What do you call it?

[Lyric]

Poll question: What do you call it?

What do you call carbonated beverages like Pepsi, Dr. Pepper, Root Beer, Sunkist, Mountain Dew, etc.?

[I Have A Dream]

1. Soft drink. Distant second: soda. Definitely not 'pop' although the people...

around where I live always say pop.

[Richardo]

8. Are you by chance in Western PA?

I grew up there and it's definitley a 'pop' kinda place.

[Deja Q]

2. Carbonated tooth rotting hyperactivity-inducing obesity-generating sugar water

:rofl:

[eyesroll]

3. Soda, even though I grew up in "pop" town. nt

[Starbucks Anarchist]

4. Coke.

[demrabble]

5. It's Called Tonic

Where I was raised, the generic name for a carbonate beverage was "Tonic".

[Deep13]

41. Wicked good. Let's go to the packy and get some.

[yewberry]

6. Tonic.

Guess where I'm from!

[momophile]

7. grew up calling it Coke but I've broken myself of that habit

:hi:

[Guava Jelly]

9. The ol soldier!!! ..Oh wait you were talking about Soft drinks.

MY BAD! :silly::rofl:

[Lyric]

24. You are incredibly bad.

Bad, bad, bad. :spank: :spank: :spank: :spank: :spank:

[Guava Jelly]

27. thats me

:)

[auntAgonist]

10. I've always called it pop.

:shrug:

aA

[Scarlett17]

11. Coke

But I've spent enough time in Michigan to call it pop on occasion.

[skygazer]

12. I've heard of that

But I always wondered - when you ask for Coke in a restaurant or something but you want root beer, how do you say it? Or do you order a root beer but just use "Coke" as a general term for carbonated beverages, as in "Where's your Coke?"

[Scarlett17]

13. If I was ordering in a restaurant, I'd be specific and say root beer

But if I making a shopping list or asking my husband to pick up a non-alcoholic carbonated beverage I would just say Coke. Born and raised in Muncie, Indiana--everyone there just calls it Coke. But, at least I got out before they started filming Armed and Famous. If confusing beverage terminology is the only cross I bear, I consider myself lucky.

[skygazer]

14. Makes perfect sense

:hi:

[unsavedtrash]

33. Here a lot of people in restaurants will ask for a coke and the server will ask what kind.

:hi:

[ghostsofgiants]

15. People who say Coke regarless of brand or flavour drive me insane.

I say soda, personally.

[Scarlett17]

16. That's funny, because to me, soda is baking soda.

[Left Is Write]

23. Me too.

[judaspriestess]

17. other

I morphed two words and call it sodapop

[Scarlett17]

18. Sodapop Curtis?

The Outsiders, anyone?

[LuLu550]

19. That was what it was originally called!

that is why some people shortened it to "soda" and other to "pop."

[Scarlett17]

20. I know, but I can't resist an Outsiders reference.

[crim son]

21. It was pop growing up in Canada, but soda as soon as we

moved down to the States.

[Left Is Write]

22. It's POP. End of story. My definitive word. POP, POP, POP.

I thank you.

[Lyric]

25. To reply to my own poll: I call it pop.

Deb (my partner, aka ThinkBlue1966) grew up in North Carolina, calling it either "soda" or just "Coke". But I've managed to brainwash her over the years, so now she calls it pop too. :D

[QMPMom]

39. Definitely! POP.

[Deep13]

43. That's the noise it makes when opened.

Except they don't that those kind of crimping bottle caps any more.

[SPKrazy]

26. That's A Little Personal...

what I call it
:rofl:

[GenDem]

28. Always known as "pop" in Western NY.

I lived in NC and it was "soda" there. Could never conform to that, even after four years down there. Here, in Western NY (much like western PA) soda is baking soda, bicarbonate of soda, or soda water used to make an ice cream soda.

[hyphenate]

29. You left out what most people from Massachusetts

call it, which is "tonic." I think only those of us in Mass. and around New England call it that.

On the other hand, when I was in SoCal, I had to call it "soda" because people thought I was a nut when I called it tonic.

[Lyric]

30. My apologies. I hadn't ever heard it called that before.

And I neglected to put an "Other" category. :(

[hyphenate]

31. That's okay

You're forgiven. We are a bit of a peculiar group here in New England.

[u4ic]

32. Pop...

I don't think I've heard a Canuck call it anything else.

Soda could be cream soda, or club soda...

[SPKrazy]

34. Pop....

as in pop gun?

regional differences are so interesting

we call it a coke, or maybe a pop

but more likely a coke

[u4ic]

35. What if it's root beer?

:shrug:

[SPKrazy]

37. Or Dr Pepper, or Pepsi

I know

You know, I grew up in Utah, we called it pop there

I've heard people call it coke here more than anything else

:shrug:

[unsavedtrash]

36. Coke. I have also heard it called a dope.

Several of my friends grandparents call it a dope.
Many times I have heard older people say "Get me a dope and put it in a poke(bag)."

[Arugula Latte]

38. We called it "soft drinks" when I grew up in California

now I say "soda"

[azmouse]

40. Soda is correct.

:7

But whatever it's called I don't drink it. Nasty stuff. :puke:

[sg_]

42. fizzy juice

nt

[ileus]

44. soda water

[Cascadian]

45. In the Pacific Northwest, it's called "Pop"

You wanna Pop?

You Betcha!


John

[CottonBear]

46. Coke. We southerners call it Coke. Everything is a Coke. Sometimes I say soft drink.

Only immigrants from other parts of the country call these drinks pop or soda or soda pop.