Pop Vs. Soda Debate

[zyggy 9]

I personally want to know what "other" is. If it's not Soda, Pop or Coke then what the hell else would it be called?

I've heard "Cola" and "Fizzy" as well. I went to university in the south, and heard a variety terms. Mostly, I heard Soda/Coke in cities and pop in the less populated areas.

LoL @ Sprailenes ....... more people call it by its proper name "Soda" than pop, nuffsaid

Actually it comes from the original term Soda Pop .. Soda being the adjective, and pop being the noun.

Pop is the correct term as it is the noun. For example, you have a cloud, a white cloud, but do you have a white. Or.. A boy, a dirty boy, but not a dirty.... In the same vein, you have soda pop, pop, but NOT soda. Ergo, soda is not proper. You might as well call your sweater "wool"

Edited December 15, 2008 by zyggy

[thetreble 19]

I personally want to know what "other" is. If it's not Soda, Pop or Coke then what the hell else would it be called?

I've heard "Cola" and "Fizzy" as well. I went to university in the south, and heard a variety terms. Mostly, I heard Soda/Coke in cities and pop in the less populated areas.

LoL @ Sprailenes ....... more people call it by its proper name "Soda" than pop, nuffsaid

Actually it comes from the original term Soda Pop .. Soda being the adjective, and pop being the noun.

Pop is the correct term as it is the noun. For example, you have a cloud, a white cloud, but do you have a white. Or.. A boy, a dirty boy, but not a dirty.... In the same vein, you have soda pop, pop, but NOT soda.

Ring Ring Ring! I smell a winner. As a fellow linguist, I concur with the Zyg-miester.

[Y's_habibitk 2]

funny, i go back n forth from soda to coke....grew up in cali and have lived in ky for 11 years now. Although in louisville, i hear pop/soda pop more than coke...rarely coke.

someone called me out when i first moved here because I said soda..."you're not from around here are you?" lol

[The_Dude 1,142]

I personally want to know what "other" is. If it's not Soda, Pop or Coke then what the hell else would it be called?

I've heard "Cola" and "Fizzy" as well. I went to university in the south, and heard a variety terms. Mostly, I heard Soda/Coke in cities and pop in the less populated areas.

LoL @ Sprailenes ....... more people call it by its proper name "Soda" than pop, nuffsaid

Actually it comes from the original term Soda Pop .. Soda being the adjective, and pop being the noun.

Pop is the correct term as it is the noun. For example, you have a cloud, a white cloud, but do you have a white. Or.. A boy, a dirty boy, but not a dirty.... In the same vein, you have soda pop, pop, but NOT soda. Ergo, soda is not proper. You might as well call your sweater "wool"

The addition of pop is completely arbitrary. Soda was named as such because it was derived from soda water and delivered to the consumer from a soda fountain.

[Jenn! 918]

I personally want to know what "other" is. If it's not Soda, Pop or Coke then what the hell else would it be called?

Here in the Boston area, many older people call soda "tonic".

[thetreble 19]

The addition of pop is completely arbitrary.

In your mind it may be arbitrary but if you have no facts to back it up saying that it is arbitrary then I refuse to believe you

[The_Dude 1,142]

The addition of pop is completely arbitrary.

In your mind it may be arbitrary but if you have no facts to back it up saying that it is arbitrary then I refuse to believe you

Well, the facts are that it was derived from "Soda Water".

It's always funny seeing the reaction you get in different places using the improper term for that area. People found it funny when I was in university at some of the things I said, but in time, they started using it. I take full responsibility for the usage of the word "Dude" in Clemson South Carolina )

How long will it be til you too will ask a waitor "Could I get a refill on my soda?"

buahahahahahahahahahaha

[thetreble 19]

How long will it be til you too will ask a waitor "Could I get a refill on my soda?"

buahahahahahahahahahaha

NEVERRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR!

[Flames9_RN 358]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QylncpJy5Rc

its Soda cause Kim Mitchell said so!!!

Edited December 15, 2008 by flames9

[xtinab 0]

Pop.

EOD

[*julez* 124]

Its pop. Always has been, always will be, regardless of what others may say. My poply principals cannot be compromised.

[The_Dude 1,142]

How long will it be til you too will ask a waitor "Could I get a refill on my soda?"

buahahahahahahahahahaha

NEVERRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR!

Well, I always said i'd never use "Y'all" when I was in univ., but I quickly picked that up. Mel has picked up "dude", and I have picked up "eh", next thing will be your conversion..... Give in to the Dark Side (we have cookies).

[Southern_Canadian 0]

Eric and I alwayyyysssss talk about this topic!!! Almost everyone here, in Georgia, call it Coke and if not Coke, then Soda. I call it pop and he laughs at me. Actually, many people look at me weird when I say pop. LOL Don't think I'll ever start calling it Coke or Soda.

It makes me laugh when someone asks if you want a coke and when you say yes, they ask what kind.

I can't wait for Eric to come home from work.. gonna have to show him this map!

[Donna A 4]

thats strange...everyone i know from the south always called it soda.

[warlord 72]

I personally want to know what "other" is. If it's not Soda, Pop or Coke then what the hell else would it be called?

Here in the Boston area, many older people call soda "tonic".

Yeah I just read that in the North East they call it tonic as well. Other names mentioned were cola and soft drinks. So guess those would be the 'other' catagories.

I got mixed up as a kid. In Canada called it pop, then living in Hawaii it was soda so I learned to call it that, but when we moved back to Canada everyone called it pop again. Everyone just automatically assumed "soda" was the US name and "pop" was uniquley Canadian. I found this wrong when my friends in Michigan always said pop.

After that I just refused to call it by any name and just refered to it as the brand name or 'soft drinks'. Guess that scared me for life so much that about 8 years ago I stopped drinking all soft drinks all together and now I just ask for either water or MGD...