Pop v. Soda

“Tea's Ya'll thread made me remember all the regional differences in language I've experienced in my travels, most noticable at places like the national 4-h conference, with people from all across the country all atempting to communicate with one another. The biggest one would be pop and soda, and the occasional coke. What do you guys say in your region, I know there's been studies on the topic too, i'm just wondering.

And then there's Ya'll, the canadian eh? Supper v. Dinner, and the most annoying, what's that game called, where you sit in a circle and go around... duck, duck... and chase each other when that one word comes up... what's that? lol, and you better not say goose.

I just find the regional differences in language to be ammusing”

“Pop=Michigan for me
soda=Florida
co-cola=soda in SC”

“Soda here.

You try buying Tums in Mexico. We tried several places before one clerk realized what we wanted: Ah! Tooms!”

“i still say pop (cuz i'm originally from MN), but people say cola or soda here in TN.
Fixin' is a tremendously popular term in the south....
and it's duck duck grey duck that i grew up with....”

“You should try buying Tums in Mexico.”

“You didn't read the rest of the thread. Y'all is how it's spelled.

Down here, everything is a Coke, or a soft drink.”

“Hey, you gotta problem with that?

j/k Fuhgheddaboudit”

“True, soda seems to be the most common in Florida. That's what we always called it growing up. However, I did pick up on calling it "pop" since a lot of my friends in New York (who were from Boston) called it that. My brother looks at me strange and chuckles everytime I say pop.

I said it on the other thread, but I love how Bostonians call water fountains "bubblahs". That cracks me up! Everything is also "wicked" something or other.

Another thing here in Florida and the south is saying "fixing to" instead of "getting ready to". That got me a lot of strange looks when I moved up to New York 6 years ago. :-)”

“no matter what the soft drink is in the south it's labeled as coke. Doesn't matter if it's sprite or sunkist orange..get me a coke!
I had discussion with my old school dispatcher that said lunch was something he had on a picnic, his dinner was my lunch and my dinner was his supper”

“soda-pop! so there.

this reminds me of a girl from NY who was my suitemate in college. the first week of school, she was asking where "the paaat" was. i was like, "what? what? WHAT??" finally she was like, "you know, that you cook in??" oohhh, the POT.”

“Yea, those dang New Yorkers sure do talk funny. ;)”

“New York, Lyra?? That sounds so Boston though...”

“Put up your ducks, Stove!”

“Run for your livers!”

“no, she was from somewhere in NY called "Genessee," i do believe. she was a real nose-talker, though, so maybe that added to the confusion.”

“Pop, what a funny word...

It makes me think of a family sitting on a southern style porch clad in overalls and straw hats. Pop has this 1920s feeling to me.

I'm a soda person, but generaly I ask for a Pepsi or a Coke.”

“Tea - What kind of coke do you want? Grape, Dr. Pepper, Coke Coke? ;)”

“I'd call it by the name, coke, pepsi whatever. Was called pop where my grandparents lived though.
I did have trouble with the whole generic term "bug" for a while though ;o)”

“oohhh, i bet you say a lot of weirdo things, ynami. LMAO!! but for real, i bet you have lots of stories.
;-D”

“SS, coke in the North East is cocacola.”

“When I arrived I thought I would become a language snob and stick to the way I said things... but the novelty soon wore off - I'd get too many blank looks or giggles when I said stuff..... and no, I can't do an Austin Powers impression. ;o)”

“Any of y'all had a Barq's?”

“Barq like a dog, Stove!

Good French Vanilla. (Am I gonna get shot for liking that?) Love it with ice cream in it..”

“You poor, poor yank.
It's only the BEST root beer ever made.”

“Yes it is. I am only an ocaasional root beer drinker though...”

“you will just use any occasion to say "y'all," won't you, Stovey-poo?

by the way, i've always spelled it correctly. thank you, thank you very much.

ynami, dude, i'm so glad to hear you don't do Austin Powers. he is anti-funny!”

“stovestomper, Barq's in the old glass bottles was better than that in the can or plastic. I rarely see it anymore in glass.

You nailed it....in Lower Alabama and Southern Mississippi, everything is a coke. It can be grape, orange, pepsi, sprite, or any other flavor, but when you want one,,,,you want a "Coke".”

“lyra - Well, I have just now learned to spell it so I feel a need to use it. ;)”

“chili - A nice big roast beef po-boy on real New Orleans french bread with a cold 12 oz Barq's in the bottle is the lunch I had many times. Good, good, good!”

“Whatever you do: Don't ask for a Pepsi in Atlanta.”

“Why, Rosie?”

“In California everything was called a "coke". When I went to college in Michigan everying was called "pop". Once I said "pop" when I got back to California and got totally ridiculed.”

“Because it Coke's Capital! People look at you strange when you say "Pepsi"...”

“I see. I like Coke better anyway...”

“millions of dollars in advertisement...you goto the resturant..ask for a coke..the waitress says we have pepsi...most pple reply..same thing, whatever. there are some soda nazi's that won't drink one of the other”

“Brand loyalty among "cokes" is pretty soft in the South.”

“yep, it's Coke in CA no matter what you are drinking

Barq's is good... but IBC is the BEST rootbeer! It doesn't come in cans or plastic only little brown bottles that look like a beer bottle”

“Not to belabor the point, but I found CA to be a Pepsi state compared with GA. I didn't know anyone in GA who drank Pepsi. Tastes like chemicals...”

“I learned soda in Pa and I always stuck with it.

I look at people funny when they say pop. Pop is a sound not a beverage, silly people.

I heard a story about soda pop being called pop because of the sound soda pop cans made when you opened them. Not sure if it's true, you tell me.”

“dude, you just said "soda pop" twice, hee hee hee!! silly person.
;-)”

“Grew up with pop in NY state. Changed to soda in TX. Put up with Coke in NC, but it was still soda. Whenever I hear the word pop, it sounds pretty funny. I hardly ever hear anyone say fixin' to or y'all in NH.”

“In Montana we say "Beer".”

“So what's an "Italian sandwich" where you're from? (pronounce EYE-talian) I ordered one at Mystic Pizza in Connecticut and had to have my someone else interpret what I wanted.”

“I've always said coke. Sometimes I say soda.”

“Aero, you so crazy!! :-D

i'm not so sure what an "Italian sandwich" is, Twiggy, but you can be sure i'll never pronounce it "EYE-talian," LOL!”

“It's POP here in B.C. And if you ask for a Coke you might get any cola, so I usually ask to make sure that it's actually Coke. Also, It's dinner usually not supper.

But, with so many people from so many places, and a lot of British heritage, pretty much anything goes in Vancouver.

I've never heard of that game simer. Is that supposed to be a Canadian thing?”

“lyra it's cheese, tomato, olives, onion, green pepper, and pickles with your choice of ham, salami, tuna or just veggies on a long roll. With oil and salt and pepper.

My favorite is tuna - in Maineiac it's "tuner EYE-talian."
:)”

“what, you mean a sub?? LOL!”

“I did a phone survey for GW Uni when I first got here. I did have to say EYEraq and EYEran to get a few people to understand what country I was talking about. FrANce was the other one where there was trouble.”

“lol, I've drank pop all my life, pepsi mostly, coke taste like crap.

and that game, "Duck duck grey duck"

I've heard that it's only called that here in MN. Everywhere else i've ever been it's goose, that's just not right...”