# Pop, soda or coke...? **URL:** \ **Category:** Great Debates\ **Created:** [March 5, 2000, 8:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pop-soda-or-coke/17726 "2000-03-05T20:03:00Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![yosemite](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/3ab097/32.png) [@yosemite](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/yosemite)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2000, 8:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pop-soda-or-coke/17726/61 "2000-03-13T20:49:00Z")
Well, I am bad at imitating a hick accent! Let me try again: “Ellie, Buford done got him a pop! Ya want one too? We got cherry and grape flavor pop!” I dunno. I just can’t do it too well. I asked a friend from the South about this whole “soft drink”/“pop”/“coke” thing, and he agreed, “soft drink” was the term used, not “pop”. ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_Angel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/d26b3c/32.png) [@Johnny\_Angel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_Angel)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2000, 1:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pop-soda-or-coke/17726/62 "2000-03-14T01:13:00Z")
A midwestern accent would be more like: “Hey dere, guyse. You want I should get yaz a pop? Okee-dokee, t’ree pops comin’ up.” ---
**Author:** ![ChrisCTP](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e36b37/32.png) [@ChrisCTP](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ChrisCTP)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2000, 1:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pop-soda-or-coke/17726/63 "2000-03-14T01:45:00Z")
Pardon me. **I** absolutely do not sound like that. I will send a vox file to anyone who asks for one as proof. ~Chris (Who pronounces her th’s, TYVM) * * * “I like toast.” 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_Angel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/d26b3c/32.png) [@Johnny\_Angel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_Angel)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2000, 4:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pop-soda-or-coke/17726/64 "2000-03-14T04:41:00Z")
Sure, not everybody in the midwest talks like a character out of a Nelson Algren story, but if you’re living out there, you’ve surely met your share of them. I have a cousin with an accent that seemed thick to me even when I was living in Chicago. Now that I’ve been away for a while, everybody up there sounds like that. It goes something like this: “Shud op makin’ funna da way I tawk, Jyames; ommona smyack yoo.” ---
**Author:** ![tankgrrl29](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ee59a6/32.png) [@tankgrrl29](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tankgrrl29)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2000, 11:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pop-soda-or-coke/17726/65 "2000-03-14T23:19:00Z")
LMAO!!! i didn’t think i had that noticable of an accent, (yes, i pronounce my th’s), but this is EXACTLY how i sound: “ommona smyack yoo” ommona go lay-uff sum-moor! ---
**Author:** ![tankgrrl29](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ee59a6/32.png) [@tankgrrl29](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tankgrrl29)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2000, 11:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pop-soda-or-coke/17726/66 "2000-03-14T23:21:00Z")
(i just hope pop doesn’t come outa my nose while i do!) ---
**Author:** ![monster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/7ab992/32.png) [@monster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/monster)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2000, 8:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pop-soda-or-coke/17726/67 "2000-03-15T20:03:00Z")
> [@](#): > > Originally posted by Johnny Angel: > \*\* I don’t know anyone from Chicago who says `soda.' Growing up in Chicago, everyone I knew called it `pop.’ What neighborhood are you from?\*\* Right on… I’m from the Chicago area (Gary, IN, if you must know) and we all call it pop. I never heard it refered to as soda until I visited my sister in Texas. ---
**Author:** ![monster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/7ab992/32.png) [@monster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/monster)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2000, 8:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pop-soda-or-coke/17726/68 "2000-03-15T20:06:00Z")
> [@](#): > > Originally posted by Johnny Angel: > \*\* I don’t know anyone from Chicago who says `soda.' Growing up in Chicago, everyone I knew called it `pop.’ What neighborhood are you from?\*\* Right on… I’m from the Chicago area (Gary, IN, if you must know) and we all call it pop. I never heard it refered to as soda until I visited my sister in Texas. ---
**Author:** ![monster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/7ab992/32.png) [@monster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/monster)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2000, 8:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pop-soda-or-coke/17726/69 "2000-03-15T20:21:00Z")
Sorry for the double post. I had to address the person who said only people from Indiana say “pop”. Not true. I lived in Downers Grove after college and everyone calls it pop there too. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pop-soda-or-coke/17726.md?page=3)