September 2, 2011
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Dividing the Xanga Community
Sometimes I think there are issues that divide the xanga community right down the middle. It is my understanding that where you live greatly impacts whether you call the following drink a “soda” or a “pop.” Here is the link: Link
Do you call it soda or pop?
Comments (153)
I call it crack in a can.
Pop… it’s a Western New York thing.
soda….
Both. Depends on the context.
Growing up in Michigan, it was pop.
Then I moved to Nevada. It was soda.
Now I’m back in Michigan and I say both, but more soda. (And when I do say Soda around here, people always correct me, lol. It’s pop!)
Soda!!
soda
all acid and sugar
and gas
very healthful
sooooddaa
Fizzy.
REMEMBER THE BRITS. YOU RACIST.
Pop!
I just call it a coke no matter what it is.
Ex. – You want a coke or something?
Everyone knows the right way to say it is Soda.
I always called it soda pop!
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Well, that’s a pepsi.
Pop.
Miami, Fl… and its SODA.
Here in Michigan I call it whatever the fuck I wanna call it. Fuck you.
It’s a sody pop.
soda. DIET SODA FTW
I grew up in nw IN and I call it pop. I’ve lived in VA (someone actually laughed & said it’s been years since she heard someone there say pop) & they say soda. My husband is from CA where they say soda. Now I live in TX & from what I hear people call it coke. Calling it “coke” as a generic term is more annoying to me than the word soda. I don’t know why, but the word soda bothers me. *lol*
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Wha da? I didn’t know anyone called it “pop”. Haha, I didn’t know it was a demographic issue……I just thought they called it “pop” in the 50s and “soda” in more modern times.
IT’S COKE, DAMMIT!!!!!!!! WHY MUST YOU DISCRIMINATE AGAINST THOSE WHO CALL IT COKE?
Sodapop
pop. duh.
It’s Coke….. or as my MIL from Atlanta says (peppy Geeeorgiiian drawl) it’s “cOca-cohla”
I live in SE Asia and we call it Pepsi here.
soda
Growing up in Boston, I called it tonic. Now, it’s soda.
@SasGal - that’s what I call it.
Pop!
Soda
@Pink_TeaCups - isn’t it discrimination? :p
@pinktiger335 - Same thaang to me!
Pepsi is gross, but everything else is coke.
@Pink_TeaCups - LOL!! =D
LOL, GREAT topic! That’s something I found to be interesting in the military. To correct some, NO it’s not strictly a state thing, but depending more so where you live on either side of the flexible invisible line that divides the north and south of the U.S. Generally the North will refer to it as “pop,” and the South, “soda.”
One thing that I don’t understand about some southerners is why they refer to ANY soda as “Coke.” I’ve seen it in the responses already. At that point you’re getting into brand names… Pepsi can’t be Coke. I’m pretty sure if Coke dubbed a Pepsi product as “Coke,” or Pepso declaring to be “Coke,” There would be a law suite involved. LOL
… So, to whom it may concern, when I order a Coke, DON’T ask me “What Kind?” That doesn’t make any sense at all… you’ve been warned. LOL
I got off topic… I once called it “pop,” but then converted to be more universally accepted, and understood, to “soda.”
I call it either. But back in Arkansas, where my family is from, it is referred to as Coke no matter what it is. If you want a soda, then you ask for a Coke or sarsaparilla.
I’m in California. We call it soda. Or at least I do.
brown sugar water
Neither. Its coke. If you’re having the brand name, its Coke. Otherwise… coke. In Texas you can go to a restaurant and say, “I want a coke.” Your response will be, “Okay, what kind? Dr. Pepper, Coke, Sprite…?”
I can’t even imagine saying soda or pop… neither of those role off the tongue as easily as coke.
SODA
@ThisEmptyApartment - You misunderstand!!! Coke is the brand name. In order to order another carbonated beverage, you must have a coke. (No capitalization, see?)
I have to go with the “Coke” junkies although generally my husband knows what I really want is a Dr. Pepper. Here in Texas Coke or Cola is the catch all phrase like Klenex is for Tissue…generally if you send your hubby in for “tissue” he comes out with a roll of Charmine.
I grew up in Dallas, Texas calling it ‘soda’. Then I started working someplace near the Oklahoma border and suddenly every one was calling it ‘pop’.
The prosecution called it “assaulting their client with a canned beverage”.
haha. Both.
soda.
pop sounds like something old farts say.
It’s called a coke. Not a Coke, but a coke or soda. Even if it is Pepsi, it’s a coke.
Just coke. not that I drink the stuff.
pop, but i’m from the midwest.
i would call it fizzy or pop.
It’s a soft drink.
But on a more serious note, it’s pop.
I don’t drink it anymore, but if I ask someone, I’d say, “Do you want a soda?”
Never called it pop or known anyone who has. I must admit that “pop” looks/sounds better. “Soda” is a ugly word.
xX Ame ~*~ Hana Xx
Isn’t it pepsi?
Growing up between Buffalo, Ny and Rochester, Ny….I called it pop. When I moved to Virginia for the Navy after hs…I now call it soda. Anything else feels weird.
I call it soda pop.
I usually call it coke..no matter what it is. Lol
I sometimes called it soda even in the UK
but I called it pop.
I call it soda.
Soda….
pop
Pop, but since the original word was “soda-pop”, soda is just fine as well. However, I want to pistol whip the hell out of the rednecks who insist on calling every type of pop Coke. Coke is a particular TYPE of pop you asshats. Amusingly, I work (not live) in a state where the inbred hicks call everything “Coke” and I went to a McDonald’s the other day and I kid you not, out of the 12 or so drink slots on the fountain machine, 8 of them were Coke, two were diet, and I think the other two were water and lemonade.
soda
Uh.. English is like my fourth language. I learned it’s soda in English class at school.
Grew up hearing it called Soda Pop. (Rural Midwest) Now I’m old and all sophisticated, and call it Cola.
Malaysians call such drinks as ‘soft drinks’, not ‘soda’ or ‘pop’.
When I lived in Atlanta, everything was “Coke”. When I moved to NY, it was “soda” and when I lived in Colorado it was “cola”. Now that I live in the Midwest, it’s “pop”. I still call it pop. Life’s funny that way.
I call it coca-cola
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I got an urge to write, about what I know not. I think my life is going downhill. How am I suppose to succeed in life, when first off I am not a kind of person to enjoy stuff. Second, my behavior is way to eccentric for the comfort of others.
Not only am I living a very inferior form of human life, I do not have the normality to be at ease in society. I guess xanga is not the place to complain.
I don’t want to kill people. I can’t have fun. I am in constant inner turmoil. I feel rage, but I don’t have an object of hatred, I feel angry like that is my breathing stable emotion.
Rage helps me resist life blows. A blow can be defined as someone who tries to make me feel worst about myself than I alreaty do. I give up. I doubt I will ” get it” and move on. My impulses to touch, smell the women I find attractive.
But that is so stupid and illegal!!! Why would I have such mindless impulses I constantly put in check? From my point of view, I can’t find god in any of this; I speak nonesense, I feel emotions that interfere with normal development, I am hated for my ignorance and weaknesses, and on top of it all, I have to live the rest of my life knowing that I am not really functioning properly.
I honestly feel… not just angry… amazed… life can go so wrong… things can turn out really messed up, and through it all I’m still wondering how anyone can be happy. Your life is freaking awesome despite the struggles that come your way. Your life is significant. Am I in the 1 percent where life sucks.
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Fizzy drink. Because I’m British
Regular pop and diet soda
Soda.
Pop. It sounds so weird to say, “I want a soda.” Lol.
I was always told that the correct term was “soda pop”.
In Poland we call it “Puszka”
It’s a coke!
Pop. WTF is a soda?
My sister lives in NC and they call it “Coke”.
“Do you have any coke?”
“Sure, what kind do you want?”
“Dr. Pepper”
Who does that?
i think soda is an american thing.
“Junk”
That would be a coke.
It goes like this:
customer: I’d like a coke.
waiter: What kind?
customer: Dr. Pepper.
Pop!
@AncoraImparo - If I was asked what kind of coke I would look at them funny and be like…”the regular kind?” lol.
@andilynn77 - hahaha…Texas is strange. My girlfriend is from Louisiana and they are the same way! I moved up north and now it’s “soda”.
Where’s the representation for those across the pond?
Fizzy drink! But more often, Pop or Coke.
Dear Dan,
Pespi changed their logo? Where have I been. Oh, yeah. I don’t drink soda.
Or pop, for that matter.
Michael F. Nyiri, poet, philosopher, fool
Yeah, I was pretty sure it was only old people who called it pop.
Growing up in Oklahoma, with Midwestern sensibilities, it was usually “pop.” But I live in Texas, and have called it soda for many years now. My girlfriend calls every kind of soda a “coke” which is maddening to me.
Ct and it’s Soda
soda
sodapop
Canadians call it “Pop” and some Americans also call it “Pop” but it is largely to do with where they live in America.
I grew up in Pittsburgh, PA yet somehow call it ‘soda’ instead of ‘pop’; although my college soccer coach was from Ireland and he called it fizzy juice, so I call it that sometimes, and I spent some time in North Carolina, so occasionally I ask for a coke even when I mean mt. dew or something of the like…
@RulerofMasons - great, now shave that unibrow, renaldo!
Pepsi here in Ghana
My mom got me to realized that growing up, we always call it Pop in Michigan. She didn’t like how I adopted Missouri’s way of calling it Soda. Blame it on the south, momma. Not me.
@ItIsAllGravy - I called it soft drink for the longest time. Probably other countries call it as such. Soda and Pop are definitely regional.
@CrystallineFigurines - I guess that would apply if, from birth, you were a slow learner and could only acknowledge one word for an entire variety of soft drinks. Do you call you’re Dad, “Dad,” and your Mom,”dad?!” They are both parents, yet two completely different people. (Unless, they live an alternate lifestyle, lol. Then I guess it’d be appropriate to have two Dads.)
@CrystallineFigurines - Coke is Coke, and everything else is “pop” or “soda,” or their respective brand name.
I’m from the midwest. It’s pop. Soda is pop mixed with ice cream.
pop =)
@ThisEmptyApartment - You’re really good at being an asshole. I guess it applies to you too. I can call you asshole instead of your name.
I’ve lived in two places and in both it’s called soda.
TONIC.
It’s pop. End of story.
Both. But mostly soda!!
@Pink_TeaCups - NO
soda
POP
I talk about the substance itself as soda, but as pop in combination with certain common phrases.
I drink soda, or pour myself a glass of soda. I grab a pop can out of a pop machine.
I blame this on growing up in northern Indiana, then attending school in mid Indiana for >4 years.
Thats a Coke. Everything in the South is a coke.
Pop (from Minnesota!)
In Texas, it’s called a coke.
I just use the word; “coke.”
Well, I used to call it coke regardless of what it actually is, and that still slips out sometimes while I’m talking about a Fanta or something. I’d be more likely to call it soda (I’ll never call it pop, I’m sure), but more often, I either call it by it’s name (Sprite or whatever) or call it a fizzy drink.
Oh and I’m from Kentucky, but I live in the UK now.
@Pink_TeaCups - Yes!! Fizzy drink for the win!
its soderrr
I call it soda but my Grandpa calls it, “Pop.”
soda
In the Bay Area it’s soda!
Soda. I’m from Jersey. If you say Pop, people will think you’re a redneck hick.
I call it both, soda because I’m from Boston and we call it that there but, I get in the habit of saying pop because everyone in Illinois says pop.
@bakersdozen2 - I agree and I’m from Texas
in Texas we call all carbonated drinks a Coke. So if someone here asks you what kind of coke do you want they are asking if you want a pepsi,coke,rootbeer,Big Red, Root Beer or what? almost forgot Dr Pepper ,too
@Sake_Tatsuyo - I agree with you and i’m from Texas
@blonde_apocalypse - amen-I’m from Texas
@Rob_of_the_Sky - you’re right-I’m in Texas
@MyTwoCentss - lol you’re funny. Here in Texas we call it all coke but some old people call it soda water but it sounds like sodiewatar
@joined_in_2005 - you would be right then-that is what I say in Texas
@TheFifthHero - yo’re right,too I’m in Texas
@galadrielspitcher - me,too. I’m in Texas and we call it all coke kind of like tissues are called kleenex
@raspberryjade - or sodeer water
@AmanduhPie - we do that in Texas,too
Soft drink.
Soft drink. (I’m from Quebec.)
@Passionflwr86 - I think its more of a Northern thing.. Not just New York..
I was from Canada but now live in the states but I call it pop.. My boyfriend calls it Soda.. I make him call it pop though
lol@wizexel22 - Its a northern thing.. Alot of people in Canada call it by pop 
Its just abrieviated (sp).. Cause really its Soda Pop! 
I call it soda pop. I spent a few years in the Boston area though and those white trash fuck wads up there actually called it tonic (or, rather, “tawnic”). Assholes!
Red Sox suck!
It depends on who I’m around. My dad’s family calls it pop, my moms calls it soda. Sometimes it’s just “Coke.”
Pop and soft drink. But we call those fizzy (non-cola) drinks as ‘soda’. I’m from Toronto, Canada so our words can either be Americanized sometimes.
Soda or coke.
I was raised to call it soda, back in my parents stomping grounds, Northeast of here. Here in Oklahoma they call it pop, so I kinda tailor my nomenclature to the company I keep. Solicitous, but I do not grovel or submit to other indignities lightly. Peace
I say soda-pop.
<– maryland. and here, its soda. I went to Ohio and they kept advertising “pop”, it threw me off.
@Babyboomerjill - you can hit reply and write your message and make a new line and then hit reply to someone else, in the same comment. as opposed to filling up an entire comment page to reply to and posting eleven different comments.
@lyrics_and_lists - that’s odd that it would bother you so much since this is Dan’s post.
@CrystallineFigurines - Hmm, you could. But then you’d just be proving me right by using you’re inability to grasp a higer level of education. Infants call things by a singular title because they don’t know better. However, they are in the process of learning. This is where you failed. You stalled out on the very begining of the learning curb. Catch up to the rest of the intelligent population.
…And you are right, I am an AMAZING asshole. But instead of loathing me, try seeing this topic from my side. I do see where you are coming from, and I acknowledge it. I just don’t agree with it. I see it as, “asinine.” Look from someone elses view and maybe you’ll see things differently, learn something… OR just be an ass hole like me.
ANYWHO, I’m over this lil’ debate. I got my point across and I didn’t recieve any counter-point worthy of keeping my attention. Good chat.
@ThisEmptyApartment - My point was, it was immature of you to make this a serious debate in the first place. You like to insult the intelligence of someone who was joking around. Why? Does it make you feel better about yourself to piss on others for no reason? That is sad, and it shows that you really have nothing in life.
For your information, i happen to be an extremely intelligent person who enjoys living life. I don’t get my kicks starting stupid shit with random strangers. I’m sorry that you have so little in life that you do.
@ThisEmptyApartment - Having said all that, reading your responses gives me serious pause as to whether or not you actually have a shred of intelligence in your body…
@CrystallineFigurines - You judge me for debating (which is healthy by the way), and for attacking you (which you responded to MY post, by the way)… then you stand incorrect on two accounts. Pointing out the stupidity of someone is not so much my life, as it is an act of charity that I hand out when I can to help rid the world of idiocracy. And as for me picking a fight with YOU, look back in the comments and see that YOU were the one that responded to MY comment. I don’t have to search for morons, unfortunately they find me… like you did. And for keeping on like this, it OBVIOUSLY shows your towering maturity, so kudos there.
… and I like how after I state that I’ve grown tired of this petty conversation, THEN you come at me with whatever you could muster up with two bottles of Excedrin and a lifetime for a decent come-back. I have to say, I think you rushed it. You and your self-proclaimed intelligence could have done better (yes I’m giving you a compliment… even YOU could have done better than that). And on that point, I will bring attention to one more thing before I get to erase your painful existance from my brain till the next time Xanga tells me you need attention with a retort (and still probably ignore it because this is tiresome). When I said that I was done, that’s when you tried the hardest to “burn me” with an insult. Are you TRYING to get under my skin? Are you trying to keep me coming back? If so then another point countered onto you Miss. If your life is so grand why can’t you just swallow and move on? You’re right, your life IS grand if this is a highlight. Haha
Xanga viewers, I hope this entertained you more than it did me, if you were bored enough to follow this. However, this is indeed my last reply to Miss Crystal. I’m going to be the adult here and move on to something worthwhile. In the meantime, Crystal I KNOW you can’t help but keep with the immaturity and come after me again with yet another dull comment. So when the head ache from all the thinking to write this last reply goes away, I’m sure I’ll hear from you. So dance monkey… prove me right.
I’m out Cafe.
I don’t think this even matters.