What do you call carbonated flavored beverages?

[Rooster_Ties]

[Free For All]

Cool looking map Rooster! Looks like a mosaic...... ......mmm...............Mosaic...........must...buy...Shorter/Morgan...set.......

Boy, that one county in the middle of N. Dakota is really hanging in there with the "soda" thing while all around them are opting for "pop".

In Iowa, too- is that Iowa City?

Edited April 26, 2004 by Free For All

[BERIGAN]

Well, like others have mentioned, mid-west is weird...St. Louis was soda country, except when a boothill resident moved to St. Louis, then it was So-dee!

When I visited a friend in Michigan around 1980, I heard all these folks saying something stupid, calling a soda, "POP"

Now, in the ATL it is just COKE....

Edited April 26, 2004 by BERIGAN

[king ubu]

so what are all these "other" words the map refers to?

FROM TEXAS ALONE:

[...]

3 PENIS

[...]

Now didn't I tell you they are strange?

[king ubu]

And how do they order that?

"Hey, pour me a penis, please?"

"I'd like to drink a penis?"

"Could we have another round of penises?"

ubu

[Alexander]

I was born in Buffalo, NY which, as you can see by the map, is hard-core "pop" country. I said pop all my life until I moved to Albany, where they say "soda." Generically, I call it "soda" nowadays. When in a restaurant, I always ask for "coke," which usually works regardless of whether the place serves Coke or Pepsi (although sometimes the waitress will ask "Will a Pepsi be OK?")

Now, here's the big question: Is it OK or okay?

[scottb]

I voted coke because this is what I usually say but a couple choices that were missing which you will here a lot in the DEEP south are COLD DRINK and SOFT DRINK.

Edited April 26, 2004 by scottb

[JSngry]

Now, here's the big question: Is it OK or okay?

On a jazz board, it's Okeh.

[couw]

oh well, h-okeh!

[Big Al]

Pepsi!

Imagine my surprise when they actually have it!

[Jim R]

That map is pretty incredible (incredibly accurate!). I wonder if anybody died along the California/Oregon border when the soda/pop wars were being fought back in the early days.

"Soda" generally rules around here, but when I was a kid a lot of people used the word "coke" for anything carbonated. Some still do.

What really surprises me is that I didn't see any mention of the term "bottleapop". I guess I'm old school, but SODA used to come in glass containers called "bottles". 99% of my relatives live(d) in the Seattle/Tacoma area, where both my parents were from. We went up there on vacation every summer, and my Aunt Florence was always driving me nuts asking if I wanted a bottlapop (I could have spelled it "bottle-o-pop", but she said it much faster than that... MUCH faster). It took me about 9 years to realize she was offering me a "bottle of pop". Once I figured out what she was saying, I still had to figure out what the hell "pop" was!

[Jazzdog]

I call it soda, maybe sometimes I call it soda pop. Who knows, I rarely listen to myself talk!