Coke, Pop, Soda, Soft Drink

Posted Saturday, June 21, 2008, at 3:19 PM

Is it a Coke, a pop, a soda, a soda pop, or soft drink?

In a recent survey, over 120,000 respondents from all over the United States identified what they call those sweet, carbonated beverages. If you can't read the small type on the map, the blue indicates "pop," the red is "Coke," the yellow represents "soda," and the green is for all other names.

As shown, what you call it may show the region of the country where you grew up or are living now. For example, it's not surprising to me that Georgia is well-represented with saying "Coke," as Coca-Cola has corporate offices there, as well as a museum of its history.

What do you call them? And if you ever ordered a "Coke" and your waitress asked, "Is Pepsi OK?" have you ever said "No"?

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When I visited a cave last, the tour guide said the acids found in carbonated soft drinks are the same ones that carved out all of the caves there. Scary, but then again, I probably won't be alive in thousands of years to see if the acids have done anything similar to me that they did to all of that limestone.

-- Posted by chriswathen on Sat, Jun 21, 2008, at 9:11 PM

I travel through several states. It is very regional on the names. Up in the Minn I hear Soooooda at times. The nasal long "O" from up that is a hoot.

-- Posted by gary g on Sun, Jun 22, 2008, at 5:41 PM

Hoe about asking for a sugary carbonated beverage!

-- Posted by furball on Mon, Jun 23, 2008, at 10:03 AM

My question is what are they calling it in all those green areas?

I quit drinking any sort of soda 6 years ago. The caffeine was making me wired and the sugar was adding calories I didn't need. If I have to have any sort of soda I pick diet no matter whether it is pepsi or coke.

However, my mother is a soda nut but there are rules to what she will and won't drink: 1. if it comes in a can, it has to be diet coke 2. if it comes in a bottle, it has to be diet pepsi 3. if she's in a restaurant, it can either be pepsi or coke but it has to be diet 4. if it isn't polar iceberg cold, she refuses to drink any of it. I've always made fun of her soda issues but she presists it all tastes different. Whatever!

-- Posted by Polar Bear on Mon, Jun 30, 2008, at 11:23 AM

It's soda. Pop is what I call my father.

-- Posted by EggMan on Tue, Jul 1, 2008, at 7:19 AM

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