Pop or soda?

[Blue in a Red State]

Poll question: Pop or soda?

Take the big survey here: http://www.popvssoda.com/

Poll result (85 votes)
Pop	(26 votes, 31%)	Vote
Soda	(33 votes, 39%)	Vote
Coke	(12 votes, 14%)	Vote
Carbonated Beverage	(1 votes, 1%)	Vote
Soft Drink	(0 votes, 0%)	Vote
Tonic	(5 votes, 6%)	Vote
Other	(8 votes, 9%)	Vote

[Pooka Fey]

1. Not too many mid-westerners answering this poll tonight.

[imenja]

2. I don't think the pop vote is really as broad as that

The Midwest is definitely pop country, but the Northwest? I lived in WA state for a year, and I didn't hear pop there.
What do you native NWers say?

[liberal democrat]

3. Shows that we are all elite blue staters. n/t

[JohnKleeb]

21. I say soda and I am from a red southern state

[AntiCoup2K4]

4. Beer!

[loritooker]

7. damn that look good...

[Skip Intro]

5. I think I'll have a carbonated beverage, can I get you one?

sorry, lol



I say coke whether its coke, pepsi, or diet RC (whcih is what I drink because it has NO nutrasweet).

[jdots]

6. in New England it's Tooahnic

and " It's Cott to be Good " if you live in Buostin ya go down the storah to bu-eye sum tooahnic.....damn i miss that town.

[maveric]

25. From Lawrence MA. and called it that.

It was all "Tooahnic", unless it was Coke.

[orleans]

8. POP POP POP

i'm from a suburb outside of chicago (midwestern country and BLUE STATE) and have always said "pop" when referring to a bubbly soft drink (preferably diet coke). one thing i have noticed is that, in my experience, people in wheaton (a highly conservative town complete with religious colleges and home of one of bush's speech writers) have a tendency to say "soda".
....hummmmmm

[Pooka Fey]

11. Hold on now!! Californians say soda. Can't get any bluer than that.

[Tweed]

23. You can get much bluer than a state with Arnold for its governor

Please

[Pooka Fey]

31. Forgot about Ahhhrrrnold, because I don't live in CA anymore.

It got too expensive.

[St. Jarvitude]

18. Ack, Wheaton.

What makes you ever go to Wheaton... that place is hell on Earth.

I'm from Arlington Heights, and I thought some of the neighborhoods around here were bad... and then I went to Wheaton.

[AlCzervik]

9. Gotta be tonic!

my husband used to stock the tonic aisle at johnnies foodmaster in the square.

[murielm99]

10. Sodee...

if you live in Southern Illinois.

[malmapus]

12. Its all coke N/T

..

[njdemocrat106]

13. SO-DA! SO-DA!

George W. Bush calls it "pop".

[St. Jarvitude]

15. Prove it.

I Dare You.

Your libel and smearing of the pop crowd is disgusting!!!

[njdemocrat106]

19. Hey, I'm kidding!

Don't know what Dubya actually calls it, though I still insist it's soda.

[Petrushka]

14. One summer, when I was a kid . . .

. . . visiting relatives in New York City, my cousins found dozens of reasons to laugh at me--including the time when I answered Aunt Anne's question with, "Yes, thank you. I'd like some pop." . . . only to learn that "some pop" meant half of a "Popsickle"! Talk about confusion: Didn't I know--nyah, nyah!--that the fizzy stuff in a bottle was "soda" and that "pop" comes on a stick? Well, now . . .

(Hrmph!) . . . maybe they didn't have any better sense than to call a small hick-town bottle of pop a "soda" in the BIG city; but, back home? Well . . . back home, a REAL soda was a special concoction served in a tall glass (at the Kandy Kitchen's soda fountain)--served in a tall glass with a straw and a lon-n-ng-handled spoon and, yes, a few soda crackers on the side--but, in addition to being fizzy, a REAL "soda" contained ice cream and fruit. So, there!

[njdemocrat106]

16. Your "real" soda is making me thirsty!

Ice cream and fruit! Love 'em!

[u4ic]

17. If you want to be taken over by Canada

better learn to say "POP".

[corporatemedia]

20. I had to choose "other" because I actually grew up calling it........

SODA POP

[JohnKleeb]

22. for crist sakes, its soda

[Technowitch]

24. What? No "phosphate"?

My spouse says that's what they called them in her locale, growing up near Green Bay.

[Eyeball Kid]

26. IT'S COKE, DAMMIT!

Unless it's Dr. Pepper, of course.

[fleabert]

27. I have said this for years! n/t

[Seabiscuit]

28. Soda Pop where I grew up in the 50's on Long Island

Except for Creme Soda. Coke, 7-Up, Root Beer, Lemon-Lime, etc. were "soda pop".

[cabbage08]

29. Soda n/t

[Moloch]

30. I say Soda-Water...

NT

[mainegreen]

32. mmm,carbonated beverage.

I dont care what it is, as long as its carbonated.

I actually do use the term carbonated beverage. No joke.

[FeelinGarfunkelly]

33. If it's out of a fountain, I call it soda..from bottle/can, it's pop.

I guess I'm split. Usually it's pop.

[MsAnthropy]

34. It's POP--soda's that white stuff in the fridge to absorb odors!

[Not_Giving_Up]

35. It's Coke!

We smack people around here who ask for a pop!

[sangh0]

36. I prefer juice

The bubbles give me gas

[Midlodemocrat]

37. Iced tea all the way, unsweetened of course.