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Miscellaneous => The Lounge => Topic started by: Pissed_Macman on 13 September 2003, 21:59

Title: Pop or Soda?
Post by: Pissed_Macman on 13 September 2003, 21:59: A quick poll. Do you call carbonated beverages pop or soda and from what region of the world are you? This is a strange phenomenonomonemon because for a long time I thought they called it pop on the west coast and soda on the east, but I'm thinking I'm wrong.

I'm in Washington state, I've always called it pop.
Title: Pop or Soda?
Post by: xyle_one on 13 September 2003, 10:16: Soda. West coast. I live in Nevada, USA...
Title: Pop or Soda?
Post by: Stilly on 13 September 2003, 10:20: I used to call them soda pop

but I just call them cokes
Title: Pop or Soda?
Post by: xyle_one on 13 September 2003, 10:25: off topic,

Macman, tennis? Did you get that image?
Title: Pop or Soda?
Post by: suselinux on 13 September 2003, 10:36: Vancouver BC CANADA almost directly over the border from Macman

POP always POP

and I call fries----Chips, If I may add that (http://smile.gif)

some Canadian words (http://hcs.harvard.edu/~hgscc/glossary.html)

Why Canadians use the "U" (http://www.nlc-bnc.ca/8/11/r11-203-e.html)
Title: Pop or Soda?
Post by: Zombie9920 on 13 September 2003, 10:38: Sometimes I call it pop
Sometimes I call it soda
Sometimes I call it Soda Pop
Usually I call it by it's name(Mountain Dew, Dr. Pepper, Pepsi, Coke, Root Beer, etc.)

It all depends on what comes to mind and my frame of mind at the time when I say it.

I usually just say pop when I'm stoned or drunk
I usually say soda when I'm sober but I'm in a rush to get the sentence out.
I usually say Soda Pop when I'm tired.
I'll say the proper name when I'm sober, not tired and I feel like being proper(most of the time).

Keep in mind that I don't always say it by that little guide above though. Sometimes I'll use the different wording in different frames of mind(different than what I just listed). It all just depends on what comes to mind when I'm saying it pretty much.

North Central USA

[ September 13, 2003: Message edited by: Viper ]
Title: Pop or Soda?
Post by: pofnlice on 13 September 2003, 10:43: Ready???
Texas...thier all cokes, it is the responsiblity of the waiter/waitress to ask what kind.

my wife is british, in reply to the chips comment

she calls fries = chips
chips = crisps
jam = jelly
jelly = jello
biscuits = scondes
cookies = biscuits
IM SO CONFUSEDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD!!!!
Title: Pop or Soda?
Post by: Zombie9920 on 13 September 2003, 10:45: Around here the waiters/waitresses don't ask, "What coke do you want?". They ask, "What would you like to drink?".

(EDIT)It would confuse me if my wife called items by names of differnt items too. (http://tongue.gif)
My wife is like me. She usually tries to call stuff by it's proper name.

[ September 13, 2003: Message edited by: Viper ]
Title: Pop or Soda?
Post by: pofnlice on 13 September 2003, 10:46: by the way...she also calls it niether soda or pop...it's fizzy pop, because pop is kool-aide...my life is a translation hell!!!
Title: Pop or Soda?
Post by: Zombie9920 on 13 September 2003, 10:50: quote:
Originally posted by Joey:
by the way...she also calls it niether soda or pop...it's fizzy pop, because pop is kool-aide...my life is a translation hell!!!

Poor guy. I bet it is hell when she wants you to cook for her. She tells you to make her something, but after you make it she gets upset because you made the wrong thing(you didn't make the wrong thing, her termanolgy just suggests that you did).
Title: Pop or Soda?
Post by: pofnlice on 13 September 2003, 11:39: ~OFF TOPIC~(forgive me)
Now you feel my pain...last time I got in trouble cuz she said "Give me a snog" So I did what most men would do and laid a big hot sweaty sex session on that would make Ron Jeremy blush...later she told me snog was a kiss...OOPS
Title: Pop or Soda?
Post by: Laukev7 on 13 September 2003, 16:59: I usually call the drink by its commercial name. In English I would call them soft drinks. In French there's no specific term that I know of. I rarely drink carbonated beverages, though. I prefer healthier drinks with less sugar. (http://tongue.gif)

Edit: I live near Montr
Title: Pop or Soda?
Post by: M51DPS on 13 September 2003, 20:37: Soda
Title: Pop or Soda?
Post by: Pissed_Macman on 13 September 2003, 22:58: quote:
Macman, tennis? Did you get that image?

Oops, I have been plagued with much homework but it's the weekend now.
Title: Pop or Soda?
Post by: TheQuirk on 13 September 2003, 23:42: I live in Houston, Texas. And I call everything by its proper name.

Anyway, I stopped drinking carbonated drinks, so I don't get to ask for them very much anymore.
Title: Pop or Soda?
Post by: jrigby on 14 September 2003, 08:46: depends on the time of day sometimes soda sometimes pop but usually i just say pepsi cause thats what i always get its awesome its only 75 cents for a 20 oz at our school
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Post by: mushrooomprince on 17 September 2003, 03:30: Definantly soda, wait ... i didn't read all of his post.
Title: Pop or Soda?
Post by: emh on 17 September 2003, 06:06: I call it soda.

And I'm from Missouri, USA