Poll: So what do you call it: Soft Drink, Pop, Soda, Soda Pop?

Something Amyss

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Soft Drink, cola, soda.

Yes, we call it cola even if it's not cola.

Soda mostly, though. Unless it's not soda, but sometimes even then (see cola).

We are a complex and robust people.
 

Rose and Thorn

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Not many people seem to call it what I call it....which is Cola. I guess just the terms Coca-Cola, Pepsi-Cola, I got used to calling all Soda type drinks are known as Cola.

I sometimes refer to them as Soda Pop, Soda or sometimes Pop also. But usually Cola or by Brand. Like if I am at someones place and they offer me a drink, I may say "Do you have any Cola?". Although I don't really drink much cola anymore, I tend to stick to water.

I also call it Coke, but Coke refers to Coca-Cola and only that for me. Coke is my favorite cola, but I like pepsi and root beer also. That is pretty much the only cola's I like.

I have never liked the term "Soft Drink" because it feels so sugary and gassy, which to me is the opposite of soft. I know it is suppose to be the opposite of alchohol, I just never use the term Soft Drink.

I live in Canada, Toronto.

Trek1701a said:
As a generic term, soda. Pop is something you do to a balloon.
Pop is how I sometimes feel if I drink too much Cola! haha
 

Furbyz

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It's all coke. I remember the first time I left the south and went to Tennessee (There's a joke in there somewhere) and had all this difficulty explaining to my relatives that all carbonated beverages are coke. Pop just sounds so...wrong.

I'm a little annoyed that Coke wasn't an option on the poll.
 

ShadowTrooper-A-E

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Around here in michigan we call it pop for the most part though soda is occasionally used ....Now you made me crave dr.pepper good thing i got a 2 liter today Yay!
 

F'Angus

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Fizzy Drinks, or Pop, I have never used the word Soda to describe them, I thought that was an american thing.
 
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I'm incredibly British, so I call them by their TRUE name.

Fizzy Bizzy Brown Pop Sodaly Bodaly Tea In A Bobby Bottle.

Silly colonists changing the names of things.
 

wottabout

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I'm from the eastern US, and I call it soda. I don't really think about it, and I have never heard anyone argue about it except for online. I think most of the people I know call it soda, but I don't pay attention so I can't be sure.

I think I only see them called "soft drinks" when I'm reading a restaurant menu.
 

putowtin

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England here

I tend to call it by name (Coke/Lemonade/Dr P)
but mainly I just call it crap cause it's awful, awful stuff!
 

Quazimofo

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Ljs1121 said:
I'm from Illinois, and it's always been soda for me.

Mostly due to the fact that whenever I asked my mom for a pop growing up, she'd lightly hit my arm and say "there, I popped you".
yeah, i just grew up with my parents calling it soda, and so i did too. Also an Illinois resident here, the cool part of Illinois, but not the dangerous part of the cool part. I live a couple miles away from the lake.
 

Sande45

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Soft drink, I guess. The rest are just plain wrong. Pop is popular music and soda is sodium carbonate.
 

bluerocker

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Dags90 said:
Colour-Scientist said:
I call them fizzy drinks.
Usually I just say the brand name.


Oh, Ireland.
I posted this in another soda thread, but it always tickles my fancy when British (and apparently Irish) people refer to them as "fizzy drinks".

Reporting from a 'coke' part of that North Carolina map, and I call it soda. Screw the Majority![footnote]I am perfectly aware that it is a survey. I hope everyone knows I'm joking.[/footnote] But in seriousness, my friends and I tend to call a drink by its name.
 

risue

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I'm from the south.. its "coke" there is no other word for it. here, our sinks have hot water, cold water, and coke. Pepsi? yeah that's called coke too, just the "other coke" that doesn't taste right.
 

Slitzkin

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Being from the most glorious Commonwealth of Australia I call them "SOFT DRINKS".

God Save The Queen, etc.
 

Dags90

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bluerocker said:
Reporting from a 'coke' part of that North Carolina map, and I call it soda. Screw the Majority![footnote]I am perfectly aware that it is a survey. I hope everyone knows I'm joking.[/footnote] But in seriousness, my friends and I tend to call a drink by its name.
To be fair, the map is a bit dated. North Carolina has only received more Northeast transplants since 2003, only a few of the counties are in the 80-100% range to begin with even in 2003.

It's funny how St. Louis is distinctly a "soda" region. Fits in with my experiences there.