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
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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
It is soda dammit!!!!!!
Its Pop, dammit!
I vote Soda. Sorry man... Pop just sounds so...... so.....
Wrong.
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.
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!
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.
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
Up here in Canada we call it pop. End of discussion. I gotta ask... what is the other? Paps?
I call it pop, but where i'm from, Trinidad, they call it Sweet Drink.
and i googled this haha.
http://www.popvssoda.com/
I am itsallgoodie and i approve this message.Quote:
Originally Posted by Ra1th
My college roomates from chicago would always pick on me when I would ask what kind of coke they wanted.Quote:
Originally Posted by Tandem25
Also, it's angel FOOD cake. Not ANGEL food cake.
grab a pop -
I picked soda, but actually should've picked other. I call it lemonade.
What. Is. Wrong. With. You?!?!?Quote:
Originally Posted by Luna Guardian
:p
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.
Should we really be discussing theology on this site?
I grew up with it being pop and I teach my kids pop or I just say diet dew!!
It's soda.
i think pop sounds cooler, but i would feel dumb saying it in real life.
I'm not a native speaker, a'ight!Quote:
Originally Posted by Ra1th
Besides that, there's any number of things wrong with me :p
born in texas and now live in arkansas
everything fizzy is coke
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
I generally say soda, but sometimes I'll ask for a Coke and I'll either get a Coke or Pepsi.
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.
Soda. Pop doesn't make any sense.
Just fizzy or soft drinks... No one I know has ever called them soda or pop. They would get ripped out about it.
Never heard anyone call it soda or pop. Its soft drink... silly americans :p
Haha I know right! :oQuote:
Originally Posted by kafu288
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"
And for the record, Royal Crown is the ONLY Cola Soft Drink.. PERIOD! :P