Alabama. Coke, even though I’m drinking a root beer.
From Texas. Was always coke growing up.
Vancouver, British Columbia: “Pop” or possibly “soft drink” but virtually never “soda.”. While cream soda is still cream soda, I can’t recall ever seeing anything labelled “orange soda” or “grape soda” though that could be due to me not paying attention.
Growing up in south-central Wisconsin it was always “pop”, but when I moved to Madison for college I was converted to “soda” by all the Milwaukee-area students in the dorms. You don’t have to go far to find it different. It’s still soda to me.
Philly area, and it’s always soda. An amusing side-story, though still pointless …
Years ago I worked in a supermarket and while I was standing on a crate setting up some product on a high shelf, a - lets say middle-aged - couple came up behind me and the gent asks, “Do you have any pop?” And I asked confusedly, “Some what?” And he said, “Pop.”
His wife interrupted that last part giving a brisk-yet-hushed “They call it soda here!”
And he self-corrected, saying soda.
I felt really stupid, because I know other parts call it pop, but it was alien to my ears.
Well, I have always said soda (I’m from New England, BTW). Everyone I know except for one calls it soda (and most everyone I know is from New England or New York). She is from the greater Buffalo area, and says everyone there calls it pop. I’ll have to take her word for it.
I’m from Chicago, I call it sweet can juice. People look at me weirdly for some reason when I say that though.
I’m from the greater Chicagoland area, and I generally just say the name of whatever it is that I want. If I’m being generic, I’ll say a “drink” or a “Coke.” Occaisionally, I’ll say pop.
Another Albertan checking in. It’s pop all the way. I don’t think I’ve ever referred to it as soda.
Also, for the record, I’ve never said the word “serviette”, and I’ve never even heard of a broadloom before!
I’m another one of those Boston area Tonic drinkers. I know it’s not right, but that’s what I call it. I remember being about 8 years old and taking an airplane to Fl. I asked the flight attendant for some tonic, any type, doesn’t matter, boy was I surprised with what she brought me! Lesson learned.
I haven’t lived in Texas for quite some time but I’ll try to field this one. When I lived there, many people drank a Dr. Pepper like beverage called Big Red. I don’t believe they actually drank a differently formulated version of Dr. Pepper.
Another one from Chicago. I’ve always called it pop.
I’m an Ohio person, but I refuse to call it pop as everyone here does; it’s soda. I acquired my vocabulary elsewhere, I guess.
This map seems relevant.
I’d say 90% of the people in Michigan say pop, but I think it sounds silly for some reason (not to say I’m high-brow or anything) so I say soda. I’ve always just thought of “pop” as something I call my father.
-Syko
I’m from Pittsburgh, and we definitely say pop here. My boyfriend is from Buffalo, and spend a summer stocking “pop” on store shelves. For some reason, the Pittsburgh “pop” thing really bothers some of the people I go to college with. I’ve had people get ticked because I don’t say soda. To each their own, I guess…personally, it doesn’t really bother me.
Up here in NW VT we say soda. I have an aunt from upstate NY, and she says pop…so now my little cousins say pop as well…It strikes me as funny when I see them, dressed in their flannel shirts and shit kickers in the barn, asking me to buy them ‘a pop.’ I giggle every time.
peace,
JB
Oklahoma. It’s pop here.
Another Texan: I want a coke.
And, just so y’all know, there ain’t no “.” in Dr Pepper.
it’s soda.
forgot to say where i’m from, it’s NY