Do you say 'soda' or 'pop'?

[mississippifarmboy]

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Same here. In the south it's all coke, just different flavors.
For example Pepsi is a flavor of coke.

 

[b.hromada]

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I was just gonna mention this! All my cousins from Massachusetts said that, when we were kids! How funny!

 

[welsummerchicks]

I am from New York where it is soda.

I moved to Michigan where it is 'pop'.

 

[Camelot Farms]

Soda.

Pop sounds 'wrong' lol

 

[FourPawz]

99% of the time it's soft drink, or on rare occasions, soda pop. However I use the brand name, especially if I am referring to a brand other than a Coke. Pop is what my DH calls his father and what my cousins called my uncle. We say soda if we're talking about unflavored, carbonated water.

 

[Kathryn4629]

Here in Idaho its a POP

 

[Chicken Rustler]

Here in the SWAMP of SW Washington it is SODA (to me) and if I get specific it is DIET PEPSI !!!!

 

[geosheets]

Here in SW Ohio it's been pop as long as I can remember. When I was a teenager, a friend and I decided to start calling it soda like so much of the rest of the country did. We got some strange looks from a lot of people but I have called it soda ever since. Don't get the strange looks anymore (not for this at least) and I hear it called soda a lot more than when I was a kid. I think we are finally getting the state converted after 30 years...

 

[mississippifarmboy]

Sometimes words from different parts of the country with different meanings can get a kid a spanking.

When I was about 10 we had some Yankee kinfolk come visit us. Us kids were told that we had to be good and play whatever games our company wanted to play or we'd get in trouble. We were outside playing on this little bank and my Yankee cousin looked at us dead serious and said "I want a pop". We all looked at each other and said, nooo, let's not do that.. lets just go play in the barn or something. Again he just looked funny and said but I want a pop. So I offered to let him ride my new bike. He gave me a mean look and said are you not listening, I said I wanna pop. I looked at my brother, he just looked at me and shrugged and said Pa said we had to do whatever they want to.


So I popped him in the jaw and knocked him down the dirt bank.

How the heck was I supposed to know he just wanted a Coke? I thought that was how they played up north or something.

Still got a whoopin' though.

 

[Beekissed]

In WV it is pop or coke....but more likely I hear pop. I've only ever heard northern folks call it soda or soda pop.