People who say pop are out of control

[JohnKleeb]

For the last time, its soda.

[GiovanniC]

1. It Is Pop!

And I shall defend that truth to my very last.

[JohnKleeb]

2. some people never learn

:shrug: in the end god will prove me right.

[GiovanniC]

4. I Doubt It

Everyone knows that God drinks pop.

Vernors, to be specific.

[terrya]

3. It is pop!

For instance, you might go to the pop machine...you would not go to the soda machine.

At least here in Illinois. :-)

[JohnKleeb]

5. I dont believe in drinkin my father

:shrug:
I go both ways to appease pop people though, I am good like that.

[YellowRubberDuckie]

6. Here in Hickville OK, it's the soda machine

Quit making excuses for other people's hick. LOL
Duckie

[GiovanniC]

8. You Know Who's REALLY Screwed Up?

The people who call pop "coke". I was in Kentucky a few years back, a waitress asked me what I wanted and I said, "Coke".

She said, "What kind?"

I was confused (this was before Vanilla Coke was a normal thing, and even Cherry Coke wasn't that big). I said, "What kinds do you have?"

She said, "We have Pepsi Coke, Mountain Dew Coke, Root Beer Coke..."

I thought she was just screwing with me because I said a Coke product instead of Pepsi products, but my aunt (who lives in Paducah) said that's just what they call pop. All pop is coke.

Weirdos.

[mrboba1]

9. If you go to a 'pop machine' and put in your 65 cents

how does a man get out of that little opening at the bottom??

And you go to the 'Coke machine' or the 'Pepsi machine'

sheesh, y'all!

[UpsideDownFlag]

14. the machine says...."pop"...on it?

[ithacan]

7. the great pop vs. soda controversy (website)

check out this website with a map of pop vs. soda frequency. It turns out I live right near the fault line, which goes just east of Rochester in upstate NY: east of the line it's soda, west it's pop:

http://www.popvssoda.com/

[elperromagico]

10. I call them "soft drinks,"

if only to distinguish them from hard liquor, which I frequently mix into my soft drinks. ;)

That is not an Arkansas thing. That is an elperromagico thing.

[mrboba1]

11. but it is a NC thing

because that's what you ask in restaurants
"What kind of soft drinks do you have?"

[UpsideDownFlag]

12. you're all wrong. its COKE. n/t.

[elperromagico]

13. COKE goes up the nose. n/t

[UpsideDownFlag]

15. no, it is too fizzy.

[elperromagico]

17. Would you call yourself a Cokehead, then?

n/t

[UpsideDownFlag]

19. no, i mainline it. n/t

[GiovanniC]

16. So You're One of the Screwed-Up People

I referred to above.

[UpsideDownFlag]

18. no.

everyone else is screwed up.

[mrboba1]

20. *BUZZ*

wrong answer.
Coke is a brand, not a generic.

Please try again later...
:P

[uncle ray]

21. what about sodapop?

me, i converted to soda, from pop when i moved from minnesota. and i try very hard to NEVER say minnesota. it comes out minnesoata, that's a dead giveaway i'm minnesotan!

[JohnKleeb]

22. soda pop is fine

I think pop is flat out wrong, people who say coke, eh disagree but we have the common enemy of the pop people.

[Lydia Leftcoast]

23. I first heard the term "soda" at the age of 22

when I went to school at Cornell. I thought people were talking about ice cream sodas, because I had never heard the term used to refer to bottled soft drinks.

Another example of silly East Coast provincialism (like the fellow at Cornell who asked me in all seriousness if Minnesota had a seacoast.)

[tigereye]

24. raised to say pop

in W Pa. But my Massachusetts grandparents called it "tonic." That was pretty strange. Where I'm from, soda meant "soda" with ice cream.