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Alright Midwest peeps let's settle this heated debate.

Pop or Soda?

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

Michigander here - Pop.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

STL: "soda" or "sodie"

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Strangely, Decatur, IL is in the "soda" region, but my family usually says, "pop." I knew a guy from Peoria that said "sodie," no idea if that was regional or just him.

[–] whynotzoidberg 2 points 1 year ago

My spouse is from that central IL area and also says sodie.

We also used to talk about “booze cruises” where I’m at (northern IL), and she always knew it as “road sodez” (or something like that).

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Pop in iowa

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

There both wrong the right answer is obviously soda pop water

[–] whynotzoidberg 3 points 1 year ago

Northern Illinois checking in. It’s pop.

Soda is where ya go for the land of 10,000 lakes.

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

Pop (in Illinois)

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

Soda. But I also moved here from the west coast and held on to soda as it trolled my midwest friends

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

So we're fighting already? lmao

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Northwest Indiana and we say Pop.

[–] schmalls 1 points 1 year ago

Grew up calling it pop. Went to college in Tulsa and have converted to the one true name, soda.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I say soda. I feel it's about split 50/50 in my local area

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Soda, always and forever. (I even converted friends and my spouse from "pop.")

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I use both; often soda to pad out shorter sentences and pop for longer.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago
[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Soda, grew up in Michigan. But all it took was living in liberal California for 2 years to make pop sound weird.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

the damn hippies have corrupted you! lol

[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'd just like to know why STL and the central IL region is so deep in saying "soda". Granted, any time I've headed up to Chicago I don't think I've heard "pop" so I'm not sure how ubiquitous it is in most of IL even including Chicago. But having not grown up there I can't say myself.

Anyways, it's definitely soda in most of IL. Don't think I've ever heard it called pop there, other than by my grandma who was from the southside of Chicago.

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

It’s absolutely pop in Chicagoland area, where I grew up. I knew I was “downstate” when I started hearing soda, which to me used to be a float (pop with ice cream in it).