What do you call pop?

[Cutlass]

That's funny how it's spotty some places where the words are used.

 

[madviking]

dat St. Louis.

 

[Omega124]

Soda, without a doubt. I'm suprised Western NY calls it "Pop", for I never heard it used there once. But for opinions, Pop sounds a little childish, while Coke... no. I know sometimes brandnames become so important that they become the name of the product itself, but I hate it when it happens.

 

[Tani Coyote]

Soda. Though most places do refer to them as soft drinks.

Also, interesting map, LucyDuke. The South loves coke, the North across the nation loves pop, while Cali-Nevada-Arizona have aligned with the Northeast in defense of "soda."

Wonder why Southern Illinois and areas to the west of it are islands of soda in an ocean of pop and coke though...

Also further proof I am a New Yorker.

 

[LucyDuke]

BvBPL provided the map.

 

[Joecoolyo]

Pop ftw

Also, people from St. Louis and Milwaukee are now traitors

 

[EnglishCrusader]

I use the brand name for it, but generally I say Coke.

 

[ParadigmShifter]

Fizzy pop.

EDIT: Or "mixer"

 

[Theige]

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.)

Nonsense. "Pop" sounds stupid. It doesn't even make a "pop" sound when you open it, at all.

 

[ParadigmShifter]

It used to be sold in bottles with corks or rubber bungs though, hence pop.

 

[Zack]

I call it "bleh," because that's the sound I make when I drink it.

 

[_random_]

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.

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.

 

[bhsup]

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

 

[Earthling]

Soda. Objectively the only proper word for it.

Pretty much have to agree with this, in the US at least. I could understand a foreign country or different language obviously having something different.

edit - it is worth pointing out the map people keep quoting is based on an Internet survey only of people who went to their website and could be highly inaccurate.

 

[ZeletDude]

I live in the one yellow county in Idaho.. so obviously I call it Soda.

 

[Tahuti]

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

 

[SuperJay]

So wait, do you UKers really call it "fizzy drink?" Seriously?

(Also, do you hate being called "Brits?")

I say "pop," but rarely... the only soft drink I consume is cola so I usually just say Coke or Pepsi. Wait, I lie - I also say Faygo Cream Soda.

 

[emzie]

If I'm not saying "Diet Coke" or whatever, then more than half the time, pop; occasionally I'll say soda.

Whenever we'd drive from Ohio to my grandparents in Wilmington, DE, my cousins would tease me mercilessly about saying "pop." Or they'd pretend to not know what the hell a pop was and say, "oh you mean a soda."

edit: map is proof Indiana is a southern state.

 

[reddishrecue]

sometimes soda or sometimes coke/pepsi but most of the time soda.

 

[Miles Teg]

Carbonated drinks are soda.

Downtown Juice is something else.