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

[fletch_talon]

I have to laugh at people saying they don't "blanket term" these drinks.

It leaves me imagining them asking for directions in a supermarket.
"Can you please tell me where to find the coke, pepsi, mt dew, fanta, sprite, dr pepper...
7 up, solo, sunkist... and generic carbonated beverages?"

Australian, we call 'em softdrinks.

 

[Jelly ^.^]

Australia.
Soft drink.

 

[Lim3]

Yeh, as has already been stated in Australia we call it soft drink or fizzy drink.

 

[SenseOfTumour]

Yeqah, tends to be fizzy drink or soft drink in England. (nearly said the UK then remembered the amount of slang the Scots, Welsh, Irish have for things, especially the English people who lump them all together!)

However, any kinda cola invariably ends up getting called a 'coke', whether its Pepsi or tesco's own brand 'value' fizzy ditchwater. Just as most people called anything that plays mp3s an 'ipod' as it's just easier and quicker than 'mp3 player'.

 

[JohanGasMask]

I call it "Gos" witch means VOLCANIC ERUPTION! Seriously...

 

[RhombusHatesYou]

Water? that beyond soft...

Unless you live in Adelaide where it's either chewy or crunchy.

 

[Astoria]

I call them fizzy drinks and always get paid out by my boyfriend who instists theyre called soft drink.

 

[Arduras]

Water? that beyond soft...

Unless you live in Adelaide where it's either chewy or crunchy.

Or if your in Victoria, NSW or QLD its just everywhere

 

[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.