Pop or Soda

[jchahl]

Here in SW PA, it's pop.

[John81]

In parts of the South it's all called Coke.

[LAF]

Actually I have used both .Growing up I called it pop ,but after marriage I converted and called it soda like my dh . :lol:

[PreacherE]

I voted for cola because that was the closest to the actual term used.

John said it right when he wrote this:

In parts of the South it's all called Coke.

[jchahl]

I voted for cola because that was the closest to the actual term used.

John said it right when he wrote this:

I knew it was one or the other, so I changed cola to coke.

[John81]

Thanks! That makes it much easier and clearer. :smile

[Pastor Matt]

Pop - That is my dad
Soda - That includes all the flavored carbonated drinks
Coke - That is only coca-cola
Cola - That is the generic stuff (cheap stuff)

[Bakershalfdozen]

Grew up calling it pop, don't mind calling it soda, refuse to call it coke if it isn't actually Coca-cola. :thumb

[nodnarb]

Here is the best explanation any one has told me. When you open up a can of POP it makes a sound like POP not Soda. If you had heard the kid that said it you would know why it is so funny but I can't type it nearly as funny as he said it.

[IM4given]

I grew up calling it "sodie" as in "sodie water" which was a reference to the bicarbonate of soda that was once used to make it fizzy - it was still sold in drug stores where I grew up - they had an Ice Cream and Soda Parlor in the back of the drug store.

I drank sodie in those little glass bottles when I was 11 or 12 years old. I prefered the old Royal Crown Colas - with a Moon Pie natch! The RCs were rather sour, and the moon pies were rather sweet - but together they were deeeelicious! We also drank orange crush "shooters" - you take a nickle orange crush and a little nickle sack of peanuts from a vending machine. You pour the peanuts in the orange crush, shake the bottle real hard and shoot the peanuts into your mouth! If you did it right it was great, but if you made a mistake you could kill yourself like that! :lol:

[Anon]

I didn't vote because I have lived in several places and had to call it several things to be understood. haha.

I grew up with "Pop".

Down south it was "Coke" which was fine because I drink Diet Coke and it works.

Here you have to say "Soda" because otherwise if you say "Pop" you get weird looks. Actually here, "Pop Pop" means a grandpa so they really think you are weird if that's what you call a drink.

Personally I think soda is the stuff they drank in the old days with ice cream and two straws with a teen date.... but hey, when in Rome....

[John81]

I grew up calling it "sodie" as in "sodie water" which was a reference to the bicarbonate of soda that was once used to make it fizzy - it was still sold in drug stores where I grew up - they had an Ice Cream and Soda Parlor in the back of the drug store.

I drank sodie in those little glass bottles when I was 11 or 12 years old. I prefered the old Royal Crown Colas - with a Moon Pie natch! The RCs were rather sour, and the moon pies were rather sweet - but together they were deeeelicious! We also drank orange crush "shooters" - you take a nickle orange crush and a little nickle sack of peanuts from a vending machine. You pour the peanuts in the orange crush, shake the bottle real hard and shoot the peanuts into your mouth! If you did it right it was great, but if you made a mistake you could kill yourself like that!

Are you sure we didn't grow up in the same boondock?

[IM4given]

Are you sure we didn't grow up in the same boondock?

:nutty

I almost answered this question with "tea" because we drank mostly iced tea or water and seldom anything else. We did not keep bottles of soda around the house like people do now. We would get it once in awhile for a treat. If you worked real hard raking leaves and mowing the yard for the neighbor lady, she might give us a dime or a quarter to treat ourselves with a soda from the machine. We would run down the street to the filling station and they had the only soda machine in town. Do you remember the old soda vending machines, John? You put a nickle in, and then opened a narrow glass door on the side and reached in and pulled a soda out. If the vender didn't load the machine right and if you pulled just the right one out, they would ALL come tumbling out! Jackpot!

[John81]

Of course I remember them old machines! The one at the gas station on the east end of town had the coldest around!

My Mom always had a pitcher of tea in the icebox and the water from the well out back was the best water I have ever tasted in my life!

[IM4given]

This is what the vending machine looked like, as I remember it... aluminum cans with "pop tops" and plastic bottles with twist off tops had not been invented yet!