What do you call pop?

[Wolfbeckett]

I can't believe how many people in the south refer to all soda as "Coke". My grandpa used to do that so I associate the habit with old people. The south: full of old people?

 

[Supr49er]

I can't believe how many people in the south refer to all soda as "Coke". My grandpa used to do that so I associate the habit with old people. The south: full of old people?

Probably because Coke itself is from Atlanta.

 

[madviking]

Probably because Coke itself is from Atlanta.

But interestingly, North Carolina, where Pepsi was created, doesn't call it coke.

 

[LucyDuke]

I generally use the word soda.. for soda. However, when it is brown colored with a lot of sugar, I call it coke.

Root beer?

 

[cardgame]

Root beer, pepsi, coke and Dr Pepper are nearly if not entirely indistinguishable by mere visuals.

 

[Smellincoffee]

I was raised to call it Coke, but I've trained myself to say "soda" instead.

 

[Save_Ferris]

My state can't make up its mind

But I wonder what "other" is...

 

[jtb1127]

Neither can mine. My county is for soda and that's what I voted for.

 

[Camikaze]

So to all the people that call soft drink soda...what do you call soda?

So if you were visiting someone and they offered you a drink, you might ask what kind of soft drink they had? That sounds remarkably pretentious, and I've grown to expect the opposite from Australian English.

Well, I'd probably just take whatever they offered (which usually wouldn't be soft drink), but yeah.

 

[GenMarshall]

Soda, though I typically drink mostly eather water or iced tea.

 

[Godwynn]

Soda

Pop is a sound.

 

[LucyDuke]

My whole state agrees on soda.

That light-yellow uncertainty around Boston is "tonic".

 

[azzaman333]

They're soft drinks.

 

[Joecoolyo]

Soda

Pop is a sound.

Go back to southern Illinois you traitor!

 

[bhsup]

But I wonder what "other" is...

Sarsaparilla.

 

[Godwynn]

Go back to southern Illinois you traitor!

I would be a traitor if I said pop.

You wimpy Northerners can't make me! I run this town!

 

[Mise]

I call him "Dad".

 

[mythmonster2]

Coke for me. Pop is just... ugh, no.

 

[Perfection]

I used to call it pop, but I now call it soda even though I live in pop country. Soda is more standard.

 

[reddishrecue]

Sometimes you could call it coke too, but then the server doesn't always have coke and will offer Pepsi instead.