[graciegirl]

It is pop.

Which amused the heck out of our Austrian house guest this past month. I couldn't talk him into any ice in his pop either.

[MMC24]

A Coke is still a Coke and it still tastes the same regardless of what you call it.

[LI SNOWBIRD]

Here in snowy Long Island its soda.

[2BNTV]

In Yonkers, New York, it was always called soda. Coke was always coke and Pepsi was alway Pepsi. That later moprhed into a soft drink.

In 81 when I moved to Cleveland, I found out they called it pop. Confusing to me because in the old neighborhood, if someone said, "lets go for a couple of pops", that meant going for some alcoholic beverages. Usually a couple of hundred, as there was a lot of heavy drinking going on and we only had to walk a couple of blocks to and from the bar.

Cuff links were used as curb feelers.

Mother and father owned a lucheonette where we made ice cream floats and egg creams with seltzer water, (not called tonic water). My mother made sandwiches on wedges, not heros, grinders, or submarines)

http://popvssoda.com:2998/

The map maker's methodolgy looks quite a bit off by just relying on people on the Internet filling out the survey. And it looks like most of these respondents were college students. Seems to be you would get a different result going up each ten year age bracket, i.e. the answers would be quite different among teens and college age students to 40, 50 and 60 year olds.

[Pturner]

Originally Posted by Boomer

...And hi Pturner,

I had always wondered about that Coke thing and if it might be because of the Atlanta connection like you said. And now, you are the perfect person to ask this other question -- what do you do when you want to order 7-Up? Somebody once told me that they called it white Coke. Have you ever heard that?

Um... I've heard of white coke. Never tried it. But Boomer, um, I don't think it refers to 7-Up. (If it referred to a soft drink in ATL it would have to be Sprite anyway.)

But... um... white coke, um... I'm not an English major, mind you, but I think it refers to... a white powdery substance.

[scrapple]

Originally Posted by redwitch

In California, it was soda (Coke for me). In Kentucky (Harlan, Boomer), it was pop (usually RC). In Georgia, it was Coke-Cola, regardless of the brand. Overseas, it was strictly by brand name when shopping/drinking on a military post. In Europe and in the Middle East and Northern Africa, they did have soft drinks of a sort, but they were usually a fruity drink. I really don't remember getting a soft drink in the Far East unless on a base.

My logic worked as follows: Pop was something some people called their father or grandfather; Coke was a brand name and not to be confused with that disgusting soft drink called Pepsi; soda was the generic name for a soft drink; if you wanted to be 100% safe, you asked for the brand name or a soft drink or fizzy, flavored water. Man, traveling a lot can make the rules confusing!

In the southern parts of Africa the choice is "dark fizzy drink" or "light fizzy drink". Eastern PA was "soda" while Denver was "pop".
Should we continue this fun banter and I'll ask the question: "Dressing," "Filling" or "Stuffing?"

[raynan]

Stuffing in MA.

[Russ_Boston]

Originally Posted by MMC24

A Coke is still a Coke and it still tastes the same regardless of what you call it.

Unless it's Sprite - can't call that a Coke

[faithfulfrank]

Stuffing. Dressing is what goes around windows.

Also, Coke or Pepsi? The lines are blurred now for me, since I really like Pepsi Max, (it has ginseng in it), but I also like Coke Zero. Also, A&W is the best Root Beer, "Mug" brand is like dog drool.

Too bad you can't get Cheerwine in Florida. That is a Dr Pepper-like pop they have in the Carolina's

Frank

[2BNTV]

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[Yoda]

Originally Posted by Ceafolks

In Eastern Mass it was tonic (not so much now) and in RI it was and still is soda.

If there is no tonic, there is no Massachusetts!

Yoda

[swrinfla]

Once again, I think y'all have been into the contents of the bar!

Boomer's map says I grew up using "soda," then moved to the Mid-West, where it continued to be "soda." Then, I came to TV [Sumter County], where it appears that "coke" is preferred. Of course, that was way before any of us lived here!

What's it called when you avoid any of it at all???????????????????

SWR

[Shimpy]

Take that coke and put rum in it and I don't care what you call it, I'll drink it.

[Boomer]

Hi Pturner,

And is right! I did not even think about that. Geez. I can be such a bumpkin sometimes. Thanks for sharing the theory. I will never ask about that one again. Oh my!

Oh well, here is a nice relaxing song that has been going through my head, off and on, since last night, after it was mentioned by Ohiogirl in this thread. I really like the song. Maybe I need to wind down and listen to it again...or sing along.

You are all invited to sing along with me.

Boomer Miller

[ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Nc2GWytR0E[/ame]