A new look at an old & very serious Lounge conundrum

[ashling]

[Lil Missy]

1. pop

[Xyzse]

2. I say Soda or Cola

Saying Pop is just plain odd... Soda is not my pappy.

[Aristus]

3. Are there any regions that say: "Soda-pop"?

n/t

BTW: I say 'soda'.

[ZombieHorde]

5. I usually say "soda," but I sometimes say "soda-pop."

Soda-pop is a fun word.

[BlueJazz]

4. I use "Soft-drink"

[fizzgig]

6. my area is light blue, but i don't know a single person who says pop

[ashling]

9. You need to get out more

[femmocrat]

15. Same here.

[OriginalGeek]

7. If it's carbonated

it's a coke. No matter what they sell, they are coke machines.


If I need to be more specific I use the name of the thing - Peach Fanta, Mt Dew, Sprite...But never Orange Crush. That's the nickname for the Denver Broncos and they are the enemy. True Cowboys fans don't drink Orange Crush.

[BainsBane]

17. Are you in the South?

[OriginalGeek]

19. Yes and I grew up

right smack dab in the middle of that "coke" area on the map. From about 3rd grade until I graduated and moved to Florida I never heard anyone use "soda" or "pop" except maybe on TV...I quit drinking carbonated beverages a while back but still call everything a coke unless and until I need to be more specific. I used to work for a guy from up north and it made me laugh every time he asked for a pop. He laughed every time i said I was "fixin'" to do something.

[Locut0s]

8. Apparently us Canadians say pop, not me though...

I don't think I've ever used the term pop. I usually use the specific brand name but if I have to use a generic it's usually coke or soda which apparently is very uncanadian of me. Lol

And I drink a shit ton of diet coke / Pepsi.

[Art_from_Ark]

10. Fizzy drink

Although when I was a kid, I heard it called soda, pop, coke, and soda pop.

[ashling]

11. Cheesburger, Cheesburger, Cheesburge, Pepsi

No Coke!

[In_The_Wind]

14. I'll have the same

[BainsBane]

18. Now you made me want a cheeseburger.

[Tom Kitten]

12. Well my parents were both from Massachusetts

And they both called it "tonic"...so I did too until...well I don't know exactly when I stopped calling it that. Maybe when I moved away from Massachusetts? Anyways, the only 2 sodas I usually drink now would be tonic water and ginger ale so maybe calling it tonic is not so weird!

By the way, here are some results of a 2008 poll I found for 7482 Massachusetts residents...calling it tonic there more common than you'd think!

5352 called it soda
1632 called it tonic
230 called it coke
107 called it pop
17 called it soft drinks

no other reply got more than ten

http://www.popvssoda.com/stats/MA.html

[olddots]

13. In Walpole Mass. in the 60s it was called Tuuu--onic

in parts of New York it was called Soder .

[Recursion]

20. I used to hang out with my building super in Boston. She would say "tuonic" all the time

Confused me for a while

[BainsBane]

16. Someone I worked with referred to it as the "pop line."

I grew up on pop, moved to soda for 20 years, moved back to popland, but still say soda.

[yewberry]

21. Tonic also.

Massachusetts/NH. I live in Seattle now, though, so I go with soda if I want to be understood. If I say tonic here, people think I mean quinine.

[lastlib]

22. "carburetor cleaner"