Soda or Pop

[Transient]

I saw something on the news about one of the convenience store chains that is running a promo disguised as a survey of what people refer to soda pop as. So how do you refer to soda pop, I'am guessing pop if your in the Ames area metroplex.

 

[isutrevman]

i have always called it "pop"

 

[ripvdub]

ive always called it pop. im from the QC's. The wife calls it soda... more like sooooda. She from up NW Iowa way.

 

[Transient]

oops left out the soda pop option as the fouth LOL.

 

[ketchupnmustard]

I call it soda. Because they don't call it "Jones Pop" for a reason.

 

[IcSyU]

I'm a "pop" person...soda just doesn't sound right to me

 

[cybsball20]

Where I grew up, everything is Coke... then you have to specify what kind of coke you want...

 

[06_CY]

Where I grew up, everything is Coke... then you have to specify what kind of coke you want...

I noticed they call it "Coke" in Texas/Louisiana.

I've always called it pop, lately I noticed I called it soda a few times.

 

[Sousaclone]

I normally call it pop, but I have been known to refer to it as soda every now and then. As for the coke thing, they do that in S. VA also. Never can forget one of my relatives ordering an Orange Coke when they visited us. Or the one that ordered a Sprite Coke. Poor waitress thought they wanted them mixed.

 

[cybsball20]

I think it has to do with Coca Cola being based in Atlanta...

 

[cigaretteman]

Map of pop vs soda

http://popvssoda.com:2998/countystats/total-county.html

 

[cyclonenum1]

Where I grew up, everything is Coke... then you have to specify what kind of coke you want...

Beat me to to it...so true in the SE part of the country for sure! I have friends that I have heard ask for a "root beer coke" or an "orange coke".

Pop is a very midwestern term.

I also hear them referred to as "cold drinks" pretty often down here as well.

 

[06_CY]

I was more than a little confused when the IHOP waitress asked me what kind of Coke I wanted ; that was during the first Independence Bowl road trip (my how the years have flown by).

 

[coachdags]

Sodapop........:wink:

 

[cyclonenum1]

Map of pop vs soda

http://popvssoda.com:2998/countystats/total-county.html

Great get...rep coming to you. Certainly matches my experience having lived in Iowa, Tampa, Jacksonville, Ft. Lauderdale, Maryland, Houston, and Louisiana.

 

[06_CY]

Is that Johnson county that is yellow on the map?

 

[cigaretteman]

Is that Johnson county that is yellow on the map?

Nope, Iowa County. Kind of strange.

 

[wartknight]

I have a guy I work with that calls all "pop" a "soft drink"

 

[StormnClone58]

i always call it "pop" but occasionally i call it "soda pop" to mess around .... always funny tho when i visit family in cali and they look at me funny when i ask for a "pop" ...

 

[CyGal]

I've always called it pop, but my husband calls it soda, and we didn't grow up too far away from each other. At least I know when I see 'soda' on the grocery list, it means to pick up his flavor of pop.