Is it Soda. Is it Pop ?

[Wildcat]

I settled the debate once and for all.

I'm having iced tea.

 

[MaxxVolume]

I`m an ex-NewYawka, (Hell`s Kitchen) so for me, it was always "SODA" (or, if you happened to be on Staten Island, "SODER")....only farmers and hillbillies called it "POP"....

 

[bashman]

In Berkeley they call it the latest thing to slap a tax on to protect people from themselves. In 2014, voters in the city approved a 1-cent-per-ounce tax on soda/pop and energy drinks. The city council is spending the money on health and anti-obesity programs with guidance from the “Sugar Sweetened Beverage Products Panel of Experts.”

 

[steerpike2]

I'm used to long sandwiches being referred to as "submarine sandwiches" or "subs".

In the same way as we should not let the term "3D" pervert the correct and proper use of "stereoscopic", so too we should use "fusiform" and not "submarine" to describe the morphology of said sandwhich!

 

[Pio1980]

Along those lines, can anybody relate to "Hoovers" or "Singers"?

I think "Hoover", "Hoovering" is genetic in Great Britain for vacuum cleaner, vacuuming. I call them rug suckers, grazing the rug sucker.

 

[bluesky]

Soda.
Pop.
Soda Pop.

I just call it 'Diet Pepsi'.

(On my 6th one today already. Don't even need to eat... just drink Diet Pepsi. Always get your 32 packs from Walmart. Pick up 6 at a time!! That will hold you down for a couple weeks. lol.)

 

[DeeCee]

HA! Funny thread - In my travels I find mostly "pop" up north, "soda pop" midwest and "soda" down south... Although the way folks travel, I hear all permutations no matter where I am...

Go figure.

 

[usedto]

It's "pop" if you have it with supper.

 

[VfB Stefan]

Soda...soda...soda here in OH

 

[anytune]

Down here in Florida, I am probably the only one who refers to a cold soft drink correctly: Pop. As in pop machine. Soda is flavorless carbonated water you mix with scotch.

 

[toups]

Wadawana drink?

Coke

What kind?

Dr. Pepper.

Almost, its

What do y'all wanta drink?

Coke

What kind?

Dr. Pepper

 

[SuperjazzyJa]

In the same way as we should not let the term "3D" pervert the correct and proper use of "stereoscopic", so too we should use "fusiform" and not "submarine" to describe the morphology of said sandwhich!

Well, I still call 'em subs. Not likely to change.

 

[zebra03]

Yinz should all know it is pop .

 

[frahengeo]

Living in Massachusetts for ~30 years now.

Soda is what I call it, but in high school/college I remember hearing the phrase tonic used by local New Englanders.

 

[mulester7]

.....I don't drink "diet" cokes/pops/sodas on a regular basis and never have....but of the few I've had, "by far", the best tasting one was a diet Dr. Pepper....didn't taste like a diet drink at all....

 

[Henry Kloss]

I always thought it was soda in the USA and pop in Canada.

Now I know it's more complicated then I thought.

Calling everything coke is just not right, I was going to say it was lazy, but then you have to ask everybody what kind of coke they want. So that would be too many words or vernacular verbose.

 

[empirelvr]

I settled the debate once and for all.

I'm having ̶i̶c̶e̶d̶ ̶t̶e̶a̶ BEER!.

Fixed it for you.

 

[Wildcat]

I totally dislike beer, so I'm afraid I'll have to fix it back.

(Too many bad teenaged memories crying for Ralph on my knees in front of the porcelain throne tends to do that to a person... )

 

[mulester7]

I totally dislike beer, so I'm afraid I'll have to fix it back.

(Too many bad teenaged memories crying for Ralph on my knees in front of the porcelain throne tends to do that to a person... )

.....as a teenager, I cried for Ralph AND Earl a few times myself.....

 

[frahengeo]

Just looked it up. Tonic is apparently a Boston term, and not a New England thing. My apologies to the folks in the adjacent states North, and South of Mass.

https://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2...es-way-soda/QpbSyMXlJvvESSVERxb6iP/story.html