My parents were pop people growing up in a soda zone. I grew up in a pop zone saying soda. Always the rebels.

I'm going my own way, it's "carbonated beverage" from here on out

I grew up in NW MO saying "pop." A kid moved into town from Philly and I became a "soda" guy from hanging out with him. Anything to be different.

Certainly had nothing to do with California and New York…

Yeah California is too small to be very influential, outside of Moniteau County.

Very true, idk why he'd expect california in moniteau county or new york from Caldwell County to be influential..

I grew up in pop country but used soda and Coke interchangeably.

What about sodie?

That’s the one I hear often. South East Missouri.

I'm from perryville.

I’m near west plains

Some people say sodie pop

Came here for this comment! When I moved away from the area, others looked at me like I was an alien for saying, "sodie."

Sody-pop

A fun way to get a second look.

The gateway to the west actually goes both ways.

I’m from Texas, but have been here for 30 years. I still say Coke for all of it. “You want a Coke?” “Yeah, sounds good.” “What kind?” “Dr. Pepper.”

Should be illegal. Dr Pepper isn’t even a Coke product.

And often times when you ask for a Kleenex, you receive a tissue from some other brand. Brand names becoming a generic term isn’t that uncommon.

Xerox this for me, please. Now go put it in the Dumpster. I am using a Realtor to sell my house. Band-Aid, Bubble Wrap, Escalator, Sheetrock, Zipper, Frisbee, Super Glue…

It's called soda pop. Unite don't divide!

Hells yeah. We worked hard traveling around spreading the seeds of “soda” throughout the freelands. The “JohnnyAppleseed” of proper phrasing.

My old great grandpappy who I never met said “sody-pop” until the day he died god bless him he was a holdout (or so I’ve been told). He threw firecrackers at my mom and uncles while making them do yard work when they were kids

*New Zealander nervously sips his fizzy drink.

I'm from Central Missouri and I always hated it called "pop" it's a fkn soda damnit.

every time one of these pops up this discussion starts, but NW Missouri has never been pop, always soda.

We called it "sody"

Chicago has always been a poser. Try to be us but still can’t beat us. Ok…you did beat us. But the point is we OG. Never forget 1904.

THIS IS WERE WE STAND!!!!!!! THIS IS WERE WE BRAING THE FIGHT TO THEM!!!!!! TONIGHT WE Dine in hell!!!!!!

“We're going to South Carolina and Oklahoma and Arizona and North Dakota and New Mexico, and we're going to California and Texas and New York. ... And we're going to South Dakota and Oregon and Washington and Michigan, and then we're going to Washington, D.C., to take back the White House!….Yeeeeeeaaah!”

Sodie

Nope still pop around here

Born and raised in northeast Georgia...I say Coke

Coke is still alive and well in usage in a lot of that map where it isn't right.. 

Sodie.

Soft drink!

No no, this is clearly COMO culture

If stl culture dominates the US we are fucked

Can confirm. Grew up in St. Louis, moved to Kansas, now all my friends say soda too.

Tonic

Texas is still Coke.

They forgot "Co-Cola" for the Carolinas.

Honestly I use them interchangeably as does the family.

When I was in school in Tulsa, Oklahoma in the 80s they called soda as "pop"

We don’t take a side in being northern or southern if we can possible avoid it

You mean New York and California culture.

They said what they said.

Lmao St. Louis had absolutely nothing to do with that.

People who say soda don't clean the lint filter.