Soda or Pop?

[Dasquian Belargic]

So, our recent discussion has got me wondering about something.

What do you call 'soft drinks' such as Coca Cola and Pepsi?

[Blind Molly]

Soda, without a doubt.

Though everyone in Oregon/the Northwest seems to call the stuff pop, so I call it that every once in a while now. ^_^;

[Dasquian Belargic]

I would only say soda if I wanted 'soda water', as in lime and soda or something like that.

I do use pop or fizzy-pop now and then, though, so I voted for that :)

[Wesley Paige]

Pop unless its Coke or Pepsi I'm drinking. I call those soda. >_<

[Liam Jinn]

I call all soda - 'Coke', as do most people around here.

[Dasquian Belargic]

I call all soda - 'Coke', as do most people around here.

Even stuff like lemonade?

[Liam Jinn]

Since when did lemonade become 'soda'? :p

[Lilaena De'Ville]

maybe she meant lemon-lime soda like Sprite or 7UP?

[Mitch]

POP POP POP!

I moved to California from Washngton, and I take a great deal of flack for it, but it's still pop, daggone-it.

[Dasquian Belargic]

Since when did lemonade become 'soda'? :p

Yes LD is right, I meant stuff like 7UP. Lemonade as in a carbonated drink, just like Coca-Cola - not old-fashioned cloudy lemonade or whatever.

[Liam Jinn]

Ohhh, well that stuff is called Sprite. Coke and Sprite, that's all there is. Though if I order a Sprite, people know what I want. Coke is a bit more tricky.

[Calleh]

Soda. Grew up in central Pennsylvania. Here in western Ohio, it's pop. However, I rarely drink anything other than Pepsi or Coke, so I just ask by brand name for whatever's available.

[Parsideon Denix]

Soda, soft drink, or drink.

"Coke" is for slack-jawed yokels.

If I ever actually hear somebody say "Pop" in real life, in a non-ironic fashion, I think I may black out and pummel them to the pavement with a trash can and my own shoes which I will remove and flail about like a windmill. And when I regain conciousness I will have blood on my shoes and carry myself with an unexplainable sense of satisfaction.

[Liam Jinn]

"Coke" is for slack-jawed yokels.

Bah, I don't like that.

[Hartus Kenobi]

Soda. Otherwise, I'd just call the drink by it's name. Coke. Pepsi. Sprite. Whatever.

[Khendon Sevon]

We call it soda in Jersey. I mean, you might say, "Give me a coke" as representative for pepsi or coke; but, you wouldn't say that if you wanted Sierra Mist or Mug or something.

Weirdos :p

In Greece it's all very, very different. Soda--pronounced "Soo tha"--is seltzer. Coke is a coke or pepsi, Sprite (imagine that with a Greek accent :) ) is sprite. Lemonatha (Lemonade) is carbonated lemonade. Portocolatha (orange juice) is carbonated orange juice.

It's all very weird.

Pop is just silly. You silly, silly people, you.

[Jaime Tomahawk]

It's called soft drink in the main here for anything carbonated.

Or Black Death for Coke.

[Lars Marzullo]

Soda, "pop" is for hicks and hillbillies.

[Morgan Evanar]

"Coke" is for slack-jawed yokels.

Bah, I don't like that.It's true.

Soda refers to most carbonated beverages. Cola is a Coke or Pepsi or other colas, like RC or Jolt. All colas are sodas.

Soft drink is also acceptable when refering to most carbonated beverages.

Lemonade has no carbonation, and is not a soda. Lemon lime sodas are... lemone lime sodas, which are not lemonade, although you can mix the two and I find the result better than just lemon-lime soda, like Sprite or 7-Up. I'd rather just squeeze 2 lemon slices into some ice water, though.

I've never actually heard anyone call soda pop in person.

[Mu Satach]

IN-teresting - UT must be hanging on to the past as I hear and use both terms equally, interchangeably and together.

"I'm going to run to the sev (7-11) and grab a soda, want one?"
"Hey wouldya bring me a can of pop out of the fridge?"
"Would you like something to drink? I have ice tea, lemon aide and soda pop."

But if you're really being goofy and want to play up the hickville nature of the place it's pronounced S-oh-dee pop.

[Parsideon Denix]

"Soda pop" is acceptible, but only if you are Dr. Dre and you're also bringing chronic and Remy Martin to the dope spot, after which you will smell like Indonesia.


Soda, "pop" is for hicks and hillbillies.

Pop is for whitebread jerks in awful hellholes like Fargo, ND or whatever flyover that's west of the Mississippi and north of Texas. You have to wear a fur hat and talk like you've got brain damage.

[Lars Marzullo]

"Soda pop" is acceptible, but only if you are Dr. Dre and you're also bringing chronic and Remy Martin to the dope spot, after which you will smell like Indonesia.


Soda, "pop" is for hicks and hillbillies.

Pop is for whitebread jerks in awful hellholes like Fargo, ND or whatever flyover that's west of the Mississippi and north of Texas. You have to wear a fur hat and talk like you've got brain damage.

:lol:lol:lol:lol

Oh I know, I've seen them and made it to tell the tale.

[Laodice Laos]

I say 'cola'.

[Wyl Staedtler]

I say pop and I'm darn proud of it! Go Canada! :D

My neighbor calls them 'cool drinks' though, which I think is adorable.

[Parsideon Denix]

I think I'm going to start calling Root Beer "A tall drink of Sarsaparilla" because I generally hate people.

[Droo]

Other. In general, I just refer to them as fizzy drinks. Specifically, if I went out to buy Coca-Cola, I'd refer to it as Coke but if it were any other dodgy brand of cola, I'd mockingly refer to it as Rola-Cola. Most of the time, I refer to the drinks by their name: Pepsi, Coke, Sprite, Fanta, Dr. Pepper, etc.

If I ever used the term "pop" or especially "soda", I'd kick myself out of the country - I hate both expressions.

[Fieron Marzullo]

Well, I grew up saying 'pop', but the simple fact that most people I talk to are not at all Canadian, and are in fact American has [without my realizing it until now] influenced my brain into calling it 'soda'.

But really, if I mean Coke, I'll say Coke. Pepsi is the 'Evil Blue Label', Rootbeer is rotbeer, and my love of rootbeer causes me to specify which brand I want. I can't generalise all carbonated drinks under the name of 'Coke'. It just does NOT jive with my brain.

And I will say 'Limonata Sanpelligrino' if I want one. No mincing words here.


I think I'm going to start calling Root Beer "A tall drink of Sarsaparilla" because I generally hate people.

Ha. Ha. Ha.

[Travis North]

Soda, soft drink, or drink.

I rarely ever hear the word pop. It's usually soda or soft drink.

[Morgan Evanar]

I say 'cola'.:twakBut what if it's not a cola?! WHAT THEN?!

[Fieron Marzullo]

I say 'cola'.:twakBut what if it's not a cola?! WHAT THEN?!

Then hell will freeze over. And pigs will fly on their own power.

[Loklorien s'Ilancy]

Pop just sounds silly. It's always been soda for me.

[Razielle Alastor]

I'll admit then when I was little if I was being offered a "flavored carbonated beverage", it was refered to as:

"Would you like a pop?"

At which point I would specify what kind of pop I wanted. Usually, Mello Yellow, Root Beer or Ginger Ale. I've never been much of a cola drinker. Though now I always refer to "flavored carbonated beverages" as soda. Although my family still has the common sense to specify which kind they would like.

I never heard people randomly refering to soft drinks in general as,

"Hey can you grab me a coke." (Even if what they really want is an Orange soda, or a Sprite...... O_O )

until we moved to Florida, at which point I thought they were all nuts and asked my Mom about it. She explained it as,

"One of those southern things that I wouldn't understand."

I can get Pop and Soda, but unless you want a Coke....why ask for one? :huh

[Shawn]

I spent a few months in the midwest, and I developed a nervous tick every time I heard someone say "Pop". Or "Parking Hole".

[Loklorien s'Ilancy]

... parking hole?

[Mu Satach]

Parking hole... is that what they call a parking space??? *twitch*

[Yog]

Soda refers to most carbonated beverages. Cola is a Coke or Pepsi or other colas, like RC or Jolt. All colas are sodas.

Soft drink is also acceptable when refering to most carbonated beverages.

Lemonade has no carbonation, and is not a soda. Lemon lime sodas are... lemone lime sodas, which are not lemonade, although you can mix the two and I find the result better than just lemon-lime soda, like Sprite or 7-Up. I'd rather just squeeze 2 lemon slices into some ice water, though.

I've never actually heard anyone call soda pop in person.

Morgan gets it right, except I cringe about the word "soft drink". It's way too general.

I refer to its actual name Cola, Sprite, Fanta etc. If I talk in general terms about carbonated drinks, they are "soda", which is the correct English term. It's effervescent water, usually containing salts, sugar and taste substances, charged under pressure with purified carbon dioxide gas. The Norwegian word for "soda" is "brus". <img src=http://www.mneh.org/s/eng101.gif>


..also:


Pop is just silly. You silly, silly people, you.

[Zereth Lancer]

Meh. I call it Soda most of the time. Always have. I only call it "pop" when I'm feeling lazy.

[TheHolo.Net]

I grew up calling it soda water or coke in Texas, but everyone here in Colorado calls it pop.

[Dasquian Belargic]

I mostly used pop when I was a lot younger. I just call things by their brand name most of the time though. Even Pepsi and Coke, though this is possibly in part because of brand reinforcement - e.g. if you go into Pizza Hut and ask for a Coke (as in Coca Cola), they will ask if Pepsi is okay. Also I doubt that working in a bar helps. Got to be specific with what you want, otherwise you might get something you don't want.

[Parsideon Denix]

Okay a bar is a special exception to the rule, because then it is acceptible to use "_____ & Coke" as a legitimate drink request because you are getting drunk and honestly don't care what the hell cola derivative is used if they don't have Coke in the first place.

Also there are drunk idiots all around you wanting the same thing and fighting to get the bartender's attention so just say Coke and don't be a time-wasting pedant.

[Dasquian Belargic]

I wasn't really meaning the Cola/Pepsi divide with the bar comment. More just about soft drinks in general. It would annoy me if someone asked for a 'pop' (not soda though, because then they would mean soda water). I doubt that there are many bars that keep more than one brand of cola on tap anyway, besides having Regular/Diet variants.

[Loklorien s'Ilancy]

I'd like a Jack and pop :lol

[Alexia Marzullo]

I never heard people randomly refering to soft drinks in general as,

"Hey can you grab me a coke." (Even if what they really want is an Orange soda, or a Sprite...... O_O )

until we moved to Florida, at which point I thought they were all nuts and asked my Mom about it. She explained it as,

"One of those southern things that I wouldn't understand."

I can get Pop and Soda, but unless you want a Coke....why ask for one? :huh

I'm from Florida and I call it soda, though I do agree that many stupid people call it all Coke...

And on a side note, I don't really see most of Florida as "southern" maybe northern Florida, but Central Florida and lower is old rich people, golfers, maybe some southern areas around the Everglades... I've never considered Florida southern in anything other than geography

[Morgan Evanar]

I never heard people randomly refering to soft drinks in general as,

"Hey can you grab me a coke." (Even if what they really want is an Orange soda, or a Sprite...... O_O )

until we moved to Florida, at which point I thought they were all nuts and asked my Mom about it. She explained it as,

"One of those southern things that I wouldn't understand."

I can get Pop and Soda, but unless you want a Coke....why ask for one? :huh

I'm from Florida and I call it soda, though I do agree that many stupid people call it all Coke...

And on a side note, I don't really see most of Florida as "southern" maybe northern Florida, but Central Florida and lower is old rich people, golfers, maybe some southern areas around the Everglades... I've never considered Florida southern in anything other than geographyAnd Dade County is North Cuba and most of Monroe is the Keys, which is another place unto itself.

The instance of people calling soda "cola" seems to radiate outward from Atlanta, where Coca-Cola Co resides.

[Krishna Marzullo]

As I stated in the Coke or Pepsi thread I prefer Pepsi, but I call them coke. Though most people where I live call it all soda (unless your my dad and he calls it soda pop).

[Lilaena De'Ville]

I don't think the poll is asking us what we refer to Coca-cola as. Obviously when you're dealing with a specific brand of cola you'd say "Coke" or "Pepsi" or "RC" (though why you'd say RC I don't know).

Just what you refer to soft drinks as in general. Soda, coke (ya weirdos), or pop, or something else. :p

[Blaine]

Anyone who says pop is living in the 50s.

-Hey bub, how's about another pop?
-Golly mister, that'd be swell.

[Razielle Alastor]

Anyone who says pop is living in the 50s.

-Hey bub, how's about another pop?
-Golly mister, that'd be swell.

:lol, that's great.



And on a side note, I don't really see most of Florida as "southern" maybe northern Florida, but Central Florida and lower is old rich people, golfers, maybe some southern areas around the Everglades... I've never considered Florida southern in anything other than geography



My point in saying it was not to cause a debate in whether or not FL was "the south", all I said was that I hadn't heard soda's refered to in general terms as "Coke" until I moved there. It was where I first encountered it.

[Alexia Marzullo]

My point in saying it was not to cause a debate in whether or not FL was "the south", all I said was that I hadn't heard soda's refered to in general terms as "Coke" until I moved there. It was where I first encountered it.


Oh, I know... I wasn't trying to insinuate anything with my post, but my lil side note on my feelings about Florida being the south

Sorry

[Nayala Palain]

Soda, although my husband is from MN and his family calls it all pop.

I nearly fell over laughing when I heard them. Its been 5 years, and I still bust up laughing.

[Lucilla Marzullo]

I call it...a drink....seriously LOL. When I'm at work, and say, "Man, I'm thirsty, I need a drink" people will throw quarters my way so I can shut up and go buy a Pepsi or something...they wont let me give it back either!

Additionally, when I moved to TN they also told me that you had to ask people what kind of Coke they wanted at the resturant I worked at. I was all...O.O;; okay then.....

[Lianna Mal Pannis]

Anyone who says pop is living in the 50s.

-Hey bub, how's about another pop?
-Golly mister, that'd be swell.

Then I guess I'm living in the 50's :p Course I grew up with my grandparents so double :p!

[Tam Jeneel]

Then I guess I'm living in the 50's :p Course I grew up with my grandparents so double :p!




Pop is for whitebread jerks in awful hellholes like Fargo, ND or whatever flyover that's west of the Mississippi and north of Texas. You have to wear a fur hat and talk like you've got brain damage.

:)

Do you find yourself also saying "Youse"?

[Kat Kariena]

We evil Vermonters or New Hampshireers (is that even a word? Dun care, I just live on the boarder of the two on the Vermont side ^_^;) call it soda, you must call it soda. If you say "coke" we will literally get you a coke, if you say pop... we'll look at you funny.... then laugh at you... and some of us might pummel you into the ground.

[Hartus Kenobi]

Now that I think about it, this is how things seem to operate with me.

Want Coca-Cola? Ask for Coke.
Want Pepsi? Ask for Pepsi.
Want Sprite? Ask for Sprite.

If you ask for "Soda," they'll ask you to clarify at lower-end restaurants. Higher-end establishments will assume you want club soda.

Never heard someone ask for "pop" in NY.

[Park Kraken]

And on a side note, I don't really see most of Florida as "southern" maybe northern Florida, but Central Florida and lower is old rich people, golfers, maybe some southern areas around the Everglades... I've never considered Florida southern in anything other than geography

:shakefist

Perhaps the Orlando area in Central Florida can be lumped in with South Florida, but the rest of Central Florida is the spitting image of the good ole' south.

On that note, yet another chicken-fighting arena has been broken up in Polk City. That's like what, four arenas broken up in the past few days alone?

[Jaime Tomahawk]

I'm giving up Black Death entirely