What do you call pop?

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What word do you use for pop normally? Why do you use the word you do? Do you think any word for pop can be considered objectively better than another? Personally, I call pop "pop" to assert my Midwestern identity, particularly against those who would deny Ohio her place in the region. We still call our pop pop, and we still drink it in unhealthy quantities.

 

[cardgame]

so-da

Onomatopoeia isn't classy.

 

[rugbyLEAGUEfan]

Soft drink . I wished we called it pop

 

[Camikaze]

My grandfather is called 'Pop'.

Soft drink. People would know what you're talking about if you said 'fizzy drink', but that's not in fashion. Soda, coke and tonic are actual specific drinks.

 

[Mise]

Fizzy drink. Though I usually call it by whatever specific fizzy drink I'm talking about. So I'd say "I'll have a coke/pepsi/dr pepper/orangeade/lemonade/cherry coke/rubicon/etc"

 

[classical_hero]

Another one for a soft drink. Camikaze can add that into the poll.

 

[Supr49er]

Always call it a coke.

 

[Thoughtful Thug]

Pop! I mean what other sound does it make when you open it for the first time? Still laugh at other people call when they call it a soda. Gey!

 

[BvBPL]

Pop versus soda by county map:

http://www.popvssoda.com/countystats/total-county.html

 

[Wolfbeckett]

Pop is a type of music, SODA is a fizzy beverage.

 

[rugbyLEAGUEfan]

I'm amazed . So in some parts of America you use Coke as a generic term for non alcoholic carbonated sweet drinks ? You learn something everyday .

 

[civ_king]

I'm amazed . So in some parts of America you use Coke as a generic term for non alcoholic carbonated sweet drinks ? You learn something everyday .

I thought we were talking about cola when we voted, I call both Coca Cola and Pepsi Cola along with generic colas coke, but I'd never call Sprite coke it's soda

 

[Save_Ferris]

I'm pretty sure everyone stopped calling it "soda pop" 50 years ago.

 

[downtown]

I'll go out of my way to say "pop" if I want to play up my midwestern-ness for some reason. Otherwise, I'll just call the beverage buy the brandname.

 

[IglooDame]

Generically, "soda".

 

[madviking]

Soda, notwithstanding my Southern persona.

 

[sophie]

Soda. Objectively the only proper word for it.

 

[Cutlass]

Soda. "pop" is very rarely used around here. Soft drinks is only used formally, and not in conversation.

 

[warpus]

Pop. It's what everyone calls it here, so ... da

 

[LucyDuke]

Rhode Island born and raised. Soda, obviously.

Pop versus soda by county map:

http://www.popvssoda.com/countystats/total-county.html

Let's get that in-line.



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There's not one "right" word, and it's obnoxious and ignorant to insist otherwise. (Personally I think "coke" sounds stupid, but it's as legit as any other.)