What do you call things like coke or pepsi where you're from? It's pop here.
I'm from Michigan and we call it pop.
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DrWatson · 70-79, M
I lived in the northeastern US until I was 22. We called it soda.
Since then, I have lived in Wisconsin and Minnesota, where people call it "pop." That is the word I use now.
I do recall a television commercial a long time ago (when I was in my "soda" stage) in which using the competing brand of mouthwash was said to be like "gargling with soda pop!"
I've since realized that nobody calls it "soda pop", but that the advertisers wanted to appeal to both "soda speaking" and "pop speaking" viewers!
Since then, I have lived in Wisconsin and Minnesota, where people call it "pop." That is the word I use now.
I do recall a television commercial a long time ago (when I was in my "soda" stage) in which using the competing brand of mouthwash was said to be like "gargling with soda pop!"
I've since realized that nobody calls it "soda pop", but that the advertisers wanted to appeal to both "soda speaking" and "pop speaking" viewers!
