Pop vs. Soda Statistics

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Minnesota statistics:

Total responses: 10563 (3.33% of all responses, 3.58% of all U.S. responses)
pop: 8874 (84.01% of all Minnesota responses, 7.07% of all pop responses)
soda: 1367 (12.94% of all Minnesota responses, 1.08% of all soda responses)
coke: 90 (0.85% of all Minnesota responses, 0.18% of all coke responses)
other: 232 (2.20% of all Minnesota responses, 1.48% of all other responses)

"other" reponses:

35soda pop
5Sam Sterner
4soft drink
4Paul Wellstone
4penis
4Red Headed Step Child
3Pepsi
3Beverage
3Fizz
3soDie
3Dew
3Beer
3DRANK
2Drink
2phosphate
2carbonated beverage
2pop
2Tonic
2Crab Juice
2carbinated beverage
2milk or water
2Chris Immel
2wiatt you fat lard
2I Like Pie
2JIMME MILIKEN
2Paul Kloos
1both pop & soda
1diet
1by name
1butter water
1I grew up saying "pop" but picked up the term "soda" as a teenager watching MTV (east coast terminology). Now I say "soda" and get strange looks or comments from just about everyone I know (mid-western). I guess I just like to be different.
1soda water
1soda pop or cola
1nectar of the gods
1Pop is correct. Calling it "soda" implies soda water, and strikes me as an East/West coast attempt to sound sophisticated - like there's anything sophisticated about drinking sugar water. Even calling it "coke" makes more sense than "soda."
1why don't you settle and ask miss manners? or ann landers
1soda pop!
1Carbonated water with artificial or natural flavouring
1it varies..........
1I grew up hearing only "pop" for a carbonated beverage. I always knew that the proper name was actually "soda pop", and "pop" was a shortened form of this. Occasionally I would read the word "soda" for what I called pop, and it sounded hopelessly old-fashioned to me, just like when my first grade teacheer called boots "galoshes" and coats "wraps" and the bathroom the "lavatory". All those words, including "soda" just sounded completely out of touch with the 20th century. It would be like hearing someone say "horsless carriage" for car. By the way, does anyone out there want to start a page on the "lunch vs dinner vs supper" debate? If you're from the rural Midwest, you must know what I'm talking about.
1Cowboy was here... 9-20-02
1sodey pop
1Lortbonck
1I grew up saying pop, but then I realized they named it pop after the sound it makes when you remove a cap off a bottle of soda. If this were true today, they'd call it "fffssshhh!" after the sound it makes when you open a plastic bottle. So my friends, logic tells us that "soda" makes sense.
1something brown with sugar and caffeine
1Drew's Favorite Drink!
1brew
1breakfast drink
1Artificially flavored carbonated beverage.
1Fountain Drink
1Others around me used the word "pop." As a teen, I grew to dislike that word--I thought it was to short and sounded silly. I started using the word "soda," but my mom always thought this was weird and wondered where I had picked it up. I am not sure myself--maybe from Archie comics, of which I read and collected many--there was a character named "Pops" who ran "Pop's Soda Shoppe."
1Red Hash
1bubbly
1Sasparilla
1cherry coke
1James, Macho Business Donkey Wrestler. Feel my skills, donkey donkey donkey, donkey donkey
1water
1Da tasty Fizzy
1apple johnny
1i have almost always said pop. i went to a college last year where probly 90% of the people said soda. one time i let "soda" slip, and i was around my minnesota friends. they laughed at me. i felt so stupid! i say "pop" for almost all kinds of cabonated beverages, but for some i say "soda", such as "grape soda" and "cream soda". its not "cream pop" after all. however, there is a "pop tab" on a pop can, not a "soda tab". my final answer i often times call it a carbonated beverage, but 99 out of 100 times, its pop. the other 1% of the time is carbonated beverage or soda. pop is the winner! go minnesota!
1buthole in a can
1sperm
1It depends on where I am, if I am in my home state it is, "pop" I live in NC now and it is "soda" if you try to ask for a "pop" here, they look at you funny and say "you ain't from here, where are you from" Strange huh.
1Alex's Favorite Drink!!!
1joel eckerson can speak in tongues
1arabian medicine and joel eckerson
1Fizzy Drink
1fizzy syrup
1OK Here's the deal -- Why does this word even need to exist? In what situation would one ever need to use the word "Pop" or "Soda"? At restaurants, the server asks you, "Can I get you anything to drink?" Does one reply, "Sure, I'll have a pop/soda/coke"? Of course not. You respond, "I'd like a [insert specfic drink title here]. When does "pop" or "soda" ever need to be used, ever? It doesn't, people, it doesn't. Ever. Never ever. Never ever again, should anybody say either of those two words.
1Grant Fisher has sex with little boys while Randy Graff watches
1tarzan slam
1coke
1moutian due
1chittychitty bang bang
1people who say soda are stupid-POP is better!
1wiches brew
1ITS POP FOOLS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
1I grew up in Minnesota, where most everyone says "pop" and looks at someone who says "soda" as one trying to be far too sophisticated. It's actually frowned upon. But, after moving to LA, I learned quickly that now I'D get laughed at for using the wrong terminology. My parents still roll their eyes when I say "soda." "Who do you think you are, Mr. FancyPants California?"
1I use Pop and rightly so. What is in Pop ( Soda) ??? phosphorus. Pop = phosphorus for short. I dont see anything that even resembles Soda in anything. For the People who use Coke as a generic term I feel pity for you.
1thirst-quenching beverage
1Chaser
1SPERMSLUP
1SPERM SLURP
1sodaypop
1Ryne Anderson
1engin oil!
1White stuff
1Sweet Fizzie
1Fart!!!
1Fizzle juice
1PCS
1punch
1tinkle juice
1pimp juice
1Your mother
1As a child, I grew up with the word "pop," but as I aged and got to thinking why call it "pop?" I hate that word and it can be used for so many other things. Pop could mean a father. Pop could mean a sound. Soda, on the other hand, refers to one thing, a carbonated beverage. And for the record, I am from Minnesota and nobody gives me weird looks or laughs at me when I say "soda" instead of "pop." Soda forever!
1Pissy Cola - only if its Pepsi)
1Black Water
1Hasselflass
1so-der
1a big icicle
1Jesus juice
1www.4chan.org
1fizzy wizzy
1non-acholholic carbonated beverage
1YIcJQqEqyrgqM
1George's man spooge on Karl's chin after getting boned in the steam room. Thats how you ask for it at a retaurant in MN
1Mr. Washburn
1The Waters of Unliving Life


Statistics last generated: Thu Sep 9 00:05:21 2010 Pacific Time


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