Pop vs. Soda

hotsauce · Post by **hotsauce** » Thu Feb 02, 2006 7:40 am

Okay, I know that this thread has the weight of a corn flake but I'm just curious...I'm a language person, you know. Do you say "pop" or "soda" or something else?

There is even research on this!

http://www.popvssoda.com/

sunny104 · Post by **sunny104** » Thu Feb 02, 2006 7:42 am

In Chicago it was pop but in the south it was always soda!

And in Texas everything is "coke"!:)

Raven · Post by **Raven** » Thu Feb 02, 2006 7:48 am

sorry....brought my lingo with me. I say soda or pop. They sometimes say fizzy drink here.

Jives · Post by **Jives** » Thu Feb 02, 2006 8:03 am

sunny104 wrote: In Chicago it was pop but in the south it was always soda!

And in Texas everything is "coke"!:)

A more descriptive and accurate phrase would be "stomach-eating pound-adding chemical-acid liquid for caffeine high" but yeah, we call everything "cokes" around here too. Texans are always copying New Mexicans.:rolleyes:

scotty · Post by **scotty** » Thu Feb 02, 2006 8:27 am

In Glasgow its called a bottle of Ginger :-3 where I come from Edinburgh its simply Juice.

Scott

sunny104 · Post by **sunny104** » Thu Feb 02, 2006 8:28 am

Jives wrote: A more descriptive and accurate phrase would be "stomach-eating poung-adding chemical-acid liquid for caffeine high" but yeah, we call everything "cokes" around here too. Texans are always copying New Mexicans.:rolleyes:

Ahem, you were part of Texas until we let the US have you!:yh_devil

Sheryl · Post by **Sheryl** » Thu Feb 02, 2006 8:51 am

sunny104 wrote: Ahem, you were part of Texas until we let the US have you!:yh_devil

Yeah I second sunny. Copycat :p

Blackjack · Post by **Blackjack** » Thu Feb 02, 2006 9:13 am

Are there people who still say pop? :yh_ooooo

jennyswan · Post by **jennyswan** » Thu Feb 02, 2006 9:18 am

We don't say either. We just say lemonade or name the drink

observer1 · Post by **observer1** » Thu Feb 02, 2006 9:45 am

We say soda up here. But if I remember right, they say pop down in Mississippi.

Post by **Betty Boop** » Thu Feb 02, 2006 9:58 am

'Fizzy' or it's brand name here.

Bez · Post by **Bez** » Thu Feb 02, 2006 10:06 am

Betty Boop wrote: 'Fizzy' or it's brand name here.

Same for me..

hotsauce · Post by **hotsauce** » Thu Feb 02, 2006 11:24 am

i say "pop"...apparently i'm a loooosah.

chonsigirl · Post by **chonsigirl** » Thu Feb 02, 2006 11:34 am

When I say it, it is easy to understand.

Diet Coke

No soda

No pop

Just my brew:)

Lon · Post by **Lon** » Thu Feb 02, 2006 11:57 am

I have always used "soft drinks".

Richard Bell · Post by **Richard Bell** » Thu Feb 02, 2006 12:07 pm

Lon wrote: I have always used "soft drinks".

It's "soft drink " or "pop" here.

I only hear "soda" from U.S. tourists.

I've also noticed Americans say "candy bar". They are all "chocolate bars" to me.

R.B.

Richard Bell · Post by **Richard Bell** » Thu Feb 02, 2006 12:15 pm

Jives wrote: A more descriptive and accurate phrase would be "stomach-eating poung-adding chemical-acid liquid for caffeine high"

That sounds like the Conehead definition. They used to consume boiled chicken embryos and shredded swine flesh for breakfast.

R.B.

minks · Post by **minks** » Thu Feb 02, 2006 12:16 pm

Blackjack wrote: Are there people who still say pop? :yh_ooooo

I DO

minks · Post by **minks** » Thu Feb 02, 2006 12:18 pm

SnoozeControl wrote: There's nothing wrong with that, silly... my ex from Cape Cod used to say soda pop.

us to long ago called it soda pop

Sometimes we ask for a cola as well, this keeps one from pissing off either the pepsi or coke drinkers ahahahaha

minks · Post by **minks** » Thu Feb 02, 2006 12:19 pm

As for movie, or show, I call em flicks.

my kid uses show and movie. No distinction.

Blackjack · Post by **Blackjack** » Thu Feb 02, 2006 12:23 pm

hotsauce wrote: i say "pop"...apparently i'm a loooosah.

*gasps*

Just kidding.

Blackjack · Post by **Blackjack** » Thu Feb 02, 2006 12:29 pm

minks wrote: I DO

Hey now I never said it was a bad thing if anyone did. :p

Richard Bell · Post by **Richard Bell** » Thu Feb 02, 2006 12:35 pm

minks wrote: As for movie, or show, I call em flicks.

my kid uses show and movie. No distinction.

Many years ago, we had a video rental store in town called "Pics & Flicks".

They had one of those illuminated, yellow signs outside their store; the kind where you get a box of black capital letters printed on clear plastic sheets so you can post anything you want.

Now, these signs are covered with a padlocked metal grid so nobody can steal the letters, or rearrange them so they say something different.

However, several practical jokers soon learned that if you used a stick as a tool, it was very easy to push the capital "L" up against the capital "I" in the word "FLICKS", thereby creating a great deal of juvenile hilarity.

R.B.

cars · Post by **cars** » Thu Feb 02, 2006 12:37 pm

hotsauce wrote: Okay, I know that this thread has the weight of a corn flake but I'm just curious...I'm a language person, you know. Do you say "pop" or "soda" or something else?

There is even research on this!

http://www.popvssoda.com/

Every now & then I put a little "pop" in my "soda" using "Vodka"!

minks · Post by **minks** » Thu Feb 02, 2006 12:38 pm

Blackjack wrote: Hey now I never said it was a bad thing if anyone did. :p

I know

minks · Post by **minks** » Thu Feb 02, 2006 12:39 pm

Richard Bell wrote: Many years ago, we had a video rental store in town called "Pics & Flicks".

They had one of those illuminated, yellow signs outside their store; the kind where you get a box of black capital letters printed on clear plastic sheets so you can post anything you want.

Now, these signs are covered with a padlocked metal grid so nobody can steal the letters, or rearrange them so they say something different.

However, several practical jokers soon leaned that if you used a stick as a tool, it was very easy to push the capital "L" up against the capital "I" in the word "FLICKS", thereby creating a great deal of juvenile hilarity.

R.B.

hehehe yah for the juveniles of the world hehehehe we get the same here with those boards

Accountable · Post by **Accountable** » Thu Feb 02, 2006 12:44 pm

In NW Louisiana we called everything coke.

"You wanna coke?"

"Sure."

"What kind?"

"Nehi grape."

When I was 15 I lived in Oklahoma for a year. I had a chip on my shoulder about everything, including being accused of having a chip on my shoulder. I nearly got in a fight with a guy who asked me if I wanted a pop, because I thought he was putting me down for not having one. :p

I remember as a kid my dad called it "sody" as in sody water.

hotsauce · Post by **hotsauce** » Thu Feb 02, 2006 12:56 pm

sody! yes...my pop calls it that too! love that!

911 · Post by **911** » Thu Feb 02, 2006 1:22 pm

Here in my south, all carbonated beverages are Cokes and all pain relievers are aspirins.

Like a couple of others you have to specify what kind a coke you want when asked and if you want a Coke, you say 'coke coke'.

Okie · Post by **Okie** » Thu Feb 02, 2006 1:56 pm

hotsauce wrote: Okay, I know that this thread has the weight of a corn flake but I'm just curious...I'm a language person, you know. Do you say "pop" or "soda" or something else?

There is even research on this!

http://www.popvssoda.com/
My nephew once visited from Boston and he asked for a tonic. Tonic =soda=pop. I call it soda pop. Or just pop. My mom said her dad once made pop from mineral springs and hauled it via wagon to a town about 10 miles away. Lots of people back then made their own root beer. The taste of it seemed fine but I dont think there was any fizz. Still it was good. I drank some home made root beer.