Soda, Pop, Coke or Other?

meistereder
meistereder Posts: 1,578
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, Boston 9/15/24, Ohanafest 2025 (EV)
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  • meistereder
    meistereder Posts: 1,578
    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, Boston 9/15/24, Ohanafest 2025 (EV)
  • _
    _ Posts: 6,657
    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. :)
  • Wobbie
    Wobbie Posts: 31,607
    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
    Missoula 24
  • meistereder
    meistereder Posts: 1,578
    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, Boston 9/15/24, Ohanafest 2025 (EV)
  • jeffbr
    jeffbr Seattle Posts: 7,177
    Soda
    "I'll use the magic word - let's just shut the fuck up, please." EV, 04/13/08
  • eyedclaar
    eyedclaar 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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  • Lizard
    Lizard So Cal Posts: 12,092
    soft drink
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  • my2hands
    my2hands Posts: 17,117
    It is soda people...
  • meistereder
    meistereder Posts: 1,578
    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, Boston 9/15/24, Ohanafest 2025 (EV)
  • fuck
    fuck 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.
  • eyedclaar
    eyedclaar 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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  • LikeAnOcean
    LikeAnOcean 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..
  • catch22
    catch22 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.
  • LikeAnOcean
    LikeAnOcean 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. ;)
  • Smellyman2
    Smellyman2 Posts: 689
    pop
  • catch22
    catch22 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.
  • meistereder
    meistereder Posts: 1,578
    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!
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  • Smellyman2
    Smellyman2 Posts: 689
    dumfukistan will never change.

    It's better just to move.
  • azwyldcats
    azwyldcats Posts: 711
    LOL. Cool.
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  • CHANGEinWAVES
    CHANGEinWAVES Posts: 10,169
    it's SODA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
    "I'm not present, I'm a drug that makes you dream"

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