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

[Speechpath]

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

[wrigley]

Great map.

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

[Intense1920]

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

[Cluey]

It's Coke

[CSUSigEp]

my county is also 80-100 % SODA!

[kateshort]

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.

[Speechpath]

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

[Shima-Mizu]

Originally posted by kateshort
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.

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.

[KellyB369]

Originally posted by DeltaSigStan
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.

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.

[CanadianTeke]

Originally posted by KellyB369
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'.

[Taualumna]

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

[valkyrie]

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

[ADPiAkron]

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

[RACooper]

Originally posted by Lady Pi Phi
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".

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.

[arrowgirl]

Pop.