pop or soda

[kansas13]

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!!

[absoluteZChi]

Originally posted by macallan25
The response to "I want a Coke" in the South is usually, "What kind?" Then you say, Sprite, Dr. Pepper, etc. etc.

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!!!


plain and simple for me....pop

[MysticCat]

Originally posted by DSTinguished1
However, Pepsi is NOT coke it is pop. Thank you

Agreed. Pepsi is not Coke. It's swill, which I guess means "pop" = "swill," but perhaps that's a different conversation.

Originally posted by absoluteZChi
What IF I want a pepsi (or a pepsi product) in the south?

Referring to the above, why on earth would you want Pepsi?

Originally posted by Rudey
How do you decide if you want sprite or pepsi? You say I want some sprite coke?

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."

[dekeguy]

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

[CrimsonTide4]

Originally posted by MysticCat81
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.

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

[CrimsonTide4]

Originally posted by Rudey
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

CCCCCCCCCCCCCTFU!!!!

[AOIIalum]

Originally posted by MysticCat81

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.)

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

[GMUBunny]

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.

[MJo19]

Southern Ohio~Pop

[MysticCat]

Originally posted by GMUBunny
. . . or the age-old culinary wonder of an RC Cola and a moonpie.

Now I love you and OAIIalum!