What Do You Call a Soda?

March 16, 2007

This map shows the popular generic names for soft drinks by county. I'm really surprised, I thought more states used the word "soda" instead of "pop" and I actually didn't realize that so many people used the word "coke" to mean all soda.

Source: Neatorama

So hey, what do you call a soda?

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tayrose 3 years 25 weeks

Soda. I hate the word pop.

3 years 25 weeks

In Ohio it's always pop if you're referring to soft drinks in general. More often you would probably just call it what it is. (Coke, Sprite, Root Beer, etc.) If you ask for Coke here you're getting Coke.

Segat1 5 years 20 weeks

Soft drink. Or fizzy pop.

Ivelisse 5 years 20 weeks

Here in mexico i use the word soda, but in the US i name it coke.

kelsey6 5 years 21 weeks

Like myself, I think pretty much everyone in Canada calls it pop. Soda sounds so strange to me, and I can't imagine using Coke to mean anything other than Coke! It's pretty interesting to see what certain words mean in different regions.

bailaoragaditana 5 years 21 weeks

Soda! Always soda! Coke is only Coca-Cola (and occasionally generic brand colas), and pop is a type of music. And "soda pop" is, as someone said, a bad Britney Spears song, and should be eliminated from the lexicon!

ElizabethRae 5 years 21 weeks

It's ALL COKE!! If I say I want a coke, you ask me what kind!

verily 5 years 21 weeks

I use coke and soda interchangeably. Strangely, I never picked up "pop" even though I lived near Chicago for 10 years.

kk_bama 5 years 21 weeks

I snicker every time I hear someone call it pop. It just annoys the heck out of me! I'm so Southern.

amalthea1414 6 years 3 weeks

i've always called them soft drinks :)

Beautifulbarbie 6 years 3 weeks

Soda.

Fancy04 6 years 3 weeks

Coke.

celebrity_soup 6 years 4 weeks

soft drink? i like that word, pop!

GeikoSera 6 years 8 weeks

SODA!

fruitcakesucks 6 years 8 weeks

In South Africa they call is Cool Drink.

controlledspin 6 years 8 weeks

I also have heard 'soft drink' a lot.

Twinkle 6 years 8 weeks

I'm also from the South so it's Coke in our house.

Saller 6 years 8 weeks

In Boston it is called tonic. I've gotten used to using this, but confused as to what to ask for when I want actually tonic water, ie. Gin and Tonic. haha. soda is soda.

wonhorsetown 6 years 9 weeks

I've never posted before but this topic brought me out...I'm from Minneapolis and we call it Pop and only Pop...when I came home from college saying Soda my friends and family lost their minds when I would say Soda...they'd laugh and laugh because it sounds so 'geeky' to them - you gotta admit Pop is a cooler word than soda...soda is what you put in a cocktail - soda water = tonic water...growing up when they would say soda on t.v. shows we'd wonder why they were saying that!

And here in Minnesota we say Tennis Shoes (i.e."Where are my tennies" or "I love your new tenna shoes") when we are referring to what the rest of the coutnry calls Sneakers...I can't imagine ever saying Sneakers! LOL!

californiagirlx7 6 years 9 weeks

I love in the SF Bay Area and everyone I know calls it soda, but when I go to visit family on the East Coast they always call it pop.

michou 6 years 9 weeks

I've always wanted to call it pop, but people would look at me strangely here (in New Jersey), so I always call it soda.

Phasekitty 6 years 9 weeks

Soda, for sure. I'm surprised by how much less of the country says that though...I always thought it was a few states that said "pop" and that was it! :)

joyofadventure 6 years 9 weeks

i think i use all three, i am originally from ohio and i used to say coke or pop but now i am in the west and i think i call it soda more often than not

mandiesoh 6 years 9 weeks

i was gonna say that super win! LOL although WHY its called that i'll never know! :?

kendallina 6 years 9 weeks

I'm originally from Illinois, where it is pop. I lived in Wisconsin most of my life, where it is soda. Now, I live in Tennessee and it's coke. I still say pop, where I'm known as a Yankee. ;)

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