theAudience said:

Oh my god....Threadcula needs to see this. That should definitely go in the book of Southern language.

SODA.

CarrieMpls said:

If they asked me that I'd think they were selling drugs on the side.

läsk!

Im from Detroit and we call it POP, damnit!

Per John Waters, "gown donation fer cake" is Baltimore-ese for "I'm going down to the ocean for a Coke".

I grew up in Iowa and it's 'pop' there. But my college roommate was from St. Louis, so I started saying 'soda' and still do (in Chicago & now NYC). When I go back to Iowa to visit it sounds weird to me to hear people call it pop.

Here in Ohio, we call it "pop". My relatives, who live in New York and New Jersey, call it "soda". As someone stated earlier, it all depends on where you live.

I miss MEIJER. :-/


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I've heard it called "pop" or "soda" and I used to live in Ohio but now live in Florida. Personally, I call it soda.

Although occasionally in restaurants I ask for a "carbonated beverage" to see if people get confused.

Western New Yorkers call it pop. central NYers and east call it soda.
My relatives in Ontario say pop too.

Some people say pop, here.
Then they have a soda.
That's Seattle for ya.
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Mara said:

i haven't been in a meijer since high school.

they are boring old soft drinks here

soft drinks, although I just tend to refer specifically to brand names. I think back in the UK when I was a kid I called them 'fizzy pop'.

Fauxie said:

yeah, I'll have a coke thanks

Juice.

Its all juice. Fizzy juice, as opposed to fruit juice, if you have to be more specific.

Fauxie said:

Finally someone else that also calls them 'soft drinks'.

And look who it is!

I just noticed Zombie does too.

Anx said:

MEIJER had the best store-brand, generic rice-o-roni imitation I ever tasted (better than rice-o-roni!). After I left the state of Michigan I bought about $40 dollars worth of it. Two crates. Used it for about a year or so. lol

And everything was mucho cheap in that state compared to where I live now. Even the cars.

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JustErin said:

but do you ever say "I feel like a soft drink" or "can you get me a soft drink?" I don't think I have ever actually said that not out loud

ZombieKitten said:

Yup, but more in the sense like, "I need to pick up some soft drinks for tonight".


Otherwise I just say 'DP' (diet pepsi).

JustErin said:

What do you mean, 'and look who it is!'

Yeah, zombie's got her head screwed on straight.

Fauxie said:

ting tong

JustErin said:

Even someone so sexually illiterate as myself would find that funny. You say 'Man, I could use a DP'?

And to Zombie, yeah, if it's for myself, I'll say a ginger beer or a coke, but as I don't tend to drink soft drinks very often, for example, when we have a family barbecue, I'll say something like 'and should we get some soft drinks for Mae and your sister?'

Fauxie said:

Funny you say that.

My friend and I once went into 7/11 and she said loudly (not thinking about what she was saying), "Oh God, I've been dying for some DP all day!".

The cashier looked like he was gonna pass out.

JustErin said:

Here you could exclaim right in the middle of 7/11, "Goodness, I sure could use being double stuffed in both my holes right about now" amd no-one would bat an eyelid.

it's

pop= midwest
soda= east coast
sodie= missouri

DanceWme said:

Ditto. So it was very strange to hear people call it "pop" when I lived in Columbus, OH.

retina said:

Always reminds me of the Finnish word for fat, läski

Okay..I am in the south (TN) , and we call it what it is..Coke, Dr. Pepper, Sprite, Pepsi, it is what it is here...if someone says "pop" or "soda" we know they are from up north, or west of us..