Another poll because polls are fun. They are fun, right? Right?

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I thought I'd venture into truly controversial territory today. ;)

Expand on your poll choices as you wish in the comments section.

[Poll #1081103]

Comments

[suzannemarie.livejournal.com]

I grew up saying pop. As I got older I started saying soft drinks more often. Lately I've decided to reclaim my heritage, so to speak, and I'm using pop more often again.

[aurora-novarum.livejournal.com]

You forgot "cola". ;-)

I kind of go with the flow in areas. Where my mom's from, they say "pop". Where I'm from...it seems to be soda or cola or "brand name."

I usually cover my bases of the two biggies (or used to when I ordered) and asked for Diet Pepsi or Coke. It always amused me even when saying both brand names the server invariably gave their stock quesiton "Is Pepsi/Coke okay?" [whichever brand the restaurant carried.

Seriously controversial question.

[suzannemarie.livejournal.com]

I knew I was at least one short. :)

[pawswithclaws.livejournal.com]

We grew up calling it tonic. Then Paula went off to college and came back calling it soda, and it stuck with me. Our mom called it tonic to the end, though, as do our cousins.

[gttygrl.livejournal.com]

I came in to post the same info. :-D

[lostvoice.livejournal.com]

I'm Canadian, we never learn to call it anything other than pop until we encounter people from south of the border. ;)

[raithen.livejournal.com]

EEZACTLY!

[kalquessa.livejournal.com]

*laughs* My husband and one of his brothers both went to college in the South, so for a while they'd say "What kind of Coke do you want?" which made us all laugh. And we had fun kidding a friend from Minnesota recently on her use of "pop" (which really does sound so much funnier when the "o" is said with a Norsky inflection).

[raithen.livejournal.com]

ya know, Canadian's hang oot and aboot these parts, eh? :P And we aren't as polite as you might have been led to believe.... ;)

[suzannemarie.livejournal.com]

Has Canada adopted Minnesota as part of it's territory? ;)

[raithen.livejournal.com]

nah, but Minnesota has coopted many of our words and passions (hockey, pop....) ;)

[suzannemarie.livejournal.com]

Hee. I didn't even know that pop was a Canadian thing. I thought it was a midwest and upper midwest (US) thing.

[paksenarrion2.livejournal.com]

Pop is also a Western NY thing, but that is obviously the influence of those mad Canadalanders.

I grew up saying soda. Because no self respecting Quebecois would want to annex my part of NY.

[aizjanika.livejournal.com]

I grew up calling them "tonic." *g* Even stores would have that on signs. We also sometimes called it "sodapop," but "tonic" was the word we'd use without thinking.