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Post by Supertramp78 on Jan 30, 2012 23:40:35 GMT -5
 We call them soft drinks down here. |
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Post by John B on Jan 30, 2012 23:47:57 GMT -5
I grew up calling it pop, then I moved to DC and then San Jose, both of which were "soda" areas. Then back to the Midwest where pop was predominant, then AZ where it was soda. Lately I say soda.
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Post by Cosmic Wonder on Jan 31, 2012 0:17:51 GMT -5
Beer.
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Post by Supertramp78 on Jan 31, 2012 0:33:10 GMT -5
I grew up calling them soft drinks but bottles were generic "coke bottles". I never heard Pop until much later in life and it always pretty much meant, "Yankee".
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Post by RickW on Jan 31, 2012 0:33:43 GMT -5
Always pop here. I think that's pretty common in Canuckistan, but not sure. I have only heard it referred to as soda by Americans. I dunno what the Brits call it.
And, yes Mike. I have consumed vast quantities of beer to the pittance of pop I have poured down.
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Post by Russell Letson on Jan 31, 2012 2:15:50 GMT -5
Grew up and went to grad school in soda territory, but have lived in pop-land since 1977.
Drink mostly ice water, though. With lemon, when available.
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Post by Kramster on Jan 31, 2012 6:21:36 GMT -5
"Soda" growing up in Northern NJ and yes on a farm
"Sody Pop" must be in the "others" somewhere
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Post by Doug on Jan 31, 2012 6:47:29 GMT -5
Coke All those others are strange.
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Post by paulschlimm on Jan 31, 2012 8:42:42 GMT -5
I think I heard "fizzy drink" all the time in the UK.
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Post by Village Idiot on Jan 31, 2012 8:42:48 GMT -5
I call it Coke, but that's because what I drink when I have one. It's certainly pop territory around here, although my father calls them soft drinks.
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Post by Marshall on Jan 31, 2012 9:01:15 GMT -5
What's with the county in upper central Nebraska?
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Post by Shannon on Jan 31, 2012 9:01:17 GMT -5
Everything's "Coke" down here.
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Post by Tamarack on Jan 31, 2012 9:09:07 GMT -5
The map is pretty close to my experience. Grew up in pop land, moved to Missouri where it was soda, then returned to Michigan where it took a couple of years to convert back from soda to pop.
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Post by mccoyblues on Jan 31, 2012 12:19:31 GMT -5
I live in Coke country. Everything is a Coke here in GA.
When the server asks if Pepsi is alright I say, "I'll have sweet tea instead".
Growing up in Ohio it was pop. But back then we usually had an orange, cherry or grape or even a root beer. Rarely did we drink cola.
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Post by omaha on Jan 31, 2012 12:25:45 GMT -5
What's with the county in upper central Nebraska? That's Cherry County. Both the guys who live there are originally from Boston. |
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Post by omaha on Jan 31, 2012 12:29:39 GMT -5
I spent my early years in the northern fringe of "Coke Country" (southern Indiana). At grandma's house, it was common to hear "Do you want a coke?"
"Sure"
"What kind?"
"Ski"
When we moved to Omaha, the word "pop" seemed funny.
In recent years, it seems like we are drifting toward "soda" around here, but "pop" is still very common.
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Post by Cornflake on Jan 31, 2012 13:00:35 GMT -5
When I was growing up in south Texas, you mostly just heard "coke," with an occasional "soda pop" or "soda water." Never "soft drinks."
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Post by dickt on Jan 31, 2012 13:21:38 GMT -5
Sarsaparilla
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Post by millring on Jan 31, 2012 14:00:59 GMT -5
It shows Indy as saying "Coke" and that's pretty accurate in my case. Unless you meant a specific drink, coke was a generic term.
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Post by Dub on Jan 31, 2012 14:25:59 GMT -5
I've used the term soda since going to college in 1960 but grew up in Des Moines using the term pop. The only county in Iowa where soda seems to be the preferred term is Iowa County, home to the Amana Colonies. I've no explanation for why it would be different there.
Now I most often refer to the beverages as soft drinks.
A question for you southerners: do you call soft drinks "coke" or what I've more often heard, "co-cola?" I remember being taken aback somewhere in the south long ago when I ordered a Coke and the waitress asked "What flavor?"
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