[Barb E]

Conversation at work today and now I'm curious. What is your generic name for carbonated drinks?

 

[pinkanml]

I say "soda" (grew up around the DC area). I used to tease DH all the time, who's originally from KY, because he called it "pop," for the longest time.

After a few years in DC/VA, he started calling it "soda," but now he's stationed in New Orleans, and he calls it "pop" again.

 

[im4dogz]

Coke. lol It doesn't matter if it's really Coke or something like Root-Beer, I still call it Coke.

 

[middleofnowhere]

I use the terms interchangably. Grew up in NW, lots of time in the west, a bit in NYC, too long in the south.

 

[butterfingers]

It's SODA!!!! I hate the term "pop".

 

[Sean Rescue Mom]

In the midwest we call it pop but I have so many east coast friends that I now call it soda.

 

[[email protected]]

I say pop! One time it did take me a couple of minutes to make someone understand what a "pop machine" was though...

 

[Achielles UD]

Soda.... or as the twins call it... Sodie!

 

[kodagoodboy]

Pop here....Relatives in texas call everything coke...and friends on the west cost say soda lol

 

[selzer]

I said "pop" because that was most common growing up, but we also call it "sodas", "cokes", "colas", or "drinks." "Diet pop" is also a biggie.

 

[tytysgirl]

Soda (Raised in Cali) but everyone around here (AR) call it pop

 

[Stogey]

It was always " Pop " while growin up ... now it's soda, coke or soft drink
Can almost tell who the Baby Boomers are on this web site ....

 

[LaRen616]

I call them Pop, but when I feel like being a jack*** I call them Fountain Drinks.

 

[Emoore]

I grew up calling it a coldrank. One word. Pronounced: COLdrank. As in, y'all wanna Coldrank?

 

[SchDDR]

Soda.
As to where I grew up... umm...
Germany, Tennessee, North Carolina, Texas and Washington?

So, I can't say where I picked up soda. It does seem the most common terminology on the West Coast, though.

 

[Rerun]

Pop. I say I want a "coke" if I actually want the product coke. Everything else falls under pop.

 

[GSD_Xander]

Growing up in California it was always "soda".

Moving to Idaho it was "pop".

Here in Oregon I've heard both and I use both.

 

[Stosh]

Soda- or as my New Yorker grandmother called it- soder. Now that we're in TX, we joke around and call it coldrank like Emoore

 

[paulag1955]

I grew up calling it pop; that's what my parents called it. But now I call it soda. I'm not sure when or why I switched it up. I'm a Washington (the good one) native and I've never lived anywhere besides the Northwest (including Alaska).

 

[bianca]

Bearing in mind that I am a New Zealander now living in Australia, I call it Soft-Drink or Fizzy-Drink!!!