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j0be
Apr 20th, 2011, 08:09 PM
We had a rather vocal debate in the chat room about this earlier. What generic name do you call soft drinks?

Here's a map of the United States organized by use of generic soft drink name (http://quittingsoda.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/09/popvssodamap.gif)
Ra1th
Apr 20th, 2011, 08:09 PM
It is soda dammit!!!!!!
Wicked Sid
Apr 20th, 2011, 08:10 PM
Its Pop, dammit!
riskbreaker23
Apr 20th, 2011, 08:12 PM
I vote Soda. Sorry man... Pop just sounds so...... so.....

Wrong.
Tandem25
Apr 20th, 2011, 08:41 PM
Other. If you're from the old south and it's carbonated, it's a coke. Always. From Texas to the Carolinas, it's a coke. FL is a little different due to the diverse nature of it's inhabitants. It seems like I never heard it called the same thing twice there.
Zombiehead
Apr 20th, 2011, 08:46 PM
I've had this debate before. The only time I ever hear soft drinks called "Pop" is in some oldies movie or one set in a time period before I was alive. My mother calls it Pop so I always assumed it was a generation thing, but it appears to be regional.

Oh, by the way, it's SODA!
timberwoof
Apr 20th, 2011, 08:46 PM
Okay I'm from Texas and we call them all Coke. Conversation goes like this:

"Hey you going to the kitchen?"
"Yeah, why?"
"Can you bring me a coke?"
"Sure, what do you want?"
"Dr. Pepper."

Don't know why but that's just the way it is.
nikvoodoo
Apr 20th, 2011, 09:32 PM
I'm sad I missed this debate.

Geographically, I should call it Pop since I'm from Western NY. But I've traveled to about 35 of the 48 continental United States and 2 different provinces in Canada, so I'm used to calling it Soda Pop to make sure I don't confuse anyone. And when I cross the Mason Dixon line, I call it coke. It's important to understand different cultures when you travel around this great country of ours....no matter how frappin' silly it is. :p
ObamaCat
Apr 20th, 2011, 09:33 PM
Up here in Canada we call it pop. End of discussion. I gotta ask... what is the other? Paps?
Craneses
Apr 20th, 2011, 09:36 PM
I call it pop, but where i'm from, Trinidad, they call it Sweet Drink.

and i googled this haha.

http://www.popvssoda.com/
itsallgoodie
Apr 20th, 2011, 09:36 PM
It is soda dammit!!!!!!

I am itsallgoodie and i approve this message.
bequita
Apr 20th, 2011, 09:58 PM
Other. If you're from the old south and it's carbonated, it's a coke. Always. From Texas to the Carolinas, it's a coke. FL is a little different due to the diverse nature of it's inhabitants. It seems like I never heard it called the same thing twice there.
My college roomates from chicago would always pick on me when I would ask what kind of coke they wanted.

Also, it's angel FOOD cake. Not ANGEL food cake.
cycogod
Apr 21st, 2011, 12:36 PM
grab a pop -
Luna Guardian
Apr 21st, 2011, 12:47 PM
I picked soda, but actually should've picked other. I call it lemonade.
Ra1th
Apr 21st, 2011, 01:13 PM
I picked soda, but actually should've picked other. I call it lemonade.

What. Is. Wrong. With. You?!?!?


:p
Yoyo
Apr 21st, 2011, 05:51 PM
I live in texas and i use coke sparingly to describe soft drinks. I for one say soda but eveyone else i know and my family say coke.

Anywas, it's Soda dammit, ha. Pop its just weird.
Eviebae
Apr 21st, 2011, 06:02 PM
Should we really be discussing theology on this site?
MrScott101
Apr 21st, 2011, 06:33 PM
I grew up with it being pop and I teach my kids pop or I just say diet dew!!
Agent 1337
Apr 21st, 2011, 08:55 PM
It's soda.
itsallgoodie
Apr 21st, 2011, 10:22 PM
i think pop sounds cooler, but i would feel dumb saying it in real life.
Luna Guardian
Apr 22nd, 2011, 12:15 AM
What. Is. Wrong. With. You?!?!?


:p
I'm not a native speaker, a'ight!
Besides that, there's any number of things wrong with me :p
mem
Apr 22nd, 2011, 08:02 AM
born in texas and now live in arkansas
everything fizzy is coke
wooly
Apr 22nd, 2011, 05:32 PM
It's all coke in different flavors.

"Pop" is just weird, and was undoubtedly coined by the same weirdos who call water fountains "bubblers". WTF, seriously? lol j/k
IAmBabs
Apr 25th, 2011, 01:22 PM
I generally say soda, but sometimes I'll ask for a Coke and I'll either get a Coke or Pepsi.
Eitri
Apr 25th, 2011, 01:43 PM
I got a joke, what does a soda call its father?
Pop.
Pop is an older type of carbonated beverage, soda is a more current type, thats how i see it.
Boomstick
May 2nd, 2011, 10:29 AM
Soda. Pop doesn't make any sense.
Walrusgus
May 4th, 2011, 03:50 AM
Just fizzy or soft drinks... No one I know has ever called them soda or pop. They would get ripped out about it.
kafu288
May 4th, 2011, 04:46 AM
Never heard anyone call it soda or pop. Its soft drink... silly americans :p
Walrusgus
May 5th, 2011, 04:22 AM
Never heard anyone call it soda or pop. Its soft drink... silly americans :p

Haha I know right! :o
smalls kenobi
May 10th, 2011, 05:57 PM
i just call it Carbonated Soft Drink.

...jk i call it soda.
i call my dad Pop, it'll be wrong to call Soda, "Pop"
smalls kenobi
May 10th, 2011, 06:00 PM
And for the record, Royal Crown is the ONLY Cola Soft Drink.. PERIOD! :P