Ok, What do you call your soft drinks

[giff57]

Since the pop vs soda topic came up, here is a poll>

 

[NHPlanner]

Soda....but there are still a few holdouts (my dad included) that say tonic.

 

[Chet]

Soda

And we drink from the bubbler - not the water fountain.

 

[PlannerGirl]

I call it soda but my souther born family calls everything coke. Course they also use enough sugar in tea to make your spoon stand up!

 

[pete-rock]

I see, bturk. And I guess you call it a stop-and-go light rather than a stoplight, too. You're such a cheesehead!

 

[Chet]

I see, bturk. And I guess you call it a stop-and-go light rather than a stoplight, too. You're such a cheesehead!

Yah Hey.

 

[PlannerGirl]

lol um how about "traffic control device"?

 

[kms]

I call them coke; a holdover from my Kentucky family. My PA kids call them pop.

 

[El Feo]

"Coke" was pretty generic where I grew up. Like "kleenex." If anyone called it soda or pop, I automatically knew they were ferriners. If they talked longer and eventually called water fountains "bubblers," I could nail down their origin fairly quickly...

 

[Dan]

Pop. Pronounced with a Buffalo accent, like "paa-hap."

 

[nerudite]

Hmmmm....

Growing up I called it soda or Coke. Up here in Canada, I say pop so I don't sound so odd to the locals (although I probably do anyway).

Does anyone else call the grocery store the "market", or is that just an L.A. thing? Anywhere outside of So. Cal, and people just look at me funny...

 

[GeogPlanner]

Pop. Pronounced with a Buffalo accent, like "paa-hap."

our af2 rochester rivals like to come to albany for games and wave a sign that says "it's called pop." next year i bring them a soda sign.

 

[Runner]

Used to be "soda" when I was growing up just outside Boston. However, now that I live in Texas it has to be "coke". Down here if you asked for a soda they likely would wonder why you want a soda water.

Does anyone else call the grocery store the "market", or is that just an L.A. thing?

I have called it a "market" since I was growing up. Sometimes now we say "super market" or even just say the "H-E-B"

 

[dmvallie]

I call it soda

but I probably should say its my caffeine delivery system!

 

[JNL]

We call them soft drinks or by their individual names e.g. Coke, Sprite, Fanta...

 

[Cardinal]

"Pop." I guess it's the Canadian blood in me, eh?

 

[Planderella]

We call soft drinks either by their brand name or "cold drinks." I never heard the term "pop" (referring to soft drinks) until my Yankee Bostonian cousins spent the summer down here.

 

[Journeymouse]

The 'polite' term has been soft drinks for as long as I can remember, although nobody but menu writers ever bothers to use it - I guess it takes too long to say. Generally, we (the people I know, anyway) refer to lemonade, orangeade, coke or pepsi (for all colas, depends on personal favourite) or what ever type/flavour we're talking about. IIRC, this was the habit in the South of England before it got to the North. In the North, particularly where I grew up, it used to be the habit to call it all pop when talking generally. Some adults/people over 30 still do. We only tend to get specific when we're actually buying it (e.g. Sprite, 7up, Fanta). Although some of the drinks are blended mixes so generic names don't apply, e.g. Lilt, and to make it more confusing many brand names have expanded to do several flavours under the same name (As you presumably know).

Here endeth the lesson (on eccentric English/British people)

 

[Downtown]

It's:
Soda
IN line (not on line - as in "Standing in line")
a sub (not hero)
a pizza (not a pie)

 

[planasaurus]

Pop. I'm a wanna-be Canadian.

 

[JNL]

I've never, ever heard it called pop in this country. People would think you were asking for someone's grandfather if you asked for pop!

Planasaurus, you are so modest (not!). I think you should keep your "cloths" on!

 

[planasaurus]

Planasaurus, you are so modest (not!). I think you should keep your "cloths" on!

Oh, that is from a song that plays on the radio non-stop over here (oops, I didn't see that I spelled it wrong!). Probably didn't make it over to NZ yet - or maybe people over there have better taste.

 

[GeogPlanner]

hopefully that song won't find its way across the pond...i hate top 40...its all crap

 

[donk]

somewhat related

Since I help to start this one on pop vs soda a related question about beer and the amounts it is sold in.

Is it a 2-4 (especially on Victoria Day)
A flat (24 beer)
A case (24 beer)
A case (12 beer)

Other ?

 

[giff57]

Re: somewhat related

Since I help to start this one on pop vs soda a related question about beer and the amounts it is sold in.

Is it a 2-4 (especially on Victoria Day)
A flat (24 beer)
A case (24 beer)
A case (12 beer)

Other ?

6 pack
12 pack
case
quart
40
tall boy

 

[Cardinal]

I dream of a day when it won't be sold in these forms, but piped directly from the municipal brewery directly into our homes.

"Oh, you work for the city. What is it you do?"

"Brewmaster."

It could happen.

 

[donk]

I dream of a day when it won't be sold in these forms, but piped directly from the municipal brewery directly into our homes.

so we would have the following taps in the kitchen

hot water
cold water
ale
pilsner

 

[Tom R]

beer

We used to measure out fishing trips by the expected amount of beer to be consumes.
i.e.
"How long will it take to get to Kelly's Station?"
"That's an easy 12 pack."

 

[Zoning Goddess]

On the "market" question. I grew up in Central Florida before the real Yankee invasion. We just went "to the Winn Dixie" - a generic term for any grocery store.

 

[Tom R]

taps

so we would have the following taps in the kitchen

hot water
cold water
ale
pilsner

At my brother's camp, they put an old refrigerator in an ajoining shed, drilled a hole in the wall and ran flexible tubing from the keg and the tap inside. Very convenient.

 

[Jen]

It was always soda pop or just soda when I was growing up. But up here in Michigan everyone calls it pop.

And another term that seems to vary according to geography is that sweet hard candy on a stick. I've always called it a lollipop but around here everyone calls 'em suckers.

 

[Downtown]

Is "suckers" a Great Lakes thing like euchre and pop? I never thought about it, but that's what we grew up calling them.

 

[El Feo]

They were "suckers" in Kentucky, but that may just be one of those confused border state abberations (northern most southern state, or southern most northern state?)

 

[Planderella]

We call'em suckers here too.

 

[Jen]

Another one, that strip of grass, between the sidewalk and road was called a "devils strip" by my parents. Weird! Anyone heard of that one before?

And I never encountered a "party store" until I moved up north.
7-11's filled that niche in my hometown.

 

[Chet]

Suckers in Wisconsin too.

Maybe I should rephrase that...

 

[Tom R]

strips

Another one, that strip of grass, between the sidewalk and road was called a "devils strip" by my parents. Weird! Anyone heard of that one before?

And I never encountered a "party store" until I moved up north.
7-11's filled that niche in my hometown.

They're called "Devil strips" in Ohio too. Haven't the foggiest why.

 

[Tom R]

pops

I grew up with lollipops, but there were a few "suckers" around too.

Is your mother's sister your aunt (awnt) or aunt (ant)?

 

[giff57]

Another one, that strip of grass, between the sidewalk and road was called a "devils strip" by my parents. Weird! Anyone heard of that one before?

We call that "the parking" here

 

[Planderella]

Re: pops

I grew up with lollipops, but there were a few "suckers" around too.

Is your mother's sister your aunt (awnt) or aunt (ant)?

Definitely "awnt"

 

[statler]

Since we wandered from pop vs soda debate (it's soda by the way, anybody who says otherwise is wrong.), does anybody outside of New England call chocolate sprinkles on thier ice cream 'jimmies'?

 

[El Feo]

Since we wandered from pop vs soda debate (it's soda by the way, anybody who says otherwise is wrong.), does anybody outside of New England call chocolate sprinkles on thier ice cream 'jimmies'?

Statler, that really screwed with me when I moved up here! Where I come from "jimmies" are something entirely different, and you don't want them on your ice cream.

As for the whole "awnt v. ant" debate, my wife and I have come to a compromise - by virtue of the fact that she's a New Englander, hers are "awnts," and mine in KY are "ants."

 

[Planderella]

Statler, that really screwed with me when I moved up here! Where I come from "jimmies" are something entirely different, and you don't want them on your ice cream.

As for the whole "awnt v. ant" debate, my wife and I have come to a compromise - by virtue of the fact that she's a New Englander, hers are "awnts," and mine in KY are "ants."

"Jimmies" come in a variety of textures, sizes and flavors.

 

[Chet]

Re: Re: pops

Definitely "awnt"

We have "anties"

 

[Chet]

Since we wandered from pop vs soda debate (it's soda by the way, anybody who says otherwise is wrong.), does anybody outside of New England call chocolate sprinkles on thier ice cream 'jimmies'?

Jimmies are also on frosted donuts around here.

 

[Yodan731]

Sprinkles it is, but the crazy people at my local Dairy Queen seem to think they should be Jimmies. And I thought Buffalo was the eastern edge of Pop's domain, I guess I was wrong.

W-Pop Wooo! It's Dynamite. Anyone from New York remember those ads? Or what they were about?

 

[Downtown]

Sprinkles it is, but the crazy people at my local Dairy Queen seem to think they should be Jimmies. And I thought Buffalo was the eastern edge of Pop's domain, I guess I was wrong.

W-Pop Wooo! It's Dynamite. Anyone from New York remember those ads? Or what they were about?

Hmmm.... don't remember W-pop. But my favorite Western NY beverage (aside from Visniaks Cherry Soda) is Wegman's "Mountain Woo", their mountain dew rip off. hee!

 

[Terraplan]

Here we either call it juice, but that makes no sense to me for things like coke - juice to me is fruit juice, or we call it simply cooldrink.

And instead of sprinkles we have toppings.

 

[Dan]

Are strange local brands of pop common elsewhere in the country?

Last time I was in Buffalo, there were still some local pop brands ... Consumer's Beverage, Black Rock, and Visniak. Can't forget Aunt Rosie's Loganberry.

Hey, PlannerGirl, wanna' get some of dat dere winter padding on dere?

 

[Downtown]

Ok, I really enjoyed that in the listing of all the "native buffalo" foods that are going to be offered, "Pepsi Products" was included. OK, you can't get Weber's or Sahlen in DC, but no Pepsi, either?