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[–] 11 points 3 years ago

We call them pop in Canada too!

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  • [–] 7 points 3 years ago

    It's called pop in all of Canada too. An easy way to spot an american tourist is when they say soda.

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  • [–] 6 points 3 years ago (2 children)

    I once announced to a room full of Minnesotans that I was going to get a pop.

    The shameful walk to the coke machine felt very lonely as I contemplated all that had led me there.

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  • [–] 5 points 3 years ago

    Chicago will take tree hot dogs and tree pops. Tanks.

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  • [–] 4 points 3 years ago (2 children)

    Meanwhile, me, in Texas:

    All soda is Coke.

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  • [–] 3 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    I can hardly express my terror when I first moved away and ordered a coke and they just handed me some random ass coke.

    Like they didn't even ask what kind I wanted.

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  • [–] 4 points 3 years ago

    Fuck yeah. From my understanding Faygo was a big reason we call it pop. Rock & Rye is probably the greatest flavor of any pop.

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  • [–] 3 points 3 years ago

    I once lived at the soda/pop border:

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  • [–] 3 points 3 years ago

    From places that I have lived and worked - in western NY it is Pop in Rochester and Buffalo, but somewhere between Rochester and Syracuse it becomes Soda! Also, it is quite shocking to go to Texas and be asked "What kind of Coke do you want?"

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  • [–] 3 points 3 years ago (2 children)

    Can someone tell me what Rock & Rye Faygo actually tastes like, because ive been told that it tastes nothing like a Rock & Rye cocktail

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  • [–] 3 points 3 years ago

    You know smoothies?

    We call 'em blendies

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  • [–] 3 points 3 years ago (2 children)

    They call it pop here in North-East of England as well.

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  • [–] 8 points 3 years ago* (1 child)

    This seems to apply to most of the upper midwest. Iowa, Illinois, Wisconsin, Minnesota, Indiana, Ohio etc.

    From Iowa, can confirm.

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  • [–] 2 points 3 years ago

    From Wisconsin. Can also confirm: soda = pop and water fountain = bubbler. I remember my first trip down south. I got laughed at at a rest stop asking for pop and held that shit as a core memory for years.

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  • [–] 2 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    They do in in PA too. I've lived here almost my whole life and I hate it. Pittsburghese is a fucking travesty of human language.

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  • [–] 2 points 3 years ago

    Oregon rep the pop mfers

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  • [–] 1 point 3 years ago

    So absolutely no one calls soda pop?

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  • [–] 1 point 3 years ago

    What do all you rednecks call Coke if everything is Coke?

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  • [+] -18 points 3 years ago

    Also Michigan and much of Indiana (not sure of Indianapolis and south of there). You get a little bit of it in western NY state too.

    I grew up saying 'pop,' but have acquiesced to saying 'soda' once I moved outside of Michigan.

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