i have been wanting to get to the bottem of where people who call soda "pop" come from. so i would like you to vote on what you usually refer to it as, and post where you are from.

i tend to say i want a coke when ordering a drink even though i actually prefer pepsi. it is simply much faster and extremly close to the same thing i and i am born and raised in montgomery county, maryland.

 

i'm specific. sometimes i want a sprite, sometimes it's a mountain dew.

 

I usually just say...You want something to drink???

 

I'm usually specific too but in general i call them soda's but a dew is a dew lol. I think i depends on location too cause i've traveled all over the place and it seems like different places call it different things.

 

that is what we are trying to figure out is where it all came from! paul34 thought it came from the north, i said i thought it came from the west. so now we are going to try and find out for good!

 

i have never heard anyone call it "pop" out here. and i'm fairly certain we're as west as you can get... soda is soda.

 

When i was in TN everyone around me called it pop. When i was In AL alot of people i knew called it Soda Pop. In MD alot of people call it soda

 

well, i was refering to my relatives from montana...so mid-west or north west i suppose...

 

oh man drax I don't think we'll ever get to the bottom of this

 

nonsense! there is nothing i can't do with the power of scionlife!

 

This should satisfy your curiosity... http://popvssoda.com:2998/ .

It's still a fun post. I voted for "pop" and live in Washington.

 

wow, you see paul? i told you i could do this from here!

so the way i see it, coke is a southern thing, pop is northern thing, especially around the great lakes (i blame canada), and soda is a more northern new england deal...

wow, that was great, thanks jenna! lol, i guess my poll is kinda incredibly dwarfed now...

 

where's mmmboxy though? she should see this, not all polls and debates have to be unsolvable philosophical arguments about the morally ambiguous grey area between right and wrong!

 

No no no, not dwarfed. It's a great topic.

Lets expand it then... how about...

In addition to what you call carbonated soft drinks, what do you call the second and third meals of the day? How about that boxy thing on the backs of trucks... toppers or canopies?

 

breakfast lunch and dinner.

my relatives from montana say breakfast, supper and supper

 

When I lived in the MidWest everyone called it "POP"..I hate that word!!

I call it "soda"..or "coke"..

 

If we're expanding on this concept...

I've been in many arguments regarding those things you push around in the grocery store to put your items in... personally I call them carriages... lately I seem to be losing that battle, everybody else calls them carts? (not to mention my RI accent, which would then be called 'cots')

Another argument I've been in... regarding manual transmission on cars... when I lived in FL, they called it 'stick'... I call it 'standard'... *shrug*

 

I live here in washington too, most people here, that are from here, call it "Pop". I was born here, but spent most of my childhood in texas, where when I called it "pop", people would have NO clue what i was talking about. They'd say "pop?!?...do you mean popcorn?" when i was a teen in texas, kids would make fun of my POP word.

In Texas (Arlington), it was called "Soda" by generally anyone under 50, to reference carbonated beverages. Alot of people under 20ish would say "Coke" for everything. The waiter at a restaurant could ask you what you wanted to drink, and you say "Coke" she'd ask what kind? we have dr. pepper, rootbeer, mountain dew.

I've heard people older 60+ in texas say "Sody-water"

and actually drax, your relatives in montana probably say
"breakfast, dinner, supper". mine in iowa did. lunch was made up i guess, because they were serving dinner at noon.

I like "pop", it's 1 syllable. "Soda" never slips out, i have to consciously think about saying it. I can't say "SO-DUH" without remembering the unintelligenable "drawl" southerneners have.

What about Davenports? Both sets of my grandparents called them these(iowa/wa).

 

I call it Soda... I have been all over the place and have heard it called a lot of things. I think the majority (even if slightly) call it soda.

The one thing that I could never understand is why you call it coke when it's not a coke. I say, call it soda, pop, soda pop... whatever you want by nickname, just not by name. A coke is a coke. A pepsi is a pepsi.

And of course, a dew is always a dew.

 

Soda is an adjective. You don't ask for a red do you? No you ask for a red apple or an apple. I ask for a pop. Soda pop is the full name and is thus the most grammatically correct.
I get into this argument with my friends all the time. Most people in the populated midwest call it pop. On the east coast I believe they tend to call it soda. (But they also eat salt and vinegar potato chips... [shudders]) In the lesser populated areas and down south they tend to call it coke. "What kind of coke you want?" "Pepsi." Confuses the hell out of me...