What do you call it - pop, soda, or soda-pop? (1 Viewer)

[Larry Geller]

In NYC it's soda and soda only! Pop is my father.

Same with hoagie! It's NOT A SUB!

Here, it's a hero sandwich (occasionally a sub, never a hoagie or a grinder).

 

[Jeff Kleist]

They're only made properly in the Philly/New York corridor, because of a lack of decent Italian rolls(the most important part) and ingredients elsewhere.
Even the Simpsons knows they're Hoagies!

 

[Justin Doring]

Soda

 

[Garrett Lundy]

People I know always use the products name. This prevents product-brand brainwashing arguements (One friend refuses to drink a Pepsi-Company product till he dies). But other people around here call it soda.

Actual conversation: Setting, My apartment.

Guy: Got any Pop?

Me: Huh?

Guy: Pop?

Me: What'd you break?

Guy: No! Pop, Have you got any?

Me: Oh! Weed!, Yeah, It's up above the fridge.

Guy: No! Pop, as in a drink, Like Mr.Pibb.

Me: Mr.Pibb? Where the F*ck are you from?

Guy: Augusta Georgia

Me: Figures. No, we don't have any Meester Pibb. But grab me a Coke while your at the fridge.

It was well over a week later I figured out what he was trying to say. Next time I see him I'll apologise or something I guess.

 

[Garrett Lundy]

It's also fun telling people about "cheese curds" and "Friday fish fries" and all that.

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In northern NY "Curd" is both the singular and the plural for tasty forms of this probably-unhealthy dairy snack. Why don't you fry fish on tuesdays? and if anybody ever said "Bubbler" around here I'd prolly spray my drink out my nose in oddly-contained laughter. Mostly because it sounds like a bad oral-sex experience.

 

[Bill J]

I call it "soda"

 

[Allen W]

Even though I live about a mile from the old Dr. Pepper Headquarters it all called "coke". That is until you actually get to the refrigerator and then you have to specify which kind you want, Coke, Dr. Pepper etc.

In Dublin, TX you can still get Dr. Pepper made with pure cane sugar rather than the corn syrup mix all the makers use now. It tastes really good.

 

[Brad_V]

Why don't you fry fish on tuesdays?

If that's a serious question, then... I really don't know. lol. Of course places fry fish on other days, but pretty much anywhere you go on a Friday the main thing on the menu will be fried fish. And then when churches and places sell food for fund-raising, they'll usually do a Friday Fish Fry. Maybe being close to the Lakes means easily-accessible fish.

 

[JessV]

It's coke or soft drink here.

 

[David Von Pein]

It MUST be referred to as ...... A Cool Refreshing Carbonated Beverage.
"Have a potato....."
"And a cool refreshing beverage." -- Ernest Thesiger

 

[Garrett Lundy]

Of course places fry fish on other days, but pretty much anywhere you go on a Friday the main thing on the menu will be fried fish. And then when churches and places sell food for fund-raising, they'll usually do a Friday Fish Fry. Maybe being close to the Lakes means easily-accessible fish.

It must be a question of location. Fish isn't in big supply around here so all the Church's and Fire Departments barbeque chicken for fund-raising purposes. But then again it's not always on Friday, usually Sundays really.

Just one of those weird discrepencies that happen in differant regions. Kinda reminds me of Jule's take on "The little differences" between Europe and America.

 

[Ryan Potts]

Here in NM, most people just call it "coke". I, on the other hand, will probably use any one of the other terms (soda, pop, or soda-pop).

nothing frustrates me more than to have someone ask me if I want a "coke" only to hand me something that isn't. (Restaurants are a different story)

 

[Zen Butler]

Soda, never heard of "Pop"?

 

[Ricky Hustle]

I'm from NY and I gotta agree with Larry here. Soda is soda. Pop is my old man.

 

[Anne M]

Down here in southern Louisiana, we call them soft drinks. Although, "coke" is used very often as well.

 

[Steve Enemark]

Of course places fry fish on other days, but pretty much anywhere you go on a Friday the main thing on the menu will be fried fish. And then when churches and places sell food for fund-raising, they'll usually do a Friday Fish Fry.

Traditional Christian custom forbids eating red meat on Fridays.