Why do people in Arizona call soda "pop"? (college, live in)

[CosmicWizard]

azdr0710 wrote:

just don't say you want a Pepsi in Atlanta....damn Yankee

I'll have a co cola!

[keninaz]

A bit older than many here I suspect but it was referred to as soda pop when I was very young due to the fizzing and popping of the carbonation.

I suspect along the way we just shortened it to pop or soda along the way and it has little to do with regional identification.

I drank Coca Cola when I was a kid. But in my 20's I was buying some ussed gas welding equipment and noted the welding tips were really dirty. The old time welders told me to just put them in a saucer with some Coca Cola and the acids would eat the stuff right off the copper tips.
He then showed me how fast it would eat the stuff right off the tips. He also told me that Pepsi would not work, but did not know why.
I concluded that if Coke had that much acids in it that maybe I did not need that much acid in my stomach and switched to Pepsi.
Funny but the stomach problems I had been having stopped.

[Steve Pickering]

I have called it Soda Pop for many years. Otherwise I call it by name such as Grape Nehi, ROC Coca-Cola, RC, Coke, Bargs, or Sarsasparilla.

[ElizaTeal]

I moved here from NY, I say, "soder."

[Desert kid]

For some time I've just called it "Coke", my family members here in AZ call it soda, but my relatives in Texas call it "Coke" too.

[azriverfan.]

In the South, they call soda "coke." Everything is a "coke" regardless if it's Pepis, Coca Cola, Dr. Pepper. In the Midwest, they call it "Pop"

In the East Coast and West Coast, we call it soda.

[azriverfan.]

Originally Posted by keninaz

A bit older than many here I suspect but it was referred to as soda pop when I was very young due to the fizzing and popping of the carbonation.

I suspect along the way we just shortened it to pop or soda along the way and it has little to do with regional identification.

I drank Coca Cola when I was a kid. But in my 20's I was buying some ussed gas welding equipment and noted the welding tips were really dirty. The old time welders told me to just put them in a saucer with some Coca Cola and the acids would eat the stuff right off the copper tips.
He then showed me how fast it would eat the stuff right off the tips. He also told me that Pepsi would not work, but did not know why.
I concluded that if Coke had that much acids in it that maybe I did not need that much acid in my stomach and switched to Pepsi.
Funny but the stomach problems I had been having stopped.

Soda has a lot of harmful effects including diet soda (although it's better). You're right, not only is it harmful to your stomach lining. It's harmful to your kidneys and increases your risk of developing kidney stones. Oh, did I forget to mention that it increases your risk of cavities.

I have friends who are urologists and they tell me they see more and more younger people presenting with kidney stones as in 13 year olds!!! It has to do with our diet. The increased amount of sodium and soda that is prominent in our mainstream diet today has led to increased incidence of kidney stone among young people.

[Ponderosa]

Originally Posted by azriverfan.

Soda has a lot of harmful effects including diet soda (although it's better). You're right, not only is it harmful to your stomach lining. It's harmful to your kidneys and increases your risk of developing kidney stones. Oh, did I forget to mention that it increases your risk of cavities.

I have friends who are urologists and they tell me they see more and more younger people presenting with kidney stones as in 13 year olds!!! It has to do with our diet. The increased amount of sodium and soda that is prominent in our mainstream diet today has led to increased incidence of kidney stone among young people.

Read a can label! The one I am holding says 5mg of sodium - virtually nothing! My tap water is probably higher than that. The notion that soda contains large amounts of sodium is patently false. We may be consuming too much sodium but it from the foods we eat, not soft drinks.

[azdreaming]

Originally Posted by Ellwood

In Massachusetts they call it "pop" also. I have heard it used in the south eastern states also.

I was born in Massachusetts and have never heard a Mass native call it "pop." Tonic, yes, or soda, but never pop.

[oliviajane]

I was born in Arizona and raised in through the 1980's, and everyone I know called it "pop." I rarely heard the word, "soda."