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[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 years ago

We call them pop in Canada too!

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 years 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 2 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.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years 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 2 years ago

I never heard anyone up there call it soda either.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years 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 2 years ago

They were probably just confused.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago

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

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

Meanwhile, me, in Texas:

All soda is Coke.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years 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 2 years 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 2 years ago

Yeah, I basically only drank sprites at the time lol

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

That’s amazing.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 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.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago

I once lived at the soda/pop border:

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 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?"

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

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

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago
[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago

And the north west 👍

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 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

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago

Red cream soda I think.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years 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.

[–] eezeebee 3 points 2 years ago

You know smoothies?

We call 'em blendies

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

But do you drink mostly Faygo? lol

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years 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 2 years ago

Oregon rep the pop mfers

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

So absolutely no one calls soda pop?

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

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