I vote Pop!
Pour me a soda!
I’m the highly suggestible type. Sure, it’s midnight, but…I want a pop.
I’m in soda land, but I’ve always called it Coke. I must be a rebel.
I now abstain from soda/coke/pop in favor of unsweetened tea of plain water. I plan to live forever.
I call 'em soda pops and I live in TX. I’m an anomaly. Most of my friends agree with that last statement.
Only if the bottom tip of Florida broke off like on the shirt lol.
Different parts of the country have different names for all kinds of things. Try these tests Harvard Dialect Survey, and The Cambridge Online Survey of World Englishes and see if they identify where you are from.
+1 for soda
I live in just north of the splat! in the center…but I call it soda.
Soda Forever!!!
LOL, so true. Ohio is POP country for sure. Part II of this shirt could be athletic shoe wars. Sneakers, tennis shoes, runners, crosstrainers…
Yeah- my dad (from the mountains of NC) always called them all cokes- My mom (from Delaware) always called it pop-
My wife (from PA) and I mimic this exactly. I took my father’s name, after all…
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NY Times had the Harvard one (note to self: check other link first). Twitter leaned toward accurate. Drinking my soda in sneakers on Mischief Night gave me away.
When I went off to school in Chicago, not only was the pop thing a culture shock, then there was my friend from Alabama who had a Coke with breakfast ?!??!?!?! every morning.
So yes, this shirt provides a handy key for ordering in diners on that cross country trip.
They missed the TONIC region.
Thank goodness I live in the Borderlands and can call it what I want.
Can’t we all just get along?
A really really long looping Soda Popinksi video for your viewing pleasure. Bring back any memories?
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Big congrats!
Grew up calling a soda a soda. Mom and Pop are people who raised me. If I went out to the store and bought a soda, they might put it in a bag. A brown paper bag. Then I moved and met these weird people who referred to soda as dad…er “pop” … and if I bought one they might put it in a bag that they called a “sack” (which is what testicles come in). I was ok until I went to a store, and a sweet old lady asked me “Do you want your pop in a sack?”
The visual still haunts me 20 years later.
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I’m in soda land, but I’ve always called it Coke. I must be a rebel.
I now abstain from soda/coke/pop in favor of unsweetened tea of plain water. I plan to live forever.
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Funny, I and my family live in Coke land, but we’ve always called them sodas.
Why would anyone call sweet, carbonated beverages “Cokes” when a Coke is a specific type? That would be like calling all vegetables “spinach.”
“Hey, can you pass the spinach?”
“Um… you mean the carrots?”
“Po-tay-toh Po-taw-toh. Same difference.”
Love this shirt. I am from California and I had a friend come visit me from Colorado a few years ago. We were with a group of my friends when she and asked if there was somewhere we could stop to get a pop. I was so embarrassed.