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Post by Deleted on Feb 17, 2017 15:38:02 GMT -5
I live in Washington State and I never heard anyone said "Pop" ... it was more like Coke and/or the brand of the Soft Drink that people wants. I never, ever called it "Pop" it's too universal and ordinary.
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Post by Cei-U! on Feb 19, 2017 17:51:18 GMT -5
I also live in Washington State, grew up here, and I never heard it called anything but "pop" until I went off to college and met people from other parts of the country. Both of my parents were originally from Wisconsin, though, so it may have been something they brought here with them. Anyway, no matter what we called it, we weren't allowed to have it at home, condemned by economic factors to that sugary swill known as Kool-Aid.
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Post by wildfire2099 on Feb 19, 2017 18:37:14 GMT -5
I thought the South was where everything was 'Coke', even when it was 'Pepsi Coke'?  -M What about for those of us from the North Shore (Boston area) that say 'Tonic' |
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Post by Deleted on Feb 19, 2017 19:50:12 GMT -5
-M What about for those of us from the North Shore (Boston area) that say 'Tonic' Look at what the graph is actually reporting...i.e. highest percentage of responses. If multiple terms are used in a state, the one with the highest percentage of responses is the one that determines the color of the state. Just the way electoral votes work in most states-there can be 15 different terms used in the state, but the whole state gets colored by what the most common response was in the survey. Just because the state is colored yellow doesn't mean every person in the state calls it soda, it means more people said they call it soda in that state than any of the other terms... So yes, you can live in Washington and hear people call it soda and the graph is not wrong or on the North Shore and hear people use tonic and the graph is not wrong, because the people using tonic don't outnumber the people using soda in MA when they did the survey in MA.  -M |
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Post by tingramretro on Feb 20, 2017 3:50:49 GMT -5
Some older folks in Massachusetts still call soda "tonic." My father in law calls it soda pop which is what soft drinks are really. It wasn't until I was drinking age I realized soda is just carbonated water. I don't think I've ever heard "soda" or "soda pop" used in Britain, and I haven't heard "pop" used since the 1970s. We don't really seem to have a generic name for soft drinks. |
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Post by Confessor on Feb 20, 2017 4:57:21 GMT -5
My father in law calls it soda pop which is what soft drinks are really. It wasn't until I was drinking age I realized soda is just carbonated water. I don't think I've ever heard "soda" or "soda pop" used in Britain, and I haven't heard "pop" used since the 1970s. We don't really seem to have a generic name for soft drinks. To me, in England, "Pop" is more of an older person's phrase, belonging to those brought up in the '50s or before -- especially in the south. Up north, you can still hear young people refer to fizzy drinks as "pop" on occasion today, but generally speaking, it's a somewhat archaic term. |
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Post by starscape on Feb 20, 2017 6:36:59 GMT -5
In Glasgow and surrounds, fizzy drink is called 'ginger'. Presumably derived from ginger beer but it's everything from Coke to Irn Bru and all points in between. There's a few other terms (like 'scoosh') but nothing universally Scots.
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Post by The Cheat on Feb 20, 2017 15:54:54 GMT -5
I don't think I've ever heard "soda" or "soda pop" used in Britain, and I haven't heard "pop" used since the 1970s. We don't really seem to have a generic name for soft drinks. To me, in England, "Pop" is more of an older person's phrase, belonging to those brought up in the '50s or before -- especially in the south. Up north, you can still hear young people refer to fizzy drinks as "pop" on occasion today, but generally speaking, it's a somewhat archaic term. Yup, still very common up here in the North East. |
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Post by Rob Allen on Feb 21, 2017 19:25:27 GMT -5
-M What about for those of us from the North Shore (Boston area) that say 'Tonic' There are maps that show more detail, like this one:  You can see that the pop/soda boundary runs along the crest of the Allegheny mountains in NY/PA, continuing down to the Blue Ridge in WV/VA, and that "soda" is the word in St.Louis and in Milwaukee/Green Bay, while it's "pop" in Kansas City and Madison. The data is 14 years old at this point; my impression here in Oregon is that "soda" has gained significantly in recent years. I read somewhere that Hollywood created the hybrid "soda pop" so that both groups would know what they were talking about. |
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Post by sunofdarkchild on Feb 22, 2017 9:11:53 GMT -5
There are countries where 'soda' only means seltzer. Thankfully I always ask for specific brands like coco cola or Pepsi. Otherwise I'd have been stuck with seltzer a few times.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 22, 2017 16:10:08 GMT -5
Fizzy Drink TabletsFizzy Drink I used to drink this stuff when I was a teenager and like Kurt here we only allowed to have Soft Drinks once a week when we went to McDonald's. Read the link and we had a friend that goes to a store and she buy this stuff for us to have and it's was a fun thing to do back then.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 24, 2017 8:39:31 GMT -5
Over here, if you asked for a soda you'd get a shot from a soda syphon (I think that's what you'd call seltzer)
Older people (ie the generation even older than me) might eeder to pop, but otherwise prettt much everyone refers to the actual name
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Post by brutalis on Feb 24, 2017 8:43:18 GMT -5
Less worried over what you call/name a soda/pop/coke and more worried over what alcohol you choose to place into said drink! Get your priorities straight people!  |
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Post by Roquefort Raider on Feb 24, 2017 9:11:57 GMT -5
Less worried over what you call/name a soda/pop/coke and more worried over what alcohol you choose to place into said drink! Get your priorities straight people! That's a question I've been asking myself for several years... Some connoisseurs I know will insist on purchasing the finest vodka... and then drown it in orange or tomato juice. Not that I would recognize a fine vodka if I ever had one, and I basically view it as little more than diluted ethanol... but how could the subtle aspects of a truly remarkable spirit not be totally overwhelmed by the onslaught of flavour found in juices and soft drinks? |
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Post by Icctrombone on Feb 24, 2017 9:19:14 GMT -5
I drink Vodka with Oj and have never drank it straight. Hard liquor , generally, tastes bad without some flavor.
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