VO-BB - 20 YEARS OLD!

[Bruce]

I just saw that recurring discussion of what you called a "soft drink" where you grew up, and with it came a nifty map that may or may not jibe with your recollection.

In Arizona we usually called them by brand name... Coke covered everything but we also asked for a Pepsi, Nehi, R.C. and others directly. How about you?



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[Mike Harrison]

I grew up in the northern NJ suburbs of NYC, where we called carbonated sugary beverages "soda," and used their brand names to ask for them. But I'm originally from the Boston suburbs, where folks tended to refer to soda as "tonic." However, if the map is any indication, it appears that word is no longer used.
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[Philip Banks]

Morayshire it's "juice", any soft drink is simply "juice"

[todd ellis]

pegged me --- soda here.
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[Dan-O]

Most adults call it beer.

[SteveToner]

any soft drink is simply "juice"

Even if it's made from girders?
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[Philip Banks]

Yep!

In Edinburgh any soft drink tends to be called "a ginger".

[Lee Gordon]

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As Philip said. I always asked for a tin of juice!
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[Jen Gosnell]

Where I grew up in NW IN, it was always pop. A bottle of pop when I was really young, or a can of pop later. The only carbonated drinks I can think of that didn't conform to that naming convention were cream soda and root beer. We never called them pop or anything besides those names.

Nowadays I tend to say soda as my husband's family is all from Eastern PA and that's what they say there. Apparently we're in the minority here, though, as according to the map, OR is primarily pop country.
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[Rick Riley]

I grew up on the beach in Southern California (Palos Verdes). We called whatever it was by its name, and didn’t drink too much of it because it didn’t go well with granola.

Today, my wife calls them all ‘poison’.
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[Tre M.]

We called it soda....my grandad called it soda water.
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[Kim Fuller]

Northern California and southern Oregon. Generically: "Soft drink", specifically by name.