Bubbly sweet beverages are called...?

[d_marsh]

I seem to use the terms pop and soda interchangeably. But coke is a brand name, not a generic term.

According to this map, time has changed what people call bubbly sweet beverages. If true, I blame the internet.

 

[Weedygarden]

It was called pop when I was growing up, but I have been calling it soda for most of my adult life. I wonder if the term pop comes from the sound of a bottle of soda being opened?

 

[Pearl]

Even though I'm in "Coke" territory, I grew up in Jersey, so it's SODA to me!!

 

[Bacpacker]

We called them dopes growing up. Till about the 70s. Cokes after that

 

[Patchouli]

In Virginia (1960s) we called it pop, moved to Maryland they called it soda. In Texas a lot of restaurant staff call it coke even if they mean Dr Pepper.

 

[Magus]

I'm a mutant, I call it soda pop.

 

[12icemaker]

Yep round the gateway to the Smokies DOPES is the norm.
Most folk don't associate Coka Cola with it's original formula heheheheh!

I just say "drink" after years of Mt Dews.

 

[Snowman]

"Sparkling Beverage" where I Hail From...!!!

 

[Tirediron]

Illegal poison from evil,

 

[Tirediron]

Pop would be generic, a lot of people here just use the commercial name,

 

[Snowman]

Just order what the Doctor Ordered :

 

[Magus]

Nah I'm allergic to it.

Anybody make fizzy coffee yet?

 

[Canon29]

Garbage.

 

[Morgan101]

I would agree with the 1947 map, but when I moved to Southern Arizona in the early 60's, they called it pop.

I have always used the term soda, and never called it pop.

 

[DrHenley]

We were walking across the Rift Valley in Kenya on the way to the dormant volcano Mount Longonot. The only buildings we saw were mud huts. One of those mud huts was what you might call a "convenience store."
In the back of the "convenience store" there was a stack of cases of 8 oz bottles of hot Coke.
That was the only kind of drink you could buy. Coke. "Coke" was synonymous with "soft drink" because that was the only kind of soft drink there was.

Now roll back the calendar to the 1800s IN THE SOUTH where Coca Cola was invented (1888 in Columbus, GA) and first bottled (1894 in Vicksburg, MS) and the first Coca Cola bottling company was formed (1899 in Chattanooga, TN).
I could imagine that there were small stores in the South around the turn of the century not too unlike the Rift Valley mud hut. And they probably only had one kind of bottled soft drink and no electricity. And that one kind of bottled soft drink was probably a Coke.

Are you starting to see the picture?

 

[Jen]

My parents called it "pop".
When I was a teenager I called it "coke".
All my adult life I have called it "soda".

 

[Alaskajohn]

I hear them called soft drinks. Being in the military and also a military brat, I have heard them called all of the above.

 

[joel]

We said the name of the drink or soft drink.
We drank more water & milk on the farm, some ice sweet tea, a little coffee, chocolate when it was cold.

 

[Mountain trapper]

We all know the real term is soda pop.

 

[Caribou]

I grew up calling it soda pop. That got shortened to soda or pop. Coke was generic for any cola though the term cola could refer to Coke.

Pulled into A&W and told the clerk while ordering at the speaker, “Don’t worry about the paper bag on my head it isn’t a stickup. I’m just embarrassed because my wife wants a diet root beer float."

 

[EastenerWesterner]

The area in the middle of the country in 1947 called it Sodey Pop in 1997

 

[AMC]

I always ask for a "carbonated sugar beverage."

 

[12icemaker]

Never drank much Coke except as a mixer it used to be Orange or Grape Crush But mostly a quart of Orange juice.

Hot weather working all day in the sun It was a bag of salty chips and a quart of orange juice too.
Other than that Just water till after 6P.

Since falling into the Mt Dew slot some days now, about one MD to three or four waters and three coffees.

Some times I don't drink any for a week.

Really just varies with the day and where I am.

 

[Mountain trapper]

I don't like Coke, and I've never tried a Mt Dew. My favorite soda pop is Ruby Red Squirt or Cactus Cooler.

 

[joel]

Coke, Mt. Dew, Pepsi, A & W root beer & Cream Soda, but not on this diet.

 

[Mountain trapper]

My favorite drink is our ice cold well water.

 

[EastenerWesterner]

My favorite drink is our ice cold well water.

I don’t believe that for a second.
My guess it’s golden in color and and has a head on it when you pour from a can (bottles are to hard to deal with in the mountains)

 

[Haertig]

I don't drink many sweet drinks myself - at home, basically none - but the wife does sometimes. We call them what they specifically are. "Dr. Pepper", "Ginger Ale", etc. There are very few "etc's" in our house - we're pretty much exclusive to Dr. Pepper, always diet, usually cherry flavor also. If we ever have need to refer to them generically, we call them "soft drinks". When my son comes over for dinner on Sunday nights, I always offer him "would you like a beer?" And then I list the individual varieties that I have on hand. Stella is always on the menu, and at least one of Grolsh, Hefe-Weizen (that's a generic classification, but I always mean "Paulaner") and Carlsberg. Occasionally Spaten, Peroni, Harp or Pilsner Urquell are offerings too. I tried some Hawaii Big Wave (or was is Kona Big Wave?) this last week, but after reading the label, I found the closest it ever got to Hawaii was California. It's Hawaiian in name only.

 

[Bacpacker]

I don't drink many sweet drinks myself - at home, basically none - but the wife does sometimes. We call them what they specifically are. "Dr. Pepper", "Ginger Ale", etc. There are very few "etc's" in our house - we're pretty much exclusive to Dr. Pepper, always diet, usually cherry flavor also. If we ever have need to refer to them generically, we call them "soft drinks". When my son comes over for dinner on Sunday nights, I always offer him "would you like a beer?" And then I list the individual varieties that I have on hand. Stella is always on the menu, and at least one of Grolsh, Hefe-Weizen (that's a generic classification, but I always mean "Paulaner") and Carlsberg. Occasionally Spaten, Peroni, Harp or Pilsner Urquell are offerings too. I tried some Hawaii Big Wave (or was is Kona Big Wave?) this last week, but after reading the label, I found the closest it ever got to Hawaii was California. It's Hawaiian in name only.

Some good German beers you named off. Really good ones. Do you like wheat beers?

 

[Haertig]

Do you like wheat beers?

I like Paulaner Hefe-Weizen with food. That's my favorite beer to drink with a meal. But I like other non-wheat beers better for stand-alone (not with a meal) drinking. I like the Paulaner wheat beer for stand-alone too, but not as much as lagers and pilsners. My favorite stand-alone beer seems to change frequently. Currently, it is Grolsh. Used to be Carlsberg. Used to be Stella. You can see that I am fickle on the stand-alones.

But in all honesty, I have only tried two or three wheat beers. I can't even remember the other ones names, but I did not like them as much as the Paulaner. I do want to try the Prost Hefeweizen. That's a local craft beer that just opened a new brewery/biergarten near me. I don't know if they have any exposure outside of my local area. But their new place offers jaegerschnitzel and spaetzel and I want to go there as much to try the German food as to try their Hefeweizen! I've been meaning to go there for a few months now. I just need to find a friend to go with me. I've never gone out for a beer alone in my life, and don't really want to do that. My wife does not drink at all. I only drink the occasional beer, maybe one or two a week. So I'm not a heavy drinker. I used to be more of a "one beer per month" drinker, but that Budweiser/tranny fiasco somehow prompted me to try new beers (even though I never drank Bud Lite), and I found that there were some good things to taste out there.

https://www.prostbrewing.com/northglenn-biergarten