Pop, Soda, or Coke?

http://www.popvssoda.com ^ | 12/21/04 | http://www.popvssoda.com

[agenda_express]

I post a hard-hitting news story to "breaking news" or "front page news" and I am usually lucky to get 5 or 10 replies. I post my first vanity in almost 4 years on this site, with no link on "breaking news" or "front page news", and there are almost 250 replies. I guess that now I know the REAL reason people are on FR - to determine the life or death matters such as "coke" v "soda", or "couch" v "davenport"! :)

[Vor Lady]

I'm a soda person and I've NEVER been for a democrat!

[MineralMan]

"What's with Tabasco sauce in the south"

It's the essential seasoning. Food is not food without Tabasco.

[NotJustAnotherPrettyFace]

Please check your FReepmail!

[CollegeRepublican]

When I talk with my friends I do the, "where are you at?" alot. I also say Coke when I want a Coke, Dr. Pepper when I want a Dr. Pepper and so on, but I guess I would call it a soda. I do the y'all, crick, and warsh. As in, "The congress meets in Warshington." I live near Bawlmore, hun.

My friends from college are mostly from the Northeast and I was from a "southern area" of Maryland and they all thought that I had a southern accent and was a hick. Same thing with my sister who went to school in Springfield, Mass. I think that I have a mix of Allegheny Highland/SW Pa speech and Baltimoreese, with a very slight Southern draw thrown in. But I can turn it on or off depending on how much country and bluegrass I have been listening to or how much I have been hanging out with my relatives recently.

[muir_redwoods]

Soda in CT and to broaden the category a bit, those large Italian sandwiches are called "Grinders" here in CT

[Aquinasfan]

. . . Massachusetts wherein the ice cream was kept in a "cabinet". The pharmacist/soda jerk began calling a mixture of milk, ice cream, and syrup a "cabinet" ...

Thanks Mary 8-)

[lizma]

I say pop but I also say diet soda. I guess it's because there really weren't many diet drinks when I was a kid.

[CollegeRepublican]

Give me two Cheese-Wiz, with.......

One for now and one for the later tonight. :)

[TChris]

What happened to "Ahraa-C"?

(Completely speechless with confusion.) ???

[Aquinasfan]

Two different things: a vacuum cleaner is electric, and a carpet sweeper isn't -- it's mechanical.

My 80-something mother-in-law calls a vacuum cleaner "the electric sweep." You gotta love it.

[Inyokern]

You probably know what a "coney" is.

[Mo1]

It's the essential seasoning. Food is not food without Tabasco.

I've noticed .. My hubby puts it on everything *l*

[oyez]

I lived a year in Rhode Island. Those people defiantly cannot use the English language. The first thing I noticed when I moved there was the business establishments called "Cleansers". Anywhere else in the nation that is called "Dry Cleaning."

[Vor Lady]

As long as you are posting life or death deciding issues, how about what one calls the conveyances to move groceries from the store to one's car. I'm from Oregon originally and we called them carts. I have several friends from the South and they call them buggies. I now live in Nebraska and many of my friends here call them baskets. When will we see the Red/Blue breakdown for this issue? Inquiring minds want to know!

[MineralMan]

"I lived a year in Rhode Island. Those people defiantly cannot use the English language. "

Defiantly. I like that.

[jslade]

R.C. Cola. Was very big in the South. Pronounced by Southerners as "araa-c".

[Bella_Bru]

Wow...that map seems pretty accurate. I grew up in Syracuse, where it was soda. Buffalo, only a couple hours west was pop.

[RepoGirl]

Born in jersey, of midwestern parents, raised in south Florida.

I've always called them sodas. With the exception of Pepsi, which I've always referred to as, "Crap."

[snowstorm12]

Pop definately
soda sounds like baking soda or laundry detergent or something.

Calling all pop, coke, is just weird. I never even heard of that. Coke is the generic term for all the Colas like pepsi, RC etc., but not 7-up, any generic store brand pop like grape, sprite or sierra mist. That's just wrong.