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This is a serious poll, just to let any wise-asses know.

Just curious to know what everyone here generally calls carbonated beverages (EG, sodas like Coke, Pepsi, etc...), since there are regional differences. This isn't a "Which is your favorite?" but a "What do you call it?" poll.

I'd like for you to vote for one of the options above, then post with your answer and location (but you don't have to give that out if you really don't want to.)

I'll start.

Soda.
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, USA. But most around here call it pop. Mine is a personal preference.

I called it pop back when I lived in Minnesota. Now I live in California and the local dialect has corrupted me. I call it soda.

Soda, or I specific the brand.

Coke. It's a surefire test to know if you have a yankee in the midst. Sweet Home Alabama!!!

Coke. Unless I'm at a restaurant, in which case it's a soda, soft drink, or Dr. Pepper.

Gaseosa.

Coke, unless I'm ordsering it. Then it's usually Dr. Pepper or Mr. Pibb.

pop

Coke. I've been corrupted by the South.

Since I drink only Coke(Well I occsionaly get Cherry Coke, Mr Pib or one of the others but the twenty cases of Coke in my basement well.. )
Its Coke

Spanky, it's Coke all over the South, not just in Texas. Get your facts straight first.

I call it Coke because that's what I drink. If I am unfortunate enough to be eating at an establishment that serves that other drink, I'll get a Mt. Dew. I HATE Pepsi. Ick.

(Gee, Bean, you sound like me.)

Soft drink, because I'm an Australian

Soda.

no general name, if it´s coke i call it cola if it´s pepsi i call it cola if it´s fanta i call it fanta if it´s 7-up i call it 7-up....

Kelly Antilles wrote:Spanky, it's Coke all over the South, not just in Texas. Get your facts straight first.

Sorry about that. I was pretty sure that it was throughout the South, but not 100% sure. But I was 100% sure of Texas, so I went with that as the example of location.

I figured that if I'd rather go with what I considered the smaller screw-up if I was wrong.

Sorry, mom.

I call them all Coke, because I am Texan and therefore superior to all of you.

I usually call it by a drink's specific name. But, otherwise, I say soda.

I tend to specify it (which it tends to be Mountian Dew... no gene pool diving for me ) unless I really don't care which then I'll call it soda.

most people I know in Buffalo call it pop. Here in Kent it's usually soda, but I'm sticking to my guns.

Kelly Antilles wrote:Spanky, it's Coke all over the South, not just in Texas. Get your facts straight first.

I call it Coke because that's what I drink. If I am unfortunate enough to be eating at an establishment that serves that other drink, I'll get a Mt. Dew. I HATE Pepsi. Ick.

(Gee, Bean, you sound like me.)

I agree with you on the Pepsi thing...but I found that it actuially tastes somewhat decent out of a can...

I specify brand, or I call it soda. Here in the Philadelphia area, if you ask for 'pop', don't be surprised if you get knocked on your ass.

My generic term is soda. Otherwise I use the name brand. Mostly Coke, but occasionally a Dr Pepper or Grape Soda.

Check out this link to see where people say what:

http://www.ugcs.caltech.edu/~almccon/pop_soda/

First, I am a New Zealander. Here Coca Cola is known as coke or {insert flavour here, eg vanilla} coke. other fizy bevages are known by their brand name eg fanta or by the flavour then the brand name eg rasberry fanta.
The possible exception is lemonade, unless you sepecify the brand, lemonade is lemonade. I happen to think Schwepps classic dry is the superiour brand of lemonade.

Kelly Antilles wrote:Spanky, it's Coke all over the South, not just in Texas. Get your facts straight first.

I call it Coke because that's what I drink. If I am unfortunate enough to be eating at an establishment that serves that other drink, I'll get a Mt. Dew. I HATE Pepsi. Ick.

(Gee, Bean, you sound like me.)

Gahh, Pepsi is grotty. Dont go to Vanuatu unless you are prepared to drink Pepsi, cause thats all they got outside of a supermarket.

I call it soda, generically. Coke is just a brand name, as is Pepsi or Doctor Pepper or 7-UP, for that matter.