have another pepsi?

[bluesoul]

The Decline of Big Soda

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/10/04/upshot/soda-industry-struggles-as-consumer-tastes-change.html

[Soulstation1]

Over 6 weeks no soda

when I go to the store

the soda talks to me like those f'n evil trees in the Wizard of Oz

[JSngry]

Look out for falling houses.

[Soulstation1]

Relapse before Christmas 

Up to day 9 w/o soda 

Edited May 11, 2016 by Soulstation1

[kinuta]

Haven't touched pop for years. Have an occasional glass of Appletiser.

[paul secor]

Interesting to me that in some parts of the U.S., it seems to be soda - in other parts, pop. And I'm sure there's some overlap. In New York, it's always soda. When I was a little kid in the Midwest, it was pop or soda pop.

[JSngry]

soda/sodee water in rural east texas old folk's worlds.

[Dave Garrett]

http://popvssoda.com/

A perennial topic of discussion in our house, as my wife is from Missouri, where "pop" has a comfortable lead over "soda", whereas in this part of Texas, "coke" is used as a generic term by a significant majority of folks. 

[kinuta]

I grew up in Yorkshire and the generic term for carbonated soft drinks was 'pop'. No other word was used.

A request for 'soda' would not have been understood, other than some vague idea about Caustic Soda or Sodium Bicarbonate.

Soda Water was, of course, available but almost entirely in a syphon at a bar, used to make Whisky & Soda.

 

[medjuck]

1 hour ago, kinuta said:

I grew up in Yorkshire and the generic term for carbonated soft drinks was 'pop'. No other word was used.

A request for 'soda' would not have been understood, other than some vague idea about Caustic Soda or Sodium Bicarbonate.

Soda Water was, of course, available but almost entirely in a syphon at a bar, used to make Whisky & Soda.

 

Same in Canada when I was growing up. 

[sidewinder]

4 hours ago, kinuta said:

I grew up in Yorkshire and the generic term for carbonated soft drinks was 'pop'. No other word was used.

A request for 'soda' would not have been understood, other than some vague idea about Caustic Soda or Sodium Bicarbonate.

Soda Water was, of course, available but almost entirely in a syphon at a bar, used to make Whisky & Soda.

 

An order of 'soda' up North would probably have got you a bag full of sickly sherbet ! Or an ice cream soda..

[JSngry]

A few kids I knew growing up, from waaaay outside of town, would refer to it as "fizzy water" or "bubble pop".

Funny how Darwinism applies to language as well as species.

[jazztrain]

Here's a link to some other figures  based on responses from 2002: 

 

http://www4.uwm.edu/FLL/linguistics/dialect/staticmaps/q_105.html

[David Ayers]

Interesting survey. Well interesting-ish. Does no-one say soda-pop then, I wonder...

[JSngry]

I tend to say soda pop in spontaneous conversation.