It is neither "Soda" nor "Pop", ok? It is a soft drink.

[yellowcanine]

That is my position and I am sticking to it.

[Blue Diadem]

1. Ohhhh no, it's a carbonated beverage.

:hi:

Although I refer to it as pop.

[yellowcanine]

2. Feh, no one calls it that unless they are writing an academic paper or something.

[NightWatcher]

3. it's "coke" regardless of the brand or flavor.

[Justyce]

11. Yep, what kind of Coke do you want.... my dad calls it

'soda pop' though.

[WolverineDG]

24. What'll you have? A coke.

Okay, what kind?

Makes perfect sense where I'm from. :)

dg

[yellowdogintexas]

30. Correct! nt

[DevonRex]

43. Yep. What kind of coke do you want? nt

[emilyg]

49. Yep.

[dana_b]

68. that's what we say too

we're from California and my friend in CHicago thinks we're very weird. To her it's "pop".
My kid laughs - she says "pop" sounds like something out of a 1950s movie.

[jobycom]

4. What is? Coke? nt

[CatholicEdHead]

5. Always has been always will be Pop

:P

[bigwillq]

6. Soda!

:P ;)

[TZ]

7. Its soda pop...

Series. Soda for short here in the east and pop for short when I'm visiting relatives in Ohio...

[mykpart]

79. Absotively posolutely correct!

Soda pop. It may be neither soda nor pop, but it is both soda and pop. Kool-aid is a soft drink!

[Ishoutandscream2]

8. Coke. Period.

As in "What kind of coke do you want?" And that's the rest of the story...

[MorningGlow]

9. Two syllables?

Instead of one? Nope, can't do it. :P

[MineralMan]

10. Living as a new Minnesnowtan,

I just say "soda pop" to cover all the bases. There's brown soda pop and white soda pop, and diet and non-diet varieties of each.

When in some southern states, though, it's co-cola.

[Lyric]

12. Sorry to break it to you, but it's Pop.

There is no other answer, save for wrong ones. :P

[azmouse]

13. The correct name is soda.

Everyone knows that, silly. :P

[DS1]

14. If I hear "pop" I know I'm in one of those fly-over states

[yvr girl]

28. Or in Canada

:hi:

[skygazer]

15. What is soft about it?

Makes no sense. I reject your position outright. x(

[yellowcanine]

16. It's not hard, ok? I reject your rejection of my position.

:spank:

[harmonicon]

58. "soft" is used in contrast to "hard"

As "hard cider" is alcoholic cider, a "soft drink" is a non alcoholic drink.

[edbermac]

17. Ever tasted Moxie? That is not a 'soft drink'.

[yellowcanine]

18. Yes. There was a machine we used to stop by when riding our bikes that had Moxie.

We dared each other to try it until finally someone agreed to spend a dime (!) and get one. We all tried it and agreed it was crap. OTOH that same machine had birch beer, which was the first choice for most of us. I inherited "soft drink" from my Dad. I don't know where he got it. He also would sometimes say "Pepsi" in a generic way but I never heard him use "Coke" that way.

[yellowdogintexas]

31. Moxie is toxic. Cott is pretty awful too. Oh and the 'tonic'thing is just in MA nt

[yy4me]

51. You are right, it is just MA that sticks to the old "tonic" thing. It

may slip a little over the surrounding borders. but those using the term are looked upon as foreigners. Happened to me in NH.

[WritingIsMyReligion]

45. Moxie tastes horrible, but youstill have to drink it.

You just do. It's Moxie.

:shrug:

:D

[AlCzervik]

19. It's tonic and that's that.

[Critters2]

41. Only in Boston. Everywhere else, "tonic" refers to Geritol. nt

[DeepBlueC]

47. or the stuff you mix with gin

Schweppes quinine carbonated beverage.

[bif]

20. A scientific study, for those interested

Cool website: http://popvssoda.com:2998/

And I love this at the bottom of the page:

CONCLUSION

People who say "Pop" are much, much cooler.

[Arugula Latte]

21. That's what we called it when I was growing up in California.

When I went to the East Coast, people made fun of me. :cry:

I call it soda now.

[MrScorpio]

22. You might last five minutes in Michigan, if you're careful

Here, it's "POP!"

[yellowcanine]

23. Ok my dad was born in Michigan in 1920 and he said "soft drink."

So "soft drink" has precedence over "pop" in Michigan. At least in Emmet County, Michigan, anyways.

[texas1928]

25. It's a Coke.

Nothing else.

[ThomCat]

26. What the hell is so soft about it?

:shrug:

[Tikki]

27. A diet drink......n/t

[Wapsie B]

29. Sody pop.

[ScreamingMeemie]

32. Now see?

I am relearning that because here, where I am, it's coke.

[Jamastiene]

33. Agreed!

:thumbsup:

Pop is what you do to a balloon.
Soda is that stuff that you open the box and stick it in the freezer to absorb odors, or sprinkle in the cat box to absorb odors there as well.

[elocs]

34. Growing up in Wisconsin we called it "pop", but when I got into high school in the 60s

we thought it was cool to call it "soda".

Now here is a better one: how about "bubbler"?

[ScreamingMeemie]

35. Wisconsin girl here.

Oh how they laughed when I moved to Michigan and asked where the bubbler was. Remember bubbler rides? It was a drinking fountain there. Although, I'm from Milwaukee and we called it soda. In Michigan they called it pop.

[elocs]

36. Where I live they had and still do have old cast iron bubblers around town,

especially at schools and parks. They even used to have a little bowl on the side of it for dogs to drink from. We used to give bubbler rides. There is a definite connection between WI and bubblers:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bubbler


The Bubbler was developed in 1888 by the then-small Kohler Water Works (now Kohler Company) in Kohler, Wisconsin, which was already well-known for its faucet production. While Harlan Huckleby is credited with the actual design, it was Kohler that patented it and trademarked the name. The original Bubbler shot water one inch straight into the air, creating a bubbling texture, and the excess water ran back down over the sides of the nozzle. It was several years later before the bubbler adapted the arc projection, which allowed the drinker to partake more easily.

The Bubbler concept took off and there were many copies. Since the name was trademarked, other companies named their fountains "The Gurgler" and "The Gusher". In the end, the generic terms "water fountain" and "drinking fountain" became the standard terms used in American English for a device that shoots water into the air for purpose of drinking.


The term is still used in several regional dialects of the United States, originating in eastern Wisconsin. The Upper Peninsula of Michigan, states in New England, and Australia also use the term. Oregon is also known to be quite familiar with the term, specifically in the Portland region where in the late 1800s Simon Benson installed 20 fountains which are now known in the Portland area as "Benson Bubblers".

[Critters2]

39. Or "lavatory". No one outside of Wisconsin calls a bathroom

a lavatory. :crazy:

[elocs]

50. Late in getting back to this, but I haven't heard that since I was a kid here.

When I was in grade school in La Crosse, WI I can clearly remember having to raise my hand to say I had to go to the "lav". I haven't heard that used here in decades though.

[Critters2]

66. We lived in Winneconne for a year and a half, when I was in 5th and 6th grades.

I remember being very excited about going to what I heard as "the laboratory" for the first time.
:wtf:

It was a bathroom!!

[Odin2005]

72. LOL, When I was in high school we had a kid who moved to MN from Milwaukee and...

we gave him hell because he called water fountains "bubblers".

[CatholicEdHead]

77. No bubblers, they are called Water Fountains, no debate needed

Darn eastern Wisconsities. At least everyone west of Eau Claire has their heads on straight. :P ;)

[I Have A Dream]

37. Amen!

:thumbsup:

[baldguy]

38. Call it "soda", call it "pop", call it "soda pop"

http://popvssoda.com:2998/images/smalldrawn.gif

http://popvssoda.com:2998/

Don't call it "Coke" (unless that's what you're ordering damn it!)

[mcctatas]

40. PaddyBlueEyes learned this the hard way....

the grocery checker asked him if he wanted his "pop in the sack" which he thought was an invitation for a roll in the hay until she disabused him of that notion by whacking him in the head with said pop in said sack. (he is sooooo going to kick my ass for this, but this story is too good not to share :rofl: )

[Critters2]

42. Like the first time someone in Boston offered me a "tonic".

I replied "No, I feel fine." Then I couldn't figure out why everyone but me was being served pop!

[Lil Missy]

48. .....

:spray:

[PaddyBlueEyes]

81. She wanted me

She just didnt know it yet.. :rofl:

[WritingIsMyReligion]

44. It's soda. Coke is a specific kind. "Pop" is what you call your father in hick places.

Goddamn fools. :P

[JVS]

59. Hick places like the East and West coast.

[Mudoria]

46. I have to admit..

I have never heard anyone say "soda" or "pop" when asking for Coke, Pepsi etc..

[Lil Missy]

52. It's soda!

That's MY position!

I "scoop" snow. Not shovel it.

I have a "roof" on my home, not a ruff.

And, for fuck sakes, you don't fold pizza in half to eat it. That's just wrong! A single, flat, slice!

Grits. I love grits! But, cream and sugar, please.

[LiberalEsto]

55. Agree on soda

The reason for folding a pizza slice in half to eat it is to minimize the grease drips. That is, if you're eating real pizza from New Jersey or New York. If it's from anyplace else, there's no need to bother.

Have you tried grits with a poached egg and butter, salt and pepper? Someone from the South taught me to eat grits that way.

[Lil Missy]

64. Gawd. If I were served pizza that dripped with grease, I'd ask for a refund.

That's fuckin' disgusting.

Grits? I confess. I consider it hot cereal. Cream and sugar, please. No eggs!

[HughBeaumont]

53. Yins aughta call it PAHP!

All the ex-Pittsbergher Ohio-ans do.

[JVS]

60. Powp

[LiberalEsto]

54. so-DA, so-DA, so-DA

I'm originally from NJ, and as we all know, NJ always has the last word on what's cool*, so SODA is what it is. Or else.


*Home of Count Basie, Bruce Springsteen, Bon Jovi, Frank Sinatra, Whitney Houston, Dionne Warwick, Yogi Berra, Danny DeVito, Joe Piscopo, Steven Spielberg, Jack Nicholson, Paul Simon, Sarah Vaughan,Jon Stewart, and many more, including the Sopranos. And I'm sure the Sopranos call it soda, so don't piss them off.

http://www.famousnewjerseyans.com/music.htm

[TX Screwball]

56. We call it Sasparilla 'round these parts.

[harmonicon]

57. a "soft drink" is any non alcoholic drink

It seems that if you want to indicate something more specific than that, you better have another word to use. For instance, if I wanted to discuss a non-alcoholic drink that was fizzy, sweet, and had some added falvouring other than just sugar to the carbonated water, I would refer to it as "soda" or "soda pop". When I was a kid, I would have called the same thing "pop".

[Left Is Write]

61. Pop.

[krispos42]

62. It's soda!!!

Not where I live though, but where I was born and rised.

[whistler162]

63. You will be sticky especially after we spray shaken up

bottles of soda and pop onto you!

[Celeborn Skywalker]

65. It's soda,

Even "coke" is acceptable. But "pop" and "soft drink" are never acceptable.

[otohara]

67. Toxic Liquid

that's my position.

[mwooldri]

69. You must be from the UK...

or heavily influenced from people over there.

Soda is used to describe something else... never beverages like Coke, Pepsi, etc. Sometimes they're called pop, but generally only with kids. Either its a soft drink, by its generic name, or more likely its brand name.

Mark.

[Spider Jerusalem]

86. or 'fizzy drinks'

[liberaltrucker]

70. As stated upthread.........

All cahbonated beveges down heh in Alabamy is a Coke. Lessen it's alceehol, then it's a Bud.

[Odin2005]

71. It's POP, dammit. "Soda" refers to pop that is not cola, root beer, or Dr. Pepper.

SO THERE! :P

[JVS]

73. What is this, the memo from corporate HQ?

It's pop. Deal with it.

[Nevernose]

74. Here's the map:

If it's already been posted, ignore me.

[liberaltrucker]

75. Just proves my point

Although Fayette County does not compute. But, hey, it's Fayette County.
Weird folks in those parts. :scared:

:rofl:

[Nevernose]

76. I've lived out West for 20 years

And the Coke/Pop/Soda thing still weirds me out. I'll say I'm going to get a coke, come back with a Dr. Pepper, and people are confused and offended.

It's not as bad as tea, though. Sweet tea just isn't offered out here, and when it is it comes with a straw (though lately I've noticed straws with tea back home, too -- I guess the times they are a changin'). And tea shouldn't be fruit-flavored. It's just wrong.

[Arugula Latte]

83. It is just plain wrong to call a non-Coke (TM) drink "coke."

Wrong, wrong, wrong.


:P

[liberaltrucker]

84. Tea is an entirely different beverage

According to my upbringing, exactly 2 quarts of water must be at a rolling boil.
Drop 6-8 normal-sized teabags (Lipton or Luzianne, depending on taste) and let it
steep not more than 20 minutes. Remove and discard the bags. Sweeten to taste(we usually
use a cup and a half of sugar or a cup of raw honey). Let chill and serve over ice cubes and, if desired, fresh
lemon. NO OTHER FRUITS BUT FREAKIN' LEMON! Officially off rant now. :)

[Odin2005]

80. I knew it! Real Americans (TM) say "pop" (St. Louis exempted)

Only Evil Commmie Left-coasters and Wisconsin Cheese-heads say "soda" and only unreconstructed Confederate traitors say "coke". :P

[liberaltrucker]

87. Ain't Murka Grand?

URCT here! Now, if I could get some cheese head.........

:evilgrin:

[crimsonblue]

78. it's pop. n/t

[Fire Walk With Me]

82. "Wonderfully orange-y, orange-y good. Soda pop." -Nesbitt's Orange advertisements

[snowbear]

85. I've never had one.. but I saw "Faygo Red Pops" on the Food Network show....

.
.
.

"Unwrapped".. Evidently, they sell them in the midwest? I think..

Anyone ever hear of them? Are they good?