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In Alabama, it's just Coke. So you get the odd situation where you walk up to the counter of a restaurant and ask for a Coke and they say, "What kind? Sprite? Orange?"
Definitely not the Northwestern part of the state.
Right... because I've only lived here half my life.
So... just sit there in your wrongness and be wrong. Thanks.
Mr./Ms. Just-Got-Here-From-Omaha.
God damn.... lol.
.... That map says you're wrong....
.... My BABY TAPE FROM 1983 says you're wrong...
.... The general public everytime I go out says you're wrong...
Actually he also said most of Wisconsin says soda. That map sort of says that's wrong too. It's probably half if that. And the majority would probably be blue. (Pop.)
What is with people like that? No matter how wrong they are they think they're right.
I think I said I only heard soda out in Montana, but I'm only stating that's what I personally heard. I wasn't trying to argue with actual data, nor was I mocking how someone else refers to their portion of their homestate by putting it in quotes, before self-righteously responding to them.
It's pop in Upnorth Wisconsin. I've heard co-workers say it, I've heard friends/relatives say it, I was raised to say it (on my baby tape my mom's getting me to spell words and one of them was "pop"), a number of cashiers have said pop. It's definitely pop. I'm getting back into the habit slowly but surely, since I've moved back. Out west it's soda.
The thing I find weird is how people have an aversion to one or the other.
I think pop and soda BOTH sound fine. They're both an abbreviation for "soda pop."
Now calling every kind "Coke"... that's odd. Clearly a Mountain Dew is not a Coke.
No one calls a mountain dew a coke. Folklore, nothing more.
In Alabama, it's just Coke. So you get the odd situation where you walk up to the counter of a restaurant and ask for a Coke and they say, "What kind? Sprite? Orange?"
By that they mean Coke products, and even then, to say such is extremely rare in this region. I don't know why so many southerners purport that this kind of stuff takes place regularly, when it doesn't. In my 30+ years, all lived in the south, I have rarely heard these kinds of things.
By that they mean Coke products, and even then, to say such is extremely rare in this region. I don't know why so many southerners purport that this kind of stuff takes place regularly, when it doesn't. In my 30+ years, all lived in the south, I have rarely heard these kinds of things.
Chalk it up to different experiences for different people. I've been in different parts of the south for 30 years too, and I have experienced this, mostly in small mom and pop type places. The first time someone asked me that question, at some little diner in Saraland AL, it really threw me. It's definitely something you notice the first time you get asked what kind of coke you want.
Right... because I've only lived here half my life.
So... just sit there in your wrongness and be wrong. Thanks.
Mr./Ms. Just-Got-Here-From-Omaha.
God damn.... lol.
.... That map says you're wrong....
.... My BABY TAPE FROM 1983 says you're wrong...
.... The general public everytime I go out says you're wrong...
Actually he also said most of Wisconsin says soda. That map sort of says that's wrong too. It's probably half if that. And the majority would probably be blue. (Pop.)
What is with people like that? No matter how wrong they are they think they're right.
I think I said I only heard soda out in Montana, but I'm only stating that's what I personally heard. I wasn't trying to argue with actual data, nor was I mocking how someone else refers to their portion of their homestate by putting it in quotes, before self-righteously responding to them.
It's really not that important, that you should get your undies in a bundle over this. I only know what I know. I don't have a connection to the western part of the state, so how would I know. I, my family, and my friends are more in the eastern part of the state. I was born in Minnesota, but don't remember what they called it there - nor, does it matter. I'm only stating what I know, if you disagree, so be it.
That map is wrong because the majority of everyone in Orlando calls it Soda, not coke.
Exactly. I live in Texas and been all over the state. I've rarely [if ever] heard anyone say Coke; unless they were asking for a coca cola. I'm sure people say Coke here, but I've never heard it and I don't think the term is nowhere near as dominant as that map suggests.
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No matter how wrong they are they think they're right. 
