Soda or pop?

Here in Rochester, NY we call it pop. What about the rest of you guys and gals?

 

Regional vocabulary.

In California, I buy a soda.
Not a pop.
Not a soda pop.
and a coke is a Coke™, not any carbonated sweetened beverage/soft drink.

 

Grape Nehi.

 

This is so very true….

 

Well if we consider the rule of first mention ...

Pepsi Cola was created in New Bern, North Carolina.
Coca Cola was created in Atlanta, Georgia.
Royal Crown was created in Columbus. Georgia.
Doctor Pepper was created in Waco, Texas.

So since many of the major carbonated beverages came from the south, let's go to a well known southerner who was always good with describing things to see how he said it!

 

soda

 

Same here...

 

Pop here in the Chicago area. My wife grew up in California, so she says soda. And yet we make it work.

 

Soda.

 

I say soda, but my Dad says pop.

 

First, you people are all heathens.

Secondly, this is a test I've used all of my life to tell when we have foreigners about. Foreigners meaning, anyone outside of the NW.

Why? Because it's called coke people. Little c. You want something to drink? Yes, I'll have a coke please. What kind, we have orange, root beer and 7-up? Do you have grape? No. Just a regular coke then please.

Soda? That's bubbly water. Pop? Leave your Dad out of this.

 

+1

 

LOL

 

And the purple lips to go with it. Remember when you could buy a Nehi out of a big lift top cooler. You put your money in and you slide the bottle along the tracks and pop it out of the gate??

 

Coke in my area. I'd be afraid what I'd get asking for a pop around here. They might give you one for sure.

 

Pop.

 

Soda.

 

pop, but my son calls it soda, as he hung around nefarious Texan youths when he grew up..... not bad for an Alberta boy

 

We either call it what it is Coke, but it's sometimes called soft drink to distinguish it from beer.

Dr. Pepper or no coke products get called coke until someone whines there really not filled with coke.

But we have had an influx of foreigners that call it soda, soda water and pop. Soda is baking soda or lye. And pop is the start of a fight.

 

In Michigan we call it pop, unless you're having a vernors, then you say vernors. And for those not aware vernors is the best ginger ale ever made, and everyone from michigan drinks it when they get a cold or flu.