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What's Normal? - What do you usually call soft drinks? (1 Viewer)

What do you usually call soft drinks?

  • Soda

    Votes: 93 55.7%

  • Pop

    Votes: 51 30.5%

  • Coke

    Votes: 16 9.6%

  • Other nonsense

    Votes: 7 4.2%
  • Total voters
    167
Corporation said:
In the South a LOT of people just call it Coke, but for whatever reason I'm a soda guy.
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Am a Southerner, was born in TN, lived in MS off and on for 30 years, and in AR for another 8. It is true that in general Southerners refer to sodas as Cokes, but it's usually in the context of "What would you like to drink? We have water, tea, Cokes, beer..." In that case Cokes = soda (a variety of them). If a Southerner makes that equivalency it's almost always in the plural form, Cokes. If you say Coke (singular), you mean Coca-Cola.

Most people assume that Southerners will have this exact conversation, which I've never had in my life:

Joe: "What do you want to drink?"
Ed: "You have Coke?"
Joe: "Yep, what kind you want?"
Ed: "Dr. Pepper"
 
Soda. Always have and always will. Never once called it "pop" despite living in Minnesota for 8 years. I stubbornly resisted that one.
 
#1 - Soda - more universally accepted and doesn't confuse anyone
#2 - Pop - a little quirky and regional, but still everyone knows what you mean
#3 - Coke - this confuses people when used broader than just Coca-cola.
 
If I’m at a restaurant where they bring you the drink—I’ll usually ask for a coke or a Diet Coke. If it’s a place where they hand you a cup and you serve yourself—I’ll just ask for a “medium drink”.
 
Soda Pop when I was young. Now it varies depending on where I am. I have lived in Pop land, soda land, and coke land. I will adapt to the locals.
 
I say soda.
Boston area: "tonic".
Had no idea what other kids were talking about when we first moved to the area.
I think "tonic" is said less now though.
 
Most Pittsburghers call it "pop", which is a midwestern thing.

Pittsburgh is funny in that we fall between the midwest and northest, so you have us calling it "pop" but we don't call root beer "rut beer" like they do in midwest.
 
New Binky the Doormat said:
Jayrod said:
#1 - Soda - more universally accepted and doesn't confuse anyone
#2 - Pop - a little quirky and regional, but still everyone knows what you mean
#3 - Coke - this confuses people when used broader than just Coca-cola.
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reaction.

well known map - the smallest "region" is soda

a soda is something you used to get at the "old school" drug store counter - usually an ice cream "soda"
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Soda wins based on population, as our poll results show.

Nobody cares that rural Montana uses "pop".
 
When I was a teenager (probably 15ish) our town held a Dizzy Dean baseball tournament with teams that came from all over the country. I got recruited by the organizer to work the concession stand and I'll always remember the sweet little kid (probably 7 or 8) waving a dollar who asked me what kind of pop we have, and then stared at me like I had two heads when my reply was "what color do you want?". Then he stared at me like I had three heads when I went to the freezer and returned offering him a cherry, orange, grape, raspberry, or lime popsicle. I'd never in my life heard a soft drink called a pop.
 
Growing up it was pop. Then moving around it became soda. I’ll use either term, sometimes soft drinks and sometimes we’ll call it fizzy sugar water.
 
Soda (from MA).

When I was a kid I knew people called it pop, I assumed it was some place with denim overalls and red ferns growing in the forest and whatnot.

My favorite: Someone with a real thick Boston accent, because they will call it soder for some reason, and it's just the best. I dunno, it's a weird thing with that accent that some people add a 'R' to words like Idea, or Soda. Naming your daughter Tina up there is usually a bad move. (Tiner, get in tha faaaacckin' caah).
 
Forgive me for stating the obvious, but...

Soda - a type of soft drink
Pop - not in my vocabulary
Coke - the most popular brand of soft drink.

What do I call a soft drink? A soft drink
 
Osaurus said:
People still say “soft drinks”?
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I think the only time I say anything outloud is at a self-serve restaurant with my kids and I am ordering. They typically only drink water, but I will ask "do you want a soft drink?" or "do you want a drink?" And 9 times out of 10 they say "no, water".

Then my fat ### orders a beer or sweet tea.
 
Godsbrother said:
Most Pittsburghers call it "pop", which is a midwestern thing.

Pittsburgh is funny in that we fall between the midwest and northest, so you have us calling it "pop" but we don't call root beer "rut beer" like they do in midwest.
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don't Yinzers have their own lexicon though? seems like there are tons of Pittsburgh-only phrases.
 
BobbyLayne said:
Godsbrother said:
Most Pittsburghers call it "pop", which is a midwestern thing.

Pittsburgh is funny in that we fall between the midwest and northest, so you have us calling it "pop" but we don't call root beer "rut beer" like they do in midwest.
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don't Yinzers have their own lexicon though? seems like there are tons of Pittsburgh-only phrases.
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Yes. There are a ton of Pittsburhese terms that only seem to be spoken here
 
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