From places that I have lived and worked - in western NY it is Pop in Rochester and Buffalo, but somewhere between Rochester and Syracuse it becomes Soda! Also, it is quite shocking to go to Texas and be asked “What kind of Coke do you want?”
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Chicago will take tree hot dogs and tree pops. Tanks.
You know smoothies?
We call 'em blendies
Oregon rep the pop mfers
Also Michigan and much of Indiana (not sure of Indianapolis and south of there). You get a little bit of it in western NY state too.
I grew up saying ‘pop,’ but have acquiesced to saying ‘soda’ once I moved outside of Michigan.
We call them pop in Canada too!
Meanwhile, me, in Texas:
All soda is Coke.
That’s amazing.
I can hardly express my terror when I first moved away and ordered a coke and they just handed me some random ass coke.
Like they didn’t even ask what kind I wanted.
Are you saying in Texas to order a drink you’d go, “I’ll have a coke”, “what kind?”, “Sprite”…?!?
Yeah, I basically only drank sprites at the time lol
They do in in PA too. I’ve lived here almost my whole life and I hate it. Pittsburghese is a fucking travesty of human language.
But do you drink mostly Faygo? lol
Lol, I did when I was a teenager, but I don’t drink much soda at all these days, besides the occasional root beer or ginger beer.
So absolutely no one calls soda pop?
I once lived at the soda/pop border:
From places that I have lived and worked - in western NY it is Pop in Rochester and Buffalo, but somewhere between Rochester and Syracuse it becomes Soda! Also, it is quite shocking to go to Texas and be asked “What kind of Coke do you want?”
It’s called pop in all of Canada too. An easy way to spot an american tourist is when they say soda.
Fuck yeah. From my understanding Faygo was a big reason we call it pop. Rock & Rye is probably the greatest flavor of any pop.
What do all you rednecks call Coke if everything is Coke?
I once announced to a room full of Minnesotans that I was going to get a pop.
The shameful walk to the coke machine felt very lonely as I contemplated all that had led me there.
I was in Arizona recently and a waiter looked at me like I was an idiot asking what kind of pop they had.
They were probably just confused.
Odd, I’ve been in MN forever and I’m looked at like an idiot for calling it soda.
I never heard anyone up there call it soda either.
They call it pop here in North-East of England as well.
And the north west 👍
Spot on!