Do northern people really call pop, soda?

Question

they never heard of it called "pop" before. (but we know what soda is)

Answer 1

In Wisconsin, it is soda.  Pop is your dad.

Answer 2

Hm, I though it was the other way around. I live in Michigan and everyone around here says pop. But I have family in Kentucky, and  whenever we go down there they say soda.

-to the girl who said its coke. haha that makes me laugh cause my cousins down south do that too and it confused the h**l out of me. nice.

Answer 3

I am a Northerner & although I've heard it called pop we mostly say soda or even tonic (that one is mostly older people)  =)

Answer 4

My family is from all over. I usually say soda pop! except when i lived mobile alabama. I asked for a coke at mc donalds and the lady is like what kind and i was like coke. Thats what i asked for.

Answer 5

Here in Michigan, everyone calls it pop. You hardly ever hear anyone call it soda. it's wierd because we're like the only ones.

Answer 6

Down south in the USA mostly.

In the north NY etc etc it's soda.

Answer 7

I grew up in central Illinois and it was always soda to me. Then I moved to Chicago only 4 hours north and everyone up here calls it pop. So it's different even within different regions of my state.

Answer 8

Pop, as my father said, is when the palm of you're hand meets the back of someones head or their backside, soda is a drink. and we live in the midwest.

Answer 9

I was born and raised in Ohio, we always called it pop.

It is short for soda pop.

Answer 10

north, east & midwest is pop

west is coke

south is soda :]

Answer 11

Southern people call it coke.  You are asked do you want a coke and if you say yes they say what kind and you say Dr Pepper or whatever is your preference.  Kinda like tea in the South, if you don't want it sweet you better say unsweet tea please when you order.

Answer 12

Nobody I know (in Texas) calls it pop OR soda...They're all cokes...Weird, I know, but that's the way it is.  When someone asks you "Do you want a coke?", the next question is "What kind?"

No wonder people think we're dumb down here...  :)

Answer 13

I lived in Michigan for 17 years and always heard soda referred to as pop.  I haven't lived there for nearly eight years and still sometimes refer to it that way.  I live in the northeast now, New England area, and here it is referred to as soda.  It depends what part of the north you are referring to.  

As a child I was living in Alabama and it wasn't called either soda or pop where I was living. It was Coke, even Pepsi was referred to as Coke in restaurants, if you wanted something specific you asked by brand, i.e R.C., Dr. Pepper, Sprite, etc.

Answer 14

Growing up in WA we called it pop. When I lived in SoCal still pop. Living in NM it's called soda or coke. I think coke by the Texans that moved here.

Answer 15

I am from Washington State and I call it soda. However, I know many people who call it pop. I can't stand saying pop!

Answer 16

I live in southeast texas and we call everything coke...  it don't matter what your drinking... when we go somewhere someone will ask if you want a coke and if you say yes they are going to ask you what kind....one of my sons will say dr. pepper and my other son will say sprite....  :)  I know we are crazy :)