I agree I do mainly say coke over soda even if talking about a Pepsi product. I have had times I do say soda. Soda was fresh on my mind after watching a YouTube video that talked about this. I even herd that pop may have came from Canadians but I have no evidence to back up that just like the idea that some Scottish call it a fizzy
Note that soda is dominant in the Northeast and Southwest, pop is common in the northern and Great Plains and the Midwest (except around Milwaukee and St Louis), and coke is widespread in the South from East Texas to Georgia. In my IL/IN part of the world, people are split among pop, soda, and soft drink (my preference).
Went to a baby shower today. Couple women asked if I wanted a beer or a can of pop. Maybe they were inviting me a bored housewife threesome and I didn't know? lol.
The full term is "soda pop." Why would you shorten that by removing the noun rather than the adjective? It makes no sense. The correct term is pop. Period.
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In Ohio they call it pop and that through me off when I visited
I'm technically from the south so I call it "pop" and I always ask for a Coke but will drink Pepsi.
In the midwest I hear "pop" more than "soda" but everyone there asks for Pepsi over Coke.
Northeast - soda, always soda
Florida - when you say Coke all they can think about is Cocaine.
California, they don't even know what soda/pop is, they just drink filtered water.
When I Iived in Atlanta, it was Coke or soda. But never pop.
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Note that soda is dominant in the Northeast and Southwest, pop is common in the northern and Great Plains and the Midwest (except around Milwaukee and St Louis), and coke is widespread in the South from East Texas to Georgia. In my IL/IN part of the world, people are split among pop, soda, and soft drink (my preference).
I call it "Soda" now to fit in with everyone else and to not sound like I'm a hick from Ohio.