Coke, Pop or Soda? Question #63
ByYou knew the Coke/Pop/Soda question was coming after this question, didn’t you?
We all know that I don’t drink Pepsi anymore. I’ve been Pepsi free for over four years now. However, I still miss my Pepsi so if you’d all kindly whisper while we talk about this subject, I’d appreciate it. Otherwise this will be a difficult topic and I may be faced with temptation.
Just kidding. I’ll be fine. I won’t give in. I won’t have any. Not even a sip.
However, if you and I are together and you are drinking a Pepsi, I may ask you for a sniff. My sister-in-law always lets me smell her Pepsi when we’re together. She just smiles, shrugs and hands it over…because what else is she supposed to do? She married my brother so she has to love me through my weird Pepsi addicted ways. Ah, everyone should be so blessed as to have a sister-in-law who lets you smell her Pepsi. Michele, I love ya. I can’t wait to smell your Pepsi sit down for a long visit next month!
So, growing up, I always called sugar filled carbonated beverages ‘pop’. When I went to college, I learned that people from different regions call it different names…names that I (in my immaturity) thought were just plain weird. I thought people only called it ‘soda’ in old movies. Lo and behold, real live people called it ‘soda’ and they weren’t even kidding. And then there were the people that called it ‘Coke’ even if it was a Dr. Pepper or a Sprite…or of all scandalous things…a Pepsi. How dare these people call my beloved Pepsi…a Coke?
Yeah, I’m over it now. In fact, I even started calling it ‘soda’ after a while because everyone around me said it that way. (Although, as a side note, I do get a bit testy when I hear people call ‘margarine’…’butter’. If it’s margarine, it ain’t buttuh. “Don’t you mess with butter’s good name like that,” I scream! In my head. While I smile.)
Well, anyway…I do believe this Coke/Pop/Soda thing is regional. It seems that folks from different parts of the world call it different things. Oh boy, and I even met someone last summer that calls it ‘Soda Pop’. I thought Opie was the only one who called it that…but it sure was cute coming out of the six foot three inch fella I heard it from last summer.
So what do you call it? Have you found it to be different it different areas of the world?
Live in Michigan now and it’s called pop here. Used to live in New York and it’s called soda there. Stubborn thing that I am, I still call it soda. Pop is someone’s dad — lol!
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I grew up in Virginia and it was “soft drink”!
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When I was growing up, everything was Coke. “You want a coke?” “Yeah.” “What you want, we got coke, Pepsi, or Orange.” Or it was a “drink.”
These days some of my kin has defected to the North (read Michigan and Indiana). They call it pop there and some of us true southernors (not me) call it pop down here too. The rest of us call it soda.
As for calling it “drink” no one does that anymore. I was informed that a drink has alcohol in it. lol. Fine. I’m trying to give up soda so hand over the Pepsi so I can sniff it too! :)
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I just had to comment … I have been reading your healthy eating journey … which is a process I have been on for the last 18 months …
But anyways when you said you “sniffed Pepsi” I laughed out loud. Hard. I think my husband is wondering what is wrong with me :)
Growing up my mom was much like you … she had her morning “coffee” Pepsi, her snack Pepsi, her afternoon pick-me-up Pepsi … etc, etc
Well I developed the same habit! I had a Pepsi with everything. When I was a Freshman in college (and terrified of gaining weight) I would have a Pepsi and snicker bar as the only food I would eat before dinner EVERY DAY (wasn’t that healthy …)
Anyways I’m already rambling on and it’s kind of a long story but after developing an eating disorder and gaining a ton of weight … by God’s grace I was able to kick the Pepsi habit, lose weight, and finally start realizing what healthy eating actually is.
But, I, like you, love to smell Pepsi. I’ve actually tasted it since quitting and it tasted … umm … terrible … but “ahh” the smell … it used to be like my proverbial “cigarette” (stress relief wise)and I still love the occasional sniff. :)
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