What do you all call a soda?

Question

I'm from Missouri, we call a drink, a soda, I moved down here to Fl, and everybody calls it a coke, regrardless if it is coke, or a sprite, it's still called a coke,up in Mi, they call it a pop, I'm just wondering what everyone calls it?

Answer 1

Australia : Soft Drink

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soft_drinks#Naming_conventions

Brazil
Soft drinks are called refrigerante, literally meaning "cooler"; can be colloquially abbreviated as refri. Although there is the term soda, it refers specifically to lemon lime soft drinks. Not for Coke or Pepsi, for instance.



Bulgaria
The name for soft drinks is газирани напитки (gazirani napitki) or simply газирано (gazirano, "something fizzy"). A colloquial word сода (soda) exists, but it is used to denote soda water.


Canada
"Pop" is the most commonly used term among English speakers to refer to a carbonated soft drink – although "soft drink" itself is widely used, particularly on signage and menus. "Soda" is almost never used. Correspondents have reported that "drink" is common in Newfoundland instead of pop. In French, a soft drink is referred to as "une boisson gazeuse", or informally as "une liqueur" (likely a shortened form from the seldom-used "liqueur douce"). The use of "liqueur" in this fashion is distinctly Canadian French; in France, "liqueur" refers to a very specific set of aperitif and digestif alcoholic drinks.


Chile
Soft drinks are called bebida, generically meaning "drink". Alcoholic drinks are known as trago or called by its specific name (beer, wine, etc.)


China
Soft drinks are often called "gas/air water" (Simp. Chinese 汽水). The first one refers to carbonated drinks only while the latter refers to any drink (though often it refers to soft drink). It is far more common to say the actual name of the drink (eg. Coke, bottled tea, etc.) than saying generic terms above.


Denmark
The name for soft drinks is sodavand, which directly translated means soda water. The term sodavand is exclusively used for non-alcoholic, carbonated soft drinks like Coca-Cola, Pepsi and Fanta. Also used is the term læskedrik (from læskende=refreshing/thirst-quenching and drik=drink), which includes all non-alcoholic soft drinks.


Dominican Republic
The term for non-alcoholic carbonated soft drinks is refresco, which conveys the refreshing properties associated with a cold frizzy drink. In most of the cases, refresco means a sweet soft drink. Other carbonated drinks, like Club Soda, are called soda amarga or refresco amargo (bitter soda or bitter soft drink, respectively).


Ethiopia
Soft drinks are generally known by the Amharic word "leslassa", meaning literally "smooth". The popular brand names "Koka" (Coke) and "Mirinda" (Orange Soda) are also in common parlance.


Finland
Soft drinks are called virvoitusjuoma, i.e. "refreshing drink". In everyday speech, the word limonadi or one of its colloquial derivations is used (limukka, limska, limsa, limu). Sooda or soodavesi, "soda water", refers to carbonated water.

Germany
Soft drinks are known as Limo short for Limonade, the German word for lemonade, but in America lemonade is an uncarbonated beverage, made from lemon juice, sugar, and water; generally not considered a soft drink. Some regions also use Sprudel (from sprudeln=to be fizzy) or Brause (in eastern Germany) for carbonated non-alcoholic drinks. However, Fruchtschorle is one of the most popular soft drinks in Germany, but it is never called Limo since it contains no added sugar. Additionally, the word "Cola" is used to refer to any dark Coca-Cola-like beverage, regardless of brand.


Greece
The term Gazoza is used to refer to clear lemon-lime soft drinks such as 7 Up or Sprite. The term though seems quite old-fashioned nowadays.


India
Soft drinks go by a variety of names including "soft drinks", and most popular among the masses is the term"cool drinks". "Soda" in India refers generally to carbonated water and not artificially flavoured, carbonated beverages. One of the most popular is Coca-Cola's Thumbs Up brand.currently(2006),all major carbonated drink companies are having a hard time in courts with various states banning them after a CSE report claimed Coca-Cola and Pepsi's drinks contain very high levels of pesticides.


Ireland
Soft drinks are sometimes referred to as "minerals" or "fizzy drinks". Lemonade is also a generic term for a fizzy drink, and comes in two varieties — red and white. Red lemonade is similar to the Scottish drink Irn-Bru, and is popular both as a drink for kids and as a mixer for spirits.


Japan
Soft drinks are commonly referred to as "juice", and by younger generations as "drink", a shortened term for "PET-bottle drink". Non-carbonated drinks capture the majority of the soft drink market, and their main rivals are varieties of bottled tea and green tea. Canned and bottled coffee has an equally large market share, and the carbonated drink market is smaller, in contrast to other nations. Coca-Cola splits the carbonated market with Mitsuya Saidaa -- a sweet, clear carbonated drink, and Pepsi lags behind these two, entering the market only in the 90s. Lime flavoured drinks (Mountain Dew and Sprite) hold almost no market share, or are marketed with only a touch of lime flavour. The official name for such drinks in documents and labels is Seiryo Inryo Sui (清涼飲料水) and those carbonated are called Tansan Inryo (炭酸飲料).


Latin America
In the Spanish-speaking countries, soft drinks are typically called sodas, though refrescos, and less frequently, gaseosas are used.


Arab Countries
In Arabic soft drinks are usually called either mashroob ghasi, meaning literally "gas drinks" (مشروبات غازية) for soda, or simply the word aseer or juice (عصير) for most other soft drinks that are served cool or cold. However, local dialects may differ. For example, in Egypt, soda drinks are usually referred to as kazouza (كازوزة), or haga sakaia which literally means "something cold"..


Netherlands
In the Dutch language, soft drinks are called frisdrank ('fresh drink') or abbreviated as fris, a word coined in 1956 by adman Dick Schiferli. Also prik, limonade or priklimonade is used, which not only refers to a soft drink made with lemon juice, but all soft drinks. In fact, a non carbonated lemon juice lemonade is hard to find in stores.


Norway
Carbonated soft drinks are called brus, which means "fizz". It is a truncated form of the now obsolete bruslimonade.


Paraguay and Peru
Soft drinks are called gaseosas. The name coca is also common in Paraguay.


Philippines
Soft drinks are also called soft drinks, but locally, it is spelled and pronounced sopdrinks. It is more commonly referred to as "Coke," regardless of the brand.


Portugal
Soft drinks are called refrigerante.


Romania
Soft drinks are usually called băuturi răcoritoare, răcoritoare ('cooler/cooling drinks'), or just suc, but are also referred to as cico (after an old brand of local soft drink) or cola (some claims that this name was put after the popular 'Coca-Cola', but in Romania, before 'Coca-Cola', existed 'Pepsi-Cola' and 'Quick-Cola').


South Africa
Soft drinks are called cool drinks generically, although lemonade follows the same conventions as Australia.

Sweden
Soft drinks are called läsk which comes from läskande drycker (roughly: refreshing drinks — a bit more precisely: thirst-quenching drinks) and denotes carbonated non-alcoholic soft drinks. In northern Sweden the word dricka (drink) is often used. The word lemonad has more or less the same use as the English word lemonade, but belongs to a slightly higher level of style than läsk. In Finland-Swedish lemonad is more common and refers to all kinds of carbonated soft drinks, läsk (or läskedryck) is also used. Many people, both Finnish and Swedish speakers, also use the word limsa (limonadi).


United Kingdom
The term "soft drink" originally applied to carbonated drinks ("pop") and non-carbonated drinks made from concentrates ("squash"), although it now commonly refers to any drink that does not contain alcohol. To further confuse matters, alcopops are often called "alcoholic soft drinks". The term "pop", once popular as a generic term for soft drinks is now mainly restricted to the north of England, and Wales. The term "fizzy drinks" is also used as a synonym for sweetened carbonated drinks. In the West of Scotland, soft drinks are commonly known as "ginger", presumably referring to an early "soft drink", ginger beer. Carbonated drinks are also known as "juice" in some locations, including most of the east of Scotland.

United States
"Soft drink" commonly refers to cold, carbonated, non-alcoholic beverages. Carbonated beverages are regionally known as:

"Coke", regardless of the brand or flavour, in most of the South, including New Mexico and southern Oklahoma. Some older generations of Southerners refer to soft drinks as "dope".[citation needed]
"Pop" in most of the upper Midwest as far east as Cleveland, Ohio, and into the western part of the Northeast; including such cities as Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania; Detroit, Michigan; Erie, Pennsylvania and Buffalo, NY; and stretching as far east as Rochester, New York; west up to and including the Pacific Northwest; and as far south as the upper half of Oklahoma. The majority of the state of Michigan (including the Upper Peninsula), especially the Metro Detroit area specifically call soft drinks "Pop" (Faygo, a brand of soft drink made in Detroit is an example of this). In the lower Midwest, such as southern Illinois, southern Indiana, and the Cincinnati, Ohio area, "soft drink" predominates (which is why the term is used in Kroger stores, which is Cincinnati-based).
"Soda" in the Northeast, the southwest (California, Nevada, Arizona, and Texas, parts of South Florida (near Miami)), and areas parts of the Midwest (around St. Louis and parts of Wisconsin, especially in the East, and around Milwaukee).
"Tonic" is used in South Boston, Massachusetts, as well as isolated communities in Eastern New England.
"Soda pop" is used by some speakers especially in the mountain west.
"Drink", "cold drink", and "soda" are locally common in southern Virginia and the Carolinas, spreading from there as far as Louisiana.
"Cold drink" is the phrase of choice in New Orleans, Louisiana.
See The Great Pop vs. Soda Controversy for maps and geographical trends. Many of the website's correspondents are emotionally attached to their particular term and express disdain for the use of any other.
At many restaurants in the U.S., one finds that the products of only a single major beverage producer, such as The Coca-Cola Company or PepsiCo, are available. While patrons requesting a “coke” may be truly indifferent as to which cola brand they receive, the careful server will confirm intent with a question like “Is Pepsi ok?” Similarly, “7 Up” or “Sprite” may indicate whichever clear, carbonated, citrus-flavoured drink happens to be at hand. The generic uses uses of these brand names does not affect the local usage of the words "pop" or "soda", to mean any carbonated beverage.

Answer 2

Soda, California

Answer 3

We in Canada usually call it "pop". "Soda" is a more American term and comes from soda water which was the fizzy, unflavored, unsweetened base for a "soda pop" back when they simply added sweet syrup flavorings, such as strawberry and grape, to soda water, sometimes on tap, to make a fizzy, flavored drink.

My guess is the "pop" came from the fizzy popping of the carbonated soda water.

People call soft drinks by the actual names now because "soda" is too general (and heaven forbid you should get served a Pepsi when you're a Coke drinker). When you're ordering a soft drink, the server won't know what you want if you say "soda" and could literally bring you a glass of unflavored soda water. You can still buy soda water in bottles and cans and people often use it to mix with vodka or gin.

Answer 4

I am from Minnesota and called it pop.

When I lived in Georgia I think everyone called it soda pop but I decided that I would still call it pop.

I have forgotten what it was called when I lived in California but whatever they called it I still called it pop.

I continued to call it pop when I moved to Connecticut but after many years I gave in and started calling it soda.

Answer 5

Im from The St Louis area and i either call it by it's name like Mountain Dew or Coke or Just by Soda.
When i lived by Chicago they called it Pop up there and it would drive me insane.lol

Answer 6

I moved to Illinois from Florida and I call it a Coke or a soda.

Answer 7

Soda,Soda Pop, soft drink, and coke, South La.

Answer 8

Soda, but sometimes I call it soda pop. But living in Europe has made me used to saying, Coca Cola. I never say Coke, reminds me of cocaine.

Answer 9

Most of the time I call it pop. But occasionally I call it soda. And I'm on the West Coast.

Answer 10

When I was little and lived on the east coast, we called it pop (soda-pop)

Now on the west coast we call it soda, but ya, your right, everything is called a coke.

Answer 11

Growing up in PA, we always called it Pop. When I moved to New England at 18 I had to start saying soda and it's stuck with me since then.