Me and my friend were fighting over this, I say pop, he says soda. I’m from Colorado and hes from California.I was wondering what you call it
Soda or soft drink.
Southwestern Ontario - pop.
I’m originally from Utah, living in So Cal now, and I say soda pop.
Obviously since “soda” is first, when I’m feeling too lazy for that extra syllable I drop it and just say “soda”. But regularly, I go with the whole phrase.
I also say soda, and am originally from Nevada. Maybe it’s a Western United States thing?
This is probably uniquely Irish - we call them minerals (and this pre-dates mineral water). In the North West, they can stop at a gas station and ask for petrol, a mineral and a Twirl (chocolate bar) and they all rhyme.
~~I’m proud to say that we never said either
If it’s a Pepsi we say Pepsi
If it’s a Coke we say Coke
Anyone who said anything else was a Yankee, it was a dead
give away…
Personally i call them soft drinks of call it by its brand name coke for coke 7up etc , but listening to mothers with their kiddies they seem to say pop “do you wanna can of pop luv” etc UK btw
In North Carolina we call all soft drinks, Coke, no matter what kind we want. When you ask someone if they want a Coke, they’ll say yes, I’ll have a Sprite.
In Texas, it’s a Coke. No matter what brand.
For example:
“Hey, I’m going to the store. You want me to pick up some Cokes?”
“Sure”
“OK, what kind?”
“Dr Pepper, and maybe some 7-Up. Grab a six-pack of Coke while you’re at it.”
Coke is a generic term for all soft drinks (except maybe Root Beer). “Pop” and “Soda” are dead give-aways for people who aren’t from around here. Most people I’ve met who refer to it as “pop” tend to be Canadians.
Funny, I’ve never heard it referred to in that context. I’ve read a lot about people saying that it happens though. I’ve heard soda most often, however people usually refer to it by the type they are getting.
Canadian: Last week, I was on holiday and bought a mickey. I tried mixing it with some pop but everything spilled all over the broadloom. I wiped it up with a serviette.
American: Last week, I was on vacation and bought a fifth. I tried mixing it with some soda but everything spilled all over the wall-to-wall. I wiped it up with a napkin.
Soda!
Wherever I’ve lived in NY or New England, it’s been soda. I think in Western NY they say pop.
I’ve lived in Ohio, New York and Texas. I call soft drinks either Coke (used in the generic Texas way to mean all soft drinks regardless of brand) or soda (in the New York way). I never cottoned to pop (the Ohio way).
Pepsi. But I call my beers “barley pops.”
“Barlye pops” – I love it! It brings to mind a beer flavored popsicle.
I call it all Coke. But if someone asks me what kind of coke I want, and I want a Welch’s, I’ll say “Get me a grape soda!”
If I’m in superhick mode, I’ll remove the A and add a Y. There’s nothin’ like good ol’ grape sody. 
What’s a broadloom?
(I’m Canadian.)
I grew up in the Finger Lakes region of NY, and there was a mix of “soda” people and “pop” people. I think “pop” is dying out - it seemed to me that it was mostly older people calling it that, like my grandparents, mom, aunts, uncles, but younger people called it “soda.”
For the longest time I called it “soda pop” because that was understood by both my grandma and my friends.
Now I live in Boston and tend to call it “soder.”
It started as me poking a little fun at the tendency in these parts to stick Rs on then ends of some words (like my first name! grr!!) and now I call it soder out of habit and my family gives me weird looks when I’m home for a visit.
Though the older people here call it a Tonic, which I still have a hard time wrapping my brain around. Tonic to me still means the stuff you use to dilute your gin.
and it’s all Coke to me. Must be a south thing.