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Srobb22

Monday, December 22, 2003 - 09:55 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Pop -in Saskatchewan

Melfie1222

Monday, December 22, 2003 - 10:22 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
I'm from Washington and used to call it pop, or Coke. Then as a teenager my mom ran a daycare in our home and there was a pair of kids whose parents had just moved from New Jersey... the kids called it soda and it sort of stuck, I still call it soda.

Juju2bigdog

Monday, December 22, 2003 - 11:04 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Julieboo, I grew up in the part of Illinois that is not Chicago, which is really a whole different world from Chicago. But then, my mother was also from a foreign country, so that may have been her take on what to call soft drinks. Of course, in my day, coke was not necessarily a generic term for soft drinks. You mighta actually had a Nehi instead.

Tess

Monday, December 22, 2003 - 11:06 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
or an orange crush!

Cathie

Monday, December 22, 2003 - 11:16 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
TX - generic term was always a coke:

"Would you like a coke?"

"Sure, what kind do you have?"

"Dr. Pepper and Sprite."

Apriljo

Monday, December 22, 2003 - 11:45 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
im from louisiana..and i say coke..conversation is about the same as cathie said

Badabing

Tuesday, December 23, 2003 - 05:37 am EditMoveDeleteIP
Québec, Canada : in french it's a "liqueur", in english it's a "soft drink"

Jagger

Tuesday, December 23, 2003 - 05:42 am EditMoveDeleteIP
I call it both soda and pop, or Dew

Joesmom

Tuesday, December 23, 2003 - 06:24 am EditMoveDeleteIP
Here in Alabama, it's coke...no matter what flavor..same as Cathie and Apriljo...

Serate

Tuesday, December 23, 2003 - 06:36 am EditMoveDeleteIP
Grew up in Iowa calling it pop.

My fiance calls it soda. I had no problem with him calling it soda until he started to make fun of me saying pop. It took a couple of times of him asking for soda and me bringing him the box of baking soda for him to quit making fun of me saying pop. *L*

Kaili

Tuesday, December 23, 2003 - 06:58 am EditMoveDeleteIP
Soda- WI

BUT a lot of people here call it pop. Also, I call it a water fountain and nearly everyone here calls it a bubbler. I couyld never bring myself to say that. I think it sounds silly. I think some of what I say comes from having lived in Oregon and Arizona when I was younger.

Bandit

Tuesday, December 23, 2003 - 07:37 am EditMoveDeleteIP
Born and raised in Los Angeles, I've always and still do call it "soda." But here in Texas, a lot of people call it "coke."

I was at a fast-food restaurant soon after I moved here and I was asking for a "lid" for my "soda." The girl looked at me kinda funny, and said "You're not from around here, are you." When I asked her why, she said "because you asked for a 'lid'." She said most people there asked for a "top."

I still call it a lid.

Cindori

Tuesday, December 23, 2003 - 07:39 am EditMoveDeleteIP
I'm in Ohio, and I call it 'pop'. My family is from Tennessee and Kentucky though, so when I'm there, I call it a 'coke'. I also ask for 'sweet tea'.

Kaili

Tuesday, December 23, 2003 - 07:46 am EditMoveDeleteIP
Lid/top- hee hee. We call them lids here. One time when i was visiting my dad in Arizona I went to the store and was asked if I wanted a sack for my stuff. I looked at the girl for a few seconds before I realized she was asking if I wanted a bag. A bag with a long "a". :)

Sasman

Tuesday, December 23, 2003 - 07:49 am EditMoveDeleteIP
In NJ it is soda.

So in the south if you want a Pepsi, do you say gimme a Pepsi or gimme a coke Pepsi?

Maybe that's where Belushi came up with the Pepsi Coke routine on SNL!

Imbewitched

Tuesday, December 23, 2003 - 08:14 am EditMoveDeleteIP
When I was small we referred to it as "soda water". That may have come from my mothers family being from Arkansas. But here in Texas it's a coke, no matter the brand.

Luvmyjrt

Tuesday, December 23, 2003 - 08:26 am EditMoveDeleteIP
Soda or Diet Coke here in NC. But growing up in PA, it was Pop. It was also "gum bands" (rubber bands), Jumbo (bologna), and "chipped ham" (thinly sliced baked ham for sandwiches)

Juju2bigdog

Tuesday, December 23, 2003 - 08:28 am EditMoveDeleteIP
Sasman, the Pepsi/Coke routine on SNL was from an actual restaurant in Atlanta. I have been there, can't recall the name of it now.

Edit: Well, maybe not. Google found me an article that says it is from a restaurant in Chicago called Billy Goat.

Huh!

Herckleperckle

Tuesday, December 23, 2003 - 09:00 am EditMoveDeleteIP
Thanks, Whoami, for posting this survey. It is is a riot! I never realized there are so many different colloquialisms for the same thing on this continent of ours! Yet another reason to laugh!

Sasman

Tuesday, December 23, 2003 - 09:27 am EditMoveDeleteIP
Thanks Juju, that really brings back a flood of memories.

Tishala

Tuesday, December 23, 2003 - 09:27 am EditMoveDeleteIP
I grew up in Philadelphia, where it was soda. Here in LA, it is also soda. When I lived somewhere in Indiana, it was called pop, though (as it was in Pittsburgh).

But in Indiana, they also called paper bags (which one gets at the market) "sacks".

Auntiemike

Tuesday, December 23, 2003 - 09:36 am EditMoveDeleteIP
Kaili: Just read your post mentioning "bubblers". I had to smile 'cause my DH is from Wisconsin and calls them bubblers. I always thought that sounded so strange. LOL

I'm an Oregon gal and we always called that sugary, bubbly stuff: pop. Then my siste went and married a Texan and they lived in various Southern locations and they call it: soda.

Now we use both terms.

Calgaryperson

Tuesday, December 23, 2003 - 10:31 am EditMoveDeleteIP
I've alway's, alway's said "Drink".
Can I have a drink?
Dad, pick up more drinks!!
Let's go grab a drink.

Herckleperckle

Tuesday, December 23, 2003 - 11:04 am EditMoveDeleteIP
Calgary, drink to me means liquor!

Pcakes2

Tuesday, December 23, 2003 - 11:56 am EditMoveDeleteIP
I have a friend in Florida who calls the shopping cart you use in a supermarket a "buggy". She also always has "cokes" in her "icebox" for me (which is actually Pepsi)...right next to the "sweet tea"