<p>Soda – also cherry phosphate
Grew up on Long Island
50 ish female
Also: pocketbook and ON LINE (as in waiting at the bank, not surfing the internet-- the internet has forever ruined my favorite New York-ism)</p>
<p>Married a guy from Chicago who says pop
In 5 years in Chicago, I could never get used to pop, sack (paper bag), and dip instead of scoop for ice cream</p>
<p>Soda</p>
<p>Grew up NYC</p>
<p>Over 50 female</p>
<p>soda pop
grew up NC and VA
female
age 46</p>
<p>We always wanted Nehi - grape or orange</p>
<p>people where I live now in PA call it “soda” and are taken aback sometimes when I say “soda pop” but my cousins in NC still call it soda pop</p>
<p>down there, we drink sweet tea when where not drinking soda pop</p>
<p>Soda</p>
<p>NYC</p>
<p>past the age of consent</p>
<p>Pop –> until I went to college and was roundly mocked now it is soda
Northeastern Ohio
Male
50’s</p>
<p>Live in Maryland
son calls it soda</p>
<p>pop
(Soda means baking soda.)
Oregon
female
50+
My sons and friends all say pop, too.</p>
<p>soda
Maryland
50+</p>
<p>Soda
Eastern PA
Female
47</p>
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<p>Sybbie, I’ll have a slightly different version. </p>
<p>Coke</p>
<p>Texas</p>
<p>so old nobody cares what I consent to.;)</p>
<p>Soft drink (I don’t think I’ve had one in decades…though I do drink plenty of sweet tea!)
NC
52</p>
<p>what a fun thread!</p>
<p>Michigan ~
42</p>
<p>Pop
Sub
Purse</p>
<p>Making things possesive must be a Michigan thing. I grew up calling our grocery story “Meijers”. When my sister-in-law moved here from Illinois, we corrected her for calling it “Meijer”. She had to show us the sign to prove to us that we had been using the wrong name all these years…I still call it Meijers :)</p>
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<p>Curm,</p>
<p>Even though some days that is the sory of my life, I really did not want to admit it. I am really going to show my age now. Remember when you would gently roll the bottle against some sort of grating until the lip of the bottle came off? Then you would rub the that piece against the ground until the it was smooth so that you could use it to play skelly. You got a much smoother shot than using bottle tops filled with asphalt. Please don’t tel lbe that this is an experience that is limited to “city kids”.</p>
<p>Coke - When people visit at my house, I always ask, “Would you like a coke?” and then I spout off what “cokes” I have … Coke, Pepsi, Dr. Pepper, Mountain Dew, etc.</p>
<p>Born and raised in Louisville, KY - have lived in Tennessee for 20 years</p>
<p>Female</p>
<p>43</p>
<p>Soda</p>
<p>Florida, moved from California, grew up in New Jersey
Female, over 40
I have always called it soda. I say pocketbook, which my daughter thinks is stupid. She says purse.</p>
<p>Purse or pocketbook?</p>
<p>Neither, I just call it a bag. Sometimes I say look in my bag and get my purse in reference to my wallet. Do we as women carry wallets as I always though of them in reference to men</p>
<p>I call the thing in which I carry all my personal junk a purse. My daughter has a tendency to call hers a bag, which really is appropriate because she carries an assortment of “things” as purses. Since she was very young, she has always carried a purse … wouldn’t go anywhere without one. Her nickname is Splash, but I had to give her a second nickname a few years ago … Sophia. Remember the show Golden Girls and the mother, Sophia, who would never be caught without her purse? That’s my D … never without a purse.</p>
<p>Parents called it pop (they were raised in PA)
I called it soda ( I was raised in CA, now live in Jersey)
48
Female</p>
<p>Re the purse/bag/pocketbook debate
I call it purse
D calls it bag
Best friend calls it pocketbook </p>
<p>Couch or Sofa?
I call it couch</p>
<p>Pop for all sweetened carbonated beverages
Coke for Coca Cola</p>
<p>Michigan</p>
<p>Ok, so I’ve decided to weigh in on this one with a funny story. I am from NJ and went to college in a northern NJ suburb during the sixties to early seventies. I group of us were sitting in a common area of the dorm when a transfer student from the midwest came in and asked where the “pot” machine was. We told her we don’t sell it in machines here. LOL, of course, she was saying pop and we had no idea what she was talking about.</p>
<p>Soda, but more importantly, the question that NEEDS to be answered is: PEEPS, yellow or pink? Fresh or stale? For me there is no contest, stale yellow peeps win.</p>