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

[PentagramSpawn]

95% of the time I refer to it either by brand or description of the specific type of soda i.e. Cola. 5% of the time i call it Ssssssoda with a very long ssssss at the beginning.

 

[Nexoram]

Cheap stuff like the "coke" you find in supermarkets are called soft drinks in Oz. Awesomer (is that a word) stuff like Pepsi and Coca-cola; we just call them that.

 

[ColeBarrett]

I call it "Liquid Crack" cuz I cant break my addiction.....

 

[Lion_Slicer]

You mean soft drinks? That's what we Aussie's call carbonated beverages. Though if you mean Mountain Dew, we call it Mountain Dew.

I've heard Western Australian relatives call them "cool drinks."

Confused the hell out of me.

 

[Irony's Acolyte]

I call it "Soda" when I'm being general and the actuall name when I'm being specific ("Coke", "Pepsi", "Sprite", "Mountain Dew". It's always "Root Beer" for me though...).

I actually saw a map of the US where it showed what the different parts of the country called carbonated beverages. The South (including New Mexico) mainly called it "Coke" (even Pepsi); the North Eastern part of the country (Virginia up through to Maine) called it Soda along with Calafornia, Nevada, Arizona, Missouri, and Wisconsin; and the Mid-West (from West Virginia and Ohio all the way to Oregon and Washington) all called it Pop. It also gave the percentage of those polled who called it that. The North East Coast had a high percentage for "Soda" (92-95%, except Massachusetts at 69%), while the Plain states (70-85%) used "Pop" more than the Mountain and Pacific state (52-76%). Hell North Carolina was barely in "Coke" territory with its 44%.

Eastern Pennsylvania if anyone's wondering. Saw someone on here who was from the Western part and they used "Pop", guess the East uses Soda and the West uses "Pop". PA was "Soda" at only 52%.

 

[Zorg Machine]

Here in sweden we usually say cola or läsk but when I speak english I say coke.

 

[JackKrauserFtw]

because beer is a wide variety, and nearly all of them taste identical, and those that don't you would ask specifically for it. 'Fanta' can fall under many categories, simply because its the widest orange flavored soft drink, everyone knows what Fanta is, and if they dont have it, they just say no

 

[SarahSyna]

Here in Ireland we just seem to call fizzy drinks by name. So instead of 'I want a soda,' we specifically say 'I want a Sprite/Coke/Fanta'.

 

[Grayjack]

I call it Ambrosia, or Soda.

 

[DP155ToneZone]

I call it Lemonade.

Even if it's Coca Cola, it's lemonade.

 

[WJC]

I really have no idea what exactly you're talking about with 'soda' and 'pop', but Mountain Dew is a lemonade and things like Mountain Dew, cola etc are collectively known in Australia as soft drinks (as opposed to 'hard' drinks such as spirits)

 

[Anah'ya]

I call it Lemonade.

Even if it's Coca Cola, it's lemonade.

But.. but.. the lemon... where's the lemon!

 

[havass]

I refer to them as a whole as 'soft drinks'.
Honestly, I never really understood that. What are 'hard drinks', then? o.o

 

[Kunzer]

I call the drink what it is. Coke zero, for example:

If I'm drinking a Coke Zero, I just tell people I'm drinking a Coke Zero

 

[Firetaffer]

Fizzy drink?

 

[VondeVon]

Soft Drink.

 

[DP155ToneZone]

But.. but.. the lemon... where's the lemon!

Fanta is good lemonade.

Despite what my contemporaries think, Coke Zero tastes good. It's one of my favorite Lemonades.

 

[Sun Flash]

Just whatever brand it is, I've never called soft drinks "soda" or "pop" in my 18 years here.

[sub]Also Mountain Dew is gross, it tastes like medicine. Don't hurt me O_O'[/sub]

I refer to them as a whole as 'soft drinks'.
Honestly, I never really understood that. What are 'hard drinks', then? o.o

alcohol?

 

[Cain_Zeros]

Like most (if not all) Canadians, I call it by it's proper name. Pop.

 

[thom_cat_]

Soft drink, or maybe fizzy drink.