it really depends on the area of the country. In the midwest down to the south its strictly considered pop and I find it very entertaining when they get frustrated when you ask for a soda.

 

Soda.


End of thread.

Lock plz.

 

In Buffalo we drink pop but in Rochester they drink soda.

 

I love buffalo, pop comes with 50% vodka already in it. ...at least in most bars.

 

Since it used to be called soda pop, soda is the adjective describing the noun pop. I don't drink adjectives.

 

Soda has ice cream in it.

 

I thought pop was the sound made by your gun just before it shot the soda can off the fence.

 

I have had this conversation with a co worker in great depth and even when I use reason she will not listen lol. I know all of you here are reasonable so lets see what the dictionary says lol.

Noun:

so·da/ˈsōdə/ Carbonated water (originally made with sodium bicarbonate). A carbonated soft drink. popnoun Definition of POP 1: a sharp explosive sound 2: a shot from a gun 3: soda pop 4: pop fly 5: power to hit a baseball hard <a hitter with some pop in his bat> 6: a drink or shot of alcohol - a pop 1: for each one : apiece <tickets at a pop> 2: for each attempt <rushed for an average of five yards a pop>

 

Here is link to larger version
http://tastyresearch.files.wordpress.com/2006/10/popvssodamap.png

Found this map.

 

Here is link to larger version
http://tastyresearch.files.wordpress.com/2006/10/popvssodamap.png

Found this map.

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I hate that we are so similar to CA in so many things.

 

You ever go to the "pop fountain" and ask the "pop jerk" for a drink?

Me neither.

 

I wouldn't recommend going into a pizza shop in Brooklyn and asking for a pop...

Oh, and apparently the Coca-Cola Company calls it soda

 

who cares?

 

Hold on a minute............ Thanks Lord Timelord my can was out!

(all in good fun Trekmtbr89)

 

I say " Do you have any Dr. Pepper?" or "Can I have a Coke?" or " A splash of Coke with that Jack please?"

 

Aside from loaning out my can of Troll Spray, I call it POP!

But there should be more options to choose from like:
-Cola
-DEW!

As Master Yoda once said: "There is no Try! There is only DEW!"

All the above coming from a self-diasnosed Diet Mt. Dew Drinker!

 

LOL

I didn't know they found the secret to the force!!! I have to ask my Jedy master!!!! .
... hold on he is calling...

 

I reiterate - Who Cares...It's beautiful outside, go out and enjoy the day. see you trolls later!

 

How much sun creeps through the cracks under that bridge?

 

I'm originally from NY where it was always soda.

So I was surprised when I got to AZ in 1972 and it was commonly called pop.

Now, 40 years later, I don't hear anybody calling it pop anymore.

Maybe because everybody here now got here from someplace else.



By the way, maybe we can start a poll based on the regional differences between "bag" and "sack."

 

soda if your from syracuse pop if your from buffalo

 

Im in rochester and most people I know call it pop but I know its soda.

 

Was just talking about this with my brother for some reason. He lives in Georgia now and most down there seem to call it soda. We have always called it pop.

 

Ive used both. Growing up it was always Pop. Then I spent four years in FL (tampa) for college and everyone called it soda. So now it's just whatever comes out

 

 

You forgot "soder"

 

Yea I forgot a few good ones.

 

Pop... vanila.... hummm... It has to be soda as it cannot be pop..

 

I was brought up in the Boston area....there it was "tonic".
Soda DID have ice cream in it.
Now I just ask for a beer, it really simplifies things.

 

Always called it soda, but where I work it's called manufacturing soft drink. Says so on the business license, lol.