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?

Pop is any carbonated drink with flavour and sugar/sweetener.

Soda is just sparkling /carbonated water.

When I go to a restaurant here(toronto) and order soda with lemon is just bubbly water with a wedge of lemon, but if I ask what pop they have, they tell me the brands.

And for me its a shopping cart!  b/c it carts your stuff to the car

In Ohio, it's pop.  I don't think I've ever called it soda. 

But, we will know what you are talking about and won't act ignorant as to what you want if you ask for soda, but it is generally called pop here. 

But, what's kind of weird is we do call it soda water usually if you just want the carbonated water.  (which I rarely see anyone drink around here, and I waitressed for years)

OHIO: Equal opportunity when it comes to your preferred carbonated beverage name.

What spuckine and nat620 said.  :-)

coke soda

soda

Being former military and having travelled quite a bit, both domestically and abroad, I think I can say with some authority that Soda is a more widely used term. 

I've always called it pop. Soda sounds weird to me lol.

Iowa is like Ohio, Pop is most widely used, but soda is also accepted/understood.

he he, my little sister on her first trip to the south(Tennessee) ran into this problem they call everything coke. So when trying to order a coke, she and the waitress went round and round for about 5 minutes, the waitress kept asking her 'what kind of coke?', and she kept saying 'a coke'..it was really funny :)

Unless you're in Canada -

It's POP!

Brown Pop, White Pop.

Pop, pop, pop.

:P

And a cart.  :) 

It was POP when I lived in Cincinnati

SODA when I lived in St Louis

Here in Kentucky and Indiana it's COKE.....using a brand name for an item....like "give me a Kleenex" not "give me a tissue."

So you say, "you wanna Coke? What kinda Coke do you want? Sprite?"

Original Post by natlyann25:

I either call it Soda Pop. . .or Soda.  But, it is never just Pop.  I would sound funny if I just called in Pop. After all, I live in Alabama.  You call it Pop here and no one will know what you are talking about.  In AL it is either Coke or Soda.   But, usually Coke.

I can vouch for natlyann as a transplanted Alabamian. I also call it either soda pop or soda, but back in the day I used to say cola (holla at my RC Cola and moon pie homies)!

*thoes a finga up for moonpies and RC Cola* :)

Oooohhhh!!!!!  RC Cola and moonpies!!!  I Love both of those!!!  Or at least I used to.  It has been so long since I have tried either. 

Its soda.

A trolley is similar to a bus. 

First time I heard 'pop', I thought it was being said because it sounded cute. 

My daughter was born/raised in TX and starts calling it coke.  Thats nuts! Its like saying what kind of apple do you want - a banana, an orange or an apple?

I don't know what parts of Ohio you guys are from, but in northern Ohio I've always heard "soda".

A trolley is a streetcar (that's what I called it when I lived in New Orleans), unless you own a Total Trolley then it's a multi-purpose ladder, dolly, and furniture mover.

I say cart: shopping or grocery. My son says Walmart!

Oh man, I gave myself a craving for a banana moon pie, dagburnit!

It's coke! I didn't realize that coke was a brand name until I was about seven, when we'd order at a restauraunt I'd ask for Coke when I meant Dr. Pepper...lol ;p  Now, since I've lived around the country, I call it soda because that seems to be more universally accepted.

And that thing used to push your groceries around is called a buggy, always called a buggy :)

LOL...can you tell I'm from TX? ;p

Original Post by rdgatewood:

It's coke! I didn't realize that coke was a brand name until I was about seven, when we'd order at a restauraunt I'd ask for Coke when I meant Dr. Pepper...lol ;p  Now, since I've lived around the country, I call it soda because that seems to be more universally accepted.

And that thing used to push your groceries around is called a buggy, always called a buggy :)

LOL...can you tell I'm from TX? ;p

 So it's like KY excpet the buggy part!!!!

In most of Ohio most people say pop. I grew up saying pop, married a man from Washington State, he made fun of me for saying pop. I got used to saying soda pop, because soda is just carbonated water. I went back to saying pop after I didn't have to hear his mouth anymore. (I grew up in central Ohio, and have cousins all over Ohio)

All of my relatives in Illinois call it pop.

In the 70's I had a cousin who went to college in Delaware. She came back on a break and asked her mom what kind of soda she had. My aunt gave her a weird look and then brought out the box of baking soda. It was hilarious. My aunt had never heard a pop called a soda before. (This was western Ohio, close to Dayton)

I've never heard of a shopping cart called a buggy or a trolley. A buggy is something used to push babies around and you ride a trolley.