Soda Vs. Pop..... What do you call it & where do you live?

Question

Bonus question for 10 points, where did the word "pop" come from...

Answer 1

Soda pop or Coke.
Southern Indiana.

Answer 2

I call it Coke (I'm from Atlanta, of course!) :P
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If you want the straight poop on pop, ask an old bottle collector, or even a young collector of old bottles. These antique glass aficionados will tell you that pop derives from the pop bottle, a uniquely designed glass vessel patented in the 1870's, and manufactured as a container for carbonated beverages. Instead of a cork stopper it had a solid, marble-sized glass ball imprisoned in the neck area which, when freshly filled, would be forced upward by gas pressure, firmly sealing it against an internal rubber ring at the bottle mouth to prevent leakage.

When one wished to have a drink from the bottle, he or she would press a finger down on top of the partially protruding glass ball which, with an exciting pop (like that of a pop gun, first heard of in 1662), would sink into a slot molded into the bottle neck allowing the soda to be poured. But that's not all this "smart bottle" could do. One wishing to drink only part and save the rest of the beverage could turn the bottle downward and to one side allowing the glass ball to roll down against the seal, then shake the bottle slightly, resealing the glass ball and leaving it ready to pop again later, so long as the gas pressure held it tight.

These fancy bottles were expensive to make and the beverage distributors depended on a healthy deposit to bring them back for reuse. The plan was thwarted unexpectedly by youngsters who broke the bottles in vast numbers in order to use the glass balls to play marbles. Within a few years the whole enterprise went bust. Cheaper bottles with today's metal caps (patented in 1891 and called crown cork closures) soon took over, and kids had to get their marbles elsewhere. All that was left was the memory of that delightful sound and a new term for carbonated drinks. I am told that the bottles can be found at flea markets if you look hard and know what to look for. Bottle collectors know.

Answer 3

I live in Maryland, right outside of Washington DC and thirty minutes from Baltimore...we call it soda...when we hear people say the word, pop, we ask them where they're from and may laugh a little because the word pop seems a little funny to us..I moved here from Anchorage Alaska and I know for a fact they use the word soda too. Hopes this helps..

Answer 4

We call it soda, I live in Missouri.

The term pop does come from the sound made when opening the carbonated drink. This has been the topic of conversation for years...

Answer 5

I grew up in Colorado where people called it pop. I now live just outside of Washington, DC. Like Jessie says, people here call is soda. My husband still laughs at me when I say pop. He tells me that "pop" is a slang term for sex where he comes from (central Virginia).

Answer 6

Soda pop - NJ
Soda - NYC

Pop - maybe from the sound of the cap coming off the bottle?

Answer 7

I call it soda and I live in Arizona, soda is how u say it in Spanish so most people here say soda... pop is mostly used in the East..... "pop" is just short for soda pop.

Answer 8

the term pop in reference to soda comes from the sound a bottle of soda makes when uncapped with a bottle opener, usually used in the mid west, here in the east we just call it soda or coke as a general term.

Answer 9

I stay in PA, and have been examine with it as soda frequently. yet while i'm at a eating place I ask for which one i choose by using brand call. i do no longer purely say, "i might like a soda". I used to paintings with a guy from Michigan who known because it pop. yet another guy there used to bust on him asserting "Pop's the guy who did your mom." no longer the classiest reaction, yet variety of humorous.

Answer 10

Soda in New York metro area, pop in upstate New York.

In British English, 'pop' is an effervescent drink, as in ginger pop or soda pop. This form is widespread in the US as well, as an alternative to "soda," "soft drink," etc.