Soda or Pop?

[Wonderbolt Slipstream 263]

I just want to know what you guys call it and why, maybe have a debate on what it truly should be called.

[Ashen Pathfinder 16,152]

@Slipstream95

Moving to General Discussion as this really isn't fit for the Debate Pit.

Cheers!

[Wonderbolt Slipstream 263]

1 minute ago, PathfinderCS said:

@Slipstream95

Moving to General Discussion as this really isn't fit for the Debate Pit.

Cheers!

It isn't good enough to be debated?

[The Recherche 29,965]

Soft drink. I'll occasionally say soda, but soft drink is the term that I use 90% of the time. 

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7 minutes ago, Slipstream95 said:

It isn't good enough to be debated?

It isn't much of a debate topic since there really isn't a goal to achieve by specifying what you call a soft drink. Each individual will still call it what they want since there is no right or wrong term.

 

That being said, I usually call it soda.

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It's always been soda for me but I do like the term 'pop' too.  It looks fun.

[Brony Number 42 9,931]

I usually say soda, but sometimes pop.

[Twilight Luna 30,940]

I grew up calling it soda. So that’s what I call it. 

[Denim&Venöm 16,517]

It varies between soda and soft drink, depending on the establishment. At a restaurant it's soft drink. If I'm buying it at a store, it's soda. 

Also it depends on what it'd being served in. Can = soda. Cup = soft drink. 

Though usually I just call it by the type or brand of drink. 

 

Last I checked, coke is a pretty south east type of thing, since the coca-cola company is headquartered in Atlanta. 

Tonic is real old school. I don't think anyone uses that anymore. 

 

[SharpWit 2,472]

3 minutes ago, Denim&Venom said:

Also it depends on what it'd being served in. Can = soda. Cup = soft drink. 

That's interesting. I don't call things by a different name by what they're served in, but I feel like if I did, a can would be pop because if kind of makes a pop sound when you open one, and a bottle would be soda since it makes a sizzling with the release of the built up carbonation.

Calling it by the brand name makes the most sense with the variety we have available. Sure I want a soda, but I don't want Grape Fanta.

[Denim&Venöm 16,517]

12 minutes ago, SharpWit said:

That's interesting. I don't call things by a different name by what they're served in, but I feel like if I did, a can would be pop because if kind of makes a pop sound when you open one, and a bottle would be soda since it makes a sizzling with the release of the built up carbonation.

Calling it by the brand name makes the most sense with the variety we have available. Sure I want a soda, but I don't want Grape Fanta.

Typically it's cause most place that serve it in a cup call them soft drinks. While stuff in cans or bottles is marketed as soda. 

Never heard it called pop. Supposedly that's a lower midwest thing. 

[SharpWit 2,472]

13 minutes ago, Denim&Venom said:

Typically it's cause most place that serve it in a cup call them soft drinks. While stuff in cans or bottles is marketed as soda. 

Never heard it called pop. Supposedly that's a lower midwest thing. 

My grandmother always called it pop and she grew up in California so I thought it was generational maybe.

[Lucky Bolt 34,914]

I say both "soda" and "pop" although I say "soda" more often. 

[Cyclone 1066 3,616]

Soda til the day I die.

[Monsoon 1,648]

I just call them fizzy drinks

[Zachary 5,517]

I always call them soda

[Totally Nyx 35,500]

No "soda pop" option? 

But in all seriousness, it varies for me depending on how I'm feeling. The most common one is coke, but I also call them soda, soft drinks, carbonated liquid sustenance, rarely soda pop, and the ever so rare fizzy drink.

[Rhythm Red 6,484]

Soda, pop, or soda pop! I voted pop because it has fewer votes, though.  

[kaiser5578 340]

It's tonic! Seriously soda just feels so weird on the tongue

[King of Canterlot 9,588]

I pretty much only drink good ol' Coke, so I call it "Coke" because it's the only carbonated thing that I drink, even if it's not a Coke, I'll still call it that just because I drink Coke so often 

[PiratePony 8,473]

Soda or coke. My mom calls a coke a "soda water" though.

 

@Denim&Venom tonic goes great with vodka or gin!

[Earl Grey Ghost 444]

I always said, "Soda". It never really varied for me much. ^^;; Now when I'm joking around with my friends, like you do and say wierd things in wierd ways for a chuckle, I've said "Sodie-Pop!" but, that's like... less than once in a blue moon rare. XD

[Dynamo Pad 10,777]

Most of the time I call it soda, but there are some times that I call the drink by it's brand name. 

[Denim&Venöm 16,517]

I also refer to it as 'non-alcoholic beverage' 

[Hocus Pocus 636]

Soda is the only acceptable name