Poll: Do you call it Soda, Pop or something else?

[Diligent]

I usually say the brand name, but have tried switching to the generic "soda" if I'm ordering in a restaurant. I'm trying to figure out a way to be guaranteed not to hear, "Is _____ ok?"
i.e. "May I please have a coke?"
"Is Pepsi ok?"
or
"May I please have a pepsi?"
"Is coke ok?"
...now that I've started saying "May I please have a soda?"
it's still, "Is coke (or pepsi) ok?"

Do people really care? It's just fizzy sugar either way. From now on, I'm just going to order water.

 

[Monshroud]

Moving to the mid-west from the east coast everyone out here called it Pop, but I just can't. It's Soda to me...

 

[TyrantGanado]

Fizzy juice. Or just juice, since I tend to refer to diluting juice as such or fresh juice as "x juice." "X" being the fruit from which it comes. Or typically by brand name. "I want Coke" or "I want Irn-Bru" for example.

Anyone who calls it "ginger" confuses the hell out me, that's a hair colour or a spice. Not a beverage. Silly Glaswegians xD

 

[Seriphina]

Scottish so tend to call it juice or fizzy juice. Even tho i know in U.S. juice is normally fruit juice. Which we also call juice lol. ^_^

 

[lacktheknack]

"Bone Acid" is probably the most accurate name.

 

[lacktheknack]

I usually say the brand name, but have tried switching to the generic "soda" if I'm ordering in a restaurant. I'm trying to figure out a way to be guaranteed not to hear, "Is _____ ok?"
i.e. "May I please have a coke?"
"Is Pepsi ok?"
or
"May I please have a pepsi?"
"Is coke ok?"
...now that I've started saying "May I please have a soda?"
it's still, "Is coke (or pepsi) ok?"

Do people really care? It's just fizzy sugar either way. From now on, I'm just going to order water.

"Is mineral/spring/tonic OK?"

 

[Buizel91]

I just say Fizzy Drink, or by the drinks name (Coke, Pepsi, Orangeade etc)

 

[fullbleed]

Fizzy drinks, I'm British if the makes a difference. They're drinks and they're fizzy.

 

[Mr. Bojangles]

Fizzy drinks.

 

[Flamezdudes]

I call it what it's actually called, the brand.

 

[Commander Jack Rankin]

As a lifelong Midwesterner it's always been Pop to me. Sometimes though I'll catch myself calling it "sodee pop", like I've got a grizzled old prospector form of Tourette's Syndrome or something.

 

[PureChaos]

we don't have Mnt Dew in the UK

we do in my part of the uk, it looks and tastes like irradiated piss though

what's your part of the UK? that's disappointing, was hoping it would be good

 

[PureChaos]

we don't have Mnt Dew in the UK

we do in my part of the uk, it looks and tastes like irradiated piss though

what's your part of the UK? that's disappointing, was hoping it would be good

 

[Diligent]

I usually say the brand name, but have tried switching to the generic "soda" if I'm ordering in a restaurant. I'm trying to figure out a way to be guaranteed not to hear, "Is _____ ok?"
i.e. "May I please have a coke?"
"Is Pepsi ok?"
or
"May I please have a pepsi?"
"Is coke ok?"
...now that I've started saying "May I please have a soda?"
it's still, "Is coke (or pepsi) ok?"

Do people really care? It's just fizzy sugar either way. From now on, I'm just going to order water.

"Is mineral/spring/tonic OK?"

HULK SMASH!

 

[Fledge]

Fizzy Drinks.

Or their actual name, eg FANTA, SPRITE, LUCOZADE.

 

[superbatranger]

I just call it by the particular brand I'm drinking at the moment.

 

[swolf]

I call it by it's brand name. I think asking for a "soda" always leads to "what type?" so I skip a step.

 

[loc978]

Grew up calling it pop, but I've lived in a lot of different places on three continents now, so... soda, pop, or soda pop... interchangeably.

...and I hate the taste of cola, so Coke and Pepsi are out, in my case.

 

[TheHecatomb]

Other: fris. Or sap.

I'm Dutch, so yeah. Fris for stuff like coke, fanta, icetea. Sap for something that's actually fruit juice.