What do you call pop?

[Butterball]

POP! How can anyone ever think it is anything else. Soda?? Please. That's a goofy coastie word.

Agreed it's always been "Pop."
Of course there is another use for "Pop" ...
"Let's go out for a few Pops"
Where I com from that means "a few Beers"

 

[Berzerker]

sugar water
battery acid
diabetes juice

 

[hangman]

I usually say 'soda,' but most people here say 'coke.' Soda sounds a little classier, coke is normal, pop is just...unusual. You'd probably be laughed at lol

 

[SG-17]

I get irritated when I hear a Pennsylvanian call it 'pop' instead of soda. We aren't a Midwestern state by jove!

 

[madviking]

I get irritated when I hear a Pennsylvanian call it 'pop' instead of soda. We aren't a Midwestern state by jove!

Pennsylvania:

Pittsburgh ---------------- Alabama ----------------- Philadelphia

Averages to be Mid-Western.

 

[Arwon]

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, personally I wouldn't assume my host had soft drink... but yes, soft drink is the term. It probably sounds a lot less pretentious in an Australian accent compared to an American. c

In Western Australia some people call it 'cool drink'.

 

[Theige]

I get irritated when I hear a Pennsylvanian call it 'pop' instead of soda. We aren't a Midwestern state by jove!

Western PA is pretty mid-western

 

[jtb1127]

I awkwardly say "could I have coke or pepsi, which ever they sell here?"

 

[Luckymoose]

Rhode Island born and raised. Soda, obviously.



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.)

I call it Soda, and so does everyone in the South. This map has always seemed like BS to me as I've never heard anyone call Soda, Coke, unless referring to Coca Cola.

 

[SG-17]

Western PA is pretty mid-western

Then it should be its own damn state.

The counties to the West of the line should become Westlyvania or something.

Spoiler :

And I'm being generous giving them Huntingdon, Centre and Clinton counties.

 

[mythmonster2]

I call it Soda, and so does everyone in the South. This map has always seemed like BS to me as I've never heard anyone call Soda, Coke, unless referring to Coca Cola.

I use coke, and I've heard quite a few people use it here as well.

 

[holy king]

i call pop music pop.

 

[Luckymoose]

I use coke, and I've heard quite a few people use it here as well.

That is absurd, also Texas is hardly Georgia.

 

[_random_]

That is absurd, also Texas is hardly Georgia.

I know a woman from Georgia and a guy from northern Florida who both use Coke. I agree that it's stupid though, stupider than soda even.

 

[JtheJackal]

http://robotchicken.wikia.com/wiki/Pepsi_Haters

 

[mythmonster2]

That is absurd, also Texas is hardly Georgia.

Hey, you said south. Operating off of that.

 

[bestrfcplayer]

Sometimes I call it pop, must it's mostly soda.

 

[SS-18 ICBM]

Does the term "soda" refer to anything else? And no, chances are you do not need to refer to sodium carbonates by such a term.