Lit 101's take on pop or soda.

[Looneybomber]

Gen chat seems slow, so I'm going to add nothing useful...but I chuckled when I read it.

From my lit book in reference to types of dialects used in poetry and what people would say in various parts of the U.S.
"...or drink soda (Eastern), pop (Midwestern), soda pop (a confused Midwesterner living in the East, or a confused Easterner living in the Midwest), or tonic (Bostonian)."

*edit* Reworded some stuff. Drinking messes up my grammar.
*edit#2* Fixed my fixed stuff. Maybe I shouldn't be doing lit homework right now...

[Jesda]

I live in a soda town. Pop people are borderline retarded.

[Looneybomber]

I'm a pop guy. Anything else is un-american.

[Ozzie]

I don't use either terminology.

[MellowZ32]

I live in a soda town. Pop people are borderline retarded.

[bigbadberry3]

Poppin' all day.

[LEMHEAD16]

Pop people are borderline retarded.

I have always thought less of people who say "pop"

Same rules apply to shoes. Sneakers = east coast, tennis shoes = west coast, tenny runners = old rednecks

[Jesda]

I'm a pop guy. Anything else is un-american.

FIGHT! FIGHT! FIGHT! FIGHT!

[Looneybomber]

tenny runners = old rednecks

Tenny runners? Never even heard of that. What rednecks do you know?

[sbird1]

Round these here parts, everything is "coke". You want something in particular, you say desired beverage's name.

[Jesda]

tenny runners = old rednecks

Tenny runners? Never even heard of that. What rednecks do you know?

Personally, I think that's unamerican. I suspect the red coats introduced it to certain regions to subvert our culture.

[Dattebayo]

Everyone forgot about "bubbly". It's apparently not just champagne...
And no Bostonian would call soda "tonic" unless it's actually tonic water. Durrr

[danshaz82]

I'm a pop guy. Anything else is un-american.

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Poppin' all day.

[Ace2cool]

I don't use either terminology.

I say coke. Doesn't matter if it's a Sprite, Mountain Dew, Pepsi, or Coca Cola. It's a coke. Soda is an acceptable alternative, but Pop is like damned nails on a chalkboard to me.

[MaximA32]

I grew up calling it pop. I now call it soda because I get weird a$$ looks if I call it pop.

[MinisterofDOOM]

Soda makes sense. Soda water was (still is) the base for fountain drinks that became the canned stuff we drink today. Gets its name from the sodium content.

"Pop" is just an idiot onomatopoeia made up by dumb people who wouldn't know sodium from magnesium if you showed them a periodic table.

I rarely use either term. I don't buy "soda" I buy a specific drink. That's like asking your waiter for "a glass of wine." WHAT wine? I order a Coke. Or a sarsparilla. Or a club soda. Not a "soda."

[Jesda]

Pop is like saying you drive a vroom rather than a car.

[PapaSmurf2k3]

Pop is like saying you drive a vroom rather than a car.

I grew up calling it pop. I now call it soda because I get weird a$$ looks if I call it pop.

Good.

Round these here parts, everything is "coke". You want something in particular, you say desired beverage's name.

Yes, I noticed that when I moved south. It pisses me off to no end. When people come over and I offer a drink (like coke, sprite mt dew), they give me a look like their head is going to explode from all the nomenclature.
I guess that itself doesn't piss me off... its when people try to correct ME. Like if I'm at a cash register and the lady says "what did you drink" and I say a pepsi or something, she'll look at me and say "...you mean a coke?". I'm all "no, I mean a pepsi". Then she just kinda mutters to herself "right... a coke" and punches in coke into the register.
Its like I need a large metaphorical lever down here so I can "move the world".

I live in a soda town. Pop people are borderline retarded.

[Mr1der]

we call everything coke down here.

[Jesda]

If Lindsay Lohan went to Georgia and asked for coke, she might be disappointed.

[Mr1der]

if you get disappointed when someone hands you a coca cola you need to get right the hell outta my country.

so yeah, she can leave.

[szh]

The funny thing is that this exact topic has been discussed in General Chat before.

I have been here too long, I guess!

Z

[Bmore-coupe]

we call everything coke down here.

I hope that you all realize that this makes no sense at all.

[szh]

if you get disappointed when someone hands you a coca cola you need to get right the hell outta my country.

so yeah, she can leave.

When I lived in Mississippi, everyone shortened "Coca Cola" to "Cocola" ... 'k' sound on both 'c' characters and a short 'o' for the first one.

Z

[Dattebayo]

This thread got all coked up and has no where to go now. lol

[LEMHEAD16]

Tenny runners? Never even heard of that. What rednecks do you know?

I think after 10 years of selling shoes, I've heard it all. most of the time Tenny runners comes from very old, very backward mountain people.

[RCA]

Soda makes sense. Soda water was (still is) the base for fountain drinks that became the canned stuff we drink today. Gets its name from the sodium content.

Great!

Can you explain "jimmies"?

Why some people in south Jersey call them that bottles my mind.

[Jesda]

Tenny runners? Never even heard of that. What rednecks do you know?

I think after 10 years of selling shoes, I've heard it all. most of the time Tenny runners comes from very old, very backward mountain people.

On the plus side, they've started wearing shoes.

[Razi]

[coupecrazy1232]

yep its coke in the south!! i have family that lives in Kansas and they say pop and it annoys the shiz outta me!!!