The Fight of the Century: Pop or Soda?

Alright, folks, I want a nice clean fight. No biting off each other's ears. No calling each other buttmunch or dingleberry. Keep it clean. Mild mocking is allowed.

So..

Which is it?

Pop?

or

Soda?

Original Post by shnitzel:

*sings in operatic soprano*  ZeeZeeZeeZeeZeeZeeZeeZeeZeeZeeeeeeeeee

*shatters glass*

Slag! I still remember one of my primary school teachers having a conniption over someone calling it zee. That paragon of truth and verifiable fact - wikipedia - has this to say:

In most dialects of English, the letter's name is zed (pronounced /zɛd/), reflecting its derivation from the Greek zeta (see below). In American English dialects, its name is zee /ziː/, deriving from a late 17th-century English dialectal form.

Fancy Americans being contrary to the rest of the world! That's unprecidented*! :P

*disclaimer: this is not an attack on Americans, as you are mostly not bad and generally shower often, so you're ok by me. I am just being a smart alec.

Doesn't it feel good to be right p0nda? ;)

Original Post by vicereine:

Doesn't it feel good to be right p0nda? ;)

Always - but then again, I am so often.

In scotland, we call it jinjer. (pronounced like 'ginger').

Soda pop sounds weird, lol.

It's soda in my family. If it's a 2 liter, it's ''the boss."

Ok here goes (my UK version):

Fizzy drink not soda or pop

Mineral water is either still or sparkling

Sofa not couch (a couch is a bed)

Shopping trolley not cart

Jumper not sweater

Biscuit not cookie

Nappies not diapers

Cotton bud not Q-tip

Trainers not sneakers

oh and also:

Crisps not chips

Chips not fries

 

 

Oooh, just thought of another one:

Tap not faucet

A tap is for draft beer.

Zed, zed, zed.  :)

That's all.  :)

pft!  You thought you had the last word? 

Garbanzo bean or chick pea?

Chick Pea. Only WEIRDOS use Garbanzo ;)

And it's ZEE!

Garbonzo bean or chick pea?

You mean they are 2 different products???

Garbanzo sounds cooler, but I use them interchangeably.  It probably depends on what the recipe/package/can says.

It's soda!   or as we often say down here... coke.  To me "pop" means a popsicle :-)

Mobile AL here....

All "sodas" are referred to as coke....if I asked my girlfriends "Do any of y'all want a coke?" and they said yes, I'd immediately respond "What kind"

We use "kleenexes" for tears

Keep our coke in the "icebox" or "fridge"

Put our groceries in the "buggy" or "basket"

Make hummus from "chickpeas"

Sit on couches and loveseats

Eat breakfast, dinner and supper (the true test of being Southern...if you call the noon time meal "dinner")

Eat "ketchup" on our fries (not catsup or tomato sauce)

Use pampers on our babies (regardless of the actualy brand)

Use Qtips in our ears

And our biscuits are hot, fluffy and come with either gravy or butter/jelly/apple butter

Only got 4 minutes to save these southerners. ITS POP. That is all. My Dad is from the south and my Mom is from the North so my family is split in half. Its always a giant debate between soda and pop. My favorite thing about going into the south is saying pop so the waitresses get confused and frustrated. I just keep saying pop and keep the are you stupid look until somebody intervenes. Oh its glorious.

To the confused UK person: We obviously made the language so what we say goes. :P The way you guys say things reminds me of my great grandmother. (I'm not even lying this time).

To Doc2bmo: I've never heard anyone call it catsup or tomatoe sauce. O_O I've never ever heard Lunch being called Dinner by any of my southern relatives. I have how ever heard Supper. I yell at them when they say that :D. My dad uses gravy on our biscuits and it disgusts me. . .

I'm done ranting, have a nice day.

pop (though I personally try to say "soft drink"). zed. chickpea. shopping cart. sofa or couch.

and where I am you don't say "corner store", you say "dep". You don't say "liquor store", you say "sack" (for SAQ). ;)

what was the rest, again?

It's a soda... I'm from the North AND the South... I've never not said soda.

And... it's chickpea in regular speech.  It's garbanzo beans when I'm logging it into calorie count.

Zee or zed... I don't have a preference.

Ketchup... yay...

Dinner at noontime is old fashioned, I think.  My old-country Italian grandmother says Dinner is the midday meal, and supper is the evening meal...

Gotta agree that dinner as the noontime meal is old fashioned.

It's chickpeas in the regular bean aisle and garbanzo beans in the ethnic food aisle. I'm going to have to look up to see if it's really a bean or a pea, cuz I don't remember.

Edit:  It's in the bean family, not the pea family, I checked. I also found out the name chick pea is derived from french and garbanzo is derived from spanish.

Haha...this thread is funny. I am from Southern OHIO and it is POP. Lol.