyr]

From Upstate NY, the divide is Rochester, in Syracuse and Albany you see it listed as Soda on grocery store signs, in Buffalo it is listed as Pop, in Rochester, it can be seen either way or listed as Soda/Pop.

 

[luvsJack]

Coke