Do you ask for a "Soda" or "pop"?

My whole life it was always "Gimmie a pop"...

Then when I was in the Marines I live in California for a while and it's been "may I have a soda" ever since.

Soda vs Pop map of U.S. click here.

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Permalink Reply by spaghetti on July 3, 2010 at 6:50am

Down in Atlanta, they called everything "Coke", which I never understood

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Permalink Reply by mike w. on July 3, 2010 at 7:30am

Soda, ever since my Lost Year in Connecticut... Sometimes sodie, sodapop. or sodiepop.

Do you carry groceries in a bag or a sack, drink water from a fountain, a cooler, or a bubbler?

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Permalink Reply by A.K.A Paul on July 3, 2010 at 7:34am

In the Marines the drinking fountain is called "The Scuttlebutt", which is a Navy term and where the term scuttlebutt comes from when talking rumors (I beleive).

mike w. said:

Soda, ever since my Lost Year in Connecticut... Sometimes sodie, sodapop. or sodiepop.

Do you carry groceries in a bag or a sack, drink water from a fountain, a cooler, or a bubbler?

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Permalink Reply by mike w. on July 3, 2010 at 7:41am

You got it.

Not Nathan Fillion (aka Paul) said:

In the Marines the drinking fountain is called "The Scuttlebutt", which is a Navy term and where the term scuttlebutt comes from when talking rumors (I beleive).

mike w. said:
Soda, ever since my Lost Year in Connecticut... Sometimes sodie, sodapop. or sodiepop.

Do you carry groceries in a bag or a sack, drink water from a fountain, a cooler, or a bubbler?

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Permalink Reply by Michael Millican on July 3, 2010 at 7:54am

I believe it's because Coke was originally bottled in Altanta

spaghetti said:

Down in Atlanta, they called everything "Coke", which I never understood

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Permalink Reply by igz on July 3, 2010 at 7:58am

soda. simply said. what thefuck is 'pop'? does it 'pop'? um...no. SODA

and this is why it's commonly referred to as SODA..
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soda_water

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Permalink Reply by Vilda on July 3, 2010 at 8:05am

Soda is north east and west coasts, midwest is pop. And Michael is right about Coke no matter how odd. ;-)

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Permalink Reply by Ricardo Cervantes on July 3, 2010 at 12:09pm

38 years in Chicago......always been "pop".

I'm drinking a pop as I surf Chainlink. Cherry Coke. Word up.

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Permalink Reply by Digital Dario on July 3, 2010 at 12:45pm

I ask for soda because I'm worldly. Only farmers ask for pop.

Actually I say soda because in spanish its soda and if for nothing else it is just to be consistent.

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Permalink Reply by Tank-Ridin' Ryan on July 3, 2010 at 3:07pm

And still headquartered down there.

Michael Millican said:

I believe it's because Coke was originally bottled in Altanta

spaghetti said:
Down in Atlanta, they called everything "Coke", which I never understood