bbb Posted March 11, 2013 Share Posted March 11, 2013 I always figured the MasonDixon line of pop/soda was around Geneva, NY, and it looks like I was right: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Meathead Posted March 11, 2013 Share Posted March 11, 2013 those eastern new york people are really messed up Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Poojer Posted March 11, 2013 Share Posted March 11, 2013 I'm Syracuse born but raised by Buffalo born parents...pop! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eSJayDee Posted March 11, 2013 Share Posted March 11, 2013 If I'm referring to any carbonated soft drink, then I use "pop". If I'm referring to ice cream put in pop, then it's a soda. If it's a cola soft drink, then it CAN be referred to as a coke, much like slip-joint pliers can be referred to as Channelocks or hot tubs Jacuzzis. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rob's House Posted March 11, 2013 Share Posted March 11, 2013 I prefer to ask for a liter of cola. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Captain Hindsight Posted March 11, 2013 Share Posted March 11, 2013 Soda Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bbb Posted March 11, 2013 Author Share Posted March 11, 2013 I'm Syracuse born but raised by Buffalo born parents...pop! Way to stay strong. I know my Syracuse friends laugh at the word pop. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chef Jim Posted March 11, 2013 Share Posted March 11, 2013 I call pop soda and coke blow. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Just Jack Posted March 12, 2013 Share Posted March 12, 2013 http://www.buzzfeed.com/skarlan/the-ultimate-regional-vocabulary-throwdown Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HopsGuy Posted March 12, 2013 Share Posted March 12, 2013 My first summer at home after spending my freshman year in Philly, I had converted to "soda". We were in a grocery store (remember Quality Markets?) getting a couple of 2-liters of pop to mix with whatever rotgot whiskey we had gotten our mitts on. One of my buddies showed up at the checkout line and said, "Hopper, we got some pop for us and this for you." He was proudly displaying a box of Arm & Hammer baking soda. Touché. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ICanSleepWhenI'mDead Posted March 12, 2013 Share Posted March 12, 2013 Looking at the green splotch on the color-coded map, WTF do they call it in New Mexico? The light green splotch catches the eye, but there's a nearby dark green county where over 80% call it something else. Is that Roswell, NM? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bbb Posted March 12, 2013 Author Share Posted March 12, 2013 New Mexico is dead to me! I didn't even notice Alaska - that's all broken up. Do the polar bears up north really call it soda?? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
boyst Posted March 12, 2013 Share Posted March 12, 2013 Looks way off here. West Virginia they call it coke or Soda. VA soda, NC almost always soda unless you hit the mountains then it could be Coke, the coast is Pepsi. My family in NY call it soda, my friends and family back in Ohio call it pop. I call it pop. I've found only older folks call it Coke now-a-days. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gugny Posted March 12, 2013 Share Posted March 12, 2013 Soda. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Helpmenow Posted March 12, 2013 Share Posted March 12, 2013 Pop Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bbb Posted March 12, 2013 Author Share Posted March 12, 2013 Looks way off here. West Virginia they call it coke or Soda. VA soda, NC almost always soda unless you hit the mountains then it could be Coke, the coast is Pepsi. My family in NY call it soda, my friends and family back in Ohio call it pop. I call it pop. I've found only older folks call it Coke now-a-days. Nobody really gives a crap what you hillbilies call it. They just put the colors in there to fill out the map. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wacka Posted March 12, 2013 Share Posted March 12, 2013 (edited) Have to say soda so these hicks here in California get it, but as soon as I land in Buffalo, it's pop. Edited March 12, 2013 by Wacka Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bbb Posted March 12, 2013 Author Share Posted March 12, 2013 Have to say soda so these hicks here in California get it, but as soon as I land in Buffalo, it's pop. I can live with the soda thing, but the people there saying tennis shoes makes no sense. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jim in Anchorage Posted March 12, 2013 Share Posted March 12, 2013 New Mexico is dead to me! I didn't even notice Alaska - that's all broken up. Do the polar bears up north really call it soda?? 100% soda in Anchorage. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gugny Posted March 12, 2013 Share Posted March 12, 2013 Looks way off here. West Virginia they call it coke or Soda. VA soda, NC almost always soda unless you hit the mountains then it could be Coke, the coast is Pepsi. My family in NY call it soda, my friends and family back in Ohio call it pop. I call it pop. I've found only older folks call it Coke now-a-days. I have a friend from WV (Weirton) and he says "pop." His wife, from Steubenville, OH, also says "pop." Their refusal to call it "soda," is why I consider them !@#$s and I will never speak to them again. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wooderson Posted March 12, 2013 Share Posted March 12, 2013 I prefer to ask for a liter of cola. "Liter of cola? Do we have liter of cola?" "Just get a large, Farva." "I don't want a large Farva, I want a goddamn LITER!" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LeviF Posted March 12, 2013 Share Posted March 12, 2013 First of all, coke is either a drug or a brand of cola. If I ask for a coke, I don't want to be asked what kind (I'm looking at you, Dixie). Second of all, soda. Got funny looks at school when I called it pop. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chef Jim Posted March 12, 2013 Share Posted March 12, 2013 Have to say soda so these hicks here in California get it, but as soon as I land in Buffalo, it's pop. I've called it soda since college north of NYC. For me it's not a CA thing, called it soda before I moved here 30 years ago. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CowgirlsFan Posted March 12, 2013 Share Posted March 12, 2013 None. I say the product. Do you want a coke...sprite...seven up Pepsi ..dr pepper . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wooderson Posted March 12, 2013 Share Posted March 12, 2013 "I had a Mr. Pibb, Mr. Pibb is a replica of Dr. Pepper... but it's the bull **** replica, cause dude didn't even get his degree." -Mitch Hedberg Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Miyagi-Do Karate Posted March 12, 2013 Share Posted March 12, 2013 I am specific.coke for coke. Sprite for sprite. Never have said the words soda or pop in my life. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mead107 Posted March 12, 2013 Share Posted March 12, 2013 (edited) Give me a cola. When I was a kid. Now it is, any wine will do. Edited March 12, 2013 by mead107 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shrader Posted March 12, 2013 Share Posted March 12, 2013 My brother has recently started calling it soda even though he's lived in Buffalo for his entire life (33 years). I have no clue why he does it, but he has always picked up the strangest speaking habits. When he was in high school he always talked like a Canadian. He always said he had no clue he was doing it, but I'm pretty sure he has always done these things for attention. Me, I'm out in Boston and just got some crap from the fiancee when I said pop the other day. Usually I just refer to the drinks by their brand name, but it slipped just this once. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PaattMaann Posted March 12, 2013 Share Posted March 12, 2013 I prefer to ask for a liter of cola. I dont want a large farva, I want a liter of cola! and now I see the second page, and that I was beaten in my response by Wooderson...I feel shame Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joe Miner Posted March 12, 2013 Share Posted March 12, 2013 Pop is what you might call it if you saw it for the first time, and no one was there to tell you the actual name. Or if you were 4. It's soda. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LewPort71 Posted March 12, 2013 Share Posted March 12, 2013 Southern WV. It's pop. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ExiledInIllinois Posted March 13, 2013 Share Posted March 13, 2013 Just give me a tonic... I am a mutha***ing mouthbreathing Pats* fan! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WWVaBeach Posted March 13, 2013 Share Posted March 13, 2013 Soda. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Donald Duck Posted March 13, 2013 Share Posted March 13, 2013 Pepsi Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ExiledInIllinois Posted March 14, 2013 Share Posted March 14, 2013 Pepsi Coke! And I grew up in blue Pepsi country WNY! Actually, true story... My sister worked w/another lady from Georgia @ the Mayo Clinic in MN... My sister was going to the get liquid refreshment (called that so as not to expose my true colors... ). Her co-worker said: "Bring me back a Coke." So, my sister brought her back a Coke. The co-worker got all indignant when my sister returned back with an actual Coca-Cola! She wanted an Orange Crush! :wallbash: :wallbash: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jerry Christ Posted March 14, 2013 Share Posted March 14, 2013 I was raised saying pop.........but I believe I think of it as being more coke........however, depends on where I'm at but I probably would say Soda. So I fulfill all of the criteria. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zow2 Posted March 14, 2013 Share Posted March 14, 2013 I used to say "I'll have a Pop with Supper" while growing up in BLo. Now that I've lived in the southeast and now the Mid-Atlantic, I have been converted to "I'll have a soda with dinner". Kinda' weird. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chef Jim Posted March 14, 2013 Share Posted March 14, 2013 (edited) I used to say "I'll have a Pop with Supper" while growing up in BLo. Now that I've lived in the southeast and now the Mid-Atlantic, I have been converted to "I'll have a soda with dinner". Kinda' weird. That was never an option in the Chef Jim household when I was growing up. BTW speaking of the Chef Jim household growing up what my mom called them which I don't think has been mentioned......soft drinks. As a matter of fact I use that when I'm referring to several different flavors brands. "We'll be serving, beer, wine and soft drinks." Edited March 14, 2013 by Chef Jim Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jr1 Posted March 14, 2013 Share Posted March 14, 2013 carbonated beverage Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ExiledInIllinois Posted March 14, 2013 Share Posted March 14, 2013 That was never an option in the Chef Jim household when I was growing up. BTW speaking of the Chef Jim household growing up what my mom called them which I don't think has been mentioned......soft drinks. As a matter of fact I use that when I'm referring to several different flavors brands. "We'll be serving, beer, wine and soft drinks." That falls under the "other" category on the map... Just like seltzer or tonic. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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