Pop, Soda, Coke-- what do YOU call it?
 

Here in the South, it is Coke, no matter whether it's Coke or Pepsi brand. We laugh at people who call it 'pop.':D

What does everyone else call it across the country?

I call it Soda! I also laugh at people who call it 'pop'. My co-worker calls it that and I am constantly laughing at her.

Coke is a specific brand of soda, so I never understood why that's the common name for the everyday soft drink. But whatever, regional dialects are regional dialects.

We call it soda down here.

Soda 99% of the time.

Once in a while I let a "pop" slip out.

In Chicago, I say pop
But in Philly, I say soda

I always call it "pop".

I believe it's called "pop" everywhere in Canada. I have never heard anyone else here call it anything but "pop".

map
 

http://www.popvssoda.com/countystats/total-county.gif

Found this at:
http://www.popvssoda.com/countystats/total-county.html

It's pop for me. :)

That map is freaking awesome! :)

oh my god that map literally kicks butt! it goes to show some ppl have way to much time on their hands hehe:D
I call it soda be it pepsi ,coke, sprite, mt dew, dr. pepper, sierra mist and 7 up...its all good and it is all soda to me

It's a coke regardless of the brand name :D

I call it pop. Once in a while I'll say soda though since I go to school in the Northeast they're rubbing off on me.

That is an awesome map!

Look for Long Island on the map... note the dark yellow indicating 80-100%...

Yeah I call it Soda.

Soda for me.

Whenever I'm out, I always ask for a Pepsi, and not Coke. I notice that most restaurants here are more Pepsi-friendly.

I cringe whenever I hear "Coke". Like Stan said, it's a brand name! :mad:

It is Coke. I think everything is Coke in the south because it was the first soft drink company and it was founded in Atlanta.

I call it coke too...guess it's all those years at UGA b/c it's all coke down there!

Great map.

If you're in Chicago, it's a pop.

Where I'm from in the south it's "soda."

It's Coke :)

my county is also 80-100 % SODA!

PG County, MD, is a little misleading-- it says 30-50% soda, though growing up most people I knew would use "coke" instead. I guess it's 30% soda, 29% coke, and 28% "something to drink".

In Chicagoland, now, I actually often call it soda or pop. -shudder- I have been brainwashed.

^ How funny, I grew up in PG county! However I can't recall what I called it then, maybe it was soda!

When I'm at Joel's house I tend to call it pop, indeed about the brainwashing, it makes me shudder that I call it something other than what I'm used to.

It's Coke to me here in NC. I know it is a brand name so it sounds dumb, but Band-aid and Kleenex are brands too and that's what most people refer to those products as. The problem with calling it Coke is that when you say that in a restaurant if they only serve Pepsi they will just bring the Pepsi without telling you they don't have Coke. Pepsi may be from New Bern, NC but I'm a true Coke girl.

I think that map is really cool too but the numbers are not so good. I mean 120,000 respondents in approx 3,000 counties across the country...that's not very good statistics. But it is still cool to see how it is different across the country.

If you click on the link
(http://www.popvssoda.com/countystats/total-county.html ) , the map links to all of the states and gives a breakdown of all the counties in numbers.

Like Lady Pi Phi said in Canada it's always refered to as 'pop'.

It's technically "soft drink" on restaurant menus, but I call it "pop".

Although I grew up in Chicago where everybody says pop, I always say Coke. I ask for Coke because that's what I prefer.

Here in Ohio I will have myself a can of POP!! ;)

Pop is by far the most common term up here, that is everywhere in Canada except Quebec... there it seemed people were as likely to use the term "pop" or "soda"; with "pop" being more prevelant among Anglophones, and "soda" being more prevelant amongst Francophones.

Pop. :p

Soda.

Here in Los Angeles we call it Soda. I lived in Chi-Town for a year and I thought the people were wierd cuz they'd ask me if i wanted "pop". Also when I would go to columbus, Mississippi they called it pop and sometimes i heard "soda pop".

soda

Down here in NOLA, we call 'em "Cold Drinks". No matter what kind they are, they're always "cold drinks".

I call it Coke no matter what it is. :D

Soda

Soda. I've lived on the East Coast, West Coast, and a few places in between, but its never been anything but soda to me. :)

I've grown up with one parent saying Coke and the other saying Pop. Since I very rarely drink the stuff, I try to avoid referring to it at all.

But I do like the British "Fizzy Drink"!

Definitely "Coke." If I have a guest that's from one of the non-red areas on the map, I might offer them a "cold drink" (which is completely different than a "drink," which is a category including alcoholic beverages).

"Soda" comes in a little yellow Arm & Hammer box, and "pop" should end in "sicle."

Here where I'm from, it's always coke. It doesn't even matter if it's purple, orange or green. Coke is coke.