Nice background story. Now here is the actual survey. We'll fark their server in short order...

(and it's a coke, dangit, no matter what flavor you get)

Who cares? Call it what you want. I don't drink the crap, but if I did I would call it by the product name.

Me: Hey can I get a 7-up.
Clerk: Sorry, we only have Sprite.
Me: A Sprite will be fine.

See how easy that was.

I live in the midwest(Ohio) so therefore it is called pop. And when I go places, people look at me funny..WTF!

Soda and Coke is pretty universal on the left coast here, that map seems about right. Of course back when dinosaurs roamed the earth there was the Pop crossover here with the Ssssshasta commercials.

soda, dammit~ soda!

now if we could settle the coke vs. pepsi debate...since everyone knows coke is better.

GO POP!!! WOOOOOOO!

im retarded.

glad to see ABC is tackling the hard issues.

Pop

RandyJohnson: It applies to lots of things.

Me: Hey can I vote for a Democrat?
Clerk: Sorry, we only have Republican.
Me: A Republican will be fine.

The difference is very small.

POP!
POP!POP!POP!POP!POP!
POP!
POP!POP!POP!
POP!
POP!POP!POP!POP!POP!POP!
POP!POP!POP!POP!POP!POP!


POP!

This really matters to people?

I got tagged as a Canadian while travelling in Mass... I asked my friend to chuck me over a can of POP.

It sparked a whole flock of people going "CANADIANS!!!" like we were a rare animal or something...

It's POP in Canada...

I grew up in Jersey calling it soda. 300 miles away in WV everyone calls it pop. Adding to the confusion, when you go to the grocery store here to buy your soda pop, you place your stuff in the buggy, not in the cart.

I've been popped out. They all taste like battery acid. Where's the entry for milk?

I'll have iced tea please. None of that sweetened crap either.

Bert Vaux, a linguistics professor at Harvard University, says many Americans are overly passionate about how they refer to the popular beverage family.

ummm not really call it whatever the fark you want, people with no lives are Passionate about soft drinks!

Hey, What the hell happened to the article about some town giving out free pot? It just came up, and then was gone when I tried to go to the comments. Guess they did'nt want a few thousand Farkers flying out there to "help".



By the way: COKE!

Yes, I'm from the South.

"Im gonna go get a coke" means Im going to get a soft drink. Of course, all I drink is coke anyway, so usually theres no confusion. Grew up in WV, living in VA last 17 years

TASTES GREAT!

LESS FILLING!

TASTES GREAT!

Hm, probably pop, but this can also refer to harder drink..
Ie. "Lets get down the boozer and get some pops down us necks"

Personally, i'd refer to any soft drink by name. Easier, really.

So-dee Wah-tuh.

Sodapop.

when I was a kid, we always called it coke. I guess now I call it POP, i didnt move, so I dont know why i call it POP now. :)

(and it's a coke, dangit, no matter what flavor you get)

exactly

This is so easy. It's pop.

And I'm very passionate about but I'm not sure why. I always feel like beating someone into submission when they argue with me about this. Perhaps I have issues I need to work on.

soft drink.

It's pop.

And Dr. Pepper is tops. Fark Coke.

It will always be POP in my heart regardless of whatever the local hicks call it.

Everybody knows it's SODA. Or at least they should.
Pop sounds nerdish.
Coke is a brand name.
Florida has soda now?

Let's just call all fizzy drinks Soda-Pop-Cokes and be done with it. Let's talk about more important things, like kiddie porn in Norway, growing rabbit weeners in test tubes.

Here in Buffalo, the cradle of civilization, it's "pop" and always will be.
Actually, if you go to the site and click on the state statistics, you can find out what "others" are being used.
I preferred "carbonated refreshment".

boobies. let's start a new trend and when the waitress asks, say "i'd like a nice refreshing booby"

Dan Rather ask's for RC cola and dances around in front of the camera....
Ok that was a metaphor for asshats on the TV screen and really has nothing to do with Rather, my hero.

I'll go with FeatusEater and call it beer.

Hmm, beer...

Well I'm from Milwaukee, that strange area of the midwest where we call it SODA, and people who say POP will be ridiculed mercilessly

We also call water fountains Bubblers, which people think is weird, but we have a good reason. There used to be a company here that made Water Fountains and they called their fountains Bubblers ( or the company name was Bubbler or something) and the water actually bubbled straight up the middle like a fountain or spring.
Its kinda like the whole Kleenex thing. Kleenex is a brand, the item is a facial tissue, but its not like if someone asks me for a Kleenex and all I has is Puffs brand I won't give them one.

Hard hitting journalism...

"the blurred lines of soda/pop in a post 9/11 world"

(by the way...soda dammit. :) or, as it's said up here in maine, "sodah")

You guys are such kidders, everyone knows it's 'coke'. But if you hand me a Coke I'll look at you funny... I prefer Pepsi, of course.

OK, here in the UK (as far as I can tell):

Soda = soda water. water that is fizzy.
Pop = any type of carbonated soft drink
Coke = Coca Cola, Pepsi, etc.

CONCLUSION
People who say "Pop" are much, much cooler.



;-)

I say pop. I am cool.

"I'd like a Coke, please."
"Here ya go."
"No,not that Coke,the other one."
"Which?"
"The sugar-filled,gassy stuff that comes in cans."
Blah,blah,blah.....
Who really cares?

in canada, coast to coast, its pop. period
if you say soda you moved here from the states somewhere.
no one says coke, unless they are talking about the product coke.

People who call it pop are fools. Do you realize that no major beverage company calls it Pop? Look on the side of a can. If it has any name at all, it's Soda. Sunkist calls their drink "Orange Soda". Coca-cola, THE largest soft drink company in the world, calls their drinks sodas. I have yet to see anything that calls their drink a "pop". Grow up people, soda is clearly more mature and, otherwise, correct!

Actually, I look at the menu and usually order either a coke,pepsi or seven up, depending on what they have. If I have guests over, I ask if they would like a soda, not knowing whether their dad(pop) is alive or not. I guess that is kind of putting a date on my age isn't it.....That's in the S. West...AZ

carbonated beverage.

WTF? The correct answer is "soft drink."

Ouroborus
(and it's a coke, dangit, no matter what flavor you get)

uh, not exactly. Coke is a brand name. Supposedly called that cause they used to actually put cocaine in it( in very very small amounts) If I want a Sprite and tell a waitress I'll have a coke, she's not going to ask what kind I want, she'll just bring me a coke.

And the reason I don't like Pop is cause Pop is a sound, not a beverage

POP!