Pop, Soda, or Coke?

Coke... and I take my tea without lemon OR sugar.

 

Want some whiskey in your water
Sugar in your tea
What's all these crazy questions they askin' me...

 

Haha, I ain't a Yankee (although one half of my family is) and I use Coke.
But this pretty much sums it up.

I went up to New Jersey and if you ask for Iced Tea you get unsweetened tea, if you ask for Sweet Tea there like "dafuq?" or "You isn't from around here are yah?"

 

H2o ftw. Your sugary drinks are balls

 

this'un here speaks the truth.

 

carbonated sugar water

 

Nope... neither.

I like my whiskey neat.

 

She said "That ain't the way to have fun, son"...

 

Soda...not that it matters though since Hawaii isn't on the map

 

Mama told me not come.

 

POP!

 

coke

i'm from SoCal and i believe coke is the norm there. there seems to be more 'pop' around Seattle. perhaps the greatest Canadian influence on 'Merika?

 

So , you want a root beer and you say " I'll have a coke " ?

 

Lol. Americans eh?

 

First 24 years in Iowa - POP

Now I have to say Soda in CT

 

pop

 

Pop! The link kept me busy for a while, that stuff is fascinating to me LOL

 

No, we say "I'd like a root beer"

"Coke" is just our generic term for "cola".
Everything else is everything else... Root beer, 7-up, Sprite, orange.

When someone asks "Would you like a coke?" it is understood that the answer "Sure" means cola, and any other answer would be a specific.
Likewise, "Would you like a drink", the answer would be either "coke" or something specific.

 

just like this.

if someone says they want a 'Pepsi' they might get a look more strange than if they had asked for 'pop'.

 

No strange looks around here... and honestly, with California being made up of people from "other places", it's pretty common to hear either "coke" or "soda"... or even "drink". If someone were to ask for a Pepsi, they would either get it, or be told that it was not available.
My mom would sometimes use "pop"... she moved here from Illinois during WWII, but "pop" seems to be never heard now.