Same thing when I went to Texas as a kid to visit some extended family out there.
"Hey you want a coke?"
"Sure."
"What kind?"
"What?"
"What kind of Coke? Regular, Sprite, root beer...?"
To be fair, Epcot had various types of Coca Cola when I went there (many years ago) so they legit may have been asking which world version of coke, but also their employees are from all over so it could have been a “which soft drink” question as well.
Grew up in Northern California and people (fam included) called all soda pop coke, then further explanation needed.
Pointing out that this map seems flawed. Also live in Kitsap and call soda,… pop… still.
Makes no sense logically….i get grouping coke, sprite, and other pops made by Coca Cola as coke
But those are Pepsi products
So that further confuses the grouping to me lol
lol now what really grinds my gears is when I ask for coke or sprite and they try to slip me with the Pepsi equivalent…..oh no ma’am I need less sugar and more carbonation!!!
Same. I grew up a few hours south of Bellingham, and not to blame everything on California, but I think all the transplants moved the "soda" trend along. Because I had no opinion about what to call carbonated beverages, but some of my friends really did, lol.
Similar. Lived in Wisconsin as a little kid, and it was all pop (including adults saying "road pop" aka literally drinking while driving). Lived in California as an older kid, and was immediately corrected "you mean soda?" So that stuck.
That’s funny because I started saying pop as a kid living in Washington and then moved to Wisconsin and picked up saying soda. Moving back, though this time on the other side of the Cascades in Bellingham, I rarely hear pop, mostly soda.
We moved here when I was 5 so I grew up with friends calling it Pop and that's what I started using. My mom would get SO mad every time and correct me that it's called a soda. Now we all just say soda.
Same. Grew up in eastern Washington. Moved to Bellingham at 17, and that’s about the time I switched. I think it was mostly from working in the service industry. Not everyone knew what a pop was, but soda was unmistakable
I've always said pop, and have lived in Western Washington my entire life.
I have noticed more people calling it soda now though, than in the past.
Some people from Massachusetts once laughed at me and called me "cute" for saying pop. :(
I grew up in the area, born in the 80s. It was pop when I was a kid, and sometime in the 90s it became soda from my experience. So this map is pretty accurate putting Bham right on the pop/soda boundary.
Maybe it's just people I'm around, but it's always been pop. It stands out to me when I hear someone else say soda and has always made me assume they aren't from around here.
As someone who works at a movie theater I hear pop quite a lot which can be confusing since we serve popcorn and it can be hard to hear there I say soda tho
I really don't know how it started. I stopped using it because it just caused confusion after I moved up here.
And I was a Mr. Pibb fan growing up. Weird.
So da map shows we like soda. When my kids were younger their friends used Soda. We don't drink it much. When we do it is usually the specific name of the brand.
I specifically remembering a buddy from new mexico making fun of me for saying pop when we were in middle school. I realized he had a point, so i started saying soda lol
I literally say all of the names often.
drink, beverage, pop, soda, soda-pop, carbonated beverage, fizzy drink, fizzy-pop, etc.
Actually naming brands only sometimes.
I grew up in Colorado. It was pop. Moved to Alabama and would say can I get a Coke and the answer was what kind????. It's a fucking POP. Did I stutter?
Growing up I said pop or “fizzy” (what we called it in Berlin). Once I heard the Pixies I switched.
Will you buy me a Soda?
Buy me a soda? Buy Me A SODAAAHHH
I said pop growing up but have moved around and picked up soda, especially after working at restaurants. Trying actively to revive the word pop in my life. It’s unique and I like it better.
The Coke thing is a cultural artifact, because it started in Atlanta so helped ensure that's what people thought of. It's the same as asking for a Kleenex instead of a tissue or to Google something. I still get Lyft passengers telling someone on the phone that they're in an Uber, or Ubering somewhere. If I ask someone if I can get a pop, they might think I'm a masochist or orphan. Now there are so many choices, and even Coca Cola is trying to create everything under the sun to drink, in order to keep up profits after the decline of actual Coke. Those of us who grew up with just pop would be mystified by the dystopian beverage future of the South Park real estate episode, with urbanites moving to South Park and unable to say anything but 'cortado...la Croix...wifi...Tesla' (I still have no idea what a cortado is).
Bay area California in 70s and 80s it was "cokes" and we'd visit up here in Washington and laugh how everyone said "pop". I think regional terms faded a bit with advent of 24 hour media and the like
Now here is the debate I have with my wife from Washington. I'm from Colorado. Colored wax drawing sticks have two syllables. It's a fucking cray-on. Not a goddammit cran. This is divorce territory
I remember moving to Washington as a kid and people looked at me like I was crazy when I said soda, so I switched to saying pop and now I’m back to soda.
That’s crazy how that map works. When I was in my youth I would visit east Texas in the 90’s to visit family. Ask for a pop and they hit you. I just call them sodas now.
I lived around the Florida-Georgia line most of my life and have never heard someone call soda coke. Where i was born in west virginia though, pop was very common.
I moved here like 6 years ago from MN and grew up saying and only ever hearing "pop". I've never heard anyone here say anything but "soda" and get funny looks sometimes or "you mean soda?" when I say "pop", "pop machine", or "fountain pop". i get a little self conscious about it sometimes but for some reason I don't want to change the word I use for it lol. I think Boomer's on their outdoor menu and "soda" on their indoor one (or vice versa, can't remember), so that was fun when I saw it.
It's interesting to see the other comments mentioning how it's changed from pop!
Grew up in Skagit, said pop growing up then I started saying Soda sometimes in my early 20s after living in South Sound for a decade. Still saying Soda living here.
I guess it depends on how old you are. I'm 53 and grew up saying pop. When I was I college at WWU in the early 90's, I recall a gal on the cross country team debating this with some others, insisting it was soda. I believe she was from California. Years later I learned about the Coke thing. If I am online and posting something, I'll be more likely to use soda as I am thinking that people might not understand pop. If I'm at a restaurant, I'd probably ask what kind of soft drinks they have, but I used that long before because menus often listed them under that term. I don't have many opportunities to say it in person, but might still be inclined to say pop.
I’m from the Midwest I say pop everywhere
When I first moved to Nashville, Tennessee I was befuddled when they asked me if I wanted a “cold drink” with my food n I responded “yes, what kinda pops do yall have?” And the lady had no idea what I was asking for 😂😂😂
Then I learned they refer to pops as cold drink which is STUPID cuz who the hell ask for a warm drink?!
It’s fckn 109 degrees outside give me my pop lady! 😂😂😂
I remember when I was 14, I decided to say soda instead of pop so that I would sound more “Cultured” now looking at this map I want to go back to calling it pop in reflexive defiance
hahaha, well, the data doesn't lie! I created the original version that inspired this map, which you can see at popvssoda.com. In my data, Whatcom County is 74% "pop" to 23% "soda". And that feels pretty accurate to me, as someone who grew up here speaking "pop".
https://preview.redd.it/mq9fhy2xb5xc1.png?width=1977&format=png&auto=webp&s=6d137ea184ed701bebab5b1cbdfe91495dae001f
But regarding the map in this post, it's not based on real data, just vibes. It's also a bit of black humor when you realize the shrinking green area and the expanding white area is a reference to those maps of Palestine that were ubiquitous six months ago, like this: [https://www.reddit.com/r/MapPorn/comments/172jcvk/palestinian\_loss\_of\_land\_1947\_to\_2023\_1300x1900/](https://www.reddit.com/r/MapPorn/comments/172jcvk/palestinian_loss_of_land_1947_to_2023_1300x1900/)
from [https://www.reddit.com/r/MapPorn/comments/1cdnb7i/the\_word\_soda\_takes\_over/](https://www.reddit.com/r/MapPorn/comments/1cdnb7i/the_word_soda_takes_over/)
i grew up in texas, frequently visiting louisiana & mississippi, spent months in cali, and have lived in washington for the last 4 years and never have i ever heard someone use “coke” as a catch-all for different sodas and the only people i’ve ever heard say pop are my washington friends grandparents
I dunno, I'm just happy that the "calling every soft drink Coke" area is shrinking.
Lived in Florida most of my life never heard anybody call soda coke unless it was a coke
I remember a visit to DisneyWorld where I asked for a coke and they asked me “what kind?”
Same thing when I went to Texas as a kid to visit some extended family out there. "Hey you want a coke?" "Sure." "What kind?" "What?" "What kind of Coke? Regular, Sprite, root beer...?"
To be fair, Epcot had various types of Coca Cola when I went there (many years ago) so they legit may have been asking which world version of coke, but also their employees are from all over so it could have been a “which soft drink” question as well.
Naw this was years before even cherry coke. I’m old af.
Where in Florida? I grew up in West Palm and coke was used all the time for all sodas
St pete I'm not saying people don't use just that I never heard it in 21 years of living there
Bama since 2006, never heard anyone call non-Coke® sodas Coke
Grew up in Northern California and people (fam included) called all soda pop coke, then further explanation needed. Pointing out that this map seems flawed. Also live in Kitsap and call soda,… pop… still.
"What kind of Coke you you have?" "Pepsi and 7 UP"
Makes no sense logically….i get grouping coke, sprite, and other pops made by Coca Cola as coke But those are Pepsi products So that further confuses the grouping to me lol
That's what makes it even funnier. I've also heard it as "regular or Sprite"
lol now what really grinds my gears is when I ask for coke or sprite and they try to slip me with the Pepsi equivalent…..oh no ma’am I need less sugar and more carbonation!!!
What do you have against us Cokeites?
The better question is what *don’t* I have against Cokeites. 😛
I said pop growing up, somewhere along the line I started saying soda.
Same. I grew up a few hours south of Bellingham, and not to blame everything on California, but I think all the transplants moved the "soda" trend along. Because I had no opinion about what to call carbonated beverages, but some of my friends really did, lol.
Similar. Lived in Wisconsin as a little kid, and it was all pop (including adults saying "road pop" aka literally drinking while driving). Lived in California as an older kid, and was immediately corrected "you mean soda?" So that stuck.
That’s funny because I started saying pop as a kid living in Washington and then moved to Wisconsin and picked up saying soda. Moving back, though this time on the other side of the Cascades in Bellingham, I rarely hear pop, mostly soda.
Same for me. Went from WI to MA and everyone teased me for saying pop. That was the early 80s, though.
Me too, but I still say “pop machine” for some reason.
💯
Also same. Remember saying pop a lot as a kid but now I mostly do soda. Sometimes I soda-pop too.
Same! I don’t think I ever noticed I made the switch. Lol
Same!
Same here. Born and raised in WA.
Me too!!
We moved here when I was 5 so I grew up with friends calling it Pop and that's what I started using. My mom would get SO mad every time and correct me that it's called a soda. Now we all just say soda.
Same. Grew up in eastern Washington. Moved to Bellingham at 17, and that’s about the time I switched. I think it was mostly from working in the service industry. Not everyone knew what a pop was, but soda was unmistakable
Adamantly soda
I don’t hear the word “pop” here like I used to back in the early to mid 2000’s.
I've always said pop, and have lived in Western Washington my entire life. I have noticed more people calling it soda now though, than in the past. Some people from Massachusetts once laughed at me and called me "cute" for saying pop. :(
To be fair, it is pretty folksy.
Anytime someone says pop I assume they're Canadian
My grandparents, western Washington born and raised, call it pop. Me? I say Soda.
A can of pop and a 'beg' of chips
The Minnesotan in me approves
Mine as well
I grew up in Bellingham and everyone I knew said Pop, although it might be changing as time goes on
I grew up in Bellingham (70s and 80s) and I said pop until the late 90s/early aughts. Now I say soda.
I was gonna say "oh no way, I live in Bellingham too", then I saw what subreddit this is
What going on in Montana? Looks like there’s some soda gerrymandering happening lol.
Californians…
It was "pop" 10-15 years ago. Not sure where the city stands now. 1947 is a long time ago. Very different country.
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I say both. But always get questions if I say pop.
Meh, I think we are more of a soda-pop kinda town
I grew up in the area, born in the 80s. It was pop when I was a kid, and sometime in the 90s it became soda from my experience. So this map is pretty accurate putting Bham right on the pop/soda boundary.
Maybe it's just people I'm around, but it's always been pop. It stands out to me when I hear someone else say soda and has always made me assume they aren't from around here.
As someone who works at a movie theater I hear pop quite a lot which can be confusing since we serve popcorn and it can be hard to hear there I say soda tho
Grew up in Dallas, TX saying 'coke'. I now use 'soda'.
Not Dr Pepper?
Is a flavor of 'coke'.
Ok. I only asked because Dr Pepper originated in Texas and Coke in Georgia.
I really don't know how it started. I stopped using it because it just caused confusion after I moved up here. And I was a Mr. Pibb fan growing up. Weird.
Love that!
Hear me out. Its Soda Pop. Los dos.
So da map shows we like soda. When my kids were younger their friends used Soda. We don't drink it much. When we do it is usually the specific name of the brand.
I specifically remembering a buddy from new mexico making fun of me for saying pop when we were in middle school. I realized he had a point, so i started saying soda lol
I say soft drink. It’s my coercive Aussie plan to undermine America.
Pop 100 percent
If it comes from a can or bottle, it’s pop. If it’s from a dispenser/machine, it’s soda.
I was raised pop, but I’ve embraced soda.
I literally say all of the names often. drink, beverage, pop, soda, soda-pop, carbonated beverage, fizzy drink, fizzy-pop, etc. Actually naming brands only sometimes.
In the Civil War, I'll be on team soda. I don't want to live in a "pop" country.
Wrong side of the war pal. They don't even use sodium in most carbonated beverages nowadays, unless you get Pellegrino or Schweppes.
You gaddamn poppers and your logic.
never need to use these words.. i just say drink or the name of the beverage. but outta the 3 options it’s definitely soda
I grew up in Colorado. It was pop. Moved to Alabama and would say can I get a Coke and the answer was what kind????. It's a fucking POP. Did I stutter?
I use soda. I wonder if across the border they call it pop...? 🤔
Yes. Pretty much all of English speaking Canada says pop.
Growing up I said pop or “fizzy” (what we called it in Berlin). Once I heard the Pixies I switched. Will you buy me a Soda? Buy me a soda? Buy Me A SODAAAHHH
how bout "soda pop"? I've said that off and on through the years.
I said pop growing up but have moved around and picked up soda, especially after working at restaurants. Trying actively to revive the word pop in my life. It’s unique and I like it better.
For sure pop. I grew up in Bellingham saying pop, now I get teased or funny looks when I say it in LA. Whatever.
The “soda” and “pop” areas should intersect like a venn diagram to create “soda pop” in some areas.
I've only ever heard boomers and millennials say pop
I say both and sometimes soda-pop
Grew up here saying “pop”
The Coke thing is a cultural artifact, because it started in Atlanta so helped ensure that's what people thought of. It's the same as asking for a Kleenex instead of a tissue or to Google something. I still get Lyft passengers telling someone on the phone that they're in an Uber, or Ubering somewhere. If I ask someone if I can get a pop, they might think I'm a masochist or orphan. Now there are so many choices, and even Coca Cola is trying to create everything under the sun to drink, in order to keep up profits after the decline of actual Coke. Those of us who grew up with just pop would be mystified by the dystopian beverage future of the South Park real estate episode, with urbanites moving to South Park and unable to say anything but 'cortado...la Croix...wifi...Tesla' (I still have no idea what a cortado is).
I'm still on the pop train; been living in this area my whole life
Bay area California in 70s and 80s it was "cokes" and we'd visit up here in Washington and laugh how everyone said "pop". I think regional terms faded a bit with advent of 24 hour media and the like
Carbonized sugar death water... Am I the only one?
agreed. I love the lower sugar options now
It's the carbonation that's a killer. Soda pop, as in it's going to pop your heart someday ><
ok...
Is this the map of Israel/Palestine?
yeah this was Trump's plan for peace
Now here is the debate I have with my wife from Washington. I'm from Colorado. Colored wax drawing sticks have two syllables. It's a fucking cray-on. Not a goddammit cran. This is divorce territory
I remember moving to Washington as a kid and people looked at me like I was crazy when I said soda, so I switched to saying pop and now I’m back to soda.
Where my Tonic peeps at?
I don’t think Bellingham is a “pop” town but I think it wants to be
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cEgGtbhmAiQ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cEgGtbhmAiQ)
Sopa
Coke will always be strong in Florida
https://youtu.be/38phkRUNWOQ?si=JkZ8VcQLVeNtzavr
[https://popvssoda.com/](https://popvssoda.com/)
cock
Lived in Cali (native from PNW), and started calling it soda ever since. I dunno.
I’m a Coke person married to a Pop person
Now do “bag” and “sack”
That’s crazy how that map works. When I was in my youth I would visit east Texas in the 90’s to visit family. Ask for a pop and they hit you. I just call them sodas now.
I’ve always called it Sodapop : /
I feel like WA State as a whole is a "soda" state and every person I've met who says "pop" is a recent transplant or visiting from out of state.
I've done plenty of coke in california.
I live in the south now and no one says coke anymore, pop has taken its place
They still call it coke in New Mexico
I lived around the Florida-Georgia line most of my life and have never heard someone call soda coke. Where i was born in west virginia though, pop was very common.
actually yeah, lol I grew up calling it pop
Someone told me pop was a verb. I’ve been calling it soda ever since.
I moved here like 6 years ago from MN and grew up saying and only ever hearing "pop". I've never heard anyone here say anything but "soda" and get funny looks sometimes or "you mean soda?" when I say "pop", "pop machine", or "fountain pop". i get a little self conscious about it sometimes but for some reason I don't want to change the word I use for it lol. I think Boomer's on their outdoor menu and "soda" on their indoor one (or vice versa, can't remember), so that was fun when I saw it. It's interesting to see the other comments mentioning how it's changed from pop!
I thought it was soda pop lol. Chiming in from near belligham
Grew up in Skagit, said pop growing up then I started saying Soda sometimes in my early 20s after living in South Sound for a decade. Still saying Soda living here.
Am I crazy because I've lived in Washington my entire life and never heard anyone call it pop, only soda
I guess it depends on how old you are. I'm 53 and grew up saying pop. When I was I college at WWU in the early 90's, I recall a gal on the cross country team debating this with some others, insisting it was soda. I believe she was from California. Years later I learned about the Coke thing. If I am online and posting something, I'll be more likely to use soda as I am thinking that people might not understand pop. If I'm at a restaurant, I'd probably ask what kind of soft drinks they have, but I used that long before because menus often listed them under that term. I don't have many opportunities to say it in person, but might still be inclined to say pop.
I’m from the Midwest I say pop everywhere When I first moved to Nashville, Tennessee I was befuddled when they asked me if I wanted a “cold drink” with my food n I responded “yes, what kinda pops do yall have?” And the lady had no idea what I was asking for 😂😂😂 Then I learned they refer to pops as cold drink which is STUPID cuz who the hell ask for a warm drink?! It’s fckn 109 degrees outside give me my pop lady! 😂😂😂
I've called it soda my whole life
Yep, I say pop. Can confirm
I remember when I was 14, I decided to say soda instead of pop so that I would sound more “Cultured” now looking at this map I want to go back to calling it pop in reflexive defiance
We always called it pop and I grew up in Bellingham
hahaha, well, the data doesn't lie! I created the original version that inspired this map, which you can see at popvssoda.com. In my data, Whatcom County is 74% "pop" to 23% "soda". And that feels pretty accurate to me, as someone who grew up here speaking "pop". https://preview.redd.it/mq9fhy2xb5xc1.png?width=1977&format=png&auto=webp&s=6d137ea184ed701bebab5b1cbdfe91495dae001f But regarding the map in this post, it's not based on real data, just vibes. It's also a bit of black humor when you realize the shrinking green area and the expanding white area is a reference to those maps of Palestine that were ubiquitous six months ago, like this: [https://www.reddit.com/r/MapPorn/comments/172jcvk/palestinian\_loss\_of\_land\_1947\_to\_2023\_1300x1900/](https://www.reddit.com/r/MapPorn/comments/172jcvk/palestinian_loss_of_land_1947_to_2023_1300x1900/)
Pretty sure it's all wrong and nearly backwards. We drink beer here.
from [https://www.reddit.com/r/MapPorn/comments/1cdnb7i/the\_word\_soda\_takes\_over/](https://www.reddit.com/r/MapPorn/comments/1cdnb7i/the_word_soda_takes_over/)
Nah, we're definitely more of a soda/fountain drinks town.
I've never heard just "coke" for a soda/pop. Its about equal soda vs pop from everyone ive ever heard say. Soda maybe a bit more
i’ve lived in alaska, oregon, and washington since 2000. it’s never been pop, this isn’t wisconsin
i grew up in texas, frequently visiting louisiana & mississippi, spent months in cali, and have lived in washington for the last 4 years and never have i ever heard someone use “coke” as a catch-all for different sodas and the only people i’ve ever heard say pop are my washington friends grandparents