Comments on: soda, pop, coke

By: KWitsman

KWitsman — Mon, 05 Dec 2005 17:52:03 +0000

Just looking over the Illinois portion. Strange! Counties with large cities all went to Pop while those counties I know without large cities (nothing larger than 20000 in one spot) all went for soda. Must be a country-vs-city thing here.

By: Brandon Turok

Brandon Turok — Mon, 05 Dec 2005 15:42:52 +0000

I’m dismayed that they misspelled “respondents”

By: Paul LaBrier

Paul LaBrier — Sun, 04 Dec 2005 03:20:36 +0000

I live in the St. Louis area and I suppose we are more metroplotin that most of the midwest. Its odd to see the north and the south so polarized witn St. Louis spit. Much like during the War between the states.

By: Laura

Laura — Tue, 29 Nov 2005 00:37:59 +0000

From looking at those “other” stats I have kind of a funny hunch that people may be gaming the form.

By: caferace

caferace — Mon, 28 Nov 2005 21:55:44 +0000

I found out what "other" means. I sorta wish I hadn't. Scrolling to the bottom of the page gets *really* weird.

By: Dan

Dan — Sun, 27 Nov 2005 01:06:06 +0000

The choice of words probably depended on if your regional vendor was speaking about the chemical added to carbonate the beverage (sodium bicarbonate -> soda) or the acid added to give the drinks a sharper flavor (phosphoric acid -> pop). These days, however, soft drinks are much more heavily carbonated with carbonic acid, but the phosphoric acid is still there, so perhaps we should be calling them carbo-pops.

By: Ashley Bowers

Ashley Bowers — Sat, 26 Nov 2005 23:02:47 +0000

I am from teh South and everything down here is called Coke if you want a Pepsi you ask for a Coke. If you want mountain dew you ask for a Coke.If you want water you ask for water.

By: Elaine

Elaine — Sat, 26 Nov 2005 16:47:39 +0000

This is one of those weird “cross-cultural” things in my marriage; I’m a “soda” person, he was raised with “pop” …and we live in “pop” country. I think I’ve mostly migrated to “soda pop.” :)

And I think if you were to look at where people from the northeast US migrated in the last 100 years you’d probably see the soda/pop division in action.

By: lou

lou — Sat, 26 Nov 2005 14:49:00 +0000

I grew up in NE Massachusetts and we called it “tonic”. (It’s middlesex county on the map and you’ll note all the “Other” responses.)

By: Ele

Ele — Sat, 26 Nov 2005 08:24:29 +0000

I call it “soda pop” to avoid all confusion. I would prefer to just call it “soda”, though.