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Old 03-04-2009, 07:39 AM
j33
 
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I've always used 'pop' and 'soda' interchangeably and about equally, although I tend to lean toward the use of 'soda'.
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Old 03-04-2009, 07:41 AM
 
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I've always used 'pop' and 'soda' interchangeably and about equally, although I tend to lean toward the use of 'soda'.
Some may even say "soda pop". Crazy, isn't it?!? What a world we live in.

Speaking of that, anyone remember "Soda Popinski" from Mike Tyson's Punchout?

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Old 03-04-2009, 07:45 AM
 
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In Wisco many people say "pop", and it's one of the things that outsiders make fun of Wisconsinites for. I've only heard a few people in Chicago use the word "pop", and it actually sounds funny to me now after all of these years. 90% of people in Chicago say "soda". I don't care what Avengerfire says.
I'm a Chicago native and have always said pop. This study confirms that.
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Old 03-04-2009, 07:48 AM
 
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I'm a Chicago native and have always said pop. This study confirms that.
I still don't buy it. I think I've heard someone call it "pop" two or three times in ten years. Tops.
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Old 03-04-2009, 08:10 AM
 
Location: Chicago
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...90% of people in Chicago say "soda". I don't care what Avengerfire says.
You must hang out with a lot of transplants!
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Old 03-04-2009, 08:14 AM
 
Location: Tower Grove East, St. Louis, MO
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LK -- I hear people say pop ALL the time at work -- I work with a lot of 2nd 3rd and 4th generation Chicagoans and they all say pop.

St. Louis is actually one of the few place in the Midwest that say soda -- if you head north, west, south or east of STL you hear pop far more frequently.

Once I was at a Mickey D's in the south and ordered a coke and the girl looks at me and asks "What kind" -- this is before I knew they called all soda coke and I just looked at her with this weird expression and my face and said "um, the coke kind?"
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Old 03-04-2009, 08:41 AM
 
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In Wisco many people say "pop", and it's one of the things that outsiders make fun of Wisconsinites for. I've only heard a few people in Chicago use the word "pop", and it actually sounds funny to me now after all of these years. 90% of people in Chicago say "soda". I don't care what Avengerfire says.
I grew up in SC, and my family has been there for a LOOOONG time. (Not transplants. At least not transplants from anyplace other than the UK back before there was a USA....)

We never did the "everything is coke" thing. I never heard this growing up. People around me said "drink" or even sometimes "soda", but mostly they just used specific brand names. If you want a 'coke', 'coke'. 'Dr Pepper?' Say that. Etc. The most coke would ever mean besides Coca Cola was 'any cola'. Pepsi, RC, etc, were all in that coke category. Otherwise? Be specific.

Then again, I usually just got sweet tea, but that's another conversation.

And, I've said this on this board before, but Coke was created in Columbus, GA, Pepsi was created in New Bern, NC, Dr. Pepper was created in Texas, Mountain Dew was invented in Knoxville, TN, RC was invented in Columbus, GA, etc. I figure Southerners invented the most popular soft drinks, so they can pretty much call em whatever they want. Folks up north can call it all Faygo.
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Old 03-04-2009, 08:49 AM
 
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...Once I was at a Mickey D's in the south and ordered a coke and the girl looks at me and asks "What kind" -- this is before I knew they called all soda coke and I just looked at her with this weird expression and my face and said "um, the coke kind?"
Give me a coke coke.
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Old 03-04-2009, 09:23 AM
 
Location: Houston Texas
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Hey yall I dont have big hair, it is just really long!
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Old 03-04-2009, 09:47 AM
 
Location: currently dallas Chicago next week
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Okay this is the funniest thing ever! I'm in the process of moving to Chicago from Dallas (next weekend - terrified) and I’m with you MyssaTx I don't have big hair is really long, although in Texas, bigger is better, and I say coke. It’s a Texas ritual - "I would like a coke", "what kind?", "oh Diet Dr. Pepper, Thanks!" It makes absolutely no sense. However, I am feeling the pain of actually finding things and shopping. I have a $75.00 gift card from Sams Club, and i realized yesterday that Chicago isn't really conducive to the Warehouse Clubs that you become so accustom to in Dallas. Part of me says thank god, and the other part of me say - "what will I do without 40 rolls of toilet paper in the cabinet!!"
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