What do you call carbonated drinks?

[shapu]

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

Doesn't count as pwning if you aren't a history dork. Or a science dork. Or, in my case, a history of science dork.

<- Just read the world history of salt book.

[Combusken BG]

Despite it not being a option my anwser is Fizzy Drinks because that is what they are.

[Doozer]

I call it pop, while my boyfriend calls it soda.

"Sweetie, do you have any pop?"
"Nope. I do have some soda if you want any."

[ryan.riverside]

I call it pop, while my boyfriend calls it soda.

"Sweetie, do you have any pop?"
"Nope. I do have some soda if you want any."

That's funny. Where I was born they called it pop. I moved to a place that called it soda, then to a place that called it coke, and now I am back to the pop area, but I call it soda still.

[Meer]

What the....? O_o
How can you call fizzy drinks coke? I've never heard anyone refer all soda in general as coke, this mystifies me. Coke is one brand of soda. You can't call a Pepsi or Mountain Dew Coke. That... that makes no sense! Ahh my brain is gonna implode! XD

Heh, I call it soda.

I have a funny story about someone saying something about a pop machine, and someone mishearing it as pot machine. But it was only really funny if you were there.

[Kugetsu]

I've never heard anyone in real life call them "fizzy drinks" before either (unless they were about three, but they called them "fizzies".) Heck, even pop is barely used around here.

It just depends where you live, though from what I've read only colas are being called "Coke" which isn't necessarily the same as calling all soft drinks coke (does anyone really call all soft drinks coke?).

[ryan.riverside]

I've never heard anyone in real life call them "fizzy drinks" before either (unless they were about three, but they called them "fizzies".) Heck, even pop is barely used around here.

It just depends where you live, though from what I've read only colas are being called "Coke" which isn't necessarily the same as calling all soft drinks coke (does anyone really call all soft drinks coke?).

People in Texas do.

[Anoohilator]

Fizzy Drinks in the UK too.

We had Panda Pops I suppose, but I've never heard the mainstream carbonated drinks being referred to as soda or pop.. Soft drinks sometimes..

[May]

When I was younger, I lived in an area where almost everyone said "pop", which is what I said in those days. Then I got a little older and realized that "pop" sounded too childish (at least to me), so I moved on to use the term "soda". That's what I use now for the most part. Once in a while, I do slip and say "pop", but usually it's just "soda".

[Harmonize]

I call them a cold drinks cause thats usually how they come served.

[Ginger Harp Seal Pup]

Fizzy Drinks in the UK too.

We had Panda Pops I suppose, but I've never heard the mainstream carbonated drinks being referred to as soda or pop.. Soft drinks sometimes..

Everyone refers to it as pop in the midlands. Fizzy drinks also, and sometimes fizzy pop.

[Anoohilator]

Fizzy Drinks in the UK too.

We had Panda Pops I suppose, but I've never heard the mainstream carbonated drinks being referred to as soda or pop.. Soft drinks sometimes..

Everyone refers to it as pop in the midlands. Fizzy drinks also, and sometimes fizzy pop.

Ahh yes I speak on behalf of Essex

*waits for someone to intervene*

[ryan.riverside]

So where is the Carbonated Drink Name Breakdown Map of the United Kingdom?

[Universal Senja]

Interesting map. To be honest, I had no idea the term pop was that commonly used.

About the whole coke thing, it's not like we call Sunkist "coke" or Fresca "coke". It usually varies by the situation. If you're at some sit down place here and the waiter asks what you would like to drink, you'd order the drink by name (so you'd say Dr. Pepper, not coke, if you want Dr. Pepper). If you're at a fast food place with a self-serve fountain down here, people will order a large coke (more of a general reference).

Now that I think about it though, I don't think calling a product by a brand name is limited to carbonated beverages here. I'm pretty sure the terms Band-Aid and Kleenex are used more frequently than tissue and bandage.

[ryan.riverside]

Oh, yeah... People often call things by the first main brand of the prodcut, like Q-Tips, Cheerios, Polos, etc. That's common. Very true, because Coca-Cola was the first major carbonated beverage company.