<p>You don’t call them suckers?</p>
<p>We say suckers in Illinois as well</p>
<p>To me a “sucker” sounds more like the thing you stick in a baby’s mouth than a lollipop. This thread is fun, I like it.</p>
<p>Since I moved from NY to VA a few years ago, it has remained “soda”. However in NY, lollipops are called “lollipops”, but when I moved to VA people called them “suckers”. The first time I heard that, I said “WTH is a sucker?” I still call them lollipops. Sucker sounds stupid.</p>
<p>That’s mad interesting right? <— From reading that, can you tell which part of NY I’m from?</p>
<p>we call everything coke</p>
<p>Some others I found are porch vs. stoop and beach vs. shore or seashore (“Hey lets go to the shore.” - that just sounds weird). I also know where I live we say townhouse but in the city they say rowhome.</p>
<p>sucker and lollipop were used pretty equally in new orleans.</p>
<p>I call it “soda”, and I’ve lived in many different regions. I currently live in Alabama, and everyone here calls it “coke”. However, my mom’s family is from Iowa, and they all say “pop”. I’ve grown used to the different words, but “pop” sounds strange to me.</p>
<p>here in florida we say “soda”</p>
<p>I feel like you find more adults who do the regional things. Everyone my age here (Cincinnati, Ohio, in case you didn’t notice my location) knows what pop is and they do sometimes use it, but they’re more likely to say soda. In Alabama, my grandparents always say coke for soda, and most of my aunts and uncles do, but a lot of my cousins will alternate between coke and soda.
I was just at the University of Dayton where, in one classroom they had a fridge which it said “Pop $1.50, Water $1.00.” There were two girls from New Jersey sitting next to me and they were having a laugh over the fact that people actually used the word “pop.” Most people in the room were from the MidWest, and no one else even noticed.</p>
<p>I live in Norcal and we usually use soda. Pop is what old people and Republicans use. =) Also, I’m in the bay area, and when you say coke, you’re asking for cocaine, not soda, no questions asked.</p>
<p>I’m from Minnesota and have seen instances where people get laughed at for saying soda. It’s pop up here, we are just about the bluest state on that map from the first page. Oh and by the way, theReach, Republicans and old people would be much more likely to say Coke or Soda if you look at the map. Coke is in the south (Republicans) and Soda is in Arizona, Florida, and California (old people). The north which is more liberal has a tendancy to say pop.</p>
<p>hahaha. theReach. So true…</p>
<p>My math teacher is from Minnesota too; and she said that if someone said soda, people would think that they were “snobby”. It would be like saying “I want a beverage/soft drink” in California.</p>
<p>jkau, people in Minnesota have a weird name for hair ties. I forget what it is though. Binder?</p>
<p>I lived in SoCal till 6th grade and called it soda. THen I moved to Michigan (super blue on the map) and everyone called it pop. It blew my mind hahaha now i call it pop :D</p>
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<p>It was a joke >_> It’s purely geographical, its not because Minnesota is liberal. California, Oregon, and Washington are bluer than Tobias Funke, yet we use soda.</p>
<p>I say coke too haha
“Hey can you go get me a coke?”
“Sure what kind?”
“Oh Sprite please”</p>
<p>thats pretty common here</p>
<p>Haha, if you say that you want a coke here, you’re getting either a Coke or Pepsi.</p>
<p>We say pop. But a couple times when I’ve been to the states they’ve said “pop” as “pap”. Its so funny :)</p>
<p>Oh, and I went to Philidelphia once and my fried asked for an iced tea, and they gave her tea with ice in it 
You guys don’t have iced tea? Or is it just Philly?</p>
<p>Huh? Ice tea is cold tea with ice in it.</p>