Just something that bugs me- I say "soda," but it seems like I'm the only one in Iowa who doesn't say "pop." What do YOU think?

-- Anonymous, November 13, 2000

Answers

Pop. POP POP POP. (I'm from Wisconsin.)

-- Anonymous, November 13, 2000

Yeah, and you call drinking fountains 'bubblers'! =)

-- Anonymous, November 13, 2000

The weird thing where I live is that when someone talks about getting a drink they say "do you want a coke" or "I'm getting a coke". Even if their talking about Dr. Pepper, Moutain Dew; or any other kind of soft drink.

-- Anonymous, November 14, 2000

Soda.

I used to collectively refer to soft drinks as "Coke." I picked it up from a friend of mine in junior high, but I don't do it anymore.

-- Anonymous, November 14, 2000

Pop.

Soda is what characters on television shows call their generic pop. The only time I ever feel the need to call it "soda" is whenever I'm visiting my relatives on the east coast.

-- Anonymous, November 14, 2000

who cares? they're both pretty silly words.

-- Anonymous, November 14, 2000

everything's "coke"

-- Anonymous, November 14, 2000

I use soda. Pretty much everyone in my area does, except older folks and people from other areas.

-- Anonymous, November 14, 2000

maria: "who cares? they're both pretty silly words. "

Gosh, Maria, you are on the defensive lately, hrm? :)

I'm just teasing. I thought you had very valid and interesting things to say in the other forum. But then so did almost everyone else.

As for this issue, which is debatably the more urgent and pressing of the two, my vote is for soda. And don't anyone try to talk me out of it.

-- Anonymous, November 14, 2000

The other forum was giving me heartburn. :) I say soda dammit! All hail soda!

-- Anonymous, November 14, 2000

Well, I've experienced both and it's SODA all the way....

-- Anonymous, November 15, 2000

I tend to interchange "soda" and "Coke." I'll say "pop" just to please my grandparents when I'm back in Pittsburgh.

Does anyone say "Soda pop?"

-- Anonymous, November 15, 2000

I'm with Brian on the whole coke thing. It's all coke. I laugh uncontrollably when I hear someone say "pop". It's just hilarious to me. :o) But I guess, in all actuality, calling every other kind of drink "coke" is stupid. So anyway.

-- Anonymous, November 16, 2000

It's "soda" if I'm referring to the collective, but if I'm at Cheddar's ordering a drink, I'll order a Coke. Even if I'm at Pizza Hut, which I know is owned by Pepsico and serves Pepsi products, I'll say, "I'll have a Coke," just because I love the potential answers to the inevitable, "Is Pepsi okay?"

-- Anonymous, November 16, 2000

Only the 'Sconnies from Milwaukee say "bubblers"...and duck duck goose, and soda. What's going on?? It's pop, dude. "99 bottles of soda?!" I don't think so.

-- Anonymous, November 16, 2000

Hrm... Bree... so you're suggesting that the song actually is "99 Bottles of Pop", yes?

Is that the Amish version?

-- Anonymous, November 16, 2000

Heh, in my small town, it is!!!

C'mon, guys, only the bad kids sang "beer" in elementary school....

-- Anonymous, November 17, 2000