I’m from GA, and I never understood people calling all soda a coke. Giving someone a Pepsi when they asked for a coke is enough to start an altercation around here – they are not at all considered interchangeable
I mean, I assume part of that standoffishness is simply local pride since Coca Cola is headquartered there.
pop is getting smaller and towards the midwest, eventually it will just be minisoda.
Take my upvote damnit!
Born in a pop stronghold, and it is still holding. Coke is a brand, not all pop!
That’s because Soda was originally said by the most population dense areas of the country.
By default, that gives it a huge advantage in terms of shifting the cultural language. Especially since Hollywood often controls the cultural shifts and narratives of colloquial language.
So this isn’t too surprising. It’s kind of like the whole “Land doesn’t get a vote” thing when you look at the Red vs Blue district voting graphs, without taking into account the majority of people live in the blue areas, and very few people, comparatively, live in the red areas.
This visualization is pretty much the same thing.
As inconsequential as it is, it makes me mildly sad to see things like this become more homogeneous.
While this example is likely inconsequential, consider that it may be a good thing that without regional dialects we may become better at communicating with each other in general.
Soda is carbonated water.
Pop is dad.
We have them on the run, boys!
If they showed Canada on this map, you’d think otherwise…
We’re up here drinking our pop while sitting on the chesterfield
Tabernac!
Dr Pepper is king either way
GOOD! I grew up living in the north-east and we called it “Soda”, then moved west and kept hearing people say “pop” and it was the most annoying thing, glad to see everyone else is coming around to the correct name.
I’m doing my part to fight back, moved to California from Michigan and my girlfriend used to say pop ironically but she’s said it so much now she uses it too.
It’s pop and I will die on this hill
Hello. My name is Inigo Montoya. I prefer the word soda. Prepare to die.
You dropped a D bro
You will get the D later ;)
Can you show me any other examples of when people use the latter part of the word when shortening it? Or is this somehow the only acceptable one for you?
sodi pops
But we buried you grandpa. How can you be on lemmy?
i made a deal with the devil
don’t tell gam gam
Softdrink
This is Sody Pop erasure
Had to scroll all the way to the bottom to find a fellow soda pop enjoyer. Shame.
Bring it back!
In Australia, they’re called soft drinks because they have little or no alcohol in them.
We call them soft drinks in America too.
I was today years old when I learned that the soft on soft drink is the opposite of hard in terms of liquor.
I grew up almost exclusively hearing “pop,” and use it in casual situations, but I prefer to use “soda” in public. Asking a server what kind of “pop” they have seems odd to me, but at the same time asking a friend if I can grab a “soda” seems odd as well.
