What do you call it?

jess1984 · January 2011

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citychicks · January 2011

Technically I call it Diet Coke, because that`s the only pop I drink. Tongue Tied Embarrassed

I voted pop btw.

claytonswife2011 · January 2011

however you just said its the only pop you drink...ha ha so pop....lol

*MrsMac · January 2011

It's coke for the most part, otherwise it's brand-specific. No one around here calls it soda or pop.

shaysmom05 · January 2011

*MrsMac:
It's coke for the most part, otherwise it's brand-specific. No one around here calls it soda or pop.

This. I grew up in Louisiana. We call EVERYTHING coke. Unless we're ordering from a restaurant, we call any "soda" Coke. DH calls it pop because he's from Ohio. It's a northern thing I've noticed.

GenaBoBenaWife · January 2011

I grew up in OH where everyone calls it pop, but we live in NC now where everyone calls it soda.

Ciaram22 · January 2011

I normally call it whatever I'm ordering. Coke what I say mostly.

LovingStepMom · January 2011

I live in Dallas, TX and we usually call most soft drinks "Coke" regardless of whether or not it is a Coke

heatherv2 · January 2011

I call it coke. Like I ask my hubby "Hey could you get me a coke?" And he says "What kind?" Haha We're weird down here in the South!

OctGirl80 · January 2011

shaysmom05:
*MrsMac:
It's coke for the most part, otherwise it's brand-specific. No one around here calls it soda or pop.

This. I grew up in Louisiana. We call EVERYTHING coke. Unless we're ordering from a restaurant, we call any "soda" Coke. DH calls it pop because he's from Ohio. It's a northern thing I've noticed.

I'm in Massachusetts. Everyone I know in Mass, Rhode Island & New Hampshire call it soda. My cousins in Tennessee call it pop. I always figured it was the other way around.

karrizma · January 2011

GenaBoBenaWife:
I grew up in OH where everyone calls it pop, but we live in NC now where everyone calls it soda.

I've lived in Ohio my whole life, I call it soda and always have...although oddly enough, my brother calls it pop.

Phil&Corinna · January 2011

I always was under the impression that pop is Canadian and soda is American, like chesterfield and couch... Wink

snowybride08 · January 2011

I live in WA, and call it soda. My sister is always making fun of me for it, as she calls it pop.

UGAbride · January 2011

*MrsMac:
It's coke for the most part, otherwise it's brand-specific. No one around here calls it soda or pop.

This. If I had to pick, I'd say soda, but I usually just ask for exactly what I want...Coke. And no, waiter, Pepsi is NOT ok instead, tyvm.

kaswanson · January 2011

snowybride08:
I live in WA, and call it soda. My sister is always making fun of me for it, as she calls it pop.

I live in WA, also and I swear everyone I know calls it "pop!"

TiffanyTheMom · January 2011

Calling a pizza a 'pie' and soda 'pop' has always been a Yankee thing. Dang yanks... Wink lol

'Pie' for 'pizza' is a NJ thing mostly though, right?

lyzp07 · January 2011

TiffanyTheMom:
Calling a pizza a 'pie' and soda 'pop' has always been a Yankee thing. Dang yanks... lol
'Pie' for 'pizza' is a NJ thing mostly though, right?

OH YEAH IT IS! lol my boyfriend is from NJ. we fight about these things all the time. He says he wants a pie... i say chocolate, peanut peanut butter, apple? and he's like NO pizza duh.

A few others we disagree on (besides the pop v. soda) :
Buggys and Shopping Carts
Suckers and Lollipops
Laundry and Wash
Subs and Hoagies

my preferences are all first lol

mamaprof · January 2011

My grandmother used to call it "cola" as in RC Cola, which was the most popular carbonated drink for a long time. I call it soda and am in California.

penguin-kisses · January 2011

I switch back and forth between the two, but most everyone around here calls it "pop". I get funny looks if I say soda too much.

What really kills me is the difference in "iced tea" between various regions. I worked at Chili's briefly, and while I was training, the girl who was training me informed a man at a table that our iced tea was "american"... I thought I was going to die it was so hilarious! I had to hold back my giggles. She only meant that it was unsweetened iced tea - the real stuff - because it's WAY more common that we would have sweetened, artificially flavored iced tea like Nestea or Brisk, and that's what you would generally get if you asked for it in a restaurant, thus the need to specify.

When I was visiting my best friend in NY once, my boyfriend at the time came with me and we went out to a restaurant for dinner one night. He asked for tea so the waiter asked him if he'd like hot tea or sweet tea (iced tea) - he got SO CONFUSED that he was being asked a question at all, because to just say "tea" is generally assumed (here) that you mean hot tea. Really not a very bright guy and he made it out like he was being made to look stupid (jerk) but that poor waiter didn't understand what was so confusing about his question!

doz&koz · January 2011

I live in Atlanta - everything is Coke!

Magical95 · January 2011

I think it varies by state, but also by area's within the state. I grew up in my area calling it pop. I moved an hour away and here they all call it soda.

claytonswife2011 · January 2011

around here if you ask for tea the waiter will ask you sweet or unsweet... growing up in texas I prefer sweet lemon tea...and sun tea is the absolute best...oh how i wish it were summer

ManiacMcGee · January 2011

I'm from Philly and everyone calls it soda. I always thought pop was a midwest thing.

Now I live in Atlanta and everyone always says its called Coke, but I've yet to hear anyone call Sprite Coke.

RHitch · January 2011

karrizma:
GenaBoBenaWife:
I grew up in OH where everyone calls it pop, but we live in NC now where everyone calls it soda.
I've lived in Ohio my whole life, I call it soda and always have...although oddly enough, my brother calls it pop.

I have always lived in Ohio too, and we call it pop.

pregaftertubal · January 2011

we call it soda here in mid-upstate NY. BUT i have a friend who is from Buffalo/Niagra Falls and we have always picked on her for calling it pop. And Buffalo is only 3 hrs. away

kapereasd · January 2011

In the south it's all called coke...for example...

"what kind of coke do you want??"
"dr. pepper"

AJBMD915 · January 2011

pregaftertubal:
we call it soda here in mid-upstate NY. BUT i have a friend who is from Buffalo/Niagra Falls and we have always picked on her for calling it pop. And Buffalo is only 3 hrs. away

Yep, I'm from western NY, Rochester, and we call it pop.

kwitt22 · January 2011

I am from ohio and we have always called it pop.

Carbaby411 · January 2011

Pop, except for Orange Soda. No idea why orage is different for me.

simo7079 · January 2011

AJBMD915:
pregaftertubal:
we call it soda here in mid-upstate NY. BUT i have a friend who is from Buffalo/Niagra Falls and we have always picked on her for calling it pop. And Buffalo is only 3 hrs. away
Yep, I'm from western NY, Rochester, and we call it pop.

Honest to god I always thought it was just WNY thing until a girl I knew from WA called it pop. I think once you go a little past Rochester though it's soda lol.

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