What do you call a "soft drink"?

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Originally Posted by jcat

What part of PA are you from? I'm from SE PA (Philly), and I've never heard anybody from around there call it "pop".
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I'm on the other side of the State...just outside of Pittsburgh.

Just have to add that when I went back and read this whole thread and saw "Sodie" it made me laugh, because when I was a little girl there was this little corner store three doors down from our house and everytime we'd go in there the old man that owned the store would tell me to go get myself a "sodie pop".
I forgot all about that
 
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Originally Posted by Denice

I grew up in Kansas and it was called pop. When I went in the service everyone said soda and now that I live in Ohio everyone uses soda and that is what I have gotten used to calling it.
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Originally Posted by Graciecat

I'm on the other side of the State...just outside of Pittsburgh.

Just have to add that when I went back and read this whole thread and saw "Sodie" it made me laugh, because when I was a little girl there was this little corner store three doors down from our house and everytime we'd go in there the old man that owned the store would tell me to go get myself a "sodie pop".
I forgot all about that
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A majority of Ohio uses "pop". I know that "soda" is DEFINATELY a Pennsylvania thing because my family and Trav are from PA and say "soda". I have always heard around Pittsburgh or thought anyways and my family is from Pittbsburgh. Trav is from Altoona and also calls it "soda"

I have grown to call it either "soda" or "pop"
 
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HMMM...I've lived in the same town my whole life and I've never known anyone who called it soda.
Could be that my friends and family are just odd


BTW...on behalf of Myself, Husband, Human Kids, and Feline Kids we wanted to tell you just how much we LOVE Oscars outfit
 
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Originally Posted by Graciecat

HMMM...I've lived in the same town my whole life and I've never known anyone who called it soda.
Could be that my friends and family are just odd


BTW...on behalf of Myself, Husband, Human Kids, and Feline Kids we wanted to tell you just how much we LOVE Oscars outfit
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Or MY family is weird
I know that eastern PA is "soda" but it could be my family in Pittsburgh


THANKS! Go Steelers!
 
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Originally Posted by Graciecat

You're very welcome.


Well I don't know who's family is the strangest, I guess we'll just have to call it a draw
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Definately!
 
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Everything is a coke to me. I guess that is because I am a georgia girl. My family from indiana calls it pop and it drives me crazy!
 
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I use to always say "pop"...but my boyfriend got me to start saying soda. Now I interchange the two.
 
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I live in the south....but my parents are from the north...so I usually call it "pop" but sometimes I say coke...
 
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Everyone in Philly says soda, unless they're being brand specific: "hunny can you get me a diet pepsi/sprite/mt dew please?!" But my family in Pittsburgh all says pop.
(Pop here is music, like Britney Spears
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growing up in the south, all carbonated drinks were called cokes. people would ask, "what kinda coke do you want?"
as an adult, i've switched to calling them sodas for the sake of clarity.
 
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Wow, I am SO all alone in calling it tonic!!!


Here's an important question for you all: Why are sodas called "soft" drinks? What's so soft about them???

I can see why something would be called a "hard" drink, if it has booze it it - because the floor is hard when you hit it after drinking too much, LOL.

Are they called soft only because they have no booze in them?
 
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I am from Canada and I have never heard anyone here call it a soda. When I was in New York and when I was in Florida, it was always soda or soda pop. Thats what menus all said. Menu's here usually say soft drinks, but everyone calls it pop.
 
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Originally Posted by GingersMom

Wow, I am SO all alone in calling it tonic!!!


Here's an important question for you all: Why are sodas called "soft" drinks? What's so soft about them???

I can see why something would be called a "hard" drink, if it has booze it it - because the floor is hard when you hit it after drinking too much, LOL.

Are they called soft only because they have no booze in them?
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That makes perfect sense to me!!! You have great logic! I'll drink to that!!!
 
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