Blocky Posted April 30, 2011 Report Share Posted April 30, 2011 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blocky Posted April 30, 2011 Author Report Share Posted April 30, 2011 When I lived in Missouri, it was quite the heated debate. Now I can see why. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bini Posted April 30, 2011 Report Share Posted April 30, 2011 Interesting.. Yeh my mum mostly grew up in California and said "Soda". My dad is a Brit but he'll say "Soda-pop". I call it neither one or the other. I say "Fizzy-bubbly"! In the Philippines though and a lot of Southeast Asia call most everything that's soda/pop—coke! Haha. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
applepansy Posted April 30, 2011 Report Share Posted April 30, 2011 Interesting. thanks for posting Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
slamjet Posted April 30, 2011 Report Share Posted April 30, 2011 For some reason, that map is fascinating! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jenamarie Posted April 30, 2011 Report Share Posted April 30, 2011 I grew up in California where we call it soda. I now live in Washington where it's called pop, which seems so... Mayberry to me. I remember looking twice at a gas station sign my first week here, because it said "We have burgers! chips! pop!" It took me a minute to realize what that third thing they were advertising was. I hadn't realized up to that point that anyone even still *used* that word! I'd only ever heard it used on old Andy Griffith show reruns. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blocky Posted April 30, 2011 Author Report Share Posted April 30, 2011 I'm in California now, calling it pop will get you laughed at. Maybe I just need nicer friends? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
slamjet Posted April 30, 2011 Report Share Posted April 30, 2011 I'm in California now, calling it pop will get you laughed at. Maybe I just need nicer friends?No, you need to call it by it's proper name Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
classylady Posted April 30, 2011 Report Share Posted April 30, 2011 Wow! I didn't even realize it was a regional thing. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Godless Posted April 30, 2011 Report Share Posted April 30, 2011 Yet another thing the northeast got right. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
seeking_peace Posted April 30, 2011 Report Share Posted April 30, 2011 I grew up calling it pop, but I call it soda now. Even though I live in the land of Coca-cola and everything is Coke. "What flavors of coke do you have?" drives me crazy. Coke is the flavor! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dravin Posted April 30, 2011 Report Share Posted April 30, 2011 I grew up in Interior Alaska (heavy Pop territory), and my parents are from Washington/Oregon and Utah, I call it Soda. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blocky Posted May 1, 2011 Author Report Share Posted May 1, 2011 I'm still wondering why Sodi-pop wasn't an option. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PrinceofLight2000 Posted May 1, 2011 Report Share Posted May 1, 2011 I can see my old county! Being from upstate New York, I say soda. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bytebear Posted May 1, 2011 Report Share Posted May 1, 2011 I find it interesting that Salt Lake is "soda" surrounded by "pop." On my mission, in New England, many of the small towns called it "tonic" another option not listed. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
slamjet Posted May 1, 2011 Report Share Posted May 1, 2011 Once, as a teenager working at a pizza joint, an elderly lady came up to the counter and asked for "dietetic Coke." First time I heard that one, and haven't heard it since. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
beefche Posted May 1, 2011 Report Share Posted May 1, 2011 Anything fizzy was "coke" in my neck of the woods. The thing is, we never said we wanted a "coke" unless we wanted Coca Cola. You would ask someone, "Would you like a coke? We have root beer, Pepsi, Sprite..." Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PrinceofLight2000 Posted May 1, 2011 Report Share Posted May 1, 2011 Anything fizzy was "coke" in my neck of the woods. The thing is, we never said we wanted a "coke" unless we wanted Coca Cola. You would ask someone, "Would you like a coke? We have root beer, Pepsi, Sprite..."So that's how it works. This always confused the heck out of me. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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