Pop Vs. Soda

[JMODIFIED 15]

Well,i Used To Call It Pop Up Until I Was 14,then I Took A Trip To Va To Visit My Brother.everybody Out There Said Ssoda.it Stuck Because It Sounds Much,much Better And If You Stop And Think About It,it Tastes Much,much Better When You Order One.soda It Will Remain!

[Fin 15]

Soda is a dull..fizzy tasteless drink that people use as a mix. Pop...is well....everything fizzy....as in "what pop have you got?".......Coke is that other kind of Pepsi.

[kas 15]

It's "pop" here in Iowa, although "soda" seems to be gaining popularity.

[My77038 15]

Well it depends on where I am. If I am home where im from in Ypsilanti Michigan then it's pop. Although I have been living in Houston Texas for 10 years and here it's soda for the most part. When in Michigan i say soda people look at me funny and vice versa here Texas.

 

 

 

 

MM

[HotMoCpl 20]

In most parts of Missouri and northern Arkansas we call it "sody" or "sodie". What can I say, I'm transplanted here from the west burbs of Chicago. Love is such a wonderful thing!

[Alura 2,775]

I used to call it "Coke," but found out I get a better drink if I call it "Beer."

 

Mr. Alura

[plainspeople 17]

'Round here, we call it by what it is....Pepsi, Dr. Pepper, Mtn Dew. Better yet, would rather have a Red Beer!

[Thrax 384]

In general, carbonated beverages are called "pop" here in Western and Central Pennsylvania. But, once you get out of the Allegheny Mountains and start heading toward Philly, you'll hear soda. One more reason for me to keep using the term pop.

 

My favorite pop is Coke; Pepsi tastes too sweet. Just so you know.

[Chip_n_Muffy 16]

I call it soda pop, just in case the waitress doesn't recognize soda or pop individually.

 

Muffy

 

BTW, Chip just says bring me a Coke.

[carolinaskye 15]

Hey y'all....anybody wanna 'coke"? OK...what kind? Yep..thats definately a southern thing..Growing up down here coke meant a carbonated drink of any variety.Some of our older folks back then did, however call them "dopes".,I remember that we had relatives who came to visit from Michigan every year and used the term"pop" which just baffled us..LOL.

[Spoomonkey 421]

I used to call it "Coke," but found out I get a better drink if I call it "Beer."

 

 

I am going to try that, but I doubt it will work at Steak N Shake...

 

Spoomonkey

[StickyGlue 15]

calling it "pop" actually makes me giggle... rather when I hear someone say pop it makes me giggle.

 

I call it soda

[StickyGlue 15]

In general, carbonated beverages are called "pop" here in Western and Central Pennsylvania. But, once you get out of the Allegheny Mountains and start heading toward Philly, you'll hear soda. One more reason for me to keep using the term pop.

 

My favorite pop is Coke; Pepsi tastes too sweet. Just so you know.

 

 

I really cannot taste the difference between coke and pepsi.. I think I'm the only person who cant.

[Thrax 384]

Originally Posted by StickyGlue

I really cannot taste the difference between coke and pepsi.. I think I'm the only person who cant.

 

Well, I find that strange, but I hope you don't feel bad about it. Remember, you are unique...just like everybody else.

 

[StickyGlue 15]

Well, I find that strange, but I hope you don't feel bad about it. Remember, you are unique...just like everybody else.

 

 

Thanks Barney

[joenmichelle 15]

Sodapop... lol or soda or pop lol deppends on how i am feeling

[evulkitty 15]

My wife, being from Michigan, refers to it as 'pop', I, being from anywhere BUT Michigan, refer to it in the general sense as 'soda', but when ordering it or putting it on a grocery list or whatever, I refer to it by the name of the particular beverage that I want (ie: Mountain Dew, Dr. Pepper, etc)

 

Eeeevul (Just kinda popped up out of the woodwork there after not being around for a couple months, didn't I?)

[celtic239 297]

In the five boro's of New York, we call it soda. Everywhere else in the USA they call it pop

[Thrax 384]

In the five boro's of New York, we call it soda. Everywhere else in the USA they call it pop

 

Hey, no stereotyping here, pal! Even if it is stereotyping of Noo Yawkahs!

 

I'll let the rest of you Americans on this board (Canadians can join the fun, too, if you want) refute his statement if you want. Obviously, he's not read the entire thread, or anything published outside of the "boros."

 

Hey, I'll bet when celtic239 goes to the movies, or to see the Yankees, he buys a ticket, and he waits "on line."

 

(Sorry, if this starts a flame war, but I REFUSE to believe that NYC is the center of the universe. I think that Diane Lane is the center of the universe.)

[evulkitty 15]

hmmmm, no "everywhere else in the USA" would be highly incorrect. Calling it "pop" anywhere south of Pennsylvania is gonna get you looked at funny.

 

(born in upstate New York, 25 years of my life in North Carolina)

[driveajeepnaked 26]

Being born and bred in Western NY, we do call it pop here. When we were little, we spent time with my dad's family in Brandford, Ontario, Canada (the 6 Nations Mohawk Reservation, to be exact) and they called it "Freshie" and had no clue what Pop or Soda was...

 

As for the Coke and Pepsi thing, I am a dedicated Diet Pepsi drinker (and collector of vintage Pepsi memorabilia as well). If I order Diet Pepsi and they say, "Is Coke OK?" I will usually say No, I'll have a water instead... I usually get a startled look from the server with that one...

 

V

[honeybee77 15]

Soda. both of us have always said soda. But if someone else says to us do you want some pop or bring some pop, it's nothing for us to blink at. all the same

[The Big A 18]

A Coke is a Coke but everything else is a soda....

[Amanda69 24]

pop = all carbonated soft drinks (from the term soda pop)

 

soda = only soda water (they used to use soda water to create soda pop at soda fountains, they had the syrup of the flavours, add soda and voila)

 

Coke = coke (a specific brank of pop)

[ShellyM 0]

IT'S POP!!!!!!

lol

[Spika 15]

The generic name for it is soda.

[amid 91]

My mother was from Western Pa. (Johnstown) and my father was from Philadelphia. I spent my time between both areas growing up. It was POP in the west part of the state and Soda in Phila.. In Johnstown if you asked for a soda you got soda water in Phila if you asked for a Pop someone would either pop you in the eye or tell you your dad wasn't here.. Most of the time I refer to it as Soda-Pop!

[Douoble_Down 15]

I am an Ohioan (Buckeyes are native Ohioans) that says SODA, and I don't care who knows it!!!!

[Douoble_Down 15]

I think an even more contreversial poll would be" Milk Shake, Malt, or Frappe?"

[jon&roberta 18]

A malt has malt powder in it. A shake does not

[appleblossoms20 16]

Smile...it depends where I am....In Ohio where I grew up we called it pop. In New England, we call it soda....While living in Florida a short time everything was a "coke". I love the different colloquialisms of our country.-r

[TwoLittleBirds 23]

I remember people (like Viking) calling it tonic. But I've only ever called it two things: Growing up, it was always soda. Now that I moved from the east coast, I've given in and now call it "pop". But when I go home to the coast, I feel silly if I say Pop.

By the way, back east, people put your groceries in a bag. Out here in Iowa, they ask if you want a "sack." Even the plastic bags are called sacks out here. That's more annoying to me the the pop soda thing! Especially because locker room talk in my youth used sack for scrotum.

 

"Sir, would you like a sack?"

"No thanks, I already have one."

 

Or, in the markets where they still carry your groceries to the parking lot for you (most of the markets out here, by the way!)

 

"Sir, can I grab your sack for you?"

"Yes, that would be nice, thank you."

[Amanda69 24]

Being of English decent:

 

rubber = an eraser

 

wanker = idiot

 

nappy = diaper

 

lemonade = sort of like sprite or 7 up

 

there are so many wonderful words with different meanings in different countries or in various areas of our own countries.

[prettylady 221]

I call it an instant cure to constipation.

I can't stand pop at all.

hey there you go, I call it pop.

Your friend,

Prettylady

[good times 991]

Being of English decent:

 

rubber = an eraser

 

wanker = idiot

 

nappy = diaper

 

lemonade = sort of like sprite or 7 up

 

there are so many wonderful words with different meanings in different countries or in various areas of our own countries.

This is funny because I am currently reading a book written by an englishman and he uses a lot of words like these that I have no idea what the American equivilent is. It is like trying to read a foriegn language sometimes.

[Dooode 18]

I was raised on Coke (soda), then late-70's they changed the formula and I hated that! They changed it back (supposedly) but it never tasted the same to me ... so I switched to Pepsi. Years and years of Pepsi.

 

Nowadays I don't drink soda at all. I miss it, but I do better without it.

 

Cola = malted battery acid (good for cleaning carburators too)

[Thrax 384]

Originally Posted by Amanda69

Being of English decent:

 

rubber = an eraser

 

wanker = idiot

 

nappy = diaper

 

lemonade = sort of like sprite or 7 up

 

there are so many wonderful words with different meanings in different countries or in various areas of our own countries.

 

Originally Posted by Good Times

This is funny because I am currently reading a book written by an englishman and he uses a lot of words like these that I have no idea what the American equivilent is. It is like trying to read a foriegn language sometimes.

I lived in England in the '80s (near Cookham Dean, and worked in Slough, for those of you familiar with the Green & Pleasant Land).

 

I'd already been working for several years in the US corporate world -- which included LOTS of national and international telephone calls -- and I realized I had developed a generic American accent. Not quite a mid-Atlantic Alistair Cooke accent, but more like a US national news anchor's generic accent.

 

While living in the UK, I found that if I salted my work and casual conversations with certain words (lift rather than elevator, trainers not sneakers, holiday not vacation, sweets not candy (sorry Sweet_Candy), take-away rather than takeout or "to go", toilet/WC/loo rather than restroom/bathroom, etc.), that it confused people no end. I used the lingo they knew, but I wasn't using an accent they recognized as American. Thinking back on it, many Brits probably thought American accents were mostly confined to the NYC/Southern/Midwest/Cowboy US accents they heard most on tv.

 

It was during that time that I also found I was a tea drinker rather than a coffee drinker. Prior to that I used Coke or Pepsi for my caffiene in the morning. But in the office in which I worked, the "tea ladies" came around mid-morning and mid-afternoon, so I quickly became addicted to English Breakfast, Oolong, and Darjeeling -- with lots of milk and sugar, thanks very much, luv, and would you like a biscuit also?

 

Okay, enough of my nostalgia-laden threadjack. Back to pop and soda.

 

Thrax

[playtime4two 15]

The replies to this subject are tooooo funny lol...we always called it coke in the south, because that's what we drank. I moved to upstate NY as a child in the early 60's, and didn't know WHAT the hell the neighbor kid meant when he asked if I wanted a pop lol. When I found out how much sugar was in the stuff, I haven't touched it since For all those that drink the diet stuff, more power to ya...can't stand the taste...cold water, neat, is my choice of beverage now.

[do_lei_me 15]

Everything is Coke for me and everyone I know, whether its Coke, Pepsi, Orange or Red Cream Soda. Its pretty funny but thats the way it goes.

[Rockme 15]

I am lucky because I have lived in just about every section of U.S. So I know what you are talking about if you say “pop”, “coke” or “soda”. The one I use the most is soda. If I feel real crazy I may even ask for a soda pop! Hold me back now!

[Mrs. Truelove 16]

I lived near Saint Louis Missouri until I was 10, and everybody there called it soda. When my family and I moved to NE Indiana everybody called it pop. Which sounds so weird to me. "Can I have a pop?" It just makes me laugh! Mr. Truelove and I still argue about which is the right way to call it.

[flkeyscouple 21]

Thought I would share a press release that was sent to me. Hope you enjoy because I was laughing so hard I had tears. Guys, it doesn't matter whether you call it pop or soda, just drink this new stuff.

 

Pfizer Corp. is making the announcement today that VIAGRA will soon be available in Liquid form and will be marketed by Pepsi Cola as a power beverage suitable for use as a mixer. It will now be possible for a man to literally pour himself a stiff one. Obviously we can no longer call this a soft drink, and it gives new meaning to the names "cocktails", "highballs" and just a good old fashioned "stiff drink". Pepsi will market the new concoction by the name of "Mount And Do."

 

 

This quote was from a few years ago, but I, for one, had never seen it! I laughed so hard I had to share it as a new post!

 

Oh, and I grew up calling it 'pop' but change to 'soda' when I moved to the Keys! No one knew what I was talking about when I would ask for 'pop'!

 

Sarah

[Thkmlkchoclik 15]

Soda!!

[Mr. Truelove 81]

I lived near Saint Louis Missouri until I was 10, and everybody there called it soda. When my family and I moved to NE Indiana everybody called it pop. Which sounds so weird to me. "Can I have a pop?" It just makes me laugh! Mr. Truelove and I still argue about which is the right way to call it.

 

Haha, I vote POP. Don't listen to Mrs. Truelove, She's not a real hoosier anyway...

[1sttimers69 15]

I am from Louisiana and have been picked on by my sis-in-law from Kansas because I say Coke for every kind of soft drink. I guess it is a good thing that I drink Coke.

[Gladiola4u 16]

I call it soda but get made fun of because I have been told that it's called soda only in the US. We call it soda back home, actually we even call it "agua" which means water. No, I don't know who came up with that.

[BobMcD 15]

I lived near Saint Louis Missouri until I was 10, and everybody there called it soda. When my family and I moved to NE Indiana everybody called it pop.

I grew up in St. Louis, and you're right. Soda. My grand-dad worked for Coca-Cola, so I feel qualified to comment. If I don't know the person I'm talking with, i just say "soda pop". good topic.

Bob

[JoeB 17]

In the Carolina's its Soft Drink, I call it Pepis!

[M and H 15]

we call it a "soft drink"

 

M&H

[havefuninsun 122]

We call it mostly "soft drink" in Va -- and we really like our sweet tea!!! Could be that's from my carolina kin, but it's great nonetheless