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Whoami

Monday, December 22, 2003 - 01:16 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Found this discussion on another board. Found it amusing.

What do you call a carbonated soft drink, and where are you from originally? The where are you from is to see if what you call it is regional or what.

The choices are Pop, Soda, Coke, or Other (you can describe "other" if you wish).

Here's a fun looking map of the survey, and what the responses were....

Generic Names For Soft Drinks

For me, being raised in Colorado, I've always called it pop. But, when I was in my 20's or so, and started working side-by-side with various transplanted co-workers, I learned (and often used) the term soda. I guess I get a vibe off someone, and what they call something, and call it that so they know what I'm talking about.

We can expand this to other things too. For instance, I remember being a teen and heading to Wisconsin for a competition with my group. After the show, we were talking to a group of girls from a local group. They asked us if we knew where the bubbler was. It took us a few exchanges in conversation before we figured out they wanted a drinking fountain. They told us we "tualked funny."

Mamie316

Monday, December 22, 2003 - 01:48 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
I've lived in the San Francisco Bay Area all my life and I've always called it soda.

Maris

Monday, December 22, 2003 - 02:16 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
NY - Soda

Tabbyking

Monday, December 22, 2003 - 02:26 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
my great-uncle always called it 'sodie water'. we so rarely got soda pop, i thought all of them were called 'coca cola' or 'coke', and 'sodie water' had soap in it. i would ask for an orange coke or a rootbeer coke... we got one soda on the 4th of july, 2 or 3 of us to one 'sodie water'. i thought doctor pepper really had pepper in it. once in while, if we were visiting up north, my great uncle would give us each a dime to go get a sodie water at don fox's store in french gulch. it took me about 2 hours to drink an entire soda, because i so rarely got to have any, let alone a whole one! i loved that frosty glass bottle. sometimes i would spend long minutes deciding which drink to get. orange ne-hi? coca cola? root beer?
soda has never tasted as good as it did when i was a kid.
my kids call it soda or the specific brand. and even though they are 18 and 16, they still ask my permission to have one! ever since they were little, i have told them they could have fruits or vegetables or 100% fruit juice without asking, but any other 'snack' they had to ask me first. i didn't care if they were 'full up' before dinner, if what they were 'full up' on was something healthy and could be counted as one or two of their fruit/veggie servings for the day.

my mom always went to the picture show. we went to the theater. my kids go to the movies.
my mom still says dungarees for her jeans sometimes...

Lumbele

Monday, December 22, 2003 - 02:36 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Canada - pop or soft drink

Grannie

Monday, December 22, 2003 - 03:25 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
CA always and coke

Tabbyking

Monday, December 22, 2003 - 03:30 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
i do know that the chocolate sprinkles for ice cream are called 'jimmies' in boston. i had no idea what the gal was asking me when she asked if i wanted 'jimmies' LOL
and liquor stores are called 'package stores' there. i kept thinking there was a special 'gift' store, where you bought a hostess gift (when you were invited to someone's home) when my boyfriend said we had to stop by the 'package store' on our way to a dinner party!
i thought these package stores had plants or bouquets or scented candles, chocolates, etc.! :)

Sweetbabygirl

Monday, December 22, 2003 - 04:00 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Soda in Philly!

Ophiliasgrandma

Monday, December 22, 2003 - 04:07 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Pop in Oregon...soda is non-flavored fizzy water.

Denecee

Monday, December 22, 2003 - 04:22 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
I call it what it is-> Diet Pepsi please!

Tess

Monday, December 22, 2003 - 04:49 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Pop in MN but I grew up in San Francisco and it was a very long time before I could make the transition from Soda to Pop. Usually I just say diet coke.

Legalboxer

Monday, December 22, 2003 - 04:50 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Soda- MD

Littlebreeze

Monday, December 22, 2003 - 05:01 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Tonic - Boston

Twiggyish

Monday, December 22, 2003 - 05:11 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Soda - Florida

Mocha

Monday, December 22, 2003 - 05:44 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Soda

Mygetaway

Monday, December 22, 2003 - 06:14 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Pop/Pepsi/Coke/Sprite for me in WA.

Although DH uses soda (he's from SanDiego) so I occasionally say soda now too.

Pamy

Monday, December 22, 2003 - 07:00 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
CA..coke/diet coke

Sisalou

Monday, December 22, 2003 - 07:59 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Texas - Coke

Juju2bigdog

Monday, December 22, 2003 - 08:27 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Illinois - soda

Eliz87

Monday, December 22, 2003 - 08:28 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Ohio - I've always called it pop, but have taken to calling it soda lately for some reason.

Costacat

Monday, December 22, 2003 - 08:30 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
San DIego - coke or soda (never ever pop; never even heard it called that till I went back east after high school)

Weinermr

Monday, December 22, 2003 - 08:39 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Mars - Fizzy gunk

Julieboo

Monday, December 22, 2003 - 08:45 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Juju, what part of IL? Cuz here in the Chicago burbs and in Chicago and even in So. Wisconsin and NW Indiana, it is pop. Many times even "Wanna coke?" means do you want any type of pop. Never, ever soda. (Kinda opposite of San Diego I guess!)

Herckleperckle

Monday, December 22, 2003 - 09:38 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
I recently moved to CT from DE, so I really shouldn't speak for CT residents. I went to 16 schools--in Washington, D.C; VA; PA and DE before I was in 6th grade (no they didn't throw me out . . . my father was with the airlines). So I am not sure I can even speak for Delawareans.

In any case, I call it SODA. (I have never used the term 'pop'.) For example, if I were in a strange grocery store and looking for my favorite Diet Cokes and Diet Dr. Peppers, I would ask, "Where's the soda aisle?"

Weinermr

Monday, December 22, 2003 - 09:40 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Q. Where's the Dad's Root Beer?

A. In the soda pop aisle.