Alright Midwest peeps let’s settle this heated debate.
Pop or Soda?
Soda. Although, when I was a kid and if you traveled out far enough into the boonies you’d hear people call it “sodie-pop”, so… 🤷♂️
My mom uses that one some times, but she spent some formative childhood years in Missouri so I blame that. ;)
Yup. Could just be a Missouri boonies thing, don’t know.
oh the boonies gotta love em. Lol I swear they have their own language sometimes lol
So we’re fighting already? lmao
Yes, yes we are. The lines have been drawn! lol
Mark me down for ‘soda’ then I guess.
Pop, always. My mom who grew up in Chicago proper says soda, the heathen.
I use either! But I tend to say soda
Pop
Soda, grew up in Michigan. But all it took was living in liberal California for 2 years to make pop sound weird.
the damn hippies have corrupted you! lol
Northwest Indiana and we say Pop.
I say POP…my wife says SODA…so my kids say SODA POP
I knew a lot of folks in southern Indiana who said Coke.
Personally I prefer soda.
Alabama here, we say coke even though I can’t stand coke
As someone who lives in “pop” land, eternally soda
Kansas City, here. We generally say Pop. But I hear Soda with some frequency.
Certainly not “Coke.”
…soda? Usually I just say the brand I want though.
It was pop until I dated a girl from Wisconsin in my late teens. I was then swiftly ushered into the world of soda.
grew up in Michigan where everyone says “pop,” decided to start saying “soda” when I was 14 cuz I wanted to rebel. I can say either now, but typically say “pop” in Michigan so I don’t get any funny looks
I’d just like to know why STL and the central IL region is so deep in saying “soda”. Granted, any time I’ve headed up to Chicago I don’t think I’ve heard “pop” so I’m not sure how ubiquitous it is in most of IL even including Chicago. But having not grown up there I can’t say myself.
Anyways, it’s definitely soda in most of IL. Don’t think I’ve ever heard it called pop there, other than by my grandma who was from the southside of Chicago.
It’s absolutely pop in Chicagoland area, where I grew up. I knew I was “downstate” when I started hearing soda, which to me used to be a float (pop with ice cream in it).
