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Soda, Pop, Coke or Other?

meisteredermeistereder Posts: 1,577
edited September 2008 in A Moving Train
I find this fascinating. What do you say where you come from, referring to the generic form of soda.

Check out this map. It may be the coolest map I have ever seen.

http://strangemaps.files.wordpress.com/2008/08/popvssodamap.gif

PS: I say soda.
San Diego 10/25/00, Mountain View 6/1/03, Santa Barbara 10/28/03, Northwest School 3/18/05, San Diego 7/7/06, Los Angeles 7/9/06, 7/10/06, Honolulu (U2) 12/9/06, Santa Barbara (EV) 4/10/08, Los Angeles (EV) 4/12/08, Hartford 6/27/08, Mansfield 6/28/08, VH1 Rock Honors The Who 7/12/08, Seattle 9/21/09, Universal City 9/30/09, 10/1/09, 10/6/09, 10/7/09, San Diego 10/9/09, Los Angeles (EV) 7/8/11, Santa Barbara (EV) 7/9/11, Chicago 7/19/13, San Diego 11/21/13, Los Angeles 11/23/13, 11/24/13, Oakland 11/26/13, Chicago 8/22/16, Missoula 8/13/18, Boston 9/2/18, Los Angeles 2/25/22 (EV), San Diego 5/3/22, Los Angeles 5/6/22, 5/7/22, Imola 6/25/22, Los Angeles 5/21/24, [London 6/29/24], [Boston 9/15/24]
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  • meisteredermeistereder Posts: 1,577
    Damn.

    Mods, can you please move to All Encompassing Trip? Sorry.
    San Diego 10/25/00, Mountain View 6/1/03, Santa Barbara 10/28/03, Northwest School 3/18/05, San Diego 7/7/06, Los Angeles 7/9/06, 7/10/06, Honolulu (U2) 12/9/06, Santa Barbara (EV) 4/10/08, Los Angeles (EV) 4/12/08, Hartford 6/27/08, Mansfield 6/28/08, VH1 Rock Honors The Who 7/12/08, Seattle 9/21/09, Universal City 9/30/09, 10/1/09, 10/6/09, 10/7/09, San Diego 10/9/09, Los Angeles (EV) 7/8/11, Santa Barbara (EV) 7/9/11, Chicago 7/19/13, San Diego 11/21/13, Los Angeles 11/23/13, 11/24/13, Oakland 11/26/13, Chicago 8/22/16, Missoula 8/13/18, Boston 9/2/18, Los Angeles 2/25/22 (EV), San Diego 5/3/22, Los Angeles 5/6/22, 5/7/22, Imola 6/25/22, Los Angeles 5/21/24, [London 6/29/24], [Boston 9/15/24]
  • __ Posts: 6,651
    I say coke 'cuz I was raised in the South. Although, after nearly 20 years in the southwest I'm starting to say soda so people know what I mean. :)
  • WobbieWobbie Posts: 30,698
    meistereder wrote:
    I find this fascinating.

    It may be the coolest map I have ever seen.

    You need to get out more! :D

    soda
    If I had known then what I know now...

    Vegas 93, Vegas 98, Vegas 00 (10 year show), Vegas 03, Vegas 06
    VIC 07
    EV LA1 08
    Seattle1 09, Seattle2 09, Salt Lake 09, LA4 09
    Columbus 10
    EV LA 11
    Vancouver 11
    Missoula 12
    Portland 13, Spokane 13
    St. Paul 14, Denver 14
    Philly I & II, 16
    Denver 22
  • meisteredermeistereder Posts: 1,577
    scb wrote:
    I say coke 'cuz I was raised in the South. Although, after nearly 20 years in the southwest I'm starting to say soda so people know what I mean. :)


    yeah, cause if you say Coke and you are looking for a root beer, what then?
    San Diego 10/25/00, Mountain View 6/1/03, Santa Barbara 10/28/03, Northwest School 3/18/05, San Diego 7/7/06, Los Angeles 7/9/06, 7/10/06, Honolulu (U2) 12/9/06, Santa Barbara (EV) 4/10/08, Los Angeles (EV) 4/12/08, Hartford 6/27/08, Mansfield 6/28/08, VH1 Rock Honors The Who 7/12/08, Seattle 9/21/09, Universal City 9/30/09, 10/1/09, 10/6/09, 10/7/09, San Diego 10/9/09, Los Angeles (EV) 7/8/11, Santa Barbara (EV) 7/9/11, Chicago 7/19/13, San Diego 11/21/13, Los Angeles 11/23/13, 11/24/13, Oakland 11/26/13, Chicago 8/22/16, Missoula 8/13/18, Boston 9/2/18, Los Angeles 2/25/22 (EV), San Diego 5/3/22, Los Angeles 5/6/22, 5/7/22, Imola 6/25/22, Los Angeles 5/21/24, [London 6/29/24], [Boston 9/15/24]
  • jeffbrjeffbr Seattle Posts: 7,177
    Soda
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  • eyedclaareyedclaar Posts: 6,980
    As long is this is posted on the MT, we might as well get contentious about it. So, fuck you guys, I don’t say any of those. I say sodapop and I'm right!
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  • LizardLizard So Cal Posts: 12,091
    soft drink
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  • my2handsmy2hands Posts: 17,117
    It is soda people...
  • meisteredermeistereder Posts: 1,577
    I think it is weird that one little county in California -- Trinity County -- says "Coke." All the other counties say soda.

    Weirdos.
    San Diego 10/25/00, Mountain View 6/1/03, Santa Barbara 10/28/03, Northwest School 3/18/05, San Diego 7/7/06, Los Angeles 7/9/06, 7/10/06, Honolulu (U2) 12/9/06, Santa Barbara (EV) 4/10/08, Los Angeles (EV) 4/12/08, Hartford 6/27/08, Mansfield 6/28/08, VH1 Rock Honors The Who 7/12/08, Seattle 9/21/09, Universal City 9/30/09, 10/1/09, 10/6/09, 10/7/09, San Diego 10/9/09, Los Angeles (EV) 7/8/11, Santa Barbara (EV) 7/9/11, Chicago 7/19/13, San Diego 11/21/13, Los Angeles 11/23/13, 11/24/13, Oakland 11/26/13, Chicago 8/22/16, Missoula 8/13/18, Boston 9/2/18, Los Angeles 2/25/22 (EV), San Diego 5/3/22, Los Angeles 5/6/22, 5/7/22, Imola 6/25/22, Los Angeles 5/21/24, [London 6/29/24], [Boston 9/15/24]
  • fuckfuck Posts: 4,069
    eyedclaar wrote:
    As long is this is posted on the MT, we might as well get contentious about it. So, fuck you guys, I don’t say any of those. I say sodapop and I'm right!
    If it were AET, this thread would somehow end up about sex or drugs.

    anyway, I say coke, soda, or soft drink, but never pop.
  • eyedclaareyedclaar Posts: 6,980
    _outlaw wrote:
    If it were AET, this thread would somehow end up about sex or drugs.

    anyway, I say coke, soda, or soft drink, but never pop.

    I like coke... snorting lines of it off a stripper's stomach that is.

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  • LikeAnOceanLikeAnOcean Posts: 7,718
    meistereder wrote:
    I find this fascinating. What do you say where you come from, referring to the generic form of soda.

    Check out this map. It may be the coolest map I have ever seen.

    http://strangemaps.files.wordpress.com/2008/08/popvssodamap.gif

    PS: I say soda.
    This thread gets posted at least twice a year and becomes hilarious as people get upset by what others call it. ;)

    Personally, I call it rust remover.

    I'm from Chicago. I'd say I hear 2/3 of people here call it pop, maybe 1/3 call it Soda..
  • catch22catch22 Posts: 1,081
    coke is fucking stupid. that's like calling all beer 'guiness.' coke is a brand name, not a generic reference to all sugar infused carbon water drinks.
    and like that... he's gone.
  • LikeAnOceanLikeAnOcean Posts: 7,718
    catch22 wrote:
    coke is fucking stupid. that's like calling all beer 'guiness.' coke is a brand name, not a generic reference to all sugar infused carbon water drinks.
    Do you blow your nose with a Kleenex?.. or the generic Jewel brand. ;)
  • Smellyman2Smellyman2 Posts: 689
    pop
  • catch22catch22 Posts: 1,081
    LikeAnOcean wrote:
    Do you blow your nose with a Kleenex?.. or the generic Jewel brand. ;)

    i use a tissue. it's generic target brand ;)

    advertising assaults only work on the weak-minded. thus, no surprise the south can't wrap their heads around more than one name and just call it all coke.
    and like that... he's gone.
  • meisteredermeistereder Posts: 1,577
    catch22 wrote:
    i use a tissue. it's generic target brand ;)

    advertising assaults only work on the weak-minded. thus, no surprise the south can't wrap their heads around more than one name and just call it all coke.


    Zing!
    San Diego 10/25/00, Mountain View 6/1/03, Santa Barbara 10/28/03, Northwest School 3/18/05, San Diego 7/7/06, Los Angeles 7/9/06, 7/10/06, Honolulu (U2) 12/9/06, Santa Barbara (EV) 4/10/08, Los Angeles (EV) 4/12/08, Hartford 6/27/08, Mansfield 6/28/08, VH1 Rock Honors The Who 7/12/08, Seattle 9/21/09, Universal City 9/30/09, 10/1/09, 10/6/09, 10/7/09, San Diego 10/9/09, Los Angeles (EV) 7/8/11, Santa Barbara (EV) 7/9/11, Chicago 7/19/13, San Diego 11/21/13, Los Angeles 11/23/13, 11/24/13, Oakland 11/26/13, Chicago 8/22/16, Missoula 8/13/18, Boston 9/2/18, Los Angeles 2/25/22 (EV), San Diego 5/3/22, Los Angeles 5/6/22, 5/7/22, Imola 6/25/22, Los Angeles 5/21/24, [London 6/29/24], [Boston 9/15/24]
  • Smellyman2Smellyman2 Posts: 689
    dumfukistan will never change.

    It's better just to move.
  • azwyldcatsazwyldcats Posts: 710
    LOL. Cool.
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  • CHANGEinWAVESCHANGEinWAVES Posts: 10,169
    it's SODA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
    "I'm not present, I'm a drug that makes you dream"
  • gobrowns19gobrowns19 Posts: 1,447
    Pop
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  • gischickgischick Posts: 14
    meistereder wrote:
    I think it is weird that one little county in California -- Trinity County -- says "Coke." All the other counties say soda.

    Weirdos.

    Yeah, you have to cross the county line to say 'Coke'

    I say soda. It was a big issue at Penn State when I was in school the Soda vs Pop debate.

    Maps are very misleading and geographers love to make them. I make them for a living. (my screen name gischick stands for GIS - Geographic Information Systems - digital geography)
  • tybirdtybird Posts: 17,388
    Coke....unless you want an RC Coler....
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  • mnicole22mnicole22 Posts: 417
    Pop.
    AKA Cinnamon Girl :(

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  • drew2420drew2420 Posts: 61
    its an addictive drug pumped into us for massive consumption.
  • DeLukinDeLukin Posts: 2,757
    What would "other" be?
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  • cincybearcatcincybearcat Posts: 16,620
    Pop...soda is pop woth ice cream. ;)

    And it really bugs me when someone asks me what flavor of coke I want...not meaning regular, diet, cherry, vanilla, etc...but meaning coke, pepsi, sprite, root beer, etc. Ok, it doesn't bother me, but it's weird. ;)
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  • dangerboydangerboy Posts: 1,569
    that map is wrong about central nc. we don't call every soft drink a "coke". at least not people who are from here. mostly, people just say "a drink", like "i'm going to get me a drink out of that drink machine over there". and when you take that outside of here, people think you mean a liquor drink or a mixed drink.


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  • RiverrunnerRiverrunner Posts: 2,419
    coke it is, and the map was correct at least to our little county in Illinois on the Ohio River. Although it shows the counties right above us as something different - don't believe that.
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  • ledveddermanledvedderman Posts: 7,761
    DeLukin wrote:
    What would "other" be?

    A question I have been asking myself too...
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