Where is the geographic line when it comes to "Soda" vs. "Pop or Soft" drink?

[fuzzybuddy]

I lived all my life in Northeastern USA, so it's soda.
BTW if you think the great soda/pop controversy is weird, there's the whole sub/hoagie/ grinder/po'boy debate.

 

[Jules]

From Ontario to BC and everyplace I lived in between, it’s called pop.

 

[JustDave]

They are all so interchangeable to me that I'm am usually perplexed when someone poses this question. I try to think if I gravitate unconsciously to one of them in particular, but I don't, and I'm never startled if someone uses any of the terms, although I seldom use the term "soft drink." I'm not even aware that people around me use one term over another.

 

[CallMeKate]

I lived all my life in Northeastern USA, so it's soda.
BTW if you think the great soda/pop controversy is weird, there's the whole sub/hoagie/ grinder/po'boy debate.

No debate there, @fuzzybuddy ... 'tis a hoagie, always been a hoagie, and always will be a hoagie.

 

[RadishRose]

always will be a hoagie.

....until it's a Grinder!

 

[debodun]

Here, those sandwiches are subs (or submarines, or submarine sandwiches). The chain restaurant is SubWay - not HoagieWay, HeroWay or GrinderWay.

 

[Mike]

The base of all of them is Soda, with different syrups,
so I would ask for a Coca-Cola, or Pepsi, or Lilt, or Sprite.

Mike.

 

[RadishRose]

Here, those sandwiches are subs (or submarines, or submarine sandwiches). The chain restaurant is SubWay - not HoagieWay or GrinderWay.

We forgot the Hero, but I haven't heard that in a long time.

 

[CallMeKate]

Here, those sandwiches are subs (or submarines, or submarine sandwiches). The chain restaurant is SubWay - not HoagieWay or GrinderWay.

..... But The Hoagie Palace in Chicago is not the Sub Palace.

 

[EmptyCup]

In Alaska, definitely heard pop a lot. In s Cal, soda and also Coke/Pepsi. And soda in s AZ.

 

[perplexed]

Us la and ms people call them cokes, I never understood the term pops for a coke.

 

[Lee]

I call it by name, Coke, Root Beer, Sprite. Can't remember hearing anyone call it pop or soda.

 

[Wayne]

Depending on what part of town your in here sodie wata or soda water could be very popular

 

[hollydolly]

They are all so interchangeable to me that I'm am usually perplexed when someone poses this question. I try to think if I gravitate unconsciously to one of them in particular, but I don't, and I'm never startled if someone uses any of the terms, although I seldom use the term "soft drink." I'm not even aware that people around me use one term over another.

Here in the UK ''soft drink'' usually refers to a drink that's non carbonated

 

[spectratg]

So it's always on the sign for each grocery store aisle. Growing up in the Cleveland Ohio area it was always pop, and sure enough when I go back there it's pop on the grocery store aisle sign. When I moved to the Washington D.C. area in 1967, it took a bit of an adjustment to refer to it as soda. But my kids who all grew up here all refer to is as soda, which my wife from Massachusetts also called it.

 

[Bella]

I lived all my life in Northeastern USA, so it's soda.
BTW if you think the great soda/pop controversy is weird, there's the whole sub/hoagie/ grinder/po'boy debate.

No debate there, @fuzzybuddy ... 'tis a hoagie, always been a hoagie, and always will be a hoagie.

..... But The Hoagie Palace in Chicago is not the Sub Palace.

Hoagie!

Which was originally called a Hoggie?!

 

[Harry Le Hermit]

Can't really remember saying, soda pop, pop, or anything else... other than Coke, Pepsi, RC, Nehi, etc. That was before all the "diet" drinks came around and there were differences of opinion, regarding which was better.

We can find most anything to disagree over, that is for sure. Some folks claim the difference between a real American and commie scum, is whether they use ketchup or mustard on a hotdog.

 

[Myrtle]

Here in the west we eat subs, preferably gourmet subs. Soft drinks have no alcohol and are often carbonated but not always. If carbonated they are also sodas.

It's my impression that pop or soda pop is a term from the south but I'm not positive.

 

[Manatee]

My father who was originally from North Carolina used to call Coca Cola "dope". I do recall reading many years ago that the original recipe for
Coke included some sort of narcotic that was later discontinued.

 

[oldpop]

I always called it by it's given name. Pepsi, Sprite, Kickapoo Joy Juice and the like. I do not remember the regional name that was used.

 

[rwb]

Upstate NY is a misnomer and does not identify a more specific area of the state since anything north of NY City is Upstate. Albany is 300 miles east of Buffalo and both are upstate! Is NY State a northeastern state or aMid Atlantic State? I grew up in Chautauqua Co, NY in the southwestern corner along Lake Erie and we always referred to a carbonated drink as "pop". So are we mid-western, north eastern or from the Mid-Atlantic?

 

[hollydolly]

My father who was originally from North Carolina used to call Coca Cola "dope". I do recall reading many years ago that the original recipe for
Coke included some sort of narcotic that was later discontinued.

It was actually Cocaine...

 

[RadishRose]

Can't really remember saying, soda pop, pop, or anything else... other than Coke, Pepsi, RC, Nehi, etc. That was before all the "diet" drinks came around and there were differences of opinion, regarding which was better.

We can find most anything to disagree over, that is for sure. Some folks claim the difference between a real American and commie scum, is whether they use ketchup or mustard on a hotdog.

I use mustard. What does that mean?

 

[MarkinPhx]

Soda or soft drink here in Arizona. We always copy what California does.

And I say shopping cart, not buggy.

 

[Alligatorob]

Coke or soft drink for me

no idea where the line is