Do you say "pop" or "soda"? (1 Viewer)

[Jeffrey Noel]

A couple of years back, in high school, I went to the National Youth Leadership Forum on Medicine in Boston, and when I said "pop", barely anybody know what I was talking about! Most everyone else said "soda" and a guy from Finland, I think, referred to carbonated beverages as "fizzy drinks".
I have actually been working on the more known term soda, but everybody here in the midwest thinks I'm an idiot!
So, how do you or people in your area refer to Coke, Pepsi, or other carbonated beverages??

 

[RobR]

I say "soda." I have a friend who calls it "soda pop."

I think they call it "juice" in Scotland.

 

[Nick Sievers]

We usually say "Soft Drink" over here, but it's always baffled me as to why we refer to it as that. Fizzy Drink would have to be the other common term over here with Soda not used.

 

[Adam Barratt]

We don't use either 'pop' or 'soda' here. Most people call drinks by their product names (Coke 'Coke', Pepsi 'Pepsi' and so on). The most popular generic description is 'soft drinks'.

Adam

 

[Josh_Hill]

I say 'Pop'

 

[george kaplan]

I never say pop or soda or cola for that matter.

99% of the time I say coke, and the other 1% soft drink.

 

[Paul_D]

'Fizzy drink' is the standard term in England.

 

[JasenP]

It's POP in Southwest Michigan.

 

[Ike]

In TX, it's the generic Coke.

 

[Scott_G]

It's a COKE in NC. but a POP in Indiana.

 

[Chuck C]

pop

 

[SteveGon]

I live in Ohio. We say "pop".

 

[Richard Kim]

Over here we say "soda."

 

[MatthewA]

I say either soda or Coke, because I usually prefer Coke.

 

[Kurt B]

'Round these parts, we call it soda.

 

[Dheiner]

Like Kurt said, It's soda here.

 

[Grant B]

when I lived in Ohio it was Pop

Now it's Beer...I've finished with that phase

 

[Patrick Sun]

Down south, it's usually referred to as "Coke" since we are in "Coke" country.
Anytime we hear someone say "pop" or "soda" we know they ain't from around these parts...

 

[Tom-G]

Pour me a glass of pop, please!

 

[LukeB]

Soda. But "pop" is funnier.