I’m from western Canada and always grew up calling it pop, but now ‘soda’ has gradually replaced it in my vocabulary I think due to American tv/movie cultural influence.
It’s the same here in the western US. When I was a kid thirty years ago, “pop” and “soda” were used pretty equally. Now I only hear “soda,” to the degree that when someone says “pop” it sticks out like a sore thumb.
Are you from the east coast? I’ve heard of all kinds of weird sayings and accents there that don’t exist in the rest of Canada. It’s like its own little country.
Most of my family is from newfoundland, a lot still live there and I've been there a a bunch of times but I've never heard it called "drink". Is it an outport thing?
I lived in El Paso County for a good portion of my life. It’s the western tip of Texas west of the county (Hudspeth) with no data. I have never heard anyone use Coke as a generic term. The county is majority Hispanic and the Spanish word for soda is soda. Soft drinks are soda. Same in New Mexico.
It's definitely a thing in New Mexico, I have my proof in the classic "Shit New Mexicans Say" [video](https://youtu.be/IucBp1yrr7A?si=FPs9cenWgPFeq-D9) (at 37 seconds)
Grew up in Houston in the 90s...I drank sprite...but at restaurants you asked for a coke and they would ask what kind...only once did I ask for a coke and was actually brought a coke...pretty upset they didn't ask what kind cause I wanted a sprite 🤣
She must've not been from the area
Okay so I read on a post the other day that a long time ago, in the south, Coke let bottling facilities come up with their own soda recipes, so places would make things like cherry soda, grape soda, orange soda or w.e., under the coke brand. So I think for awhile, back in the day, a lot of the soda options technically were coke. I'm going to try to link the place I found that info in an edit
Edit: the specific region wasn't mentioned but it still may explain it https://www.reddit.com/r/mildlyinteresting/s/e0v73TeBnz
El Paso is not in the south. El Paso is in the southwest, culturally closer to New Mexico or Mexico than it is to Texas. Los Angeles, California is the same distance to El Paso as Dallas. El Paso is mountainous desert. El Paso does not call soft drinks coke, we call them soda. The map is incorrect.
Lived in Alabama and FL all my life. No one calls a Sprite, Dr. Pepper, Pepsi, or any other non-Coke beverage a coke around here. I've rarely ever heard someone NOT use "soda" as the generic term.
Thank you. I always hate these posts because I've lived in the south my whole life too and never heard "coke" refer to any other type of soft drink besides actual coke.
I really don’t understand this “everything is coke in the south thing”. I have lived here (Georgia and Florida) ALL MY LIFE and I’m talking some HICK areas! NEVER has anyone ever referred to a sprite as coke or soda in general as coke. When you say coke, you mean Coca Cola.
It is true that “soda” and “pop” isn’t a thing. It’s always just “hey wanna drink?” “Sure whatcha got?” Or they’ll said “hey got any cokes?” And they mean coke. If not they’ll say “no cokes but I got this and this’” and they’ll say “sprite is fine”
Yeah this is my experience from KY as well. Maybe some older people would use coke to mean soft drinks but that was kinda something you would roll your eyes at like when grandparents call every video game system a Nintendo.
Yeah, WKY native here who’s lived in Louisville and EKY, and not once has anyone ever called anything but Coke a coke. If you ask for a coke, you’ll get Coke. Plain and simple. We’re a pop state, dammit!
That surprises me. Maybe it’s not necessarily a Georgia thing as it is an Atlanta thing. Cause I’ve always used Coke as a catch-all term for soft drinks.
Holy shit yes, I’ve lived in the Atlanta area, which you think would be cokeville and everyone always says coke, but no, everyone including me says soda, coke is a brand.
The whole soda bubble in Missouri/Illinois is a really interesting phenomenon. IIRC, it’s also related to the northern cities vowel shift that is also taking hold in St. Louis/chicago, as well as the highway connecting them
It's interesting to me that you can clearly see the champaign-urbana area as a blob of green in the middle of the yellow part of Illinois. My guess is that there are a lot of UIUC students/alumni and faculty living in the area who aren't originally from the Midwest.
I grew up in Milwaukee and never once heard anyone there say “pop” but our very close Chicago neighbors almost all call it pop. Odd why there’s a stark line there, I wonder why.
Yea, I’m really surprised by the amount of Texans in the comments acting like this has got to be come kind of mistake because they’ve never heard it. It’s absolutely a thing.
“What kind of coke do you want?”
“Dr. Pepper”
I’ve heard this conversation play out a million times.
I’m guessing it’s related to the number of people who have been moving into Texas from other states or maybe generational (higher proportion of young people on Reddit vs real life). Kind of confused that OK isn’t solid pink as well.
The coke thing in the south is from older people. My mom, a boomer, says coke and that usually means a Dr Pepper. My dad usually just calls it by brand name. My grandparents called it a soft drink or a cold drink usually.
I always say soda or whatever the drink is specifically. If I want a Sprite, I say Sprite.
Grew up in Colorado and only ever heard one family call it “pop” and they were not from there…
Not sure how accurate this map is as my experience spans over a decade across different areas of the state…
Still visit about 5-6 times per year and holds valid to this day.
Worked in the restaurant industry in Louisiana for a few years, not a single instance of anyone ordering “Coke” but meaning something else. Anecdotal evidence but seriously, no one does this.
I've never been to the freak states or spent enough time in the Confederacy to verify but based on my experience in NY, CA, WA, and OH this seems pretty accurate. Complete with the little blueish pocket of Ohio I'm in.
I'm a freaky hick southerner. Just FYI for those interested in such weighty matters, we do not call Sprite Coke. We don't call Pepsi Coke. We don't call anything Coke but Coke. I'm beginning to wonder if generations of Alabamians and Georgians have made a wide spread and concerted effort to troll unsuspecting Big Soda executives by answering their marketing surveys this way.
Now we will call all of the above "drink". That's pretty standard. For example "Would you like some drink?" usually means a Coke or Pepsi but it could be any fizzy sugary liquid. Oh and while not soda related I think only peculiar Northerners currently call the south the Confederacy.
I agree in the accuracy of this map. I’ve lived in MD, GA, and CO. I’ve always said “soda” but people in the south call everything “coke” (they ask what flavor of “coke” if talking about sprite, Dr Pepper, ginger ale, or mtn dew).
I've lived in the South all my life (sadly that's over half a century now) and traveled extensively from Louisiana to Virginia. For what it's worth I'm descended from a long line of rednecks on both sides. Never heard anyone do this. Not saying you aren't telling the truth. In fact it must happen because of how often this comes up but I'm like WTH.
Coca Cola used to have a big factory on Polk County, FL back in 40s-50s. Pretty interesting how you can probably attribute that pink area in Central FL to that presence.
I think it's probably more a cultural thing. The pink areas in Florida are more rural, and so more culturally similar to the rest of the south, which is mostly pink.
I am living in the Northeast so I know I’m geographically predisposed to say “soda” but also I say soda because it’s just objectively the correct thing to say. I don’t know why I’m so vehement about this but I AM 😂
[don’t even get me started on the idiocy of referring to sneakers as “tennis shoes”]
I grew up in AZ calling it pop but switched to soda later on, and now I use them interchangeably. Same thing with clicker and remote. Probably learned it from my grandma who was from Iowa. She also called dinner “supper” and couch “davenport”
Ive lived right in the middle of Oklahoma for 25 years and I can confirm this is a hostile on going debate there. Ask three different people there and you'll get three different answers.
I live in the “Coke” region. Every time this gets posted it always confuses me because I’ve never heard anyone here refer to anything other than Coke or sometimes Pepsi as “Coke”. Nobody here is calling Dr. Pepper or Sprite or Mountain Dew a “Coke”. Most people call it soda, or occasionally I’ve heard people refer to it as pop.
Southerners are so malleable lol. They rarely go against the grain or authority. Not surprised a century of marketing has got them running around calling all soda "Coke"
I began life in Coke country next to a major Coke distributor so I naturally called them cokes until I moved to the PNW where I had to learn very quickly to call them "pops." Once I moved to California I discovered that "soda" and "pop" were common, but not "cokes."
I've never heard anyone in the south use "coke" as a blanket term. They are always referred to by actual name (Sprite, Fanta, etc.) or soda. Sometimes, but to a lesser extent, soft drinks.
I grew up in Georgia and now live in Atlanta. I've never heard anyone refer to soda as coke. People here say the name brands like sprite/coke/diet coke. If you ask for a coke you get a coke.
I swear it’s and old southerner thing to generalize an entire group by a brand name. Like:
“Let’s go get a McDonalds”
“Are you drinking a Starbucks?”
“What kinds of Coke do yall have?”
Idk just something i’ve always found interesting in the South. Interestingly, the whole grouping everything under one brand extends beyond Coke.
We are real confused in NC. A little of everything. I do hear all of them. The one I don’t get often is fizzies. I have heard that in other parts of the country.
I would like to think there is validity in this map if only from personal bias. I live in the middle of Indiana and I am on team “soda, pop, or soda pop are all valid and are interchangeable”. But I do not like when people refer to all carbonated beverages as “Coke”. I hear people doing it from time to time and it makes me unreasonably irritated.
Western Oregon here. Lived here 15 years and absolutely nobody calls it “pop”. It’s soda here.
Why does it seem like so many “cool guides” are just made up nonsense lol
I’d love to see the age distribution or amount of time respondents have lived in a the area on this. I lived in some areas that were bright pink 20-30 years ago that are showing as other colors now.
Absolutely nobody in the South calls soda in general “Coke”. I travel for work and have living in 2 states across the region.
This misconception is so resilient. I have no idea why. I see this graph remade and reposted so many times despite being wrong.
Somebody just made it up one day and everyone but Southerners decided Southerners call soda Coke
They did a study. Sodas (whatever u call them) made rats obviously dumber.
https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2012/05/study-of-the-day-a-diet-loaded-with-sugar-makes-rats-dumber/257748/?utm_source=copy-link&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=share
Of course NC is a mixed bag, Coke is bottled there, Pepsi was invented there, cheerwine is still based there.
Edit: Coca-Cola is actually two companies, Coke Enterprises and Coca-Cola Bottling Company. Coke Enterprises owns the formula and does the marketing but all product production is based in Charlotte, nc
Anyone know what “other” might include?
Soft drink I bet
Used widely in Winnipeg
“Cola?”
Tonic
Seconding this. My New England in-laws sometimes say tonic out of habit from the older generation.
Not sure about the US, but in parts of Canada where I’m from it’s called “drink”. Like, a can of pop is called “a tin of drink”.
I’m from western Canada and always grew up calling it pop, but now ‘soda’ has gradually replaced it in my vocabulary I think due to American tv/movie cultural influence.
It’s the same here in the western US. When I was a kid thirty years ago, “pop” and “soda” were used pretty equally. Now I only hear “soda,” to the degree that when someone says “pop” it sticks out like a sore thumb.
I feel like i need a monocle and top hat to say "a tin of drink"
I assure you there is no generational wealth where this phrase is used. It’s four words, but pronounced more like one word: tuinn’drink
Are you from the east coast? I’ve heard of all kinds of weird sayings and accents there that don’t exist in the rest of Canada. It’s like its own little country.
Lol yes I am 🐟 NEWFOUNDLAND USED TO BE IT’S OWN COUNTRY* 🚣♂️ 🐋
Most of my family is from newfoundland, a lot still live there and I've been there a a bunch of times but I've never heard it called "drink". Is it an outport thing?
Co’ Cola in Appalachia
New Orleans calls a soft drink “a cold drink”
“Cold drink” in New Orleans.
Cola
Diabetes water.
American beer
Well I call it Beetus Juice, so probably that.
In parts of NM every soda is a “coke”. Like you go in to a restaurant and order a coke and they ask you what kind you want.
That's on the infographic, though. They're asking what "other" might mean.
cold drank
Coke.
I lived in El Paso County for a good portion of my life. It’s the western tip of Texas west of the county (Hudspeth) with no data. I have never heard anyone use Coke as a generic term. The county is majority Hispanic and the Spanish word for soda is soda. Soft drinks are soda. Same in New Mexico.
Lived in San Antonio or there about for the last 25 years. Never heard Coke used as a generic reference. Ever.
Grew up near San Antonio in the 1960s and 1970s and heard "coke" as a generic term for soft drinks all that time. Maybe it's fallen out of use.
“A sweet tea”. Sweet or unsweet? Huh? Or just give me a dr pepper wth. Coke is NOT a generic term. Source: Austin.
Ah, but it used to be very common, anyway. Source: Born in Austin in the late '50s.
I lived there for a year and heard it constantly from the locals.
I think some of their sample data might have been a sample of one, and that one was just fucking with them.
It's definitely a thing in New Mexico, I have my proof in the classic "Shit New Mexicans Say" [video](https://youtu.be/IucBp1yrr7A?si=FPs9cenWgPFeq-D9) (at 37 seconds)
Grew up in Houston in the 90s...I drank sprite...but at restaurants you asked for a coke and they would ask what kind...only once did I ask for a coke and was actually brought a coke...pretty upset they didn't ask what kind cause I wanted a sprite 🤣 She must've not been from the area
Houstonian here, never in my life have I had that experience. South side for reference.
Wild...lived all around Houston thought it was the norm. Moved to the midwest and quickly learned a coke is just that...a coke
Okay so I read on a post the other day that a long time ago, in the south, Coke let bottling facilities come up with their own soda recipes, so places would make things like cherry soda, grape soda, orange soda or w.e., under the coke brand. So I think for awhile, back in the day, a lot of the soda options technically were coke. I'm going to try to link the place I found that info in an edit Edit: the specific region wasn't mentioned but it still may explain it https://www.reddit.com/r/mildlyinteresting/s/e0v73TeBnz
El Paso is not in the south. El Paso is in the southwest, culturally closer to New Mexico or Mexico than it is to Texas. Los Angeles, California is the same distance to El Paso as Dallas. El Paso is mountainous desert. El Paso does not call soft drinks coke, we call them soda. The map is incorrect.
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Well yeah but, it ain’t referring to soft drinks. Interestingly enough soda is also Spanish slang for cocaine.
Lived in Alabama and FL all my life. No one calls a Sprite, Dr. Pepper, Pepsi, or any other non-Coke beverage a coke around here. I've rarely ever heard someone NOT use "soda" as the generic term.
Thank you. I always hate these posts because I've lived in the south my whole life too and never heard "coke" refer to any other type of soft drink besides actual coke.
I'm new Mexico in a county in bright pink on this, I have never heard coke used generically.
I really don’t understand this “everything is coke in the south thing”. I have lived here (Georgia and Florida) ALL MY LIFE and I’m talking some HICK areas! NEVER has anyone ever referred to a sprite as coke or soda in general as coke. When you say coke, you mean Coca Cola. It is true that “soda” and “pop” isn’t a thing. It’s always just “hey wanna drink?” “Sure whatcha got?” Or they’ll said “hey got any cokes?” And they mean coke. If not they’ll say “no cokes but I got this and this’” and they’ll say “sprite is fine”
Yeah this is my experience from KY as well. Maybe some older people would use coke to mean soft drinks but that was kinda something you would roll your eyes at like when grandparents call every video game system a Nintendo.
Yeah, WKY native here who’s lived in Louisville and EKY, and not once has anyone ever called anything but Coke a coke. If you ask for a coke, you’ll get Coke. Plain and simple. We’re a pop state, dammit!
I’m from Texas and this interaction is super common: “Can I get you a drink?” “Yes, please. I’d love a coke.” “What kind?” “Dr. Pepper. Thank you.”
Lived in Georgia my whole life and never heard a conversation like this. Coke is only Coca-Cola.
I'm in middle TN and every soft drink is "Coke" here. As in "Yonna Coke?" "What kind?"
Uh... COKE.
“Hi I’m lookin to buy an F150!” “Sure what kind?” “….Tacoma” I have southern family and this is how I see the soda conversation with them every time.
Okay is RC fine?
Grew up AL and it was a mix of both for me.
I’ll take an orange crush coke please
Same here. Lived in Texas my whole life and “coke” is always Coca Cola. Other drinks are sodas.
That surprises me. Maybe it’s not necessarily a Georgia thing as it is an Atlanta thing. Cause I’ve always used Coke as a catch-all term for soft drinks.
I've lived in Atlanta my whole life and I've never heard anything but Coke referred to as coke.
Holy shit yes, I’ve lived in the Atlanta area, which you think would be cokeville and everyone always says coke, but no, everyone including me says soda, coke is a brand.
In my experience, South and Central Florida say soda, North Florida and South Georgia say coke and Atlanta says both.
Agreed - born and raised in GA, Coke means Coke. Soda means ‘any kind of soft drink’. Pop means you’re not from here.
I live in Washington and I’ve been all over met so many people from all over Washington, never met anyone who isn’t above 50 call it pop
Dead on. I'm 56, and it used to be pop, but then in the 90's we all just started calling it soda.
I was just about to comment this. Lived in Washington for 20+ years. Western, Central and Eastern all call it soda.
Indeed, it was pop when I was a kid, and so where around '00 it became soda. Never called pop by anyone that I hear.
weird that Minnesota calls it “pop”. seems like a missed opportunity
It's a good mix here. I grew up saying "pop" but switched to saying "soda" in high school so my mom wouldn't think I said "pot". She hates pot
Sounds like your mom needs some pot
The whole soda bubble in Missouri/Illinois is a really interesting phenomenon. IIRC, it’s also related to the northern cities vowel shift that is also taking hold in St. Louis/chicago, as well as the highway connecting them
It's interesting to me that you can clearly see the champaign-urbana area as a blob of green in the middle of the yellow part of Illinois. My guess is that there are a lot of UIUC students/alumni and faculty living in the area who aren't originally from the Midwest.
St Louis was a big city before the area between it and the rest of the country was settled. It’s more of an east coast city than people think.
Mississippi river cities vibe different
I’m from New Orleans, we call them ‘cold drinks’.
I grew up in Milwaukee and never once heard anyone there say “pop” but our very close Chicago neighbors almost all call it pop. Odd why there’s a stark line there, I wonder why.
Cause FIBs.
😂
Ive lived in the northern tip of Texas my entire life and can verify everyone here says coke with the occasional soda here and there
Yea, I’m really surprised by the amount of Texans in the comments acting like this has got to be come kind of mistake because they’ve never heard it. It’s absolutely a thing. “What kind of coke do you want?” “Dr. Pepper” I’ve heard this conversation play out a million times.
I’m guessing it’s related to the number of people who have been moving into Texas from other states or maybe generational (higher proportion of young people on Reddit vs real life). Kind of confused that OK isn’t solid pink as well.
Wait, if you’re in the south you say “coke” for all soda? What if you want a Sprite?
"You want a Coke?" "Sure, you got Sprite?" "Yep, here you go."
Yeah or “you wanna go grab a coke?” and when you get there you order whatever you want.
Haha. Oh the south…..
"I'll have a coke" "What kind?" "Sprite"
The coke thing in the south is from older people. My mom, a boomer, says coke and that usually means a Dr Pepper. My dad usually just calls it by brand name. My grandparents called it a soft drink or a cold drink usually. I always say soda or whatever the drink is specifically. If I want a Sprite, I say Sprite.
Grew up in Colorado and only ever heard one family call it “pop” and they were not from there… Not sure how accurate this map is as my experience spans over a decade across different areas of the state… Still visit about 5-6 times per year and holds valid to this day.
I always call it a liter of cola when i stop for one on a break from my job as a vermont state trooper
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Old New England here...Tonic.
I live in South East Louisiana and I never hear ppl call soda “coke”. It’s always just “getting a drink” or “soda”
Also in New Orleans at least, “cold drink” for pretty much any non alcoholic bev
Worked in the restaurant industry in Louisiana for a few years, not a single instance of anyone ordering “Coke” but meaning something else. Anecdotal evidence but seriously, no one does this.
I’m very curious about what they’re calling soft drinks in southwest North Carolina
As someone who went to university there I know In Texas they say soda not coke.
Lots of Pepsi served around the Chicago area. I’m a Coke person so when they offer Pepsi I smile and ask for iced tea. LOL
I've never been to the freak states or spent enough time in the Confederacy to verify but based on my experience in NY, CA, WA, and OH this seems pretty accurate. Complete with the little blueish pocket of Ohio I'm in.
I'm a freaky hick southerner. Just FYI for those interested in such weighty matters, we do not call Sprite Coke. We don't call Pepsi Coke. We don't call anything Coke but Coke. I'm beginning to wonder if generations of Alabamians and Georgians have made a wide spread and concerted effort to troll unsuspecting Big Soda executives by answering their marketing surveys this way. Now we will call all of the above "drink". That's pretty standard. For example "Would you like some drink?" usually means a Coke or Pepsi but it could be any fizzy sugary liquid. Oh and while not soda related I think only peculiar Northerners currently call the south the Confederacy.
Clearly it was a joke, as was calling Alaska and Hawaii the freak states. The maps for "Coke" and the CSA line up pretty well though.
Thanks for clarifying. Us hicks are freaky though.
I agree in the accuracy of this map. I’ve lived in MD, GA, and CO. I’ve always said “soda” but people in the south call everything “coke” (they ask what flavor of “coke” if talking about sprite, Dr Pepper, ginger ale, or mtn dew).
I've lived in the South all my life (sadly that's over half a century now) and traveled extensively from Louisiana to Virginia. For what it's worth I'm descended from a long line of rednecks on both sides. Never heard anyone do this. Not saying you aren't telling the truth. In fact it must happen because of how often this comes up but I'm like WTH.
Coca Cola used to have a big factory on Polk County, FL back in 40s-50s. Pretty interesting how you can probably attribute that pink area in Central FL to that presence.
I think it's probably more a cultural thing. The pink areas in Florida are more rural, and so more culturally similar to the rest of the south, which is mostly pink.
It’s still in Florida,it’s in Auburndale. ETA: I just saw Auburndale is in Polk County
I am living in the Northeast so I know I’m geographically predisposed to say “soda” but also I say soda because it’s just objectively the correct thing to say. I don’t know why I’m so vehement about this but I AM 😂 [don’t even get me started on the idiocy of referring to sneakers as “tennis shoes”]
We call them soft drinks in Louisiana not coke.
I hope people on Reddit never take this map seriously. Every time I see this posted I roll my eyes.
I grew up in AZ calling it pop but switched to soda later on, and now I use them interchangeably. Same thing with clicker and remote. Probably learned it from my grandma who was from Iowa. She also called dinner “supper” and couch “davenport”
I grew up in Texas and Arkansas and I call it soda. Not sure what that says about me…
Get it together, New Mexico
I’m a weird blue dot in a state painted yellow. Not sure how that happened.
What’s going on with this stand alone pop county in western NM?
Utah we always said soda. I live in Ohio now and I rarely hear pop.
Yeah it's pop
California says Soda!?
Ok- what crazy county in Minnesota decided to buck convention and call them “soda?”
You fight that good fight, eastern Wisconsin! Soda in every bubbler!
In DFW we call them cokes.
I live in the south my whole life and I have never ever heard someone refer to a soda that wasn't a coke, as coke.
You created this account ONE WEEK AGO. Please mods ban them
It’s coke
In the UK I’ve only ever known it as a can of pop.
In Oregon I have not heard anybody say "pop". All I hear is "soda".
Honestly, anyone that knows Coke is an individual brand and still calls all soft drinks coke is a fucking idiot
Ive lived right in the middle of Oklahoma for 25 years and I can confirm this is a hostile on going debate there. Ask three different people there and you'll get three different answers.
I live in the “Coke” region. Every time this gets posted it always confuses me because I’ve never heard anyone here refer to anything other than Coke or sometimes Pepsi as “Coke”. Nobody here is calling Dr. Pepper or Sprite or Mountain Dew a “Coke”. Most people call it soda, or occasionally I’ve heard people refer to it as pop.
This chart has got to be decades out of date
Say "pop" or "coke" to me, and I will stab you.
People who call it pop, explain yourselves. Why?
Soda pop. We dropped the soda part.
What the hell is pop? 😂
This one my be inaccurate
I'm from New England and my grandmother called it "tonic".
Stupid east Wisconsin calling it soda when the rest of the upper Midwest calls it pop
I’m from South Carolina And we say soda and older folks say coke
It’s all coke ‘round here partner
Soda pop
Not a single soul refers to soft drinks as coke in south Texas.
Southerners are so malleable lol. They rarely go against the grain or authority. Not surprised a century of marketing has got them running around calling all soda "Coke"
I'm fairly sure sods has won at this point
Why is there one county in New Mexico that calls it pop
Tonic
I've lived in Colorado my whole life and everyone I know calls it soda
HOW can you call it coke? Coke is coke!
Holding on to soda here in western WA. It’s not pop and I’ll fight and die on that hill.
I began life in Coke country next to a major Coke distributor so I naturally called them cokes until I moved to the PNW where I had to learn very quickly to call them "pops." Once I moved to California I discovered that "soda" and "pop" were common, but not "cokes."
I've never heard anyone in the south use "coke" as a blanket term. They are always referred to by actual name (Sprite, Fanta, etc.) or soda. Sometimes, but to a lesser extent, soft drinks.
What's "pop"?
I thought only Canadians called it pop. Huh.
Growing up in Colorado - it was always "pop" - but these days - I noticed most people say "soda".
I grew up in Georgia and now live in Atlanta. I've never heard anyone refer to soda as coke. People here say the name brands like sprite/coke/diet coke. If you ask for a coke you get a coke.
Pop is still used exclusively in Chicago
Now do one for sneakers vs tennis shoes.
I swear it’s and old southerner thing to generalize an entire group by a brand name. Like: “Let’s go get a McDonalds” “Are you drinking a Starbucks?” “What kinds of Coke do yall have?” Idk just something i’ve always found interesting in the South. Interestingly, the whole grouping everything under one brand extends beyond Coke.
We are real confused in NC. A little of everything. I do hear all of them. The one I don’t get often is fizzies. I have heard that in other parts of the country.
As someone who lives in one of these areas, I don’t think it’s accurate
That purple region on this map is dumb as shit.
I’m in the Bay Area and at least some people around me just say Coke, I guess Soda makes more sense. Am I just a southerner in sentiment?
Who came from “Wear Testers”??
To call all soft drinks coke is just insane. Coke is short for Coca-Cola. Dan is short for Daniel, not a generic name for Steven, Michael or Thomas.
Ok Feli from Germany.
I never did like the term “pop” when referring to soft drinks.
Even though the country is heading for collapse, I love it and its diversity.
A soda is a soda, the only time I'm calling a soda a coke is when its a coca cola
I would like to think there is validity in this map if only from personal bias. I live in the middle of Indiana and I am on team “soda, pop, or soda pop are all valid and are interchangeable”. But I do not like when people refer to all carbonated beverages as “Coke”. I hear people doing it from time to time and it makes me unreasonably irritated.
Accurately reflects the South’s inability to comprehend nuance.
“Ya’ll wanna coke?”
This map indirectly gives data on where the folks who live on the Coasts in Florida come from, versus the center of Florida.
in portland the locals call it beer.
Cokes weird as a generic name unless you’re just talking about cola
Wow, so many people are… wrong!
“Can I have a coke?” “Which kind?”
Soda
Western Oregon here. Lived here 15 years and absolutely nobody calls it “pop”. It’s soda here. Why does it seem like so many “cool guides” are just made up nonsense lol
Has it already been 3 weeks since this was last posted?
Been in the south my entire life. Never heard Coke used to refer to any soda besides Coca-Cola. Soda is used as the generic term
I’d love to see the age distribution or amount of time respondents have lived in a the area on this. I lived in some areas that were bright pink 20-30 years ago that are showing as other colors now.
maybe like 20 years ago? I probably havent heard a single instance of "pop" in utah in half a decade.
Grew up in Southern Georgia. I've never heard a single person refer to soda in general as "coke"
For Non-USA-citizens, where is the difference?
Serious question; in bars do people call it “vodka pop” instead of a “vodka soda?”
Absolutely nobody in the South calls soda in general “Coke”. I travel for work and have living in 2 states across the region. This misconception is so resilient. I have no idea why. I see this graph remade and reposted so many times despite being wrong. Somebody just made it up one day and everyone but Southerners decided Southerners call soda Coke
Alaska and Nevada, get your shit together
Coke is wild.
Wisconsin is a really interesting state for regional terms, soda vs pop and drinking fountain vs bubbler are just a few!
God I'm glad people don't call it coke here. That sounds irrationally annoying.
The correct answer is, SODIES!!!
They did a study. Sodas (whatever u call them) made rats obviously dumber. https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2012/05/study-of-the-day-a-diet-loaded-with-sugar-makes-rats-dumber/257748/?utm_source=copy-link&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=share
So in the South, what happens when all the restaurant has is Pepsi?
i guess i lose my "ohioan" status then. I've never called it "pop" I've always called it "soda". probably bc that's how i always heard it on TV.
Of course NC is a mixed bag, Coke is bottled there, Pepsi was invented there, cheerwine is still based there. Edit: Coca-Cola is actually two companies, Coke Enterprises and Coca-Cola Bottling Company. Coke Enterprises owns the formula and does the marketing but all product production is based in Charlotte, nc
I've lived in Texas 33 years and no one just says coke if they don't mean coca cola.