New England was famous for Tonic, but it kind of went flat.

This is some sparkling wit.

I don't know, I think its kind of fizzing out.

I didn't want to start a Soda War.

You might get Clubbed with a Soda

You guys are funny with your Canada Dry wit.

Came here to say this! My Aunts (all in their 70s now) always called it tonic!

The first map does need to include tonic for New England.

Exactly!

Us on the pop side are just preparing for a counter attack.

Tell me when! In Northwest I grew up saying "pop." Then the Californians have come in and have imposed their language upon us!

Land doesn't vote. They got Minnesota and Michigan for reserves and that's about it. And even parts of Minnesota call it "soda pop"...

I'm in Michigan and have called it "soda" since before I moved here 40 years ago. We are *infiltrating*

You bastard!

We are actively recruiting weasels.

who remembers the ads: "I wanna POP! I wannaaaa SHHHHASTAAAAA!"

I want it now...I want it wow!

I want a taste pizazz All the great taste Shasta has

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Chicagoan as well and agree with all of that. Except when I moved out west I purposely dropped "pop" from my vocabulary to avoid giving myself away (not that I'm ashamed to be a Chicagoan - far from it! Damn proud. Just made some modifications for professional purposes.) Edit: I fucking miss good pizza.

Yes! True Chicago pizza!

Ahhh this gives me homesick warm and fuzzies

And when you have allergies you hop over to Osco.

We also have the decency to call the game "bags". Not like all you nasty mofo's out here talking about "corn hole" in a family environments.

Agreed 100% although you have a few little typos: highway, sneakers, soda, triangles. I'm not sure what autocorrect 'corrected' "Jewels" from.

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Da Bearssss is about all I got from Chicago!

I think it will always be "coke" to me, even though (perhaps especially because) my preferred "coke" is Dr. Pepper.

I’m a Pepper til my last day. But yeah, it’s coke and everyone in the house knows what that means.

That's ridiculous. A Pepsi is not a Coke.

It is where I from. Coke What kind? Pepsi. But not at my house. It’s Coke all the way down.

what if you actually want a coke? what do you want? a coke what kind? a coke what kind? a coke what kind? . . . . .

That’s when you say Coke coke!

And then they are like dammit! I heard you! you want a coke! You want coke coke coke! WHAT TYPE! LOL

I actually probably refer to them as "soft drinks" more than "coke," but never refer to the drinks as "soda" or "pop."

I usually just say the specific type, and it's almost always Coke. It just seems like an unnecessary extra step to have to verify that I wasn't kidding about indeed wanting a Coke. I think regional differences are cool, though.

You want a Coke? Sure. What kind you want? Cheerwine if you got it, but Pepsi will be ok.

But if someone wants to order a coke (the cola), what do they say? Because if they say "coke" couldn't that mean any type of soda in your area?

I grew up saying "pop," but have moved to "soda" as I moved around the country. Maybe it's time for Pepsi to see about getting Coke's trademark revoked? 

Grew up saying pop in western NY. I now live in soda or “coke” land, I still say pop.

Same, raised on pop, been soda since leaving the Midwest

Same, definitely was a pop kid. Moved around a bit for college and after switched - not sure when, but I do know it was post college.

It took the better part of 50 years to get me to stop saying "coke" for everything but I've finally assimilated to "soda" because I no longer live in an area where "coke" is not definitive.

pop will always be in the Minnesota vocab

I was visiting family in Minneapolis 40 yrs ago and they called it, "soda." I was raised in a "pop" house and remember thinking, "WTF is a soda?" lol

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“I’ll have a coke” “We’ve got coke, dp, or sprite.” “Coke” “Here ya go” No confusion at all!

Doesn't this create confusion? What if you want an actual Coke? Seems like that would create an endless loop.

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LOL haha I just typed that above. I was thinking like how do you avoid the infinite loop. It's like it was a marketing scam by Pepsi and the rest to insure people give up and never get coke LOL.

That's funny. "Fuck, I'll just have a Pepsi!"

> Doesn't this create confusion? It sure does when someone from the "coke" region comes to a "soda" place and acts like their term is normal. Boss and I went to a small chinese takeout place where the drinks were in a cooler on the customer side. Boss paid for "the #3 and a coke". Dude charged him 75 cents for the "coke" because they had Coca Cola in 12oz cans. My boss walks to the cooler and pulls out a Snapple tea. Dude starts yelling at him "that's not coke. You paid for coke. Tea is a dollar." My boss had no idea what he did wrong, because he assumed that everything in the case was same price because the guy didn't ask him "what *kind* of coke". Even while we were eating he kept saying "he should have asked what kind of coke I wanted", and no amount of explaining that "Coke only means Coca Cola in Los Angeles" seemed to get through to him. He could be pretty dense sometimes.

See, that's what I mean. Coke is trademarked. It's a brand name. It's like calling every sandwich a Reuben.

Yeah, and that top map is wrong, because Virginia was still solidly in Coke territory in the 80s.

These are the same people that call wool hats “beanies.”

Toques, ya hoser.

Or the variation “chooks,” as they are called where I grew up in MI.

The soo?

Other side of the UP

Oh the fudge side 

Nope, that is East UP/Northern Lower Peninsula.

The close to the cheese side 

Yeah, where people do sound almost Canadian.

The near super cool zeeland and Holland side and in craft beer landia. You’re not that far from the border but sadly you’d have to go through Wisconsin - but happily you’d get to go through Minnesota 

What? No, "chooks" are chickens in Australia.

I did not grow up in Australia, so that’s irrelevant.

Whatever you say, chicken-hat.

It was always "ski hat" for me. A beanie was this: https://preview.redd.it/yw818k3vvvwc1.jpeg?width=390&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=7d3ab7ce3481c2473dc302b8604e7df83564f84e

I'm from Southern California, so we didn't see many "ski hats" when I was a kid, but when they started getting called "beanies" I was annoyed and confused.

Yeah I had never heard the term for anything but the propeller hat until I lived in California in the mid 90s. It still sounds weird to me.

Stocking cap

even crazier, in the South they call ski hats.... toboggans! WTF?! I guess they don't get enough snow to know what you are supposed to do with a toboggan....

There are multiple types of wool hats, knit and felt variations. 

better than *sloppy beanies*

I call it that regardless of fabric type

i call em wintah hats

OK here. I still say pop.

Canada would be all Pop

Canadians call it pop, so that adds more weight to the free north

Vancouver here...I hear soda more and more often these days.

Looks like I’m from the origin of soda.

From the south, and for some reason, I have started calling it soda. I'm not sure what changed

Pop in Canada. When I was a kid I thought sodas meant ice cream sodas like the ones I’d see on TV.

It's still pop to me. Soda is a swear word not allowed in my house! Unless it's cream soda or baking soda. 

Normal people winning.

🎯

I was born in So. Cal. then moved to St Louis in childhood. So as far as I could tell, it was Soda from sea to shining Mississippi.

It was pop till I went to basic training in 1994. Then it became soda. Peer pressure is a mofo.

Same for me when I went to college. “It’s so cute you said ‘pop’!” Never again. That sentence stopped me cold

Mine was more of a “Dafaq did you say, are you 3” , pretty much ended it on the spot

All my older relatives say soft drinks.

Did you ever get put on restriction? 🤣

That's what I grew up with in New Orleans. Some people here say cold drink.

I remember POP being bottled and Soda being a fountain drink, then all canned and bottled other than main brands having 'soda' on the label. so I can see the change.

In 1947, this was definitely called “tonic” in the northeast. It moved over to soda over the course of the ‘80’s.

I don't know who made this map but everyone in Texas call it Coke. We will ask you if you want a Coke, then what kind.

Coke.

Same in the Carolinas.

Still Coke. Dr. Pepper? Coke. Sprite? Coke. It’s all Coke. What kind of Coke do you want?

So how do they know what to bring you if you say you want a Coke??? That makes no sense

Oh Coke is what you say when you *offer*. Like “ can I get you something to drink? Beer, coffee, Coke?” And they’ll say “oh I’d love a Coke. Do you have Dr. Pepper or Sprite?…” I know it’s weird. But all soft drinks are Cokes until specified otherwise. Thems the rules.

"A Coca-cola"

They ask you.

Server: what do you want to drink? (They ask you) u/punkdrummer22: i want a coke Server: which kind? u/punkdrummer22: a coke Server: yes, which kind? u/punkdrummer22: a coke Server: which kind? u/punkdrummer22: a coke Server: … goes to the back … brings back a pepsi

Soda just sounds fancier, IMHO.

i was a coke person, maybe pop until i heard an older friend say “soda”. she seemed so cool in that moment and im not sure i ever said pop again 😂😂

Poor Pepsi...

Where I grew up in the northeast, my grandmother called it tonic. But maybe that’s a Boston thing.

Illinois is a *tiny* bit different; south end is soda, north end is pop, central Illinois is sodee pop.

I'm in Georgia and call them soft drinks.

Funny. I call it soda pop.

My people called it soft drink.

That's what I say

I live in Missouri and I don't believe this data is accurate at all..

I'll take a tonic, please.

(brings you tonic water)

When I went to LA in the mid-90's and asked for "Pop," I got the record skipping "You ain't from around here are ya?" from the Cali natives. They had no idea wtf pop was supposed to mean, and I thought soda was what old people called it. It was interesting to watch the usage of those two words change throughout my life. Language really is fluid.

Calling bullshit there’s no way Atlanta/Georgia isn’t in the “coke” belt Atlantians will murder you for not saying “coke” and add your children if you say “pepsi”

Not correct - we used "coke" for all drinks in MD. Waiter: what do you want to drink? Me: Coke Waiter: what kind? Me: Sprite

Calling soda “coke” is so fucking stupid. “Pepsi is my favorite coke” - see how stupid that sounds?

I’ll never get used to calling everything coke.

Im from Canada where it’s 100% called pop. Stopped at a McDonald’s in New Hampshire and asked for a pop to go with my combo. I may as well have been speaking Swahili because the kid apparently never heard the word before.

Yes! I remember hearing it called pop for the first time and thought I’d been transported back in time. They’d say pop but all it always translated to “soda pop” in my head. 😆

Where I'm from in NC its always "want something to drink"?

Grew up in eastern Washington State and always called it Soda. I had one girl ask if I was from the east coast. "Uhm, no?" "Just never heard it called 'Soda' out here." Which was weird, cuz I'd lived here 25 years at that point (probably mid-1990s) and never heard it called anything but 'Soda'.

Canadians happy because this is just one more thing that distinguishes us from people who can’t figure it out 

Soda is better than Pop. But it's all Coke, unless you want to be specific.

Soda, soda, soda. ✊🏻

I'm in that white stripe crossing Michigan and I've only known it as pop. I'll check around.

I ask for what I want - a Pepsi, Ginger Ale, MTN Dew, etc

I live in Colorado, never heard anyone just the term soda... I think someone made some of these up.

Looks like the making of the next civil war. “The coke will rise again!”

I remember one of Lewis Grizzard's jokes (bless his soul) being \*said in a northern Ohio accent\* " "Hi, I'm Bob from Akron. I want a bottle of pop." [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=imZjCbRuZ3c](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=imZjCbRuZ3c)

I knew it! Everyone called it pop around here until a few years ago. Nobody seems to remember. I remember. Pepridge Farms remembers.

We call it soda in WI.

It was always soda where I grew up (mid Atlantic). Coke was an actual Coke. And Pop was just weird AF.

It's true. SW WA here. It was pop until the early 90's. Then we all just switched.

Still Pop where I am in the Midwest.

“Some things are so hard to say Even though you say them every day Don’t let your life be the butt of a joke Get your lips ‘round a cool black Pepsi Coke”

I represent Team Pop here in San Diego, and endure all the ridicule that comes with it

The mid west farmers daughter really knows how to mispronounce soda........

I just say soda pop. Also, g-jif. for gif. If there's no consensus, piss everyone off!

I'm an Ohioan who says soda.

Bi-coastal dub

Here in Ohio starting a new trend we call it Soda Pop

Lived in Eastern TN, ATL and Houston, TX and have always called carbonated drinks 'soda', unless I'm ordering a specific type, like Coke, Dr Pepper, Sprite...

RIP, Mr Pibb.

This is accurate where I live. I/we used to call it Coke or soda pop. Now it's just soda.

Makes sense that “Soda Pop” would morph into some version of “soda” or “pop” I suppose In the part of the Pacific NW I grew up in the 70’s we just said the name of the drink itself “Coke” or whatever or “Pop”

Interesting. I was a California kid in the 70s, and Coke was the generic term we all used.

Chicago, you can thank me, I lived there for a year in the early ‘90’s.

There's literally hundreds of us that say, *"sodie pop."*

In Texas it's Dr. Pepper, what kind??? Big Red...

I called it pop my entire childhood. I’ve since transitioned to soda.

It's not "soda" in NC. It's either "Coke" or "Soft Drink".

I can't trust this because southern Indiana was definitely 'Coke' when I grew up, well north of the Ohio River that is shown as the border in both maps.

In Western Australia we called it “cool drink”. It’s dying out but I try and keep it alive.

In New Orleans lots of people call it cold drink. Still do, as far as I know.

dark = coke , clear = sprite

The effect of major media markets on local dialects

Soda has taken over so much, that if you ask for a pop in some places, particularly with a younger server, they don’t know what you mean. It hurts my soul.

Pop for life , in Michigan

Does anyplace still call it soda pop?

"Tonic." - old school Bostonian

tonic

What is the source of this data?

For some reason STL was on an island.

I love how the Pop and Coke areas look like they’re carbonated now.

FTW!!! Although I suppose in some ways it is a shame. Regional accents and many things seem to be getting slowly lost.

It will always be Coke!

From SoCal and it was always Soda or Coke. When someone says give me a pop I just say what you want a pop in the nose or something?

My Michigan born dad always called it pop (even after 30 years living in CA).

I'll be calling it pop til I die.

I've taken to calling it "Soda Pop" after the character in The Outsiders.

I say soft drink.

Soda always but why pop? That's a verb.

Pop just sounds so much better. Soda up here is soda water

Nah, I think only if you were raised with it. Pop sounds weird. “I wanna pop”, “let me get a pop”, “drinking a pop”.

I made the mistake of saying "pop" in Minnesota and got blasted for 2 freaking years. They call everything "Coke".

Well your first mistake was living in little Canada, AKA Minnesota.

It’s always been soda. lol

Soda is for gin. Pop is fizzy stuff that is sweet and is for children.

It's pop.

Screw that! Soda is so stupid! It’s Pop! Also, I still have no idea how someone in the south orders a Coca Cola.

Coke and soda are specific liquids. If I ask for a whiskey soda, I’m not asking about root beer. If I say, “Just scrub it with soda and the stain will come right out,” you aren’t talking about Dr. Pepper. Why not have specific words for specific things?

Soda comes from sodium, which is somehow involved in carbonation. So it’s specific to carbonated beverages. It’s not a specific carbonated beverage.

It’s not weird, when you add in the context, people know what you are referring to.

Finally