Pop vs. Soda
 

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Randy

When I was in the military, a guy from Detroit would get really irratated with me for calling it a "pop".

Paul,

That's kinda funny....I grew up right outside of Detroit and called it "pop" the whole time I was growing up.

Joined the Marines and moved to So. Cal. and "learned" to call it "soda" and that's what it's been ever since.

Whenever I go back to Michigan, I get these strange looks whenever I ask for a soda.

Randy

It's Coke. Always will be.

It was always soda for me until I moved to Atlanta where anything is a Coke (even if it's a Pepsi). I never heard 'pop' until I ran into a girl down there who also went to the "show" which was a movie.

What do you call:
A. The wheeled thing you put your groceries in?
B. The carrying device you take them home in (not your car?)

I have to agree with Mark and VaSteve, it's all coke for me. What kind of coke do you want?

It was always pop here in Michigan. Then I visited my family in Binghamton, NY. There it was soda and even the use of the term pop elicited giggles and ridicule.

I was raised in Idaho, and called it Pop until I went to college in Maryland. I was so confused, what's this "Coke" stuff, and why does everyone laugh at me if I refer to a "can of pop"? Worse, I later moved to South Carolina, where I had numerous exchanges like this one with an arbitrary waitress:
"Honey, wudya wanta drink?"
"I'd like a Coke, please."
"What kahnd?"
"What kind? How about Coke?"
"We don't have Coke, how's Pepsi sound?"
"Um ... ok."

Has someone documented the BBQ line? It's the imaginary line on the map where BBQ goes from being a verb, to a noun.

Coke

my family in michigan would always call it pop, and i had no idea what the hell they were talking about until i was about 12 years old

it's soda ;)

how about a thread on hoagies vs grinders vs subs vs heroes

Po-boy :)

How about "Speedies"? Anyone know what I'm talking about?

Hey VAsteve...

Coke
Buggy
Paper or plastic bag?

Pittsburgh has the lead in calling things different. What the hell is "red up" the house? Sack or bag? Rubber band or gum band? The list is endless yuns.

In Michigan, people work for "Fords", not "Ford". I never heard "pop" called anything else until I moved to Florida, where it's "soda".

Spiedies are a great upstate NY creation -- and you gotta have 'em with salt potatoes!

The grocery conveyance is a "cart." Though when I moved to LI people called it a "trolley." I had WTF moments the first few times.

Having lived in Atlanta and Ann Arbor, I can attest to the confusion mentioned above.

JP

JP, did I spell it wrong? Is there any significance to the spiedies spelling? My mom is from Binghampton and makes them for us all the time:) Num Num! Lamb and pork skewered and served on buttered (damn can't remember the bread). Good stuff, can't remember her marinade either, but I know it's in there for a long time.

beef on whek (sp) ???

Cool... looks like it's pop in the midwest, soda in the northeast, and Coke in the south.