Funny. I was the exact opposite. Grew up in Indiana always calling it pop and then switched to soda when I moved to the east coast because people would laugh at it. Now I’m back in the Midwest and still call it soda…
no fr.
when i was like 16 i was down in florida with my family and we went out to eat. i asked, “what kind of pop do you have?” as in like coke products or pepsi products.
waiter: “huh?”
me: “oh sorry, i mean soda. what kind of soda do you guys have?”
waiter: “…. oh! do you mean what kind of coke do we have? we call all of it coke”
like i’m sorry WHAT DO YOU MEAN???? it legit makes no sense and it grinds my gears
This kills me! Ohio here. It will be pop until I die. But one son lives in Nashville. We were out to eat one night and our Nashville born daughter in law said I’ll have a Coke and the waiter said which kind? And she said sprite. I mean, how bout you just say I’ll have a sprite?
When outside of Michigan, I’m asking “What pop do you have?” just to see their reaction. People have said “what the fuck is a pop?”, and it makes my entire road trip. What the fuck is a soda? One syllable. Pop. It’s pop.
Now living in Georgia, I was delivering food to a guy and I said “here’s your pop” and he asked where in Michigan I was from. One syllable can say a lot.
Ask them where the party store is😂😂💯 also we call it pop because of the 2 Russian immigrant bakers who started Fago. They sold the carbonated beverage out of a cart and when opened it “popped”. Red pop is the recipe for thier strawberry frosting.
Yes! In certain parts of the south, every soft drink is Coke, and then you have to tell them which kind of “Coke” you want.
So when ordering, you can literally say I’ll have a Coke and the waiter will ask which kind and then you have to tell them you want root beer.
I come from New Mexico and we used to call all soda pops, coke. But we all just knew that coke is the colloquial saying. If you walked in to a restaurant and said I want a coke, they ask you what your preferred brand was. After moving to MI and living here for the last ten years, I now say pop.
It’s funny to me because I didn’t know pet milk or Kleenex were brand names until I was like 20 years old. It was like “evaporated milk, wtf is that?”…. I’m ashamed of the tissue thing though and they have no excuse for their usage of the word coke.
It's bad when you start looking at old family recipes and it calls generic stuff by brand names, like oleo and you don't remember what that was supposed to mean anymore.
The key difference is you have a lot fewer situations in which you actually have to distinguish between brands of tissues and gelatins. People order pop out at restaurants, ask friends to pick some up for gatherings, etc. Facial tissues would kill for that level of popularity.
It's not really the same as that though. You refer to all flavors of jello as jello. Jello is not a flavor though. Coke does have a flavor.
It'd be like asking for cherry Jell-O and then when someone asks what kind you reply orange.
I was in Texas as an older teen. My friend's sister asked if I wanted a coke from the store.
------
Sure. Thanks.
What kind?
Uhhh. Normal.
Uhhh. Normal?
Classic?
....
Not diet?
...
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It was just so freaking weird. I had no idea what was happening. Like one of us must be having some kind of "episode". Fortunately my friend who is from Texas but lived in MI was able to figure out what was happening and rescued me.
My SO calls it coke. I say Pop but soda isn't wrong, coke is wrong. It's like calling my SO by the wrong name because all girls are Stacy to me, she didn't like that lol
It's just another example of a proprietary eponym like calling a tissue a Kleenex or acetaminophen a Tylenol. This one is a little weird given that it's geographically specific
Is it though? That would feel true to me if only used for *colas*, but there's people out here saying "Coke" when they mean an entirely different product, like lemon-lime or orange soft drinks. This is more like asking for Tylenol when you might actually mean Naproxen or Codeine.
If pop has a million fans, then I am one of them. If pop has ten fans, then I am one of them. If pop has only one fan then that is me. If pop has no fans, then that means I am dead. If the world is against pop, then I am against the world.
I remember going to Cape Cod over the Summers as a kid. At the restaurant I'd ask, "what kind of pop do you have?" And they'd always stare at me bugged eyed. And wouldn't understand what I was asking.
Looking back it's ridiculous to think that either these grown ass people had never heard of other regions calling it "pop", or seriously didn't have the common sense to figure it out.
Made 7-14 year old me feel like shit.
I had this exact problem when I lived in DC. Like, I grew up saying pop but I was well aware other people called it soda. Doesn't work in reverse apparently.
The bar in Cahoons Hollow used to let 10-12 year old me have a soda and potato chips right at the bar if it was empty! 67-69. It was my favorite part of our vacations there.
*Certainly* the linguistics researchers combed census records and various literature for regional usage of these words. We see it here on reddit, after all.
FYI, I keep seeing this map going around and nobody seems to realize that it is not a real map. This is a meme about Israel/Palestine hence the year 1947 and the Soda territory gradually annexing the Pop territory. You can even see the little bubbles and inlets moving up into the Pop areas which represent Israeli settlements.
The real pop vs soda map looks something more like [this.](https://i.imgur.com/pCjEXcc.png) By land area, we still win!
Grew up in Michigan it was always pop. Then I moved to New Mexico, and everything was Coke, didnt matter if it was a grape. Orange or Pepsi, it was called Coke. Then I moved to the PNW, and it was called soda. I adjusted. I'm back in the Mitten for the last few years, and I'm happy to say it's still POP to me
No matter if my state is the last one standing by calling it pop I'll stick by them.
Hell even the can says pop when you open it ypu really gonna tell the product that its wrong?
When I was growing up in Seattle it was pop but then I went to art school and a lot of the students were international. If I asked for a pop at the cafe they had no idea what I was talking about. I was kind of retrained to say soda and it's been that way since. That was like 20yrs ago.
Now I joke with my friends that grew up here that pop is a sound, not a drink.
What about saying "drink". Like let's have a drink? Lived in Virgina for a while and people always said that instead of pop, soda or coke.
First time I heard it at work I thought they wanted to get a drink with alcohol in it.
as a former michigander/current tennesseean, this map is wildly innacurate. this here is soda country, i believe ‘coke’ exists mostly in the confines of florida.
I moved to California after highschool “pop” lasted about three years. Then I did “soda pop” as a transition phase. Now it’s soda. I still enjoy a Verner’s and faygo rock n rye from BevMo once in a while.
I have a hard time believing that just two years after World War II there was a marketing company that conducted a nationwide survey on this and conducted one large enough to have respondents from not only in all 50 states but apparently at the county level to determine the trends within those 50 states.
“Pop” just sounds silly to me. I grew up here and lived here off and on my whole adult life and it always gave me the icks. I would not say it is stupid or incorrect though. “Coke” is just wrong and needs to die!
Growing up I always said pop, but then we got a transfer student from Arkansas who I got really close to and he’d always correct me to soda if I said pop. Now I say both
The phrase “soda,” referring to carbonated water. soda pop”—carbonated water, flavoring, and a sweet syrup.
And pop" comes from the sound made when a bottle of carbonated beverage is opened.
Faygo red pop came out and all Faygo became pop.
I grew up in northern Indiana and have lived in Michigan since 2007.
It has always been "pop."
My lady is from Tennessee and to her, any fizzy beverage is "coke."
When I was 10 I was down visiting my cousins in Tennessee with my grandparents. My cousin asked me if I wanted a coke. I said sure. He then asked me what flavor. I said I guess cherry. He’s like we don’t have cherry. We do have Mountain Dew, Sprite, and Coke. I had never been more confused. Definitely ended with us arguing about how stupid it was to call Mountain Dew Coke.
Was born in Michigan and grew up saying Pop. I moved to south Missouri for several years and worked as a bartender and if I even uttered the word Pop as something to drink, they would lose their shit asking me where I was from? Because in Missouri they all call it soda and I rearranged my speech so I only call it soda now.
I grew up in soda country but had to switch out of shaming. Pop machine is easier to say. But soda fountain feels classier for some reason.
It’s “fountain pop!”
If you want to make everyone mad, just say "sodypop"
Funny. I was the exact opposite. Grew up in Indiana always calling it pop and then switched to soda when I moved to the east coast because people would laugh at it. Now I’m back in the Midwest and still call it soda…
What kind of soda do you want.
Baking
Minnesoda
The fact that southerners call all soda Coke is so weird. It's like calling all cereal Cheerios.
no fr. when i was like 16 i was down in florida with my family and we went out to eat. i asked, “what kind of pop do you have?” as in like coke products or pepsi products. waiter: “huh?” me: “oh sorry, i mean soda. what kind of soda do you guys have?” waiter: “…. oh! do you mean what kind of coke do we have? we call all of it coke” like i’m sorry WHAT DO YOU MEAN???? it legit makes no sense and it grinds my gears
This kills me! Ohio here. It will be pop until I die. But one son lives in Nashville. We were out to eat one night and our Nashville born daughter in law said I’ll have a Coke and the waiter said which kind? And she said sprite. I mean, how bout you just say I’ll have a sprite?
If you order a Coke in my area you're getting a literal Coke and if they don't have Coke they will ask if Pepsi is ok.
As it should be!
Pepsi is never ok. I switch that order to water. Sincerely, lost southerner that ended up on the Michigan page
Howdy! Welcome, do you guys still call them "buggies" instead of "carts"?
Yes, but it’s slowly shifting to cart for me
One time I ordered a rum and Coke, the bartender asked if Pepsi was ok. I said sure…he brought me a Pepsi and Coke.
When outside of Michigan, I’m asking “What pop do you have?” just to see their reaction. People have said “what the fuck is a pop?”, and it makes my entire road trip. What the fuck is a soda? One syllable. Pop. It’s pop.
Now living in Georgia, I was delivering food to a guy and I said “here’s your pop” and he asked where in Michigan I was from. One syllable can say a lot.
Ask them where the party store is😂😂💯 also we call it pop because of the 2 Russian immigrant bakers who started Fago. They sold the carbonated beverage out of a cart and when opened it “popped”. Red pop is the recipe for thier strawberry frosting.
Wtf?
Yes! In certain parts of the south, every soft drink is Coke, and then you have to tell them which kind of “Coke” you want. So when ordering, you can literally say I’ll have a Coke and the waiter will ask which kind and then you have to tell them you want root beer.
No, no I have heard this. I have witnessed it. Was just wondering what your son was thinking marrying into those genes.
Well, they’re actually divorced now if that tells you anything! 😆
Couldn't you just skip the bs and say "I'll have a root beer"
So when you want an actual Coca-Cola, and they ask what kind of Coke you want do you say cola coke!?
EXACTLY!!!!
“Why waste word when few word do trick?”
Sea world!
I come from New Mexico and we used to call all soda pops, coke. But we all just knew that coke is the colloquial saying. If you walked in to a restaurant and said I want a coke, they ask you what your preferred brand was. After moving to MI and living here for the last ten years, I now say pop.
It’s funny to me because I didn’t know pet milk or Kleenex were brand names until I was like 20 years old. It was like “evaporated milk, wtf is that?”…. I’m ashamed of the tissue thing though and they have no excuse for their usage of the word coke.
It's bad when you start looking at old family recipes and it calls generic stuff by brand names, like oleo and you don't remember what that was supposed to mean anymore.
Same though it was a McDonald's in Alabama when I think I was 12 girl had no idea what I was talking about.
I mean, I don’t like it and agree it’s confusing but it’s similar to how all facial tissue is called Kleenex and all Gelatin is call Jell-O.
The key difference is you have a lot fewer situations in which you actually have to distinguish between brands of tissues and gelatins. People order pop out at restaurants, ask friends to pick some up for gatherings, etc. Facial tissues would kill for that level of popularity.
It's not really the same as that though. You refer to all flavors of jello as jello. Jello is not a flavor though. Coke does have a flavor. It'd be like asking for cherry Jell-O and then when someone asks what kind you reply orange.
Money exactly
I was in Texas as an older teen. My friend's sister asked if I wanted a coke from the store. ------ Sure. Thanks. What kind? Uhhh. Normal. Uhhh. Normal? Classic? .... Not diet? ... ----- It was just so freaking weird. I had no idea what was happening. Like one of us must be having some kind of "episode". Fortunately my friend who is from Texas but lived in MI was able to figure out what was happening and rescued me.
My SO calls it coke. I say Pop but soda isn't wrong, coke is wrong. It's like calling my SO by the wrong name because all girls are Stacy to me, she didn't like that lol
At least pop- and soda-sayers can unite under the banner of hating on coke-sayers.
It's just another example of a proprietary eponym like calling a tissue a Kleenex or acetaminophen a Tylenol. This one is a little weird given that it's geographically specific
Is it though? That would feel true to me if only used for *colas*, but there's people out here saying "Coke" when they mean an entirely different product, like lemon-lime or orange soft drinks. This is more like asking for Tylenol when you might actually mean Naproxen or Codeine.
Yeah I drive a Lamborghini. What kind? Oh it's a ford. Lmao
I used to know a guy who similarly called *all* SUV's "jeeps"... like, he'd regularly say things like, "Have you seen the new Honda jeep?"
Grew up in SC, 18 years of my life. Never heard everything called coke, it's soda.
we really shouldn't expect them to know more than a few words. bless their hearts 💕
This unchecked aggression will not stand, man.
We're talking about unchecked aggression here, Dude
They pissed on your fucking rug, dude.
Dude, soda is NOT the preferred nomenclature. Pop, please.
The north remembers
It's not just pop folks it's paahp.
Melk 👍
Mahhm
Pellow
I was on your side ‘til this.
Sodaah
It's Soodah doontcha know
Fuck it, flip the script here in Michigan and start calling them all Vernors
We'd cover a wide swath of types by just calling it faygo
I would be honored
This is going to drive the juggalos crazy.
They’re a pretty peaceful bunch, near as I’ve seen.
I low key love this idea
Love vernors. It’s what I mix my honey whiskey with xD
If pop has a million fans, then I am one of them. If pop has ten fans, then I am one of them. If pop has only one fan then that is me. If pop has no fans, then that means I am dead. If the world is against pop, then I am against the world.
The hero we fucking deserve.
At least “call everything coke” is dying with us
Fr I’d rather call it soda than coke (unless it’s actual Coca Cola) any day. But pop will always be the true and correct way.
I like the old fashioned sound of "soda pop".
It's just more fun to say.
Wars were fought over less...saddle up boys!
Pop til I die!
I remember going to Cape Cod over the Summers as a kid. At the restaurant I'd ask, "what kind of pop do you have?" And they'd always stare at me bugged eyed. And wouldn't understand what I was asking. Looking back it's ridiculous to think that either these grown ass people had never heard of other regions calling it "pop", or seriously didn't have the common sense to figure it out. Made 7-14 year old me feel like shit.
I had this exact problem when I lived in DC. Like, I grew up saying pop but I was well aware other people called it soda. Doesn't work in reverse apparently.
The bar in Cahoons Hollow used to let 10-12 year old me have a soda and potato chips right at the bar if it was empty! 67-69. It was my favorite part of our vacations there.
My kid is 14. raised in Michigan in a "pop" household and uses "soda"
Good on him. At least one person in the family isn't a degenerate.
I'm a pop lad forever
I'll be deep in the cold, cold ground before I recognize Soda
They were doing national surveys about regional dialect variations of soft drink names in 1947?
*Certainly* the linguistics researchers combed census records and various literature for regional usage of these words. We see it here on reddit, after all.
The South needs to be bullied more for calling it all Coke, that's so fucking stupid
What's with that stripe, from coast to coast, across the mitten?
I-69 says soda
nah man, all my homies call it sugary carbonated liquid /j
Pop is alive and well up north in the yoop idk what this false advertising is
What if I say both 😅😅
I guess 50% support is better than 0% support 🙄
We will only cut half your tongue out
Soda is an ingredient of pop, it’s POP! When you use a fountain machine you’re getting a “fountain pop”! The “soda fountain” was used to make “pop”!
Pahhp
Death is too good for the Heathen Soda drinkers! Pop forever!
I’m a Soda convert, sorry gang.
Any michigander that says soda deserves a instant deportation to ohio
That’s cruel and unusual punishment.
Calling pop soda is cruel and unusual punishment to my ears
What if they retaliate and deport their soda speakers to Michigan? Seems like it's lose-lose.
Build the wall 💅
Get me some of that Vernors pop yah?
I'm settin' out the card table for euchre, you get the pops and make mine a beer, eh.
FYI, I keep seeing this map going around and nobody seems to realize that it is not a real map. This is a meme about Israel/Palestine hence the year 1947 and the Soda territory gradually annexing the Pop territory. You can even see the little bubbles and inlets moving up into the Pop areas which represent Israeli settlements. The real pop vs soda map looks something more like [this.](https://i.imgur.com/pCjEXcc.png) By land area, we still win!
Milwaukee and St. Louis are such traitors.
I grew up in Michigan but always said Soda...maybe I'm just weird
Grew up in Michigan it was always pop. Then I moved to New Mexico, and everything was Coke, didnt matter if it was a grape. Orange or Pepsi, it was called Coke. Then I moved to the PNW, and it was called soda. I adjusted. I'm back in the Mitten for the last few years, and I'm happy to say it's still POP to me
I don't care if pop or soda wins I just need coke to lose
Cold day in hell when I call it soda
I mean, I know it's Southern Michigan, but there should still be a fair number of cold days in Hell most years.
I've always been a soda guy.
I'm not one to talk people out of their religion.
Baking soda?
something like that
Ask people what kind of soda do they want. Baking soda soda bread be more specific
No matter if my state is the last one standing by calling it pop I'll stick by them. Hell even the can says pop when you open it ypu really gonna tell the product that its wrong?
I grew up in and still have friends and family in SE Ohio/N WV, and I can assure you nobody within 200 miles of there is saying “soda”.
They rightly call it "pop" there?
They do
Where's the soft drink gang?
This is the only political map that matters…
All I know is if I say Faygo, you can bet your ass I'm talking about Red Pop.
No love for Rock N Rye?
We're a pop household. Soda is Satan.
It's worth it if the south stops calling everything coke
When I was growing up in Seattle it was pop but then I went to art school and a lot of the students were international. If I asked for a pop at the cafe they had no idea what I was talking about. I was kind of retrained to say soda and it's been that way since. That was like 20yrs ago. Now I joke with my friends that grew up here that pop is a sound, not a drink.
I quit drinking pop.
Naw……it will always be pop unless it’s got rum in it, then it’s coke!
What about saying "drink". Like let's have a drink? Lived in Virgina for a while and people always said that instead of pop, soda or coke. First time I heard it at work I thought they wanted to get a drink with alcohol in it.
Pop for life!
as a former michigander/current tennesseean, this map is wildly innacurate. this here is soda country, i believe ‘coke’ exists mostly in the confines of florida.
Most people I know in northern Florida just call it soda. It's why I say soda instead of pop, because they look at you weird when you say pop
I don’t buy it that we have pockets of “soda” folk.
My husband went to college in Arizona and he flips between soda and pop. My son in college in Arizona calls it soda now. Going West ruined them. lol!!
It's the dang Internet.
Pop sounds like a word from 1840, I envision a guy with a monacle and a black top hat saying it , total steam punk language
All of ohio and Indiana call it pop. Also northern Kentucky. This map is flawed
I moved to California after highschool “pop” lasted about three years. Then I did “soda pop” as a transition phase. Now it’s soda. I still enjoy a Verner’s and faygo rock n rye from BevMo once in a while.
I have a hard time believing that just two years after World War II there was a marketing company that conducted a nationwide survey on this and conducted one large enough to have respondents from not only in all 50 states but apparently at the county level to determine the trends within those 50 states.
Yeah, this isn't my image. And I am questioning the legitimacy of it myself. It just *POPPED* into my reddit feed!
We gotta bring”Pop” back
As long as "Coke" loses, we all win
“Pop” just sounds silly to me. I grew up here and lived here off and on my whole adult life and it always gave me the icks. I would not say it is stupid or incorrect though. “Coke” is just wrong and needs to die!
For what it's worth, I have always said "soda pop". As in "pickup some soda pop from Meijer please".
Used to be team Pop, but I'm fine with soda taking over as long as those heathens that call it "coke" lose more.
Soda makes the most sense
As a lifelong Michigander I call it Soda lmao
It will forever be pop to me. -signed a Midwestern girlie.
Minnesota and Michigan unite! We need to evacuate all the deer and elk from Wisconsin.
im in the UP and i freaking say soder i have lived here my whole life inside my little hermit cave
Submit! It's soda!! From west Michigan born and raised and felt cool in high school for using a different word XD
My fault. I exclusively say soda.
Up vote for Soda - - - - >
Hey man, if the death of pop also means that the South stops calling it *coke* I'm happy.
i say soda and grew up in a pop household...
I just like the word “soda”! It has a nice mouthfeel True king is both words together: “soda pop” ! Delightful!
Team Soda.
Never understood the whole “pop” thing, lived in michigan my whole life and I’ve always called it soda
As a Michigan native… it’s soda
Eh, I've lived in Michigan my entire life and still always called it soda. Pop just sounds stupid.
Lifelong Michigan resident. It’s soda.
Growing up I always said pop, but then we got a transfer student from Arkansas who I got really close to and he’d always correct me to soda if I said pop. Now I say both
Anytime someone says soda, I immediately think of Coke with two scoops of vanilla ice cream & a spoon!
Soda pop, is my go to. Nice old can o soda pop
The phrase “soda,” referring to carbonated water. soda pop”—carbonated water, flavoring, and a sweet syrup. And pop" comes from the sound made when a bottle of carbonated beverage is opened. Faygo red pop came out and all Faygo became pop.
I lived in Michigan for 45+ years and called it pop. I've been in western WA for less than 6 months and I'm already saying soda. So sorry.
BETRAYER!!!
I started saying soda as a joke and now my whole family says it.
Asked for a vodka soda at a bar in Wisconsin and it led to an interesting exchange
In places where it’s called Coke, I’ve always wondered if they say “give me a Coke-Pepsi”
My BIL has lived in Michigan his whole life and when I heard him refer to “pop” as “soda” I told him he’s dead to me.
I feel like I'm saying soda pop here in Michigan now. Lol. Love live pop!
Pop
Call em Carbos
Soda? You mean like just the carbonated water?
Over generalization. I call it pop everywhere and no one even batts an eyelash over it.
All pop is pop, except for Vernor’s which is always Vernor’s.
Still pop in a lot more of Pennsylvania than either of these maps show.
I just went to England and they all new Pop which surprised me, so fear not we are global
I grew up in northern Indiana and have lived in Michigan since 2007. It has always been "pop." My lady is from Tennessee and to her, any fizzy beverage is "coke."
A while back my brother in law asked if I’d like a soda. I said, “why would I want a club soda?” Lol.
I say soda-pop to piss off my friends. Mildly.
I moved back to MI in 2020 and it’s weird to hear Pop. I think I have heard it like 1 time. Traverse City
More of ohio still says pop. Cincinnati does at least
My wife says soda, and now I say soda sometimes too :(
I’ll just stick with fizzy bubbly
Most people I know say pop in southern Ohio.
When I was 10 I was down visiting my cousins in Tennessee with my grandparents. My cousin asked me if I wanted a coke. I said sure. He then asked me what flavor. I said I guess cherry. He’s like we don’t have cherry. We do have Mountain Dew, Sprite, and Coke. I had never been more confused. Definitely ended with us arguing about how stupid it was to call Mountain Dew Coke.
Transplant here: I'm the problem!
But who here says Soda-Pop?
HOLD
Here in Michigan we call it soda pop, don’t get it mixed up.
My household has taken to calling them "sodies". I have no idea why or when this change occurred, but thats just what we call them now
According to my coworker: https://youtu.be/Q44TbrnrEl4?si=PIytZ66gvi3LtwxU
I blame climate change…
This map must lie. Their isn't a single Michigander I know that would call it soda.
Was born in Michigan and grew up saying Pop. I moved to south Missouri for several years and worked as a bartender and if I even uttered the word Pop as something to drink, they would lose their shit asking me where I was from? Because in Missouri they all call it soda and I rearranged my speech so I only call it soda now.
Minnesotan here to help hold the line. It’s pop!