Alright Midwest peeps let’s settle this heated debate.
Pop or Soda?
Soda, always and forever. (I even converted friends and my spouse from “pop.”)
Booooo!!! They are traitors!! Lol
Pop
So we’re fighting already? lmao
Yes, yes we are. The lines have been drawn! lol
Mark me down for ‘soda’ then I guess.
Michigander here - Pop.
Soda always.
points shame them, shame them! Take that soda silliness back to Boston. points again shame shaaaaaame. -
BOOO this person!!! jk. Do you live in the midwest? If so which state? Curious to see where the preference might change.
Also soda for me. I grew up in the big red MO/IL bubble.
Same! I grew up in the Midwest “soda” bubble as well, in Illinois.
Me too. I now live in “everything is a Coke” country (TX) and have adopted that
Interesting graphic thanks! Though I’m curious how they figured this out because the area around Columbus, Ohio has a little red with blue and I don’t think I’ve heard anyone call it soda here.
Same, grew up in MN suburbs.
I say soda, but everyone around me says pop.
I’m in Iowa. Does Lemmy support flair?
We don’t have flair yet.
Hopefully that feature comes. A server for Midwest is pretty neat, but having an Iowa flair would save me from feeling the need to say that I’m in Iowa each time something like this comes up.
Yeah, I get that. What you could do if you wanted in the meantime is change your display name to be “MrFrobozz (Iowa)”.
Good idea! I haven’t spent much time looking through the settings in Lemmy yet. Got it updated. Thanks!
Soda born and raised.
Pop (in Illinois)
I knew a lot of folks in southern Indiana who said Coke.
Personally I prefer soda.
Alabama here, we say coke even though I can’t stand coke
Pop usually. Sometimes I say soda pop ironically. My wife, another lifetime Chicagoan, is teaching our daughter to say soda. And to say living room instead of front room.
Your daughter should be asking for a pop in da frunchroom!
Right?
I say soda. I feel it’s about split 50/50 in my local area
Ohio - Pop all the way. GTFO with that soda garbage.
Soda. Although, when I was a kid and if you traveled out far enough into the boonies you’d hear people call it “sodie-pop”, so… 🤷♂️
My mom uses that one some times, but she spent some formative childhood years in Missouri so I blame that. ;)
Yup. Could just be a Missouri boonies thing, don’t know.
oh the boonies gotta love em. Lol I swear they have their own language sometimes lol
Pop, always. My mom who grew up in Chicago proper says soda, the heathen.
Well it sure ain’t coke!