Soda/Pop Line Has Moved a Lot in The Last 75 Years

Depending on what part of the country you are from carbonated drinks have different names like pop and soda but that has changed drastically in the last 75 years.

I Grew Up Calling it Pop

When I was a kid growing up in Michigan, I would often ask my mom, "Do we have any pop?" when asking for a Pepsi or a Coke. She sometimes would say, "It's too late to be drinking pop right now you have to go to school tomorrow."

My parents were originally from down south and when we would visit family, some would refer to soda as pop while others would say Coke even if they were talking about a Pepsi or 7-Up.

Not long after graduating from high school, I was in a band that started a tour in New York. We stopped just outside New York City to grab a bite to eat and I will never forget when the waitress asked me what kind of soda I wanted. I responded, "I'd rather have a pop, what kind of pop do you have?"  The waitress then said, you must be from the mid-west, we call it soda in New York. We laughed about it but I learned that carbonated beverages have a different name depending on where you live in the United States.

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Soda/Pop Line Has Moved a Lot in The Last 75 Years

As you can see the lines between pop, soda, and coke have changed a lot in 75 years. Looks like the country is getting less divided when it comes to calling soda..."Soda."

As you can see from this Facebook thread, I'm not the only one who noticed soda was called something different depending on where you live. My favorite post on this thread was the one from Kayla Lair that said, "I've always called it soda. I grew up in CA and visited my grandma from WI when I must have been around 7. She asked if I wanted a POP and I thought she was gonna hit me."

If you want some laughs, take some time and go through the responses to this post they get funny and you uncover some other names people used for soda other than pop or coke.