Pop vs Soda
This is one of the oddest things I have come across on the web in recent days. The differences in this great country astound me. If you travel from Chicago to Miami, you would start out asking for a pop, then as you travel through the south, you would ask for a Coke (no matter which fizzy drink you wanted), finally you would ask for a soda by the time you arrived in Miami.
I was going to name this entry From the Annals of Needless Research until I realised that the issues that have interested me academically are often described as needless, i.e. philosophy, to about 95% of the world. So, I validate the good researchers at the University of Oklahoma.
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"Odd" is putting it lightly, though - disturbed is more accurate.
What's the deal with pop? I'm surprised people use it now. When I was little, my Grandmother used to give me 10p for a bottle of "pop" (this is the early 80s). I always assumed it was called pop because back in the day there was only one type of carbonated drink, lemonade, and as far as the oldies were concerned pop meant "that new fangled sweet drink that will make kids think i'm hip and groovy if I say it" - I don't remember it being associated with coke. I always ask for " fizzy brown vegetable extract, please" anyway.
On early TV cartoons, pop always seemed to be pink.
To confuse things:
"In the United Kingdom, the term originally applied to carbonated drinks ("pop") and non-carbonated drinks made from concentrates ("squash"), although it now commonly refers to any drink that does not contain alcohol."And as for soda, I've always associated it with cream soda, that sort of sickly lemonade/vanilla hybrid tasting similar to an acid belch.
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