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View Poll Results: What do you call it?
Pop 12 54.55%
Soda 8 36.36%
Cola 0 0%
Other 2 9.09%
Voters: 22. You may not vote on this poll

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Old 12-22-2008, 08:10 PM
 
Location: San Antonio
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Moving from the Hudson Valley in 1987 to Chautauqua County, the word pop for soda just sounded so funny to me. I always stuck to soda. Now that I am here in San Antonio TX I also have heard soda, aka pop referred to as coke. Even funnier!
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Old 12-23-2008, 07:41 AM
 
Location: Upstate New York
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Wink Thats real swell!

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Detroit and Minnesota say pop too
Wow! I could have sworn this was a uniquely Chicagoan phenomenon.

However, I recently relocated to Buffalo and everytime I hear someone say "Pop" I can't help but laughing. Its like saying "Thats real swell!" or "Groovy, man", or calling a bra a "brassiere", or calling a movie the "picture show", or even referring dinner as "supper".

I don't want to sound like I'm making fun of nearly 1/2 the country (according to popvssoda.com) - call it what you like - but if you stop and think about it for a second, you have to admit the term "Pop" definetely sounds like its from another era - that is long gone.
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Old 12-25-2008, 08:20 PM
 
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^^ Sad but true....pop is fading even in western NY. Most kids in the region these days say soda, probably people who are now in their mid-late twenties are the youngest generation of the majority of people say pop.
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Old 12-25-2008, 08:22 PM
 
Location: Yakima, WA
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Soft drink homeboy, no.. Soda. Can you guys imagine saying Orange Pop? Gives me goosebumps... :P
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Old 12-26-2008, 04:08 AM
 
Location: Buffalo
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Since in the Marines I have had to call it soda because half of them look at me funny when I tell them the pop machine is at the other end of the hanger. But when I will always know it is pop in my heart :-D
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Old 12-26-2008, 01:12 PM
 
Location: Tonawanda
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I always sit on my couch and drink pop.

Used to be if you ordered a "soda" in WNY you either got Club soda or Ice cream in your Pop.
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Old 12-26-2008, 02:14 PM
 
Location: Beautiful Buffalo :-)
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Used to be if you ordered a "soda" in WNY you either got Club soda or Ice cream in your Pop.
"Soda" reminds me of pop from a fountain, or yes, with ice cream.
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