Soda or Pop

[lily]

Different parts of the country call it different things. What do you call soft drinks by you? Here it's pop. If we ask for a soda, they ask what kind of ice cream we want.

[Elrathin]

Pop from Colorado :)

Now that I moved to Nevada though, get strange looks calling it that hehe.

I know many people in NC called it Soda.

[BoogyMan]

Soda in Tx.

[underdawg]

Pop was what I grew up with in Kentucky, but it seems to be called soda here in Washington.

[Cobra]

Coke

Option not on poll but that's what we call it here in Kentucky now and it goes for regular RC, Coca-Cola, and Pepsi.

[underdawg]

yeah, I remember calling it coke also.

[lily]

Cobra......but what do you call it if you want, oh say an orange or grape pop?

[Cobra]

Orange or grape whatever it is.

Mountain dew, 7 up, and mellow yellow are the same and if you ask for say mountain dew and they don't carry it they’ll bring you 7 up or mellow yellow. Doctor Pepper and Mr. Pib are the same way ask for one and you'll get either one they have and like I said ask for coke and you'll get coca-cola, pepsi, or RC.

We call the vending machines coke machines and we used to go on coke breaks before they banned coke from school.

[Alonzo]

soda or coke. The first few times I heard pop it didn't connect, even though I knew what the term meant, and I just gave the guy a blank stare.

[bobbylien]

I constantly hear both but mostly its soda.

[firefox]

"Soda" on the west coast. "Pop" is a midwestern thing. I've never heard ice cream beingÂ*Â*called "soda" before! Does this apply to rootbeer floats and such mostly?

[lily]

Um......no rootbeer floats are rootbeer floats. I'm going to really show my age here..........sodas are soda water, flavored syrup and a scoop of ice-cream.......my favorite both chocolate.

[Churchel]

I forced myself out of my pop upbringings to make my area of upbringing more obscure.

[askates]

definately pop in northern ohio where i was born, it is pop/soda in central ohio, but soda in southern ohio.

[wonder cow]

coke. in the south, we call it coke.

some call it pop.

I know in West Virginia, my relatives call it pop.

[ECW]

In Missouri we called it soda pop but in Texas the old timers call it soda water. Just to irritate people I call it Artificially Flavored Carbonated Water

[Professor]

"Soda" on the west coast. "Pop" is a midwestern thing.


I disagree. I'm Midwestern and I've only heard soda. And I've lived in both the big city and the rural country.

[J316]

Coke.

[BoogyMan]

What category would Diet Dr. Pepper fall into? I am all over that one. :D

[Buck Laser]

Soda in Tx.


I guess it depended on where you were brought up in TX. In S. Texas where I grew up, we called it "coke"--didn't matter whether it was RC, Orange Krush or Grapette--we called it "coke." Alternatively, we called them "soft drinks." My wife, born & raised in west Texas (Sweetwater), also used the same words.

During the thirty years we lived in IL, it was "pop.'

[Stoner]

What do you call soft drinks by you?

Nothing.Â*Â*I just order whatever woman is over here at the time to go get daddy something to drink.

If I'm wanting a specific soda I just tell her "light or dark". Anything beyond that just confuses them.

[lily]

Damn.......I hate to say it......but that's funny!