Friday, September 16, 2016

Fun Friday: What's It Called?

I've posted about this a couple of times in the past, but I have new readers, so I'm going to post this again. Please sound off even if you did last time.

That carbonated beverage that comes from a can--what generic name do you call it by? It varies by region. I grew up in northern Indiana calling it "pop." I move to Jacksonville, FL and it was all "cokes." It was frustrating to ask for a Coke and have someone say, "What kind of coke?" Now I call it "soda." What do you call it?

 Below are two different maps to show how it varies by regions of the United States. And if you don't live in the United States, what do you call it and does it change regionally in your country?
Do you agree with the above map? It show Jacksonville as calling it soda and that wasn't what I found to be true, and it has our part of FL calling it Coke.

 The bottom map is much more detailed, but not sure if it's accurate. What do you think?

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7 comments:

  1. ChristinaSeptember 16, 2016 at 6:13 PM

    Learned to call is pop but grew up calling it soda, and I am nowhere on your map!

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  2. AnonymousSeptember 17, 2016 at 8:39 AM

    It's "soda" here (Las Vegas Nevada). The map is probably accurate for Clark County (the southern-most part of Nevada) at 50%-80%. Enough of the population comes here from other areas that it's probably correct to not be at 80%-100%.

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  3. lilbetsSeptember 18, 2016 at 12:46 AM

    In australia we say cool drink. Or just say what the can is ie coke,pepsi

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  4. Kathy CasselSeptember 18, 2016 at 6:23 PM

    Thank you for sharing that.

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  5. ShellySeptember 20, 2016 at 5:59 AM

    In WNY we call it Pop

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  6. AnonymousSeptember 21, 2016 at 12:12 PM

    In Germany we use the English word "soft drink" for it

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  7. Kathy CasselSeptember 21, 2016 at 7:51 PM

    Interesting to see the differences!

    I think in England they called it Fizzy drinks when we were there, but we called it by name --Lilt, coke ...

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