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Your term for sweetened, nonalcoholic carbonated beverages

What do you call them?

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Phys251

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What term do you give sweetened, nonalcoholic carbonated beverages?
 
Phys251 said:
What term do you give sweetened, nonalcoholic carbonated beverages?
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Depends on what part of the country you live in. It's pop in the west, soda in the east.
 
The first time someone asked for a 'pop' while I was working the drive-thru, I had no idea what the customer was asking for.

Also, people who pronounce soda, as 'sodee' should be shot.
 
When I was in college and then later in the Army, I became aware of regional differences in common words. I grew up up the east coast and went an east coast school, so there weren’t as many differences there as there were in the service where people came from a greater distance.


Another example is sub/hoagie/grinder/hero

All regional.
 
I grew up in Kansas, which is solid pop country. Now that I live in Tennessee, I drink soda.
 
Soft drink and or pop most of the time
 
Poison...:2razz:
 
bearpoker said:
Depends on what part of the country you live in. It's pop in the west, soda in the east.
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Interesting... My experience has been the opposite. I grew up on the East coast and it was always called pop, I moved to the West coast in my 20's and here it was always soda. Every one I know calls it soda, as do I now, the only time I hear pop is when I talk with a relative still living on the East coast.
 
Sabre said:
Interesting... My experience has been the opposite. I grew up on the East coast and it was always called pop, I moved to the West coast in my 20's and here it was always soda. Every one I know calls it soda, as do I now, the only time I hear pop is when I talk with a relative still living on the East coast.
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In Colorado, I hear both. We have a lot of people from all over the country that have moved here, so it seems to have become interchangeable. My family is primarily from New York, so soda is what I am more accustomed to.
 
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Xilnik said:
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In Colorado, I hear both. We have a lot of people from all over the country that have moved here, so it seems to have become interchangeable. My family is primarily from New York, so soda is what I am more accustomed to.
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Your map matches my experience, all the east coast states I lived in are marked "pop' and now here in Cali it's "soda". My wife grew up in NY so I asked her what is was there, she said it was "soda" except in her house they drank "sarsaparilla". Interesting survey.
 
The civilized world calls it pop.
 
Ikari said:
The civilized world calls it pop.
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:2mad:

:lol:

Around these parts everyone calls it a "Coke." So you have to ask, "what kind?"

I call it a soda unless I'm asking for a particular brand. Even that knock-off, Pepsi, is a brand. #allsodasmatter :mrgreen:
 
Pop, because Mom was from the north. Just like asking for tea means sweet tea, at least here in the South, because that's where I was raised.

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If you ever come down to new zealand, ask for a fizzy.

If you ask for a soda its a specific drink and you will get carbonated water. Ask for a pop and you will get a man your fathers age and if you ask for coke you will either get white powder or arrested.
 
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Eh.....maybe. Lived mostly in NC and VA. Never, ever heard the subject beverage generally called Coke...unless you were referring to Coca-Cola. In fact, the Piedmont section of NC is heavy on the Pepsi when I was there. It was fighin' words to call it otherwise.

Soda. That's what I know it as.

But cool graphic! Thanks!
 
SomeCents said:
Eh.....maybe. Lived mostly in NC and VA. Never, ever heard the subject beverage generally called Coke...unless you were referring to Coca-Cola. In fact, the Piedmont section of NC is heavy on the Pepsi when I was there. It was fighin' words to call it otherwise.

Soda. That's what I know it as.

But cool graphic! Thanks!
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Yeah, I thought it was odd that it is called Coke since that is a specific drink. I have seen multiple graphics that have it labeled that way, but I have never heard other soda/pop referred to in that way.
 
Xilnik said:
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In Colorado, I hear both. We have a lot of people from all over the country that have moved here, so it seems to have become interchangeable. My family is primarily from New York, so soda is what I am more accustomed to.
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Soda for me too. :cool:
 
Xilnik said:
Yeah, I thought it was odd that it is called Coke since that is a specific drink. I have seen multiple graphics that have it labeled that way, but I have never heard other soda/pop referred to in that way.
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Better half did grad school in the deep South (War Eagle!). They indeed use Coke for "soda" and "tea"....for sweet iced tea. And a ("regular") coffee is black (not with cream or sugar; you gotta ask for those).
 
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