Thursday, August 03, 2006

Do you say pop, soda or coke?

Evan sent this to me, and I thought it was interesting. It is a breakdown county-by-county of what is the most popular term.

I say soda, while Evan prefers pop.

Check it out: http://www.popvssoda.com/countystats/total-county.html

6 comments:

  1. I have to say i absolutely LOVE this.... how true it is! Now, my county in SC is deep in the COKE block, but we also say "a drink" for anything cold and non-alcoholic! I had to put it on my own blog. Thanks for sharing it.

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  2. Growing up (and even now and again) we called them soft drinks. Now it ranges from that to calling it by it's real name , coke, pepsi, dr pepper etc.

    I guess I would have been an other on the map.

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  3. Todd: Glad to share! I'll call mine a drink more than I will anything else.

    Muddy: A list like that allows for a few variations, I would guess

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  4. How cool! I say soda. I seem to be in the minority for my county.

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  5. I was hanging out with (okay, fucking) this redneck when my son was two. He would seriously call it sody-pop. Anyway, he was good in the sack and my son liked him and he liked the term 'sody-pop' because it appealed to his two-year-old persona.

    My mom heard my son repeat said and tossed him such a vibe (my mother is all about the vibe) that he never uttered the expression sody-pop again.

    I'm all over sody-pop.

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  6. D: I wish they had biggger samples in some places. My county only had six responses.

    Heather: I can imagine what your mom's vibe felt like from here after that. If Mama ain't happy, ain't nobody happy ;-)

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