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Do you order pop or soda?

This inter­est­ing map showed up on Strange Maps (another one of my favorite blogs) today and I found it really fascinating!

I usu­ally order a “coke” because I like Coke best of all, but I refer to all soft drinks as “pop”. I have for my whole life, except for my early years when they were “refres­cos”. (I think I drank mostly Fanta back then.)

In recent years I have heard the word “soda” used with increas­ing fre­quency here in Oregon (and even, ahem, said it myself a few times), but I still get the Arm & Hammer logo in my mind when I hear it!

The Strange Maps post has some inter­est­ing infor­ma­tion on it about pop (and soda). Like the name “pop” came from the sound the cork made, and that it is con­sid­ered unso­phis­ti­cated by some… who knew?

I also didn’t know that most of the people in the South refer to all soft drinks as ”coke”.

What do you call it?