Here in Michigan, myself and everyone I know refer to it as pop.
Whenever I go out of state though, I make a conscious effort to say "soda." Growing up, I always considered a soda to be something of an icecream sundae. So now, whenever I say "soda," I still kinda think it's weird to say, in reference to our pop.
I went to Arizona one time, and asked for a pop, and the waitress looked at me like I was crazy and asked me what I meant.
Now the coke thing... I have heard of that before, how everything is a coke. But I dunno, that's just weird to me. To me, a coke is a coke is a coke as in Coca Cola. Is this primarily in the southern states?
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