The Florida crackers will ask for a cold drink. That could mean an RC Cola, Orange or Grape Nehi (Sp) or sweet tea. moon pie optional I'm a Coke man. Craig

When asking for a pop or pop, you usually get smacked, or your father answers. If it's soda you want, you usually get double checked on what type of vodka with it. Asking for a cold one results in a beer.

Around here it's definitely 'soda'. Never call it 'pop' around here unless you're from out of town. Ask for a "Coke" and you'll get a cola from whatever vendor the establishment is currently buying soda mix from.

Also, we're probably the only place with 'bubblers'. (Water fountains)

They don't sell Pepsi south of Atlanta do they?

I've found that being multilingual has come in handy a lot. I can speak a number of different Southern languages, including Charleston, Backwoods Virginia, Savannah, and Georgia. I'm also pretty good at Boston, though the variance between the 5 burroughs of NYC still has me stymied. :)

Dan

Who researches this crap? On a government grant no doubt...damn Liberals.

(See I politicized it...)

Sorry.

I was born raised and live in teh midwest, frequent trips to the east taught me cool words like "soda" and "bubbler" and "wicked". Confuses the hell out of people here when I ask them if they want a soda.

"Jerk me a Soda" .....

Anyway I don't drink Soda Pop...Coke or anything else you'd like to call it....

Nor do i drink a "cold one" aka as Beer....


Now some Grain Alchol with rainwater....or Ice Tea straight up with a twist of Lemon.....or a Mornining latte....or how bout just plain ole Distilled Water.....

What kind of fancy dancy name can they come up for water?

melted snow not yellow, please.

I dont drink water. Fish f#$k in it :D

South -- Coke ( Atlanta is CokaCola HQ )


I've always said SODA..

Refrigerator or "ice box"

Maybe freezer or "ice box"?

Chiller or air conditioner?

Another favorite (you might have to go real regional for this): peanuts vs. "goobers."

I grew up in CT and now live in Eastern PA and it is soda in both areas...

If you go the Ritz Carlton they will ask, "Do you want bottled water or tap water."

As a kid in a then small Oregon timber town, early 1950's, similar to the one Ken Kesey wrote about in the novel "sometimes a great notion", we had families that came from all over the USA in our neighborhood. So, we just covered both bases..."soda pop" is what we, as kids, called it.

In Minnesota where I grew up, it's pop every time. When i moved to California, I had to get used to saying soda, (along with a lot of other regional words/phrases). Linguistics is very interesting to me, the way that changes by region and also by generation within the same region, ie. "icebox" becoming refrigerator, etc... :cool:

So in the south, when you want a Sprite you ask for a Coke?? :confused:

And what ever happened to Fresca? (Big in the '60s, along w/ Tab and Bubble Up). :cool:

My parents still drink Tab....there is a large liquor outlet in town that still stocks it.