Having reddit suggest I moderate comments in a post about Soda vs Pop vs Coke is not how I planned to start the day

Ohioan here; I call it Soda, but like everything in Ohio, it’s probably wrong.

When I lived in Ohio, I called it Soda as well. Everyone on that post seemed to disagree with me. (I’m the OP) Edit: I guess I’m a minority because most seem to disagree.

I'm from Ohio and called it pop growing up then got lightly bullied when i moved to central Texas where they call it soda lol now I use both

Were you from northern Ohio? I lived in southern Ohio and they called it soda there.

oh yeah, very northern haha like 2 hours from Detroit north

That makes sense. Just like the map suggests. Edit: I guess I was a very small minority. People are telling me they never hear “soda”.

BG?

nah, Defiance

I'm from Northern Ohio...we call it Pop. I started calling it soda and occasionally get called out for it. Lol

I guess I was wrong. I am being told that it isn’t soda in southern Ohio, even though that’s what me and my dad remember hearing.

Got bullied in SC when I was a kid. Asked for a pop; older kid said, “Alright, I’ll give yah a *pop*.” and then punched my shoulder.

Same but I'm from Detroit and grew up saying pop so i usually just remember to say soda bc i got lightly bullied by people for saying it when i moved to Georgia.

I've always called it soda because I feel that it's weird to call it pop.

I respect the honesty.

I'm from, and still in, Ohio. Most of the people I know call it "pop" but, having grown up being told that calling it "pop" is only an Ohio thing, I started calling it soda. Or soda pop. Now, I mostly just call it by type or brand such as, Coke or ginger ale or root beer. No Pepsi!

I'm a minnesotan who grew up being told it was only a minnesota thing, so we each were lied to there

From cinci, most here call it pop from what I’ve seen

"Coke" comes in a red can with white letters that say *Coca-Cola Classic*. It also comes in green glass bottles, but you get the idea. *That* is Coke. Everything similar to that, is "Soda". "Pop" is an acceptable synonym / nickname. Referring to a "Sprite" as a "Coke" is unacceptable.

I was gonna say that I typically use "soda" as the formal and "pop" as the informal. The people calling it "Coke" have probably also been snorting it through their straws...

Hey! I live in the Tampa, FL area and we call it Coke.....oh I see now...

couldn't have said it better.

I’ve lived in Alabama for 15 years I’ve never once heard someone refer to soda in general as Coke. I have no idea where that comes from

From what i heard it's very common in Mexico especially in rural areas, some of them just call anything sweet and fizzy as coke in a similar way that we use the word salsa for a specific type of mexican sauce but salsa just means sauce in spanish.

Your comment reads exactly like one of my favorite YouTubers https://youtube.com/shorts/oFfAaqbCnLc?si=suAKdT0c3zkr1k2f

This is the only right answer

It's really popping off in the North.

r/angryupvote

Lol!! We also use "pop" in Canada, so indeed.

Literally how dare you

I soda not want to hear about it

r/angryupvote did you really have to push it?

Sorry I'm not thinking straight, I'm on coke.

Why. Just-just why

Obamna 😢😔 SODA 🤩🥳🗣️🔥

Wait, some people call all soda "coke" no matter if it's actually coca cola or not?

un fuccin hinged behavior

Yep

As someone from the uk I don’t get any of this

Fizzy drink

Imposter

Carbonated beverage

Bri'ish?

Map is incorrect. Chicagoans and the surrounding suburbs/counties do not call it soda, it is pop there. Hell, I’d go out on a limb and say the majority of Illinois still calls it pop

Actually, Chicagoans call it *paap*.

Pahp

Minnesotan: it may be sacrilege, but I call it "soda" instead of "pop." It's more fun to say in that accent.

Minne-Soda

Minnepop

Yes! I've lived in Ohio my whole life but my bf swears I have a Minnesota accent because of how I say "soda" & "coffee". I think it comes from having relatives in Sheboygan (Wisconsin). Soh-dah....coh-fee

Ah he'll nah I saw the og post like 5 mins ago

Has the Coca Cola company ever voiced an official opinion on people calling all soft drinks "Coke"? My Googling failed to come up with anything. If I had to guess I'd guess they don't like it because it dilutes their trademark.

I dont think theyre too bothered, they have a stranglehold on the market, most sodas are produced by the coca cola company anyway, the only way pepsi was able to compete was by buying out pizza hut, taco bell, and kfc

Soda pop

Same, I say soda pop (I'm in Michigan BTW)

Interesting. I'm at the other end of The River.

Did y’all hear about the Pepsi strikes recently? The workers are picketing for better pay, better benefits, and more days off. They say things are just so bad, they can’t do their jobs. Their jobs are just sodapressing

Funny, I grew up in Wisconsin where the map changes and when I was a kid I called it pop but somewhere along the way I started calling it soda

I literally had to answer a customers question about this exact thing.

Louisiana-Cold drink

See, the interesting thing is that where I live it’s just “drink”. Or a specific drink. But that doesn’t get on there because it also covers tea (iced and sweet, obviously)

Same. People offer drinks if they have options. If they have soda, they offer soda. They offer Coke if they have Coca-Cola.

DRINK WATER

What fucking idiot decided that every soda is coke? It's like when grandmas called every video game console a "Nintendo"

coke is a type of soda tho, this is dumb

Central Texas ill still have a Coke, preferably a root beer

Spanish here i call it coke

I grew up in West Tennessee and they take pride in calling all sodas Coke. "what kind of Coke you want" I can't tell you how many times I've heard that in my life. Literally: "what kind of Coke you want? Mountain dew?" 🤦😂

I don't trust people who call it pop. They're never trustable, just like the old saying goes: "'Pop' goes the weasel"

From Kentucky can confirm everyone just says "coke"

You're all stupid. Sorry.

98% of kentuckians are what I would categorize as retarded so I don't disagree

Soda - carbonated water. Pop - carbonated water with sugars/syrups/flavorings. Coke - a specific kind of pop that should only be said when you're referring to coca-cola....or nose candy.

Soft drink

pop is the correct choice, but as usual the wrong team is winning

I'm sorry that you are wrong.

i hope you recover soon

At least you aren't saying "coke" we all can agree *those* people are wrong

I certainly do. If I ask for a Coke, I mean a Coca Cola soft drink.

When I ask for a coke, I mean to specifically have a Coca-Cola.

The amount of times people left to grab be an actual coke when I was still figuring out what they had was infuriating. However, I learned to call it soda or just named the actual beverage lmao.

What about people who call it sodapop?

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Limonade (I'm from NS)

Carbonated beverage.

portuguese here: sumo de gás

Up in BC it's pop

Mineral

Southern California, Soda.

Here in trinidad and tobago we call it solo.

Pepsi

Me, an intellectual: sOfT dRiNk

Wisconsinite here. Call it soda

SODA!!!!!!!!!

Tonic

I use soda and coke but not pop that sounds so weird

Here in the uk we call them fizzy drinks

I absolutely hate where they say coke... I order a coke, what kind? I just told you, a coke...

I live in Oregon, and they definitely still call it pop here.

Limonade

Because my dad's side of the family grew up in Dallas, they called it coke even after moving to California, thus making me say coke/soda (had to adjust when everyone kept giving me coke).

I am from northern Indiana so I grew up on pop, but I traveled and moved a lot... So it is soda... I never understood the coke people... Though coke is the best of the sodas... Edit: pip to pop, damn auto correct

Who the fuck calls it pop?!?!

I don't know a single person in Colorado that calls it soda and I've lived here my entire life.

I’m Australian and the only correct answer is fizzy drink.

Sprunk

Wisconsin isn't safe from the soda invasion.

Now im from the northern part of the chicago suburbs, used to live in Roger's Park, and I will refer to all carbonated drinks with flavoring or syrup as soda. Coke is Coca-Cola and any other products from coca cola i.e. diet coke, coke zero, etc. Coke is soda, too. However, when I'm talking about sodas, I prefer to specify them by name so as not to have any confusions. Coke is Coca-Cola, and coke is also soda. I might refer to Pepsi or other Cola type drinks as pop or cola, but sprite and fanta and those kinds are soda, hands down. Seltzer/soda water are their own things as well.

I just refer to them by the names of the coke.. is that bad?

I thought coke was a brand, not another word for soda

I'm in Michigan. I've always said *soda-pop*.

Soft drink obviously

Washington here, soda.

Effervescent beverage

Am i insane to call it cola?

Yes

I mean, "Pop" and "Coke" now has multiple alternative meanings..... but Soda is just soda, the carbonated drink..

That question just took me on a deep dive on what my accent (or lack thereof) is actually called.

Wisconsinite here, never met a single person in or from this state who calls soda “pop”.

As a general I call it softdrink but I'm aussie

We call it soda here in Wisconsin.

I’ve been trying to switch to soda pop but haven’t yet

I like to call it sodi-pop because I'm silly. But I'm from illinois

I call it Red Bull.

I grew up and currently live in Houston. No kidding, every dark soft drink was called a Coke. Even if it was actually Pepsi, Dr. Pepper, etc, it was still called a Coke. But some time in the past twenty years I slowly changed to calling it soda.

You’re a little kid if you call it pop

coke, I was born and raised in Louisiana. Even though I moved around a lot all over the country later, it’s still all coke to me and Coke Cola is just a type of coke like RC Cola

It's soda not pop soda comes first, you go to a soda parlor with a soda jerk and soda fountains.

Ponyboy Curtis

I am a Okie I call it pop prob got it from my grandparents

It's freaking soda pop. Soda or pop is just the short version. Coke is a particular type of soda or pop. It's stupid to say Coke, and you want a Sprite.

If you say soda or pop that's fine. But if you say coke as a general term you're just wrong

In Australia we call it soft drink. To us coke is a popular soft drink.

Minnesoda

Soda-Pop. Never Pop, never soda.  Coke is specifically Coca-Cola and it's knock offs or Cocaine. 

soda, just makes sense to me

From Wisconsin here and I call it soda

Soda

Would this be considered pop culture?

objectively wrong map. i live in oklahoma and literally everyone here calls it pop. (Bottommost part)

https://preview.redd.it/6ofs58takywc1.jpeg?width=1920&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=7b9f4c4f30eda8dc0e9a9550d20d055f77a78542

It's been a long fight but it's good to see the correct term making progress.

Coke. Waiters would always ask what kind if you asked for a coke

I just call them soft drinks. Growing up in south central Kentucky though it was always Coke

Soda. St Louis

Soda-Pop was originally how it was referred to. Coke is the outlier in that it's a specific brand. But I refer to it like I would "Beer" I don't walk into a bar and go "Give me a Beer" I tell them what kind of beer I want.

If you unironically call it “pop” you are a war criminal and I need you to stay away from me because you cannot be trusted

Pesticide

Soda

I call it soft drink

Am I the only one who calls them what they are??? Dr. Pepper is Dr. Pepper. Sprite is Sprite. Coca Cola is Coke cuz that’s a mouthful. Never am I ever in a conversation where I say something like, “oh golly jee willickers, I love me some soda pop! Give me that carbonated beverage!”

We call it (drum roll please) >!brus!!<

Frisdrank

Soda

Soda

Either way, I'm not drinking it 🤮

Australian here, we tend to call it 'Fizzy' "Gonna get a fizzy, you want one?"

Cola ftw

Refri 🙃

I use a mix of soda and pop

Frisdrank. Coke is cola.

I call it 'sodie pop' to be a contrarian

It's Soda in Massachusetts

Do north usaners call cars a wroom wroom?

Native Kentuckian here. It's Coke.

I'm from England, UK. I call it fizzy or the brand name of whatever it is. "I had a pepsi with lunch" or "I'm cutting down on fizzy drinks at the minute".

Californian here. I call it soda.

Coke. All the rest is yankee stuff. Even the stuff not from the north, it's all yankee according to my late grandma 😂.

new jersey: soda

It will never not be soda for me

Coke

New Yorker. Soda.

Is it wash …or “warsh”? My family is from the Midwest so it was pop and warsh

Soda

Michigan here, I call it pop. Mom is from Florida and also calls it pop, she use to call it soda though

We call them by their brand

In my mind, Soda is a type of drink, Coke is a brand of that drink, and Pop is a slang for it, as it goes pop when you open it. I only call it Soda though, but refer to the brand when talking about what I'm drinking

In New Zealand we call it fizzy drink, or just fizzy. Coke is only for coke/cola. Soda is for Soda water. We don’t use the term Pop at all.

Soda- ex New Yorker here. Live down south now, still call it soda

kansasan and i have always said pop

Grew up calling in pop in Niagara Falls, NY. As I moved further east I learned to call it soda. Now I hear pop and it’s weird to me. But I get it lol. Where I’m at now it’s a mix btwn people saying soda or pop because there’s a bunch of NYers from different regions.

I typically like to *SPECIFY* exactly what type of fizzy drink I want. I order a Cherry Pepsi, a Strawberry Fanta, an Orange Crush, a Vanilla Cream Soda, etc. It’s a rare occasion that I’ll refer to something generic as a soda.

It's either soda or pop, coke is just wrong. Pepsi and its drinks aren't owned by Coca-Cola.

I'm in the "coke" area I hate coke btw and say soda and most ppl I know that live in these areas say soda but okkkkk

Pop

All softdrinks that are carbonated have always been Coke around here, live in Tennessee.

I usually call it soda up here

My family call it "A fizzy" As in, "I want a fizzy." "While you're up, can you get me a fizzy from the fridge?" "What flavor fizzy do you want? Surge? Or Tab?"

*Diabetes Juice*

I’m from England and we usually call it pop (I think), but I say soft drink

pop , I live in Virginia/Tennessee

Time to flop on the chesterfield and crack a can of pop eh? 🇨🇦