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.