The Great Pop vs. Soda Controversy

[Dubh Aingeal]

What do you call that carbonated liquid? Do you fall outside of your regions way of saying it?

I generally call it pop but have been known to call it soda.

Here is a graph of the US and how it breaks down in general.

[JaneDead]

pop and even if i moved i would still call it pop

[phee]

IT is Pop... nothing further

[Rayne]

Pop ... but where my mom comes from they call it Coke. Even Pepsi there, is Coke.

[ManicQueen]

I call it what it's supposed to be called, pop. My boyfriend, on the other hand, calls it soda cuz he's from Cali.. what a loser!

[Wounds Within]

When I lived in England I called it soda, now however I have changed my tune and call it pop.

[Saephyr]

GOOD SHOW WW!

POP... The Dark addressed this long ago actually. Just look up the word POP in Webster's

[saechalyn]

I'm from New York. I call it soda and I ain't changing.

[Steven]

wasent til I moved to Detroit that I heard the term Pop used so often.

But Faygo RedPop is a wonderful thing........

[Guest Megalicious]

wasent til I moved to Detroit that I heard the term Pop used so often.

But Faygo RedPop is a wonderful thing........

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yes it is ... but its still SODA!!! LOL ... if you went into a fast food place and asked for POP where steven and I are from lol they would look at you, laugh, and ask you what the fuck you are talking about. You should have heard my brother and cousin laugh and laugh as I tired to explain to them the UPPer situation here .. lol .. take in mind they were high at the time but they just thought i was the funniest shit they had ever heard.

[Steven]

yes it is ... but its still SODA!!! LOL ... if you went into a fast food place and asked for POP where steven and I are from lol they would look at you, laugh, and ask you what the fuck you are talking about. You should have heard my brother and cousin laugh and laugh as I tired to explain to them the UPPer  situation here ..  lol .. take in mind they were high at the time but they just thought i was the funniest shit they had ever heard.

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she's right.

[Shade Everdark]

I may be from the Midwest, but I have to go with the East & West Coasters on this. It's soda, to me, and always will be.

[Guest Megalicious]

GOOD SHOW WW!

POP... The Dark addressed this long ago actually. Just look up the word POP in Webster's

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Really .. that goes both ways ... I suppose it depends on which dictionary you look in .

SODA

POP

[Guest Megalicious]

I call it a DAMN TASTY BEVERAGE... Besides, if I called it soda or pop I would be labeling it. I hate labeling things, so I will call them by their given names. Mt Dew, DP, Coke, Cola, Sprite, Sierra Mist, Bud Light... Calling them anything other than by their name is an insult. How would you like it if you were in Briarwood and someone shouted out "HEY GOTH! What's UP?!?!" It's profiling... and profiling is wrong..

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LOL only Ben LOL ....

[Saephyr]

GADZ

[Nevaeh]

i refuse to call any beverage a name that i would call my grandfather.

where i'm from, everything is a coke...i tend to call it soda so people here dont laugh even more at my accent.

[Hellion]

:devil I either call it pop or soda,doe'nt matter to me.

[Vater Araignee]

Ugh hem... NONALCOHOLIC CARBONATED BEVERAGE!!!

If it aint that then its BEER.

[paradox]

beer...

[n0Mad]

Pop has way too many definitions from father to a loud noise to taking pills, etc. Soda on the other hand only has one real definition, and that is a carbonated beverage. So, I use the right word for the right thing and soda it is.

[Rayne]

I call it a DAMN TASTY BEVERAGE... Besides, if I called it soda or pop I would be labeling it. I hate labeling things, so I will call them by their given names. Mt Dew, DP, Coke, Cola, Sprite, Sierra Mist, Bud Light... Calling them anything other than by their name is an insult. How would you like it if you were in Briarwood and someone shouted out "HEY GOTH! What's UP?!?!" It's profiling... and profiling is wrong..

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What's even funnier, is he's right. I've only ever heard him refer to tasty beverages as such, or their given names.

[Fierce Critter]

CONCLUSION

People who say "Pop" are much, much cooler.

Heh. That said it all for me.

For me, it's pop. Always been pop. My whole family calls it pop.

But in NC, if you asked for "pop", they'd look at you funny. I had to start asking for soda in public.

At a backyard barbecue or over anyone's house, it's "Drink". Yep - "You want some drink?" And a lot of people there also use "Coke" for everything carbonated.

I am re-programming myself back to pop. It was only with much reluctance, but out of necessity, that I gave in while living there and switched to saying "soda", but I hated it.

Amazing how worked up humans can get over silly shit like this - myself included. :laughing

[phee]

I agree Pop tastes better then Soda

[kellygrrrrrl]

Soda-pop

BOOYEAH!

[JaneDead]

yeah really it is soda pop so soda, pop or soda pop are all correct. saying coke for everything i always thought was weird as "coke" is a brand and it is hard for me to imagine an orange "coke" or mountain dew "coke". "what kind of coke do you want" "an orange coke" see, that is weird.

at resturants i don't say "pop" anyways. i either get water or i say "do you have coke or pepsi?" after they tell me i then order my coke or pepsi.

soda always makes me think of baking soda or soda water. i can't really think of my drink as a "soda", though i like how people down south say soda.