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[Monet06]

It's called pop to my family.

[handerful]

I grew up in Wyoming and it is pop there. Here in STL it is soda.

[averys_mom]

Born in Michigan, grew up in Montana and now live in Washington, and we say pop!

[Marie D]

As an English teacher in Sweden I LOVE these kinds of threads!! My poor students (13-16) really struggles with the whole UK/US vocabulary thingie..... We discussed the soda vs pop vs soda pop vs fizzy drink only a couple of weeks ago. And don't get me started on pants vs panties vs underpants etc...


Thanks for enlightening myself and my students!!

[sherry]

Ohio - pop

[Flasher]

In my corner of Ohio it's pop, but travel east just before you reach the Pennsylvania border and it changes to soda.

[harper828]

In New York, its called Soda. If you want Pepsi, Coke or Sprite you have to specify which one. Some restaurants either carry Coke or Pepsi, rarely do they have both.

[lilmacgil]

I grew up in Maryland, now in southern PA and it's soda both places. I do recall when I was a teenager at my cousin's bday party in Massachusetts and someone asked if I wasted a tonic. I replied no thanks I'll have a soda and got a VERY stumped look. Apparently it's tonic there.

[scrapy1967]

I live in Ohio and we call it pop.

[AmyTeets]

Pop in Nebraska, soda or sodey in MO and COKE in the south

[grifscap]

I always say Soda pop. dh says coke

[montana_girl]

In Washington (where I'm from) and Montana (where I'm at now), it's 'pop.' When I visited some cousins in New Jersey, I found out it's "soda." The kids kept looking at me weird when I said I wanted a pop! LOL

[scrapaholic]

Its coke/pepsi etc here.

[sakura-panda]

I'm in Michigan and *surprise!* we say "pop".

I know in my area, we drink pop. In Missouri, they drink soda. I am told that in many southern regions, they drink "Coke", whether it is actually coke brand or pepsi or even sprite or whatever....that Coke is just as generic as kleenex has become.

We ran into this on our honeymoon -- neither of us like Pepsi and we'll drink something else if we can't get Coke branded "Coke". That's when we got into the habit of asking servers, "Do you have Coke or Pepsi products?"

I grew up in central Wisconsin...it is pop there.
I live in southeastern Wisconsin....it is soda here

My relatives in Wisconsin say "soda". (Fox River Valley area -- northeastern Wisconsin?)

[scrap-o-holic]

it's pop in ohio

[bay63]

I grew up in Western PA and it was always POP. When in college, people from Eastern/Central PA said soda. I now live in Eastern MA and it is called tonic.


Along that same vein, when I first moved up here, I had a job as a cashier. One day, a man came up to me and asked where the bubbler was. I had no idea what he was talking about.

[koala1966]

We usually either say Coke or the actual name of the drink.

[Kim2002]

I quit soda back when I quit smoking....there was too much "togetherness" to quit just one. So now I drink flavored water or Chai.

[AmyTeets]

I grew up in Wyoming and it is pop there. Here in STL it is soda.

Or sodey, have you heard that one yet! LOL

[PezKat]

Wow - *nobody* else says "soft drink"?!?!! Weird! But I don't see any of the other Indy gals responding yet (except Clarissa who kind-of counts, lol!). "Pop" is also common here and I think of it as short for "soda pop," but I'd never say soda; that's something you bake with! But yeah, we say soft drink! (And if you ask for either Coke or Pepsi at a restaurant and they don't have it, they always tell you which line of products they carry; they'd never substitute the "other" one without telling you, which it seems some of you have experienced elsewhere!)