What do you call carbonated drinks?

[matchbow]

it's called pop by almost everyone i know. when we did an exchange to california, everyone in california called it soda, and found it odd that we called it pop. so it's very regional

[Mongrel]

Soda. Almost everyone around me calls it pop and it bugs me, though it really shouldn't.
Occasionally I'll say soft drink, and when I'm feeling goofy it's dark/orange/clear/whatever carbonated beverage.

[pipsqueeek]

When I was little I used to call it pop(lived in colorado then nebraska), but when I moved to vermont everyone else called it soda and I just got used to calling it that. Now pop sounds kind of weird to me. I'll occasionally say soft drink, but it's mostly soda.

[shapu]

This shall solve everything (since America is everything)

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That's an especially interesting map because there's a great historical anachronism as part of it. If you look at Saint Louis (that big yellow blob in the middle) you'll see that everyone there calls the drink "soda," even though nobody else around it does. The reason is that 7-up was invented in St. Louis in 1929 - it was called "Bib-Label Lithiated Lemon-Lime Soda" at the time and quickly became a very popular drink during prohibition's ending days. It later became 7-UP lithiated lemon-lime soda, and later just 7-up.

So everyone there ordered soda, which is what their kids learned to call fizzy drinks.

Soda, because that's what it is.

I disagree. I call it pop, but it would be wrong to say it's pop simply because that's what it is. Soda is what you like to call it, but it has many other names. Soda, from what I can remember, is an American term for a fizzy drink. It's a regional thing.

Answer is in the um...mild debate XD

No, I mean that's what it technically is. Soft drinks and soda water are carbonated with a material called Bicarbonate of Soda (or at least, they were). So they're soda drinks (and that's why they're called carbonated drinks as well).

Although I suppose cola is also a correct term, for the darker caramelized drinks.

[Igg]

I call them 'fizzy drinks'.

Gosh, you bunch of freaks.

[charlixsparkles]

Pop, but I usually call them fizzy drinks

[Dragonfire]

Ooh, interesting map. And most of Texas calls it coke, but I'm surprised that there are a few isolated counties in central Texas that call it something other, and more surprising that one county in the SE portion of central Texas calls it soda.

[Cerise]

PA's split right down the middle Us Pittsburghers call it pop, while those wild Phillies prefer soda.

[mazil]

Soft drink. I'm sad it's not a poll option!

Edit: That map is cool! I didn't know that pop/soda/soft drinks were also called "coke". Doesn't that get a little confusing when you want an actual Coca-Cola coke?

[Sugarinii]

Pop.

But I'll usually just call a certain one by name.

[Ginger Harp Seal Pup]

This shall solve everything (since America is everything)

http://img516.imageshack.us/img516/3333 ... 944dk5.gif

That's an especially interesting map because there's a great historical anachronism as part of it. If you look at Saint Louis (that big yellow blob in the middle) you'll see that everyone there calls the drink "soda," even though nobody else around it does. The reason is that 7-up was invented in St. Louis in 1929 - it was called "Bib-Label Lithiated Lemon-Lime Soda" at the time and quickly became a very popular drink during prohibition's ending days. It later became 7-UP lithiated lemon-lime soda, and later just 7-up.

So everyone there ordered soda, which is what their kids learned to call fizzy drinks.

Soda, because that's what it is.

I disagree. I call it pop, but it would be wrong to say it's pop simply because that's what it is. Soda is what you like to call it, but it has many other names. Soda, from what I can remember, is an American term for a fizzy drink. It's a regional thing.

Answer is in the um...mild debate XD

No, I mean that's what it technically is. Soft drinks and soda water are carbonated with a material called Bicarbonate of Soda (or at least, they were). So they're soda drinks (and that's why they're called carbonated drinks as well).

Although I suppose cola is also a correct term, for the darker caramelized drinks.

*cough* I've been pwned...XD

[Dragonfire]

Soft drink. I'm sad it's not a poll option!

Edit: That map is cool! I didn't know that pop/soda/soft drinks were also called "coke". Doesn't that get a little confusing when you want an actual Coca-Cola coke?

Well, if we want something like Sprite, we say Sprite. If we want Pepsi or Coca-Cola we say coke.

[Ginger Harp Seal Pup]

Soft drink. I'm sad it's not a poll option!

Edit: That map is cool! I didn't know that pop/soda/soft drinks were also called "coke". Doesn't that get a little confusing when you want an actual Coca-Cola coke?

Well, if we want something like Sprite, we say Sprite. If we want Pepsi or Coca-Cola we say coke.

That applies to the UK too. We usually call Coca-Cola coke, and Sprite sprite and lemonade we'd call...well, lemonade...

[rageaholic]

pop.

[ryan.riverside]

I did have an 'other' option, but I don't know where it went... I'm sorry everyone... I have failed at life...