Soda or Pop?
Is it soda or is it pop? I say soda.
I'm from Connecticut (US). My wife is from upstate NY. I've always said 'soda' but she keeps on saying pop. People at restauraunts don't know what she's talking about until she corrects herself, especially the younger people. What do you call it and where do you live? (a coke, soda, pop, tonic, etc.)
Also, here in CT we call liqueur stores "package stores". Out of state friends say CT has no liqueur shops and when I point one out they say "But it says PACKAGE store".
I'm from Connecticut (US). My wife is from upstate NY. I've always said 'soda' but she keeps on saying pop. People at restauraunts don't know what she's talking about until she corrects herself, especially the younger people. What do you call it and where do you live? (a coke, soda, pop, tonic, etc.)
Also, here in CT we call liqueur stores "package stores". Out of state friends say CT has no liqueur shops and when I point one out they say "But it says PACKAGE store".
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<strong>I gew up in western Mass, where you buy your soda at the package store. I have lived in Boston, where you get your tonic, and in the Midwest, where you get your pop at the piggly-wiggly (come over here, once, eh?) Here in SoCal, they seem to use both soda and pop.</strong><hr></blockquote>
You buy "soda" at the "Packie"
My father and aunt always say "tonic"
I just say "Coke"... "What kind of Coke do you have?"
but most people don't really say soda either. i usually just ask for waht ever i want...Coke, Sprite, Sunkist(YUMMY!) if i'm in a restaurant where i don't know what they have (as far as coke or pepsi products) i'll just ask about their drinks...
for whatever that's worth.
I just say "Coke"... "What kind of Coke do you have?" <hr></blockquote>
I went to college with a guy that called everything "Coke" as well. He was originally from the south. Alabama, I think.
In Hawaii, it's soda.
<strong>I have never heard anybody in SoCal call it pop</strong><hr></blockquote>
I only include that since one of my co-workers (a native angeleno) calls it that.
[quote]<strong>If I ask people if they want a beverage I ask them if they'd like a drink.</strong><hr></blockquote>
If I am offered a "drink" it better have some booze in it.
Amorya
i just ask for "something to drink." if someone asks for a pop, they're looking to get hit.
[ 01-24-2002: Message edited by: poor taylor ]</p>
we always make fun of Wisconsin kids around here when they order soda. fools.
it's pop.
i suppose you could just reason that soda is anything that comes from a fountain, and pop is anything from a can/bottle, but where's the fun in that?
Maist interestingly this name (as opposed tae SODA or POP) was also in widespread use in early America. In fact it occurs in one o' the very first letters ever written frae the Pilgrim Faithers tae relatives back hame...
Dear Bretheren. We doth require of ye that ye send us six dozen casks o' finest gingruel (my emphasis) on the next vessel as maist o' oor casks went pop in the seas off Canada. Also be sae kind as tae despatch a goodly barrel o' bicarbonate o' soda for the clacks which hath struck us maist ungraciously.
Interestingly enough this early missive may also demonstrates how the other terms mentioned above came tae be confused wi' the true generic identity o' fizzy beverages everywhere.
[ 01-24-2002: Message edited by: Sir Mac o' the Isles ]</p>
Damn you POP people!
2) Coke followed by clarification for type.
3) Soda is acceptable.
"Pop" isn't even in the running, that's queerer than Richard Simmons.
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Queerer than Richard Simmons on a rope!
[ 01-24-2002: Message edited by: groverat ]</p>
ha ha, we rule.
5% baby. we're the apple people of the great soda vs. pop wars.
There used to be a store that all they sold was pop, nothing else. Hundreds of different flavours. Black Cherry was my favourite. It was called "The Pop Shoppe".
Unfortunately, they went out of business.
These days I just call it sody-pop!
"Hey man, you want a Coke?" (hands you a Pepsi...)
<img src="graemlins/bugeye.gif" border="0" alt="[Skeptical]" />
I still call anything dark brown and carbonated "Coke". SoCal hasn't ripped THAT from me.
<strong>Is it soda or is it pop? I say soda.
I'm from Connecticut (US). My wife is from upstate NY.</strong><hr></blockquote>
Same here. I grew up in CT and my mom was from Rochester (NY). Whenever we'd visit my grandparents they called it pop. That's because culturally the Mid-West begins in upstate New York. Notice where they all call it pop - MN, Chicago, upstate NY.
Soda?... <img src="graemlins/lol.gif" border="0" alt="[Laughing]" />
Its called pop...
ahhh...
hey I like these new smilies... <img src="graemlins/lol.gif" border="0" alt="[Laughing]" />
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