How do you refer to soft drinks? *Please read the entire OP*

How do you refer to soft drinks? Also, is your reference to soft drinks equal to where you live? I live in Dakota County, Minnesota, and like 80-100% of its population, I call soft drinks "pop".

Pop. Why is this important?super_mario_128

Dude, it's gamespot OT. When did important ever matter?

Pop (King County, WA).

"Pop" is the accurate word for something that is crisp and which has a bite. "So-duhhhhhhhhhh" is not. :P

I'm from TN and I say soda.

[QUOTE="super_mario_128"]Pop. Why is this important?bbkd3b

Dude, it's gamespot OT. When did important ever matter?

Soda :D

I'm from Los Angeles BTW.

'coke' ...just how we roll around hererawsavon

[QUOTE="rawsavon"]'coke' ...just how we roll around hereastrozombie37

A secretive place in Southwest Oklahoma, I call it soda.

I call it soda. It's the only correct answer.

other "chescos" :P

pop = Canada soda = USbobaban

You can barely pin a unified name for it in the US.

Well I think Pop would be more obvious if it was still in glass bottles with those heavy dutycrimped on metal lids. I can still remember that popping noise the coca cola bottles made.

The crimped on lids aren't like they use to be because they aren't made out of heavy duty metal nor put on as tightly as they were about 20 years ago.Some places still had the 16 oz glass bottled pop when I was a kid. It was mostly the beverage stores. I guess it was novelty or something.

We call it SodaPop or just pop. We call cola cola if someone wants to know weather or not we want soda or cola but that's the only time. When I was in school this new kid from New York moved here and while I was talking to him pop came up and he had no idea what I meant. So he's asking me what I meant so I told him "You know soda pop, Cola & soda." He thought it was funny and I though it was odd because I thought he was jerking me around.

[QUOTE="bobaban"]pop = Canada soda = USRotaryRX7

You can barely pin a unified name for it in the US.

[QUOTE="RotaryRX7"]

[QUOTE="bobaban"]pop = Canada soda = USbobaban

You can barely pin a unified name for it in the US.

[QUOTE="bobaban"][QUOTE="RotaryRX7"] Did you even look at the chart in the OP? lol

You can barely pin a unified name for it in the US.

t3hrubikscube

People live in North Dakota? :PFrenzyd10

I was ready to come into this thread saying that no one in the western states refer soft drinks as "pop", but soda... But it appears that the chart you posted pretty much answered it for me. But yeah, if you're going to refer it as "pop" around here, you're probably going to get looked at weird. When people use the term "pop", it makes it pretty apparent that they haven't been around here all that long.

Soda, I live in Los Angeles and the map seems pretty accurate, I've rarely heard a person refer to it as pop.:P

[QUOTE="bobaban"][QUOTE="RotaryRX7"] Did you even look at the chart in the OP? lol

You can barely pin a unified name for it in the US.

t3hrubikscube

[QUOTE="RotaryRX7"]

[QUOTE="bobaban"]pop = Canada soda = USbobaban

You can barely pin a unified name for it in the US.

Pop = Canada is pretty much accurate, but Soda = US is not so much.

pop = Canada soda = USbobaban

I live in Ohio and ever since I can remember the people in Ohio and pennsylvania called it Soda-pop or just pop.Unless someone is serving it andthere's a choice between soda and cola (which there always is) we just call it pop.

There's reason why it got the name pop and ever sinceit just stuck. Cola's & soda's haven'tbeen in glass bottles for maybe 20 years. So people are gonna forget why it got that name. so itmay become an out of use term eventually.

[QUOTE="bobaban"][QUOTE="RotaryRX7"] Did you even look at the chart in the OP? lol

You can barely pin a unified name for it in the US.

Pop = Canada is pretty much accurate, but Soda = US is not so much.

If the chart in the OP is accurate, New Mexico single handedly defies any attempt to declare the standard slang term for soft drinks in the US...pretty weird how nearly every county is a different color in that state.RotaryRX7

There's actually a site that that comes from where you can see what each person in each state said. This includes the "other" categories, which can often be rather humorous when some people say incredibly stupid and unserious things. :P

The best part of the chart is it says Generic names for soft drinks. But the term soft drink is generic.

[QUOTE="Frenzyd10"]People live in North Dakota? :Pt3hrubikscube

I'm actually there right now...

[QUOTE="t3hrubikscube"][QUOTE="Frenzyd10"]People live in North Dakota? :Pcoolbeans90

I'm actually there right now...

There's actuallya sitethat that comes from where you can see what each person in each state said. This includes the "other" categories, which can often be rather humorous when some people say incredibly stupid and unserious things. :PGabuEx

I like how seriously the site describes their research, and then there's this:

CONCLUSION

People who say "Pop" are much, much cooler.website

:lol:

[QUOTE="coolbeans90"]

[QUOTE="t3hrubikscube"]Barely!! :Pt3hrubikscube

I'm actually there right now...

Visiting a friend. Summer work is also easy to find up here compared to everywhere else.

[QUOTE="GabuEx"]There's actuallya sitethat that comes from where you can see what each person in each state said. This includes the "other" categories, which can often be rather humorous when some people say incredibly stupid and unserious things. :PRotaryRX7

I like how seriously the site describes their research, and then there's this:

CONCLUSION

People who say "Pop" are much, much cooler.website

:lol:

Hahaha. yes. :D

Also, look at what Texans call it:

http://popvssoda.com:2998/stats/TX.html

(scroll down about 3/5 of the way)

[QUOTE="t3hrubikscube"][QUOTE="coolbeans90"]

I'm actually there right now...

coolbeans90

Visiting a friend. Summer work is also easy to find up here compared to everywhere else.

[QUOTE="coolbeans90"]

[QUOTE="t3hrubikscube"]Oh really?! :o What brings you to North Dakota (if you don't mind me asking)?t3hrubikscube

Visiting a friend. Summer work is also easy to find up here compared to everywhere else.

Not too boring so far. Seems like most other places with less people, and less brutal summers. It may begin to get boring in a few weeks though. Where I'm from is already sorta boring, so can't complain too much.

Pop sounds **** SODA ALL THE WAY.

Hahaha. yes. :D

Also, look at what Texans call it:

http://popvssoda.com:2998/stats/TX.html

(scroll down about 3/5 of the way)

Not too boring so far. Seems like most other places with less people, and less brutal summers. It may begin to get boring in a few weeks though. Where I'm from is already sorta boring, so can't complain too much.coolbeans90

[QUOTE="coolbeans90"]Not too boring so far. Seems like most other places with less people, and less brutal summers. It may begin to get boring in a few weeks though. Where I'm from is already sorta boring, so can't complain too much.t3hrubikscube

No problemo. :P Anyways, I'm in Williston. Not the biggest place in the world...