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* I still call it “pop.” You?…

posted by Rich Miller
Tuesday, Apr 23, 24 @ 1:25 pm

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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.

Comment by Finally Out Tuesday, Apr 23, 24 @ 1:28 pm
Pop all day.

Comment by Lt Guv 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.

Comment by 47th Ward Tuesday, Apr 23, 24 @ 1:29 pm
Pop

Comment by Just a Citizen Tuesday, Apr 23, 24 @ 1:29 pm
Pop. Noticing I’m hearing ‘soda’ these days.

Comment by Ashland Adam Tuesday, Apr 23, 24 @ 1:32 pm
Sodee Pop?

Comment by Colin O'Scopy Tuesday, Apr 23, 24 @ 1:34 pm
Been “soda” for me for all almost 30 years of my life

Comment by Evanston Tuesday, Apr 23, 24 @ 1:35 pm
Pop

Comment by Demoralized Tuesday, Apr 23, 24 @ 1:36 pm
Pop. Though Colin, that’s what my Southern Illinois family called it–now moved to just soda.

Comment by ArchPundit Tuesday, Apr 23, 24 @ 1:36 pm
And if I have to move to Canada to keep pop, I will.

Comment by ArchPundit Tuesday, Apr 23, 24 @ 1:36 pm
Still “pop.”

Comment by Benjamin Tuesday, Apr 23, 24 @ 1:36 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

Comment by snowman61 Tuesday, Apr 23, 24 @ 1:38 pm
===Sodee Pop===

I hear that often in Spfld.

Comment by Rich Miller Tuesday, Apr 23, 24 @ 1:39 pm
I grew up in that little Soda circle in the middle of the 1947 map. It’s nice to see us winning out

Comment by Nathan Tuesday, Apr 23, 24 @ 1:40 pm
Originally from Springfield, always heard it called soda. Never heard the term ‘pop’ until I moved to southern Illinois in high school

Comment by Treefiddy Tuesday, Apr 23, 24 @ 1:41 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.

Comment by Moved East Tuesday, Apr 23, 24 @ 1:43 pm
In Wisconsin they have always said soda, and it is yet another way to tell the flatlanders from the natives…

Comment by Annon3 Tuesday, Apr 23, 24 @ 1:45 pm
In say scotch on the rocks.

Comment by very old soil Tuesday, Apr 23, 24 @ 1:45 pm
don’t think about it cause I don’t drink any of it.

Comment by Amalia Tuesday, Apr 23, 24 @ 1:47 pm
Soda, like a civilized adult.

Comment by Homebody Tuesday, Apr 23, 24 @ 1:48 pm
Always call it Coke. (from Virginia / North Carolina border)

Comment by H-W Tuesday, Apr 23, 24 @ 1:49 pm
Pop

Comment by Frida's boss Tuesday, Apr 23, 24 @ 1:50 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.

Comment by wildcat12 Tuesday, Apr 23, 24 @ 1:51 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.

Comment by Anon221 Tuesday, Apr 23, 24 @ 1:52 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.

Comment by Blitz 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.

Comment by Norseman Tuesday, Apr 23, 24 @ 2:05 pm
Starting to call my carbonator the Pop Stream to stop this foolishness.

Comment by ArchPundit Tuesday, Apr 23, 24 @ 2:09 pm
Soda. Always and forever. Parents and grandparents from central Illinois and suburban Chicago.

Comment by ClJ Tuesday, Apr 23, 24 @ 2:10 pm
Quad Cities native, now Chicagoan and it’s Pop

Comment by SteveM Tuesday, Apr 23, 24 @ 2:11 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.”

Comment by New Day Tuesday, Apr 23, 24 @ 2:12 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.

Comment by Nick Name Tuesday, Apr 23, 24 @ 2:16 pm
Everything is soda, unless it’s brown, in which case it’s cola.

Comment by Matty 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

Comment by @misterjayem Tuesday, Apr 23, 24 @ 2:20 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.

Comment by SOIL M 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.

Comment by Aaron B Tuesday, Apr 23, 24 @ 2:23 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)

Comment by JS Mill Tuesday, Apr 23, 24 @ 2:25 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.

Comment by Which one is Pink. Tuesday, Apr 23, 24 @ 2:29 pm
Still pop for me.

Comment by Techie Tuesday, Apr 23, 24 @ 2:33 pm
Pop.

Comment by Northsider Tuesday, Apr 23, 24 @ 2:40 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.)

Comment by The Magnificent Purple Walnut Tuesday, Apr 23, 24 @ 2:44 pm
You’d get a soda from a soda jerk, who would you go to for a pop?

Comment by West Side the Best Side Tuesday, Apr 23, 24 @ 2:50 pm
then again I might call it mixer

Comment by Amalia Tuesday, Apr 23, 24 @ 3:02 pm
Some areas of Appalachia call it “dope”.

https://blindpigandtheacorn.com/a-dope-is-a-soft-drink/

Comment by Six Degrees of Separation Tuesday, Apr 23, 24 @ 3:05 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

Comment by Suburban Mom Tuesday, Apr 23, 24 @ 3:23 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.

Comment by Banish Misfortune Tuesday, Apr 23, 24 @ 3:37 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.

Comment by Ducky LaMoore Tuesday, Apr 23, 24 @ 3:46 pm
Pop. Pronounced “pahp”.

In New England, old timers called it tonic.

Comment by Just Lurking Tuesday, Apr 23, 24 @ 3:50 pm
Pop. Soda is that clear carbonated liquid I sometimes put a splash of in my whiskey.

Comment by Jaguar Tuesday, Apr 23, 24 @ 3:57 pm
Coke.

And for each “soda” in Springfield hear many more “sodees” …

Comment by Anyone Remember Tuesday, Apr 23, 24 @ 3:57 pm
Grew up in the small sodee zone.

Comment by Sangamo Girl Tuesday, Apr 23, 24 @ 4:00 pm
I’m from Tazewell County. We called them sodee pops. I still do.

Comment by Cornerfield Tuesday, Apr 23, 24 @ 4:04 pm
Sorry it’s none of those three. It’s sodi.

Comment by Captain Obvious Tuesday, Apr 23, 24 @ 5:05 pm
I’ve lived in East Central Illinois for 45 years, and I call it soda, but I grew up in NYC and LA

Comment by RetiredProfessor Tuesday, Apr 23, 24 @ 5:22 pm
Grew up in East Central Illinois saying pop. After meeting my wife switched to soda.

Comment by MyTwoCents Tuesday, Apr 23, 24 @ 5:35 pm
I call it pop. My husband, who grew up 5 miles from me, calls it soda.

Comment by Mamacita Tuesday, Apr 23, 24 @ 7:02 pm
Sodee Pop…

Comment by Dotnonymous x Tuesday, Apr 23, 24 @ 8:07 pm
Pop. Of course.

Comment by Reality Check Tuesday, Apr 23, 24 @ 8:53 pm
Soda

Comment by Fivegreenleaves Wednesday, Apr 24, 24 @ 6:26 am
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.

Comment by Candy Dogood Wednesday, Apr 24, 24 @ 11:54 pm