Second to that. POP! :p

definitely coke! everything is coke...

POP. A soda has ice cream in it. :)

It's a Coke. It's always a Coke. I'll take a Diet Coke, please.

Unless I'm miraculously somewhere with fountain Diet Dr. Pepper or Big Red.

ALWAYS coca-cola (Yea! Sha la la la! Always Coca-Cola!)
 

Coke - And excepting this semester and a couple summers on the Redneck Riviera, I've lived in Memphis my whole life.

soda

I dont care what you call it just give me a good ole dr pepper any day!

my dad says "soda pop" and he's originally from Long Island, NY. My mom still hasn't quite trained him (in the last 30 years) to say "pop" like any respectable Washingtonian.

COKE in Tennessee
 

As in... "Would you like a Coke or something?"

"Yes, thanks, I'll have a Mountain Dew."

SODA!!!!!!

My ex-boyfriend was from Ohio and was living in Pittsburgh at the time we were dating. He called it "pop", so his roommate and I would annoy him by saying that anyplace where it's refered to as "pop" was part of the midwest. He would be like "Ohio and Pittsburgh are not the midwest." And we would be like "Anything west of Philly is the midwest."

Re: COKE in Tennessee
 

My thought's exactly.

^^^^So, according to this map, most of y'all are wrong...it's POP!! :D j/k...but it IS POP.

enigma_AKA

soda, every day all day

WORD.

Call it "soda" (ugh) or "pop" (bigger ugh) in these parts and everyone will know you ain't from 'round here and may not be be trustworthy.

It's:

-- a soft drink,

-- Coke (if we mean Co'Cola, we'll say Co'Cola), or simply

-- "somethin' t' drink"

Oh, and CrimsonTide4 and enigma_AKA, y'all'll note that at least half of the blue/pop states are the ones with 1/2 person per every square mile.

;)

YEAH you tell 'em! Oh, proceed, lol.

Whatever. We still know what's good, what's right and what's just and that's POP!! :p That is all.

enigma_AKA

It's split here in Indiana. When I was living in Fort Wayne everyone said "pop." However, in Indianopolis and parts of Bloomington people say "Coke"

But for me I'll accept either "pop" or "soda"

Coke is a name brand as in Coca-Cola, it does not take the place of all carbonated beverages.:rolleyes:

And Kleenex is a brand name, so it doesn't take the place of all facial tissues.

And Xerox is a brand name, so it does not take the place of photocopy.

And Champagne is a sparkling wine from the Champagne region of France, so it doesn't talke the place of all sparkling wines.

And Band-Aid is a brand name, so it doesn't take the place of all adhesive bandages. (You know, when my kids ask for a band-aid, I do tell them "I'm sorry, we don't have any Band-Aid brand adhesive bandages, but we do have this other brand of adhesive bandage.)

And . . . . ;)

exactly! See now you get it ;)

ETA: However if you are requesting an adhesive bandage from the BAND-AID Box then you are correct. Many of those examples can be accurate because those are popular brands that most people use. So, when I ask for a kleenex (even though I say tissue) it usually comes from the Kleenex brand box so I am accurate. Just like if I want a Coca-Cola then I will say Coke. However, Pepsi is NOT coke it is pop. Thank you;)

How do you decide if you want sprite or pepsi? You say I want some sprite coke? Because that is the stupidest thing I have heard and I am willing to support a civil war over it.

-Rudey

The response to "I want a Coke" in the South is usually, "What kind?" Then you say, Sprite, Dr. Pepper, etc. etc.

Do Not Drink that Benzeine driven Drinks.

Only Drink Grape Juice.:D Cal. Grape Juice! Pure and Innocent!:cool:

Or if I did ask for a cola product, it would be by name!:p

It's always been "pop" to me.

It's split here in IL. Being from the Chicago area we say pop, but going to a school in Southern IL I would always have debates with my Southern friends.

It will ALWAYS be POP to me!!

What IF I want a pepsi (or a pepsi product) in the south....do I have to ask for something completely different??? I mean, I can't very well ask for a coke, can I??? Its madness!!!:eek: :eek:


plain and simple for me....pop ;)

Agreed. Pepsi is not Coke. It's swill, which I guess means "pop" = "swill," but perhaps that's a different conversation. ;)
Referring to the above, why on earth would you want Pepsi?
Y'all are overthinking this and making it way too complicated.

In a restaurant, you'll be asked what you'd like to drink. It may be "Can I get you something to drink" (most likely, since the choices will surely include tea -- meaning sweet tea, of course) or it may be "Would you like a Coke, shug?" If you want a Sprite, you order a Sprite. If, for some unfathomable reason, you want a Pepsi, you order a Pepsi. (If the restaurant in question is sane and only serves Co'Cola, they'll ask if that will be okay instead of Pepsi. Same goes if you order a Co'Cola in a restaurant that only serves Pepsi.)

Context, people, context. It's actually quite easy in context to tell if someone means "Coke" to refer to any soft drink or "Coke" to refer to Co'Cola.

I refuse to call it "pop."

Neither, its a mixer and ordered specifically, as in: Scotch and Soda, Bourbon and Seven, Rum and Coke, Gin and Tonic.

BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO. There are a whole lot of people in Cleveland and Detroit. :D

CCCCCCCCCCCCCTFU!!!!

I know we're both already married, but darn it, I do love you sir! ;)

That map is horribly inaccurate. I don't know anyone in my area who really says, "soda" who is a native southeastern Virginian. Being that the area is so full of transplants thanks to the military, it may seem as though we're "soda" people. We're not. It's a coke- unless you want a Dr. Pepper, or the age-old culinary wonder of an RC Cola and a moonpie.

Southern Ohio~Pop

Now I love you and OAIIalum! ;)