What do you call carbonated drinks?

[_jade_em_]

Soft drinks.

My God, all those other names are ridiculous -.-

[TiCup]

Soda. I'm from California. ^^ When I moved to Ohio everyone called it pop, and always knew I wasn't a native because I called it soda. I just started calling it pop because I got tired of explaining that I was from California.

Then I moved to northern Virginia, where everyone calls it soda, so now I am at peace.

That map is awesome, btw. *shows it to all her friends*

[Combusken BG]

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.

Why do some people call them soda?

I mean I could understand if someone wanted a cream soda and they said that were getting a soda when refering to cream soda. But using soda to refer to anything besides cream soda just doesn't make any sense to me.

[Kugetsu]

*quotes Shapu*

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.

[Twinkle]

I call them 'fizzy drinks'.

Gosh, you bunch of freaks.

Same. Go Brits!

[Xandra]

Soda- I've never called it anything else. I've lived in California and Maryland, and according to that map, that's pretty much all anyone in both states calls it. Soda.

Besides, it sounds cooler. Soda!

[Christopher]

Since I stopped drinking them I've come to referre to most fizzy drinks as liquid lard or sugar, and cola is specifically known as tar.

[zorg]

Since I stopped drinking them I've come to referre to most fizzy drinks as liquid lard or sugar, and cola is specifically known as tar.

Now thats fighting back. I did however learn, while flicking thru channels on TV, that coke ISN"T a spermicide.

Just so you know.

And its soft drink

[stones]

*throws toga party* im a flavored water kind of person. it tastes better and its better for you. also its good for your complexion... TO-GA, TO-GA. will anyone join?..... no..... ok

[Anoohilator]

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

There's no need for one - it's referred to as Fizzy Drinks in everywhere that isn't the midlands.

[Twinkle]

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

There's no need for one - it's referred to as Fizzy Drinks in everywhere that isn't the midlands.

I live in the Midlands and it's fizzy pop round here. What do we supposedly say?

[Anoohilator]

Ginger said that it's called something else *shrug*

[Pixa]

I refer to the product by name. For example:
Coca Cola = Coke
Orange Tango = Tango

And so on, and so forth. Fizzy drinks as a group, I suppose. Not pop.

[kiay]

I've always said soda, I never even knew that you could call it pop or fizzy drink. When I think of fizzy drink, I think of apple cider (the kind with lots of bubbles, how is it called again?) for some reason or those other drinks that have bubbles in them, I don't see how soda can be the same thing is fizzy drink. Pop also sounds strange to me, soo, umm, yay soda!

[werepup]

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

There's no need for one - it's referred to as Fizzy Drinks in everywhere that isn't the midlands.

I live in the Midlands and it's fizzy pop round here. What do we supposedly say?

Uh, Scotland is part of the UK - there's lots of names for fizzy drinks - ginger, juice, jeg and skoosh... there's probably more in dialects I don't know.