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[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago

We call them pop in Canada too!

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

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

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year 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.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Odd, I've been in MN forever and I'm looked at like an idiot for calling it soda.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

I never heard anyone up there call it soda either.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I was in Arizona recently and a waiter looked at me like I was an idiot asking what kind of pop they had.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

They were probably just confused.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

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

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Meanwhile, me, in Texas:

All soda is Coke.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Are you saying in Texas to order a drink you'd go, "I'll have a coke", "what kind?", "Sprite"...?!?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Yeah, I basically only drank sprites at the time lol

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

That’s amazing.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year 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.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

I once lived at the soda/pop border:

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year 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?"

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year 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

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Red cream soda I think.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Very sweet coke, if I recall. I haven't had any faygo in a while since graduating from uni in an area that actually stocked Faygo.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

You know smoothies?

We call 'em blendies

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

And the north west 👍

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago
[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

But do you drink mostly Faygo? lol

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Lol, I did when I was a teenager, but I don't drink much soda at all these days, besides the occasional root beer or ginger beer.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Oregon rep the pop mfers

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

So absolutely no one calls soda pop?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

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