Pop or Soda?

[Counselor]

If it's a flavored, carbonated, soft drink, I say soda. If it bubbles and tastes like medicine and minerals, I say soda water. If I say pop, kill me, because my body has been taken over by an uneducated lower life form.

[Person66]

Soda

If I'm trying to tell a waiter/waitress that I'll have either Coca-cola or Pepsi (restaurants usually only carry one or the other). I'll ask for cola.

[Beau]

Everyone says pop around here, so I say soda just to be nonconformist.

[gilhooly]

I say Pepsi or I will have a heart attack in your shop. Pisses people off but old gay guys take advantage of everyone. I took a lot of shit over the years. It is someone else's turn to be insulted.

[Genersis]

It's fizzy drinks or soft drinks in this household.

[Tim]

Many years ago my little cousin came to visit me from Colorado. He asked me for a pop. I had no idea what he was talking about, it's soda here. I gave him a confused look and jokingly said, "you want me to hit you?!"

He told me I was stupid and to get him a Pepsi.

[darunzahn]

It's mainly been called "soda" where I've heard it, but a few people will refer to it as pop, or even more commonly as "soda-pop."

I guess I haven't paid that much attention to it before. Now I'm going to be thinking about all sorts of similar situations. How about "remote", "Channel turner", and "controller?"

[Spades]

In South Africa it is commonly referred to as cold drink / cool drink, the terms pop or soda isn't used at all.

[mookytx]

Apparently none of y'all are from the Southern United States down here its a coke.
Ask you buddy if he wants a coke,
If he says sure,
Then ask him what kind.
In Texas its all Coke.

[MisterTinkles]

Apparently none of y'all are from the Southern United States down here its a coke.
Ask you buddy if he wants a coke,
If he says sure,
Then ask him what kind.
In Texas its all Coke.

Hey buddy......gimme a coke!!!

Even if you order in a rural area restaurant, they will ask "what kind".
In the big cities, not so much....if you say "coke" they will bring you Coke.....unless your waiter or waitress is "old school".