Soda or pop

[Critters2]

or something else (tonic, etc)?

[Joe Fields]

1. east coast is soda, west coast, pop

[TheFriendlyAnarchist]

3. I'm from Ohio, and use both

[Joe Fields]

10. I just knew someone would say that!

[OhioBlue]

15. yes, I've heard both

but, it's about 80% "Pop"
"Soda" once in a while if you've been hanging around somebody from PA
And "Soda Pop" sometimes...

[ForrestGump]

7. I've never heard soda called 'pop' in the West, though

I have heard persons of Eastern origin call beer 'pop.'

Seems like Midwesterners, who are all mentally disturbed except for my buddy johnnie and any other Middle West DUer who might happen upon this post, like to call fizzy soft drinks 'pop.' I kinda like the southern way (well, one southern way...most I knew, when I lived there and otherwise, called the stuff 'soda') of just calling it all Coke, because it puts an end to all the debate and makes the whole thing as hopelessly obfuscated as it undoubtedly should be. :D

Unless you're in Texas -- at least, in my experience (mmmmm...Tejanas), south-central Texas -- in which case it's Big Red.

[Joe Fields]

12. If you're talking about the "true" west, and excluding the west coast,

very few westerners I know drink pop. Californians stick an umbrella in it and call it something else.

[Gormy Cuss]

14. In the Massachusetts area, it's tonic.

The mixer is called tonic water and soda means club soda.

[Critters2]

16. Yep, I remember when someone offered me a tonic

when I was in seminary. Where I come from, "tonic" is medicine. So, I turned it down. Next thing I know, everyone else is sitting around with pop. So I said, "Could I have something to drink, too?" Answer: But you said you didn't want one.

:crazy:

[Fleshdancer]

2. In Texas, it's all called coke

We're not too bright down here. :D

[Roon]

6. I did a temp gig in texas in a medical records office

and they had a list of rules posted on the wall. One of the rules was you couldn't have coke at your desk. I penciled in, "Pepsi products OK"....lol

[deadparrot]

4. Soda.

:hi:

[IsIt1984Yet]

5. Soda is a beverage; pop is a sound.

[Magrittes Pipe]

9. This is the correct answer

:thumbsup:

[CatholicEdHead]

8. Pop all the way

[ForrestGump]

11. Be quiet and drink your

phosphate.


Or carbonate. Or nitrate. Or sulphate. Or whatever the right word is. :P

[Joe Fields]

13. In my household it's " refrigerated carbonated beverage."

[City Lights]

17. It's pop. Always has been. Always will.

:P

[Critters2]

18. I agree

as do all right-thinking people!

[Mojambo]

19. I used Pop when I was a kid, now I use Soda. n/t

[azmouse]

20. Everyone on tv calls it 'soda'

That's good enough for me!:P

[calico1]

21. I grew up in NYC.

The first time I ever heard "pop" was when some cousins of mine from Ohio came to stay with us a couple of weeks one summer. I had no clue what the hell they were talking about! :silly: Now I know "pop" means soda, but it still sounds strange to me.