Pop, soda, coke, or ?

[bbennett]

While this map, Generic Names of Soft Drinks by County, is a few years old (how can 2003 have ended three years ago - can someone explain this to me?), I'm happy to report it's accurate at least for my home county, where the author reports 80-100% call it a "coke" (although Matthew of the East Central U. Dept. of Cartography and Geo. should have

Comments

[bkdelong]

honey - you are up WAY too early.

[bbennett]

Tell me about it. :)

[ashtur]

Well, *waaah* for my current county, they don't even have it listed! (Though we are firmly within the belt of Coke Country)

Myself, I call it pop, but on the other hand, I grew up in a "Carbonated Drink Blue State"

[pamalax]

The entire state of Michigan is as blue as it should be :o)

Its pop to everyone up here.

Call it anything else and people will immediately ask you where you are from :o)

[bbennett]

This is like me calling the container you put purchased items into a "sack" instead of a "bag". Everytime I say that, I get "Where are you from?"

[doctoraicha]

I call it coke, and so does my county in GA and in AR.

[dianora2]

Very accurate. It is soda. The end. I so don't understand the "coke" thing.

[bbennett]

It's like "Xerox" for "photocopy". I grew up hearing "coke".

The problem is that now if I ask for Coke at home, that's what I actually want - and half the time, I get Pepsi. There's no "Sorry, we only have Pepsi"; they just assume. And Pepsi = bleh.