Help me shut up my douche bag roommates: Soda or Pop?

[speakhandsforme]

I'm from rural Southern Illinois and my roommates at my college apartment are from the Chicago area. Though most of America refer to Coke, Dr. Pepper, Sprite, etc. as "soda," they insist that it is pop and that anyone who calls it soda is some kind of alien hick.

So, let's see the numbers.

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Haha omg, option three is completely and totally true. Nice call.

the first time I went north someone offered me "pop" and I started laughing.

[VampiresRevenge]

Coke.

[jwicklun]

pop is such a midwest thing lol. or as they say it "Pap"

[bears clap loud]

i used to think being from Colorado was the midwest- boy was i wrong when i went to college in Minnesota. pop-loving crazies

[singyoutocoma]

All my friends called it pop when we were in grade school and thought I was uncool for going with soda. So it's been pop ever since.

[phil19]

i call it soft drink

[poppa Q]

I'm from rural Southern Illinois and my roommates at my college apartment are from the Chicago area. Though most of America refer to Coke, Dr. Pepper, Sprite, etc. as "soda," they insist that it is pop and that anyone who calls it soda is some kind of alien hick.

So, let's see the numbers.

E or C?

[WhoSaidThat?]

Don't Canadians call it "pop"?

[And Hours Pass]

I couldn't find it more irritating when I hear somebody say "lemon lime coke." That doesn't exist. If you want coke, ask for it. If you want sprite, ask for it. I don't care if you call it soda, pop, or grammy's love juice - just stop with the coke-as-an-umbrella-for-all bull crap.

p.s. I call it soda.

[Deadbolt23]

Fizzy drinks.

[fredrico0012]

Things are only said correctly in the south. And if you go to the grocery store it doesn't say the pop isle.

[Neo Cassady]

Soda is the only acceptable answer.

edit: also...

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[246toothpicks]

I couldn't find it more irritating when I hear somebody say "lemon lime coke." That doesn't exist. If you want coke, ask for it. If you want sprite, ask for it. I don't care if you call it soda, pop, or grammy's love juice - just stop with the coke-as-an-umbrella-for-all bull crap.

p.s. I call it soda.

Came here to say just that haha. Also Coke is a friggin brand name! Doesn't it get confusing? Would people get all bent out of shape if I asked for a Pepsi?

[And Hours Pass]

Came here to say just that haha. Also Coke is a friggin brand name! Doesn't it get confusing? Would people get all bent out of shape if I asked for a Pepsi?
Ha, you should try it. Be warned, this may yield similar results to playing country music to aliens...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-MhgnMX73Pw

[Andy Young]

It's pop in my area.

[eriatarka24]

I'm not from the south...but...Coke.

[Feenucks]

I call it "soda", my wife calls it "pop". I'm from the west and she's from the east...I wonder if that has anything to do with it.

[MADSTA]

Don't Canadians call it "pop"?
Most of us do.

[Machu505]

Soda.

[Nerdy91]

Soda, but I am from the deep south and a bunch of people call it coke.

[dpetty21]

pop is such a midwest thing lol. or as they say it "Pap"


Ohio is midwest and we most def. don't say it pap. I honestly hate it when people say soda and want to kick them in the jaw but it's nothing personal. Just growing up here we're raised that pop is the way to go.

[doppelganger]

lemonade

[tttygxlove]

I go with pop always. Soda seems weird to say.

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Came here to say just that haha. Also Coke is a friggin brand name! Doesn't it get confusing? Would people get all bent out of shape if I asked for a Pepsi?

Not if you live in the south like the poll suggests.
Pepsi is literally nonexistent and drinking it is blasphemy

[Derka Derka]

Pop, my friends and I have always thought that calling it pop was a great lakes thing.

[Nerdy91]

Not if you live in the south like the poll suggests.
Pepsi is literally nonexistent and drinking it is blasphemy

hahaha...exactly

[etheritcher]

pop. and the o sounds like an o...not an a.

[DCfreak]

http://jedculbertson.com/wp-content/uploads/jedculbertson/2009/05/popvssodamap.gif

Our St. Louis \ Southern Illinois section is actually very strange on the US map

[murrich]

Soft Drink/Fizzy Drink

[<*)))><]

Soda from new york also are pizza is better then chicago.

[krystofer]

it is pop and that anyone who calls it soda is some kind of alien hick.
this

[alliegator16]

Soda. Pop sounds so weird...I didn't know anyone really called it that.

[thiswokendream]

Well it was originally referred to as soda pop right? I'm from Michigan and we all say pop. Moved to Vegas about six months back and everyone says soda. Either one of them makes sense to me but pop is just a little bit more fun to say. Try it with me...

[thiswokendream]

Good poll by the way.

[speakhandsforme]

E or C?

What now?

[poppa Q]

What now?

edwardsville or carbondale?

[speakhandsforme]

edwardsville or carbondale?

I live 45 minutes northeast of Edwardsville but I go to Eastern. But I am actually transferring to E-ville next semester.

[poppa Q]

I live 45 minutes northeast of Edwardsville but I go to Eastern. But I am actually transferring to E-ville next semester.

Ah, gotcha. And by next semester do you mean classes that start monday? lol

[speakhandsforme]

Ah, gotcha. And by next semester do you mean classes that start monday? lol

Nah, next year. I'm transferring there so that I can take Swick's paralegal program on the side. It's going to be hard acclimating to E-ville and its lame party scene.

[poppa Q]

Nah, next year. I'm transferring there so that I can take Swick's paralegal program on the side. It's going to be hard acclimating to E-ville and its lame party scene.

Haha, definitely a lame party scene. It's a bit easier to handle if you, ya know, smoke pot.

[speakhandsforme]

Haha, definitely a lame party scene. It's a bit easier to handle if you, ya know, smoke pot.

Oh, I plan on taking up meth upon enrollment.

[poppa Q]

lol

[LamarVannoy]

Soft drink

[Hamlet]

I'm from New Zealand, we call the whole lot 'soft drinks', but we generally call each one by its brand name.

[jay_klinkhammer]

Pop is a sound.


Answer is Soda.

[xmicxcorex]

I ordinarily call it soda, but I work in a grocery store and when we get our pallet of it in, i refer to it as the pop pallet because soda pallet sounds goofy to me for some reason.

[DCfreak]

Nah, next year. I'm transferring there so that I can take Swick's paralegal program on the side. It's going to be hard acclimating to E-ville and its lame party scene.

lol, lame doesnt even begin to describe it. I'm a senior at SIUE and I rarely find myself on or around campus.

oh and btw where is "45 minutes north of edwardsville"

like, Litchfield? or Mount Olive?

[newfoundmichael]

I'm from rural Southern Illinois and my roommates at my college apartment are from the Chicago area. Though most of America refer to Coke, Dr. Pepper, Sprite, etc. as "soda," they insist that it is pop and that anyone who calls it soda is some kind of alien hick.

So, let's see the numbers.

Where on Southern Illinois are you? Tough to find other Packer fans in this area. ha

[FUCKDIRTYWIPES]

Soda.

[IceAge/HeatWave]

i voted pop just to piss you off.

[just.Starla.]

Soda. Even though I'm from the South, I only call Coca Cola coke, everything else is soda.

[SunnyInPhilly]

Soda

[NateGolubiewski]

Soda pop.

[speakhandsforme]

lol, lame doesnt even begin to describe it. I'm a senior at SIUE and I rarely find myself on or around campus.

oh and btw where is "45 minutes north of edwardsville"

like, Litchfield? or Mount Olive?

Hillsboro: about 15 miles East of Litchfield

And, yeah, I'm already starting to dread. In Charleston, any and every party and recreational need is within walking distance, as the town is pretty small and the campus is compact as hell....after visiting SIUE, I learned that you better have a PhD in drunk driving if you plan on really partying on the reg.

Where on Southern Illinois are you? Tough to find other Packer fans in this area. ha

*see above*

And, yes, it is. However, after being around Bears fans at college, I don't mind coming home to So Il and its Rams fans.

[yellowhouse]

I'm so glad the third option exists.

[DCfreak]

Hillsboro: about 15 miles East of Litchfield

And, yeah, I'm already starting to dread. In Charleston, any and every party and recreational need is within walking distance, as the town is pretty small and the campus is compact as hell....after visiting SIUE, I learned that you better have a PhD in drunk driving if you plan on really partying on the reg.



*see above*

And, yes, it is. However, after being around Bears fans at college, I don't mind coming home to So Il and its Rams fans.

Other than the occassional party in Couger Village that will always get busted, you have to go off campus to have any kind of fun. However, I was under the impression that the busses will take you downtown until like midnight or something? I don't live on campus so I wouldn't know. Not that the 4 bars (2 of which are basically towny bars) that are down town are worth talking about.

And for at least the last few years, there arent any rams fans in Southern Illinois. Most have converted over to Arizona Cardinal fans.

[newfoundmichael]

Hillsboro: about 15 miles East of Litchfield

And, yeah, I'm already starting to dread. In Charleston, any and every party and recreational need is within walking distance, as the town is pretty small and the campus is compact as hell....after visiting SIUE, I learned that you better have a PhD in drunk driving if you plan on really partying on the reg.



*see above*

And, yes, it is. However, after being around Bears fans at college, I don't mind coming home to So Il and its Rams fans.

That's cool man. I'm on the east central side of Illinois...right around Terre Haute, Indiana. We actually played Litchfield a couple years back in baseball. Yeah, it's all Colts fans around me. I almost prefer the Bears fans.

[PaperSt.]

i'm from texas and i've called it soda all my life.
from my experience, no one i know calls soda just "coke".

[undecidedshrub]

soda

[guitarman2189]

im from Chicago and I call it a coke :D

[Poe-tryGirl]

It's soda.

[deFobbed14yrs]

I'm from new York andi and all my friends call it soda.

[speakhandsforme]

That's cool man. I'm on the east central side of Illinois...right around Terre Haute, Indiana. We actually played Litchfield a couple years back in baseball. Yeah, it's all Colts fans around me. I almost prefer the Bears fans.

Holy shit, you go to EIU too. If you prefer Bears fans to them, I hope to never know a Colts fan.

[newfoundmichael]

Holy shit, you go to EIU too. If you prefer Bears fans to them, I hope to never know a Colts fan.

Never thought I'd meet a fellow EIU student on here, ha. Well I live right on the Indiana border, so it is brutal over there.

[HoldThatSound]

it's pop...

[SuNDaYSTaR]

Don't Canadians call it "pop"?Although I'm not English-speaking, I believe that is the case.

[Theseventhson]

It's soda, and anyone who would call all soda "Coke" is an idiot.

[klawansie7]

I'm from rural Southern Illinois and my roommates at my college apartment are from the Chicago area. Though most of America refer to Coke, Dr. Pepper, Sprite, etc. as "soda," they insist that it is pop and that anyone who calls it soda is some kind of alien hick.

So, let's see the numbers.
i'm from the chicago area also and i call it pop too...

[speakhandsforme]

i'm from the chicago area also and i call it pop too...

In that case, I'd suggest you move. It's too windy there anyways.

[tD77]

Soda pop

[speakhandsforme]

Never thought I'd meet a fellow EIU student on here, ha. Well I live right on the Indiana border, so it is brutal over there.

Did you enjoy those numerous no-calls today as much as I did?

[blinkme]

I'm from New Zealand, we call the whole lot 'soft drinks', but we generally call each one by its brand name.

This is the right way.

[theguy77]

haha what the fuck. using the word "pop" for soda pop is indigenous to ONE area in the united states, and thats the midwest. and yet everyone who calls it "soda" (which is the overall american name for it) is a hick?

pop is a type of music or a loud snapping noise. soda is a chemical compound containing sodium. i think the latter better fits the consistency of a soft drink.

i was born and raised in the south by the way... apparently we're all idiots

[newfoundmichael]

Did you enjoy those numerous no-calls today as much as I did?

The worst one was at the end of the game when we got called for holding. On the same play, one of their DE's went helmet to helmet on Rodgers. That should have been offsetting and we are in a totally different situation. Also, on Fitzgerald's "circus catch", he pushed off of Woodson blatantly. What a horrible game, ugh.

[Colin1755]

how about soda-pop? hahaha

[Kurt Retenauer]

Pop.

[JordanBuell]

calling it coke is just stupid

[speakhandsforme]

The worst one was at the end of the game when we got called for holding. On the same play, one of their DE's went helmet to helmet on Rodgers. That should have been offsetting and we are in a totally different situation. Also, on Fitzgerald's "circus catch", he pushed off of Woodson blatantly. What a horrible game, ugh.

Yeah, and we had the exact same helmet-to-helmet penalty called against us earlier. Combine that with the face mask and the two blatant offensive pass interference no-calls on Fitz and it was just a fucking screw job altogether.

[jeremyc]

Grew up in San Diego and have called it Coke my whole life.

[Nick Hull]

Things are only said correctly in the south. And if you go to the grocery store it doesn't say the pop isle.
wait...what? things are said correctly many places. the southern accent ruins most words, actually.

[newfoundmichael]

Yeah, and we had the exact same helmet-to-helmet penalty called against us earlier. Combine that with the face mask and the two blatant offensive pass interference no-calls on Fitz and it was just a fucking screw job altogether.


Yeah it was rough...I just want any team but the Vikings, Cowboys or Colts to win it now. I'd love to see a Jets/Saints or Chargers/Saints Super Bowl.

[Festivus]

I went to SIUC for a short time so I feel your pain.

I call it soda or soda pop, but I have family (usually older folks) who insist on calling it pop.

[jbertclassic]

Call this shit Soda son.

[AussieBoy]

fizzy drink


or soft drink, cause your soft if u drink it instead of alcohol

[MattADALIE]

Being from Philly, I've known it as "soda" all my life, whether in Polish or English. My first taste of it being called "pop" was when my band traveled to Pittsburgh to play a benefit show. Signs at liquor stores and gas stations said "ice cold pop" instead of "soda" and we even tried talking to people from there about it and they couldn't even call it "soda" without feeling awkward. It was one of those experiences where we all realized culture shock can exist on the other side of the very state in which you live. Of course, later that month we toured well into the Midwest, so, we had A LOT of culture shock from that point forward, whether it was the "pop" phenomenon, accents, and other stuff.

[SquidAtTheDisco]

Soda Pop!

[jpgretzky15]

I'm from rural Southern Illinois and my roommates at my college apartment are from the Chicago area. Though most of America refer to Coke, Dr. Pepper, Sprite, etc. as "soda," they insist that it is pop and that anyone who calls it soda is some kind of alien hick.

So, let's see the numbers.

Yeah, I was just visiting friends in chi-town too, and they call it pop. I thought pop was the hick way to say it, not soda.

[Peacemaker]

Pop.

[Schmidty Says]

Here in Pittsburgh, we call it "pop."

[abandonship]

carbonated crap

[MilesToGo]

I went to SIUC for a short time so I feel your pain.

I call it soda or soda pop, but I have family (usually older folks) who insist on calling it pop.

Hey now... there is nothing wrong with SIUC :-)





I usually call it pop, but I don't get why people feel so strongly about what others call it.

[Indoor Living]

Pop. Soda? no way.

[wroteurname]

Pop= like a lolipop or popsicle or a type of music or art. Soda is soda, sorry.

[wroteurname]

I had no idea there are people who just call it "coke" like "kleenex" or "chapstick", "rollerblade", "scotch tape", etc.

[wuduprod]

it's called pop. if you think otherwise, you're some kind of alien hick.

[fightinirish217]

It's soda.

[HometownHero]

I say both

[derekmoyer4]

it is called pop in this here part of the country.

on a side note: i refer to coca-cola only as "classic"

[Hagysaurus Rex]

Soda. Even though I'm from the South, I only call Coca Cola coke, everything else is soda.

This

Some people around here actually call it "sodie pop." No lie

[Schmidty Says]

it's called pop. if you think otherwise, you're some kind of alien hick.

I normally hate anything that anyone in Cleveland says or does, but you sir are an exception.

[kaycey]

the devils piss, beer is gods.

[Tristan Needler]

it's called pop. if you think otherwise, you're some kind of alien hick.
Pop sounds way more hick-like than soda.

[Metal Now]

Fizzy drinks.

This. The UK has the Ockham's Razor of soft drink definitions.

[billyboatkid]

I either call it Soda or Coke. haha

[ArtForLovers]

It's pop in my area.
yup

[Echo Park]

when i grew up in canada we all called it Pop, then I moved to Atlanta and they call everything Coke. I went in between and now call it soda.
But seriously, Georgians are weird, ordering goes like this for them:
"Can I have a coke?"
"What flavor?"
"Sprite!"

[fourletterword]

soda

[BreakTheNews]

i was born in California so i call it soda but have lived in minnesota for a few years so occasionally say pop

[muttley]

If I'm not calling it by the brand name, it's soda.

[swt_catastrophe]

YES! for the "coke" option. I grew up in Georgia, it was all coke... Although since I've moved away, I tend to call it soda.
when i grew up in canada we all called it Pop, then I moved to Atlanta and they call everything Coke. I went in between and now call it soda.
But seriously, Georgians are weird, ordering goes like this for them:
"Can I have a coke?"
"What flavor?"
"Sprite!"
TRUTH.

[dani1292]

I usually say Coke, but soda is a close second.

[Stephin_DC]

its pop in canada
my buddy goes to school in the US and when he comes back he calls it soda now
we'll slap him everytime he says it

[HelloxAlone]

We say pop in Canada..

[apsterling]

While I'm not from the Deep South, I ask for Coke every time.

[saveferris]

Things are only said correctly in the south. And if you go to the grocery store it doesn't say the pop isle.
Whoa. I don't know about that. Cent instead of Cents, mash instead of push. I've heard a lot of weird sayings in N.C.

[saveferris]

While I'm not from the Deep South, I ask for Coke every time.
This. I'm from NOVA and i've always said coke. It's asking for a kleenex instead of tissue. Although recently i've started saying soda.

[hurryupbrett]

Dr. Pepper is my favorite coke.

[Alex DiVincenzo]

Always soda.

[fredrico0012]

Whoa. I don't know about that. Cent instead of Cents, mash instead of push. I've heard a lot of weird sayings in N.C.

Cent is what black people say. That isn't how its said in the south.

[saveferris]

Cent is what black people say. That isn't how its said in the south.
I never heard it until I got down to N.C. plus I hear a lot of white people say it.

[jonny4star]

I'm from minnesota, i call it soda, but my family calls it pop

[oliviaemmer]

Everyone here calls it pop, but I like soda better.

[Broclee]

Either brand names or soda. I don't get all weirded out if someone says "pop," though. Glad to see that doesn't work the other way around.

Whoa. I don't know about that. Cent instead of Cents, mash instead of push. I've heard a lot of weird sayings in N.C.

My hometown is pretty rural, and I have friends from Raleigh and the like who had never heard the word "mash" used in place of "push." It caused great confusion when I used the phrase "mash the gas" for the first time. I didn't even realize that wasn't a commonly accepted thing.

[saveferris]

Either brand names or soda. I don't get all weirded out if someone says "pop," though. Glad to see that doesn't work the other way around.



My hometown is pretty rural, and I have friends from Raleigh and the like who had never heard the word "mash" used in place of "push." It caused great confusion when I used the phrase "mash the gas" for the first time. I didn't even realize that wasn't a commonly accepted thing.
When I first moved down here I was told to mash a button to work the soda machine at mcdonalds. I got bottled water instead.

[Kozzy333]

It's called pop in Canada but I think soda sounds like a better word.

[inthemidst]

I call it by the name of the actual soft drink (i.e. Mtn Dew, Dr. Pepper, Sprite, etc.); not just a general term.

[AUGK]

I am so used of calling it Pop that I never say Soda

[xapplexpiex]

I had no idea there are people who just call it "coke" like "kleenex" or "chapstick", "rollerblade", "scotch tape", etc.
I say all five of those.

[perceptrons]

I lived in the midwest until I was 10, and I called it pop. Then I moved to the west coast, and had to learn to call it soda, until I was 18. Then I moved back to the midwest for college, and I am happily back to pop.

[Wildness774]

Soda is definitley the most common, but i grew up with "pop" in detroit, so i gotta go with that.

[ArtForLovers]

ever wonder which came first. Soda? Pop? Or was it Soda-pop and people just split it up as generations went on.

[bradnewman]

soda is so american

[AussieBoy]

I'm from New Zealand, we call the whole lot 'soft drinks', but we generally call each one by its brand name.


ken oath!!!

soda is what you call none flavoured fizzy drink, carbonated water

and pop is what you call your granddad or do to someones cherry

[AussieBoy]

there was a proper poll on this like a year ago on poll forums i think

[frenchatticus]

definitely coke

[Hay]

Soda definitely. I did not think saying "pop" was so common. I thought they only said that back in the day. Interesting...

[MikeAL4W]

I do have a few friends who's parents call it 'tonic'. Crazy southie bastards.

[Scrandon]

pop if you from the fifties i guess

[i_was_a_lid]

Soda from new york also are pizza is better then chicago.

LIE

Deep dish for the win

[Clark]

Soda; everything else is fucking annoying.

[<*)))><]

LIE

Deep dish for the win
I think you mean fuck the world because our pizza sucks.

[yayitsjoe]

it's soda.

[haloswitch]

It usually called pop in Canada, but you do hear soda also, just not often.

[nicoteen]

Don't Canadians call it "pop"?
Well I as a Canadian from Alberta Calgary to be exact would have to say yes we do call it pop.