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

[EmzOLV]

I call it by the name of the actual product.
As far as I'm aware, in the UK 'soda' never really took off unless you were referring to the canisters used for the soda stream (awww man, I miss my old school soda stream, none of this newly designed stuff...) and 'pop' I've never heard used here.

I just call it 'coke' or 'lemonade' or whatever it is I'm going to drink - so I picked other

 

[Sovvolf]

I just call it pop, a can/bottle or a can/bottle of pop. Not heard anyone in Briton ever use the word Soda unironically. Most think its a strictly American word. That being said, I haven't travelled all of Briton so I wouldn't know for sure.

ew, i hate the word pop, im from england, and all the little chavs (council estate kids) call it 'pop'.

Yep, because everyone who comes from a council estate is a chav... Don't you just love the class system in Briton.

 

[vviki]

Mostly coke, but then we generally use alcohol-free for soda. On the side, juice is juice

 

[Offworlder_v1legacy]

In Australia we say soft drink, or simply, drink.

 

[Daipire]

Soft drink.

You'd get blank stares asking for a pop around here, mate.

 

[Meestor Pickle]

Yep, soft drink in Australia primarily, never heard anyone call it pop, maybe soda but rarely.

 

[Soxafloppin]

I refer to everything drinkable that isnt, tea, Coffe, Alcoholic, Milk, Water, or Coke as Juice.

 

[ethaninja]

coke.

So, lemonade is also coke?

 

[Squiggles]

Since its already been established that Australians call it soft drink: i tend to go with whatever flavor the drink is especially if i don't know which brand of drink the kiosk is selling. If i ask for 'orange" i know ill be getting Fanta, Sunkist, or cheap orange drink. If i ask for 'lemon' i know ill be getting either solo, Lift or lemon squash. Otherwise the brand names , coke is coke, Pepsi is the devil and i grab mountain Dew when i can

 

[Cid Silverwing]

Soda. "Coke" isn't even a word and I never understood what "pop" is meant to be referring to.

If I want to be a snob I say "carbonated soft drink" or just refer to the brand name.

 

[Jewrean]

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

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I'm going to take a stab and guess that we call it 'Soft Drink' because Alcohol is a 'Hard Drink' and we are drunk a lot of the time?

If I want to be a snob I say "carbonated soft drink" or just refer to the brand name.

Everyone in Australia (and from the UK by the looks of it) calls it 'Soft Drink'. This includes Bogans, Poor People, Losers, and Retards as well as the Snobs.

 

[Thedutchjelle]

I call it 'frisdrank' as I'm dutch. Soda is an alkalic fluid (soda carbonate) here.

In English, I honestly wouldnt know how I could call it. I don't drink drinks with bubbles in it, I find it disgusting. I think I would go with Soda as Pop sound ridiculous to me

 

[SilverUchiha]

From my 19 years of experience, I'd say that here in the midwest US, we say Pop.

20 years of being in the midwest and I refuse to call it pop because I feel like a little kid when I say it.

 

[Vern]

I call it soda when referring to a carbonated beverage but not by a specific brand. I live in South Dakota, which is about as rural America as you can get, and the common phrase is pop, or oke even when referring to Pepsi or Barks, sometimes soda-pop comes up, but soda isn't extremely common.

 

[binvjoh]

Anyone else who thought of Pokémon when they read the title?

 

[Wutaiflea]

Because I typically only drink one kind of soda (Cola), I usually just refer to it as Coke, or Cola.

My husband enjoys more variety though, and he calls it pop, so that's the term that I find myself using when I'm asking him what he wants from the shop.

 

[Kenko]

Läsk för fan!

 

[Ilikemilkshake]

I call drinks by their name, mountain dew is mountain dew, pepsi is pepsi, coke is coke, generic cheap store brand ginger beer is ginger beer.. etc

 

[Pikeperch]

Well, here in Sweden we called it Läsk.

Ninja'd!

Ummm..Yeah this or what it is called like Cola or Fanta.

Am I the only swede here who calls it "Dricka"?
I guess it depends on which "end" of Läskedryck you take.

In english, I tend to refer to it as soda. I should probably stop that, it seems to be ripe for misunderstanding.