I was raised a pop person, but lately I’ve noticed I call it soda sometimes. Not sure why. Judging from this map, I’m not the only one straying from my roots.
Pop when I was a young ‘un. Tend to call it soda these days. At least once a year at a gathering this debate is held:) Reminds me of the salt or sugar debate for watermelon.
Pop mostly, but soda plenty. This map makes me want to start a new trend and call it a soft drink while ensuring I stick my pinky out when drinking. Carbonated beverage for formal occasions.
“I was raised a pop person, but lately I’ve noticed I call it soda sometimes. Not sure why. Judging from this map, I’m not the only one straying from my roots.”
What 47 said. Almost exactly. I find myself calling it soda sometimes because so few people know what I mean when I say “pop.”
Born and raised Soda, and still am.
Have to admit sometimes it may have sounded closer to sodee.
As far as the Southern Coke thing, when I was young I heard it more as CoCola. It ran together as one word.
Born and grew up in NE Illinois but I have been calling it soda for a long time now. I think pop just sounds dumb. I used to think that maybe my mother who grew up in Pennsylvania called it soda when I was younger but she insists she has called it pop for longer than I’ve been alive.
Grew up North side of Chicago, northern suburbs now, I still call it pop. I always remember my confusion when I went to Boston where people called it tonic. I wonder if they still do.
Always used to say pop. Now I catch myself saying soda sometimes. Sodee is heard quite often in the sticks. I don’t know why anyone would use Coke generically. I’m sure that causes a bit of confusion.
I say pop. I’ve never witnessed someone saying soda have someone jump down their throat, but I experienced plenty of soda sayers that get upset over the use of the word pop.
Pop and soda were two different things where I grew up. When someone orders a scotch and soda no one thinks they mean to pour a can of mountain dew into it.
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- Finally Out - Tuesday, Apr 23, 24 @ 1:28 pm:
Funny, just had this conversation in Key West with a woman from Minnesota. Told her we would say soda or for us, Diet Coke. She said definitely pop.
- Lt Guv - Tuesday, Apr 23, 24 @ 1:29 pm:
Pop all day.
- 47th Ward - Tuesday, Apr 23, 24 @ 1:29 pm:
I was raised a pop person, but lately I’ve noticed I call it soda sometimes. Not sure why. Judging from this map, I’m not the only one straying from my roots.
- Just a Citizen - Tuesday, Apr 23, 24 @ 1:29 pm:
Pop
- Ashland Adam - Tuesday, Apr 23, 24 @ 1:32 pm:
Pop. Noticing I’m hearing ‘soda’ these days.
- Colin O'Scopy - Tuesday, Apr 23, 24 @ 1:34 pm:
Sodee Pop?
- Evanston - Tuesday, Apr 23, 24 @ 1:35 pm:
Been “soda” for me for all almost 30 years of my life
- Demoralized - Tuesday, Apr 23, 24 @ 1:36 pm:
Pop
- ArchPundit - Tuesday, Apr 23, 24 @ 1:36 pm:
Pop. Though Colin, that’s what my Southern Illinois family called it–now moved to just soda.
- ArchPundit - Tuesday, Apr 23, 24 @ 1:36 pm:
And if I have to move to Canada to keep pop, I will.
- Benjamin - Tuesday, Apr 23, 24 @ 1:36 pm:
Still “pop.”
- snowman61 - Tuesday, Apr 23, 24 @ 1:38 pm:
From the north but the wife was from Southern Illinois. Married in 1985 and she and her family got me to change from pop to Soda
- Rich Miller - Tuesday, Apr 23, 24 @ 1:39 pm:
===Sodee Pop===
I hear that often in Spfld.
- Nathan - Tuesday, Apr 23, 24 @ 1:40 pm:
I grew up in that little Soda circle in the middle of the 1947 map. It’s nice to see us winning out
- Treefiddy - Tuesday, Apr 23, 24 @ 1:41 pm:
Originally from Springfield, always heard it called soda. Never heard the term ‘pop’ until I moved to southern Illinois in high school
- Moved East - Tuesday, Apr 23, 24 @ 1:43 pm:
I used to say pop, until I was given a blank stare by a clerk in the south. Now I almost always say soda.
- Annon3 - Tuesday, Apr 23, 24 @ 1:45 pm:
In Wisconsin they have always said soda, and it is yet another way to tell the flatlanders from the natives…
- very old soil - Tuesday, Apr 23, 24 @ 1:45 pm:
In say scotch on the rocks.
- Amalia - Tuesday, Apr 23, 24 @ 1:47 pm:
don’t think about it cause I don’t drink any of it.
- Homebody - Tuesday, Apr 23, 24 @ 1:48 pm:
Soda, like a civilized adult.
- H-W - Tuesday, Apr 23, 24 @ 1:49 pm:
Always call it Coke. (from Virginia / North Carolina border)
- Frida's boss - Tuesday, Apr 23, 24 @ 1:50 pm:
Pop
- wildcat12 - Tuesday, Apr 23, 24 @ 1:51 pm:
Soda, even though I was born in Georgia. Called it “Coke” more growing up and haven’t assimilated to “pop” since moving to Illinois.
- Anon221 - Tuesday, Apr 23, 24 @ 1:52 pm:
Pop when I was a young ‘un. Tend to call it soda these days. At least once a year at a gathering this debate is held:) Reminds me of the salt or sugar debate for watermelon.
- Blitz - Tuesday, Apr 23, 24 @ 2:05 pm:
Pop mostly, but soda plenty. This map makes me want to start a new trend and call it a soft drink while ensuring I stick my pinky out when drinking. Carbonated beverage for formal occasions.
- Norseman - Tuesday, Apr 23, 24 @ 2:05 pm:
Pop.
It was a continuing struggle to ensure the kids were taught appropriately despite their mom’s Springfield soddee upbringing.
- ArchPundit - Tuesday, Apr 23, 24 @ 2:09 pm:
Starting to call my carbonator the Pop Stream to stop this foolishness.
- ClJ - Tuesday, Apr 23, 24 @ 2:10 pm:
Soda. Always and forever. Parents and grandparents from central Illinois and suburban Chicago.
- SteveM - Tuesday, Apr 23, 24 @ 2:11 pm:
Quad Cities native, now Chicagoan and it’s Pop
- New Day - Tuesday, Apr 23, 24 @ 2:12 pm:
“I was raised a pop person, but lately I’ve noticed I call it soda sometimes. Not sure why. Judging from this map, I’m not the only one straying from my roots.”
What 47 said. Almost exactly. I find myself calling it soda sometimes because so few people know what I mean when I say “pop.”
- Nick Name - Tuesday, Apr 23, 24 @ 2:16 pm:
Called it pop from when we lived in Minnesota. We moved to South Carolina and the term was not Coke but “Co-Cola.”
We moved to Illinois and the term was, without irony, “sodee.”
Through all this i called it pop and I still do.
- Matty - Tuesday, Apr 23, 24 @ 2:20 pm:
Everything is soda, unless it’s brown, in which case it’s cola.
- @misterjayem - Tuesday, Apr 23, 24 @ 2:20 pm:
Shortly after moving to Chicagoland, I was cruely mocked for calling it “pop.”
But I still use both.
– MrJM
- SOIL M - Tuesday, Apr 23, 24 @ 2:23 pm:
Born and raised Soda, and still am.
Have to admit sometimes it may have sounded closer to sodee.
As far as the Southern Coke thing, when I was young I heard it more as CoCola. It ran together as one word.
- Aaron B - Tuesday, Apr 23, 24 @ 2:23 pm:
Born and grew up in NE Illinois but I have been calling it soda for a long time now. I think pop just sounds dumb. I used to think that maybe my mother who grew up in Pennsylvania called it soda when I was younger but she insists she has called it pop for longer than I’ve been alive.
- JS Mill - Tuesday, Apr 23, 24 @ 2:25 pm:
Pop, like the sophisticate that I am. I always thought “soda” was brutish and uncultured. /s maybe
But, when ordering at any restaurant it is always coke.
The 2023 map seems to further reflect the moral decay caused by millenials and gen z. /s (not really)
- Which one is Pink. - Tuesday, Apr 23, 24 @ 2:29 pm:
My grandfather was from southeast Kentucky so I heard it called Coke when I was a kid. Moved on to soda when I grew up.
- Techie - Tuesday, Apr 23, 24 @ 2:33 pm:
Still pop for me.
- Northsider - Tuesday, Apr 23, 24 @ 2:40 pm:
Pop.
- The Magnificent Purple Walnut - Tuesday, Apr 23, 24 @ 2:44 pm:
All along 103rd St on the South Side it was, is, and always will be pop. (at least east of the tracks at Vincennes.)
- West Side the Best Side - Tuesday, Apr 23, 24 @ 2:50 pm:
You’d get a soda from a soda jerk, who would you go to for a pop?
- Amalia - Tuesday, Apr 23, 24 @ 3:02 pm:
then again I might call it mixer
- Six Degrees of Separation - Tuesday, Apr 23, 24 @ 3:05 pm:
Some areas of Appalachia call it “dope”.
https://blindpigandtheacorn.com/a-dope-is-a-soft-drink/
- Suburban Mom - Tuesday, Apr 23, 24 @ 3:23 pm:
Soda my whole life, but my mom grew up in New England. Definitely “pop” was more popular when I was in high school in the Chicago burbs
- Banish Misfortune - Tuesday, Apr 23, 24 @ 3:37 pm:
Grew up North side of Chicago, northern suburbs now, I still call it pop. I always remember my confusion when I went to Boston where people called it tonic. I wonder if they still do.
- Ducky LaMoore - Tuesday, Apr 23, 24 @ 3:46 pm:
Always used to say pop. Now I catch myself saying soda sometimes. Sodee is heard quite often in the sticks. I don’t know why anyone would use Coke generically. I’m sure that causes a bit of confusion.
- Just Lurking - Tuesday, Apr 23, 24 @ 3:50 pm:
Pop. Pronounced “pahp”.
In New England, old timers called it tonic.
- Jaguar - Tuesday, Apr 23, 24 @ 3:57 pm:
Pop. Soda is that clear carbonated liquid I sometimes put a splash of in my whiskey.
- Anyone Remember - Tuesday, Apr 23, 24 @ 3:57 pm:
Coke.
And for each “soda” in Springfield hear many more “sodees” …
- Sangamo Girl - Tuesday, Apr 23, 24 @ 4:00 pm:
Grew up in the small sodee zone.
- Cornerfield - Tuesday, Apr 23, 24 @ 4:04 pm:
I’m from Tazewell County. We called them sodee pops. I still do.
- Captain Obvious - Tuesday, Apr 23, 24 @ 5:05 pm:
Sorry it’s none of those three. It’s sodi.
- RetiredProfessor - Tuesday, Apr 23, 24 @ 5:22 pm:
I’ve lived in East Central Illinois for 45 years, and I call it soda, but I grew up in NYC and LA
- MyTwoCents - Tuesday, Apr 23, 24 @ 5:35 pm:
Grew up in East Central Illinois saying pop. After meeting my wife switched to soda.
- Mamacita - Tuesday, Apr 23, 24 @ 7:02 pm:
I call it pop. My husband, who grew up 5 miles from me, calls it soda.
- Dotnonymous x - Tuesday, Apr 23, 24 @ 8:07 pm:
Sodee Pop…
- Reality Check - Tuesday, Apr 23, 24 @ 8:53 pm:
Pop. Of course.
- Fivegreenleaves - Wednesday, Apr 24, 24 @ 6:26 am:
Soda
- Candy Dogood - Wednesday, Apr 24, 24 @ 11:54 pm:
I say pop. I’ve never witnessed someone saying soda have someone jump down their throat, but I experienced plenty of soda sayers that get upset over the use of the word pop.
Pop and soda were two different things where I grew up. When someone orders a scotch and soda no one thinks they mean to pour a can of mountain dew into it.