Yay for pop!

(And, out of curiosity, if anyone knows, what "other" things is it called, other than soda, pop, and coke?)

Coke!

We totally had this discussion — there was a vote for "soft drink" which I could get behind, I suppose. After that we were stumped. I'd love to know if there are any other names.

It looks like soda

When I think of Soda all I can think of is that disgusting drink they use with gin. Pop is a noise, back home you call them by their exact name lol, coke, fanta, sprite, mazoe etc

When I moved to California I got so much crap for saying pop and now I usually say soda.

Oh yeah, I hadn't really thought about soft drink.

Yeah for Coke!

soda or by the name of the drink

I grew up in southeast Missouri, right above the bootheel in a tiny town with no stoplight and around my house we called it sodie(I guess I spelled that made-up word right?). I now live in Charleston, SC and have learned to say soda!

The blog this map came from is fantastic - great diversion!

See that green pocket of "soda" right around St. Louis? That's where my mom grew up. But we lived in Illinois, near Chicago, so my brother and I said "pop." Drove her NUTS. I live in N.C. now and I say "soda," but I make sure to call it "pop" when I'm around my mom. Just to mess with her.

My dad, who grew up in KY and VA, calls it "cold drink" when he is feeling especially Southern.

Pop. A lot of people here call them "fizzy drinks."

Ha Valancyjane! That reminds me of home - except when referring to beer. You don't ever say beer - its "cold beer."

btw - I'm from SC and we say coke or soda.

Would you serve anything but a cold beer? I've only had warm beer from Gernamy. It was good, but I wouldn't suggest it to anyone. (OK it wasn't that good.)

Fizzy drinks! I love it.

So strange how there are these little yellow pockets of "soda" embedded around the US.

I hail from So Cal. and I remember calling it soda or coke growing up.

My father and grandmother call it "soda water". I think that's an old school Deep East Texas thing. I've also heard sodee water. Why the extra word? I don't know.

And there's "soft drink".

Despite living in a coke state, I generally say soda or soda water. I have never ever said pop, despite spending my first 10 years in Chicago.

Soda Water! how cute!

Hate "pop".

I was a rebel where I grew up (South Dakota). I used "soda" instead. I'm so bad.

here in the bay area we call it 'sweet, carbonated liquid vehicle for disbursement of high fructose corn syrup into digestive system of obese children'.

I grew up in the South and I called it POP, when I moved to North to Chicago some people call it pop but the people who call it soda looks at you funny. And when I lived in WI it was all about the soda.

Conversation in Texas.

SAllY, "You want a coke?"

John, "Yes, please."

Sally, "Ok, what kind?"

All soft drinks are coke here. And Verily, are you from East Texas? I grew up there.

Me too, Wren! I was a "pop" girl for years, but had to change my ways when it became way too big of a conversation piece!

Same with the words "interstate" verses "Freeway".

"Conversation in Texas.

SAllY, "You want a coke?"

John, "Yes, please."

Sally, "Ok, what kind?""

Ha ha, GS. In Alabama, too. I moved from New York to Alabama in high school and it took me a while to figure this out. I call it soda, but down south even a pepsi is a coke. The first time "Sally" asked me that question I was so confused...um, regular coke? diet? caffeine free? Do you really have a selection of cokes in your house?

Great Sommelier, yup, I grew up just a bit north of Houston. And that coke conversation is totally spot on.

lmao javs

"I call it soda, but down south even a pepsi is a coke. The first time "Sally" asked me that question I was so confused...um, regular coke? diet? caffeine free? Do you really have a selection of cokes in your house?"

Yes. GS. Spot on. You want a coke, what kind?

It makes sense!

sodie - LOL girlabouttown!

i'm from the south and i've always said soda.

also, that map is very detailed for only having 120,000 responses.

I was raised by orthodontists so I call it "bubbling gold".

Hee hee, "pop" "soda water" "fizzy drinks" "coke" -- all so cute! I grew up in New Jersey and have always called it soda. All the other names I think are charming. It's funny how we can have language barriers in our own country - among English-speakers!

I say soda but Pop is rally cute.

Funny...I was born in Ashland, Oregon and it's in one of the two counties of Oregon that calls it "soda".

Now I live in California, where basically everyone calls it that. No wonder I've never heard people use other names for it!

Wait, I have heard other people say "pop". But then I just look at them funny

I'm from Illinois, and I've always called it "soda pop."

I grew up in California and Arizona, and it was always soda. My mom was from Albuquerque, and it was always Coke to her.

I always thought that AZ had gigantic counties, this just proves it to me.

I have lived in all the different naming regions! And, I have always referred to it as "Coke" -- you can't take the Carolina out of me. I could never get behind "pop," but for the life of me I can't tell you why that word bothers me so much...

I see a couple comments that beat me to the point I wanted to make about living in Texas: "What kind of Coke do you want?" Coke loves that, I'm sure!

Grouwing up in NOLA we called everything coke, or a soft drink. my grandpa who lives in south east texas says soda water tho...

My home country is strongly "pop" but I gotta say, most kids from there now say "soda". Oh well.

Being a native Minnesotan, it has always been pop to me. I lived in Boston for a couple of years, and they refer to is as either soda or tonic. I remember going to the Stah Mahket on my fuhst grocery run and ahsking a stock boy wheah the pop was. He didn't know what I was tahking about, and looked aht me like I was wikked retahded.

Someone said to me the other day that her friend used to work in sales selling coke. There was confusion.

One of my Dad's favorite stories about this guy he used to work with involved a time when my Dad said he was going out to get Coke (this was in Ohio, so most people used pop or sometimes soda, but typically don't use coke in the generic sense) and the guy was like, "No man, I don't do that stuff anymore."

The same guy used to talk about getting a veal "cutlass."

Soda. I can't imagine saying "pop" in a jersey accent.

We need more regional dialect posts. I was not at all prepared when I went to Boston and learned words like bubbler, frappe and wicked.

I grew up in Oklahoma and Texas and have always said coke, soda, or the actual brand name. I probably use coke more than any other.
Pop has always sounded strange to me!

melizzle,

I agree about the dialect posting! You might want to Google The Wicked Good Guide to Boston English, to. It's a hoot!

Exactly right. In Texas Coke is the general term, then they ask you the specific. But I usually just say Dr. Pepper, since its the big thing down here. DrPs better liked than Coke.

I'm from California (obviously) and I never heard anyone call it anything other than soda until I was talking to my cousin from Erie, PA and she referred to it as "pop." I still think that it sounds odd, but to each his own I guess.

Are you SERIOUS, lilkimbo?! That story about your dad is hilarious! hahaha... that didn't happen to take place somewhere near the ohio river (you know, down south near KY!), did it?

Reminds me of my Cincinnati days!

YY-your post really made me laugh. It's so bay area. lol. But yep being from the bay area (in CA) I always said soda...til I moved to Chicago and then said pop to adapt and not get teased. My mom hated it when I moved back home.

Actually, it took place in NE Ohio. It was some time in the 70's in one of the first insurance offices my Dad worked in. I guess people were more accepting of the whole "drug culture" in the late 70's or something. (He still tells stories from that long ago. Heck, he still tells stories from when he was in grade school in the early 60's!)

How weird that some states are so mixed, like Alaska.

That's funny, Colleen!

NM is crazy mixed. Albuquerque is red though and Coke is definitely the word.

Now that I'm in SoCal, I'm out numbered!