pop is getting smaller and towards the midwest, eventually it will just be minisoda.
We have them on the run, boys!
If they showed Canada on this map, you'd think otherwise...
We're up here drinking our pop while sitting on the chesterfield
Tabernac!
That's because Soda was originally said by the most population dense areas of the country.
By default, that gives it a huge advantage in terms of shifting the cultural language. Especially since Hollywood often controls the cultural shifts and narratives of colloquial language.
So this isn't too surprising. It's kind of like the whole "Land doesn't get a vote" thing when you look at the Red vs Blue district voting graphs, without taking into account the majority of people live in the blue areas, and very few people, comparatively, live in the red areas.
This visualization is pretty much the same thing.
As inconsequential as it is, it makes me mildly sad to see things like this become more homogeneous.
Maybe the Pop and Soda users can at least band together to get Coke removed forever before returning to their own fight. I don't know really know which of those two I prefer, but it is insane to refer to a Mountain Dew as a Coke.
Not at all surprised where it's concentrated though. The poorest, least educated, least healthful States in the country, where corporate branding has superceded basic terminology.
Would you like a Coke?
hands you an orange crush
I'm from GA, and I never understood people calling all soda a coke. Giving someone a Pepsi when they asked for a coke is enough to start an altercation around here -- they are not at all considered interchangeable
I mean, I assume part of that standoffishness is simply local pride since Coca Cola is headquartered there.
It's pop and I will die on this hill
Hello. My name is Inigo Montoya. I prefer the word soda. Prepare to die.
Meanwhile in my part of the world
L E M O N A D E
for literally every fizzy drink
Where do you live? That's horrifying
In Australia, they're called soft drinks because they have little or no alcohol in them.
We call them soft drinks in America too.
I was today years old when I learned that the soft on soft drink is the opposite of hard in terms of liquor.
Pop propaganda
Sodageddon
Popaganda
Born in a pop stronghold, and it is still holding. Coke is a brand, not all pop!
Softdrink
Fizzy drink for me in the UK, although most other people I know call it 'sparkling'
Pass me a fizzy beverage, my good sir.
I stopped needing to refer to carbonated beverages in everyday language like decades ago
Congrats
You have transcended the want for fizzy
Now upon your tongue, only pizzy.
I grew up almost exclusively hearing "pop," and use it in casual situations, but I prefer to use "soda" in public. Asking a server what kind of "pop" they have seems odd to me, but at the same time asking a friend if I can grab a "soda" seems odd as well.
I met him in a swamp down in Dagoba Where it bubbles all the time like a giant carbonated soda S O D A, soda
"You want a beautiful name? Soda."
GOOD! I grew up living in the north-east and we called it "Soda", then moved west and kept hearing people say "pop" and it was the most annoying thing, glad to see everyone else is coming around to the correct name.
I mean, I moved to Michigan from one of the soda areas, and I give people shit when they say pop so. Am I the baddie, no it is they who are wrong.
I'm doing my part to fight back, moved to California from Michigan and my girlfriend used to say pop ironically but she's said it so much now she uses it too.
Question for the folks in the gray area... Are you all referring to all brands and flavors of carbonated soft drinks as 'Coke,' or has Coca-Cola beat out all competitors there, or how does that work?
All brown sodas are Coke. Sprite and it's equivalents were separate at least where I grew up. you ask for a coke and the person taking your order asks "what kind?" and you clarify "Pepsi" or "root beer" or "coke coke".
Yes
The arc of history bends toward justice.
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