Pop or Soda or Coke or Other?
 

I'm posting this poll (which I'm sure has probably already been done here) because of this cool chart. Do you match your county? At the link, click on your state to see the individual county stats.

Pop. Unless I am specifying then I will use whatever name like coke, or pepsi.

I'm from Lake County Indiana which for the most part is all Pop, so I jive with that, but not where I currently live.

Coke is Coca Cola

Everything else is soda.

Pop is my kids' name for my dad.

Maybe in Indy they are not talking about Pop you drink ;) I am in N Indiana, pop country too.

Ditto, except for the thing about the kids.

What is 'other' I wonder?

It could be soft drink. That's what we call it over here.

Pop. But I used to call it a fizzy drink in the UK. pop was a little... common :lol:

(that's what my folks said, anyway.... they didn't let us wear jeans for the same reason)

And yes, "pop" matches my current county.

Soda meant fizzy water only back in the old country.

50-80% of the people in my county call all brands of soda "coke?" Hell, not any of the ones I know... About the only context in which that's even remotely acceptable is when you're talking about "the coke machine," but even then, the machine must actually carry Coca-Cola, and usually has a huge Coca-Cola ad covering the front of it.

I prefer Pepsi (caffeine free). So I usually just say Pepsi out of habit. I would prolly use 'soda' otherwise. Pop is my father, Popdigr.

yeah here too. except i say "i'm going to the coke machine to get a dr. pepper."

agree with jim and clod. I call it soda; I don't match my county, which indicates people call it "coke" -- not true as far as I know. I match my birthplace though

I grew up with "soda" but most of the places we've lived since then have been "pop". I use "pop" now so as not to confuse the locals. But the only time I find it necessary to use the generic term is when I'm at a restaurant -- "What kind of pop do you have?"

Chicago says pop.

First time my fiancee (who is from Ohio) said she wanted some pop, i though she said she wanted some POT. Funny, at her work as a server, she has had the same problem several times when she mentions pop instead of soda. Soda is very ingrained here in Jersey

Soda here as mapped.

Pop.

Soda is that stuff you get in the baking aisle.

Soda, as mapped.

I can understand and respect "pop," but calling all soft drinks "coke" is just wrong. I could make a blanket statement about the South here, but I won't. ;)

do those of you that call it pop get a 'sack' or a 'bag' to carry your purchases out of the store in?

I say bag, but husband says sack.

bag

Bag.

bag

slag!

slapper!

Oh you tart!


eta - [Bread] She. Is. A. Tart! [/Bread]

trollop!

is bag, bag, slag! like duck, duck, goose?

A sack is a scrotum. If you say sack around here, even in reference to football, it's inevitable that someone will make the joke. My aunt actually gave my son a toy called a "balzac," and couldn't understand what we found to be so funny.

Soda being from SoCol.

Fizzy drinks in general conversation.
Soft drinks in formal (ie ordering in a restaurant).

I associate pop with Northerners. Some of them even say fizzy pop.
Perhaps to differentiate between drink and music. It's cute.

Nah. It's to differentiate between 'Fizzy pop' and 'corporation pop' :p

It depends on the context really. I use 'pop' and 'fizzy drink'. I wouldn't say 'I fancy some pop'. I would say ' I fancy a fizzy drink'. But then I would go to the shop and buy a can of pop.

I say soda for the most part.
Coke is a name brand.

Soda is something you mix with, say, scotch.

Coke is a name brand. How can you call 7-Up Coke????? How would they know what to bring you?

They ask:

"Would you like a Coke?"
"Sure?"
"What kind?"
"Orange."

This is a reasonable conversation in the south.