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Regional terms for soft drinks

[ansela_jonla]

I know I saw a graphic for this floating around the internet, but I'm not having much luck finding it. So I float this to you, F!Sers; what's the generic term for soft drinks in the DC area?

I'm writing a fanfic atm. My protagonists are headed for a celebratory meal/night out as a group of ~9 people. They're in the DC area. The waitress at the pub restaurant (restaurant and bar? idk what they'd be called there) they go to asks who the designated drivers are, so they can receive wristbands that entitle them to free soft drinks. Really minor detail, but it's bugging me that I might use the wrong term for that area.

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[(Anonymous)]

Soda. Always soda.

--a DC native

Re: Regional terms for soft drinks

[ansela_jonla]

Thanks. Floated it here because I reckoned I'd find someone from there.

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[(Anonymous)]

Agreeing with this.

- another DC native

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[(Anonymous)]

http://popvssoda.com/ is the biggest site for that data, I think. Looks like it's a 'soda' place, which makes sense.

Re: Regional terms for soft drinks

[ansela_jonla]

Thanks. Bookmarked for when this pops up for another part of America.

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[(Anonymous)]

As a general rule of thumb - deep south is coke, upper midwest and great plains are pop, everywhere else is mostly soda.

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[otakugal15]

I can attest to that, here in the South. It's Coke.

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[(Anonymous)]

It can depend on where you are in the south. I live in Texas (the Dallas area, which is north Texas) and everyone I knows calls it soda and if you ordered a coke in a restaurant, then they would automatically bring you a coca cola and not clarify to ask what kind of coke you want (that's been my experience at least). Even in Texas though, there are still regional differences (because, well, it's a big dang state) and I have some friends from the Galveston area and thereabouts (on the coast and deeper south) who say that they refer to soft drinks in general as coke.

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[(Anonymous)]

That's a good point, although I wouldn't really consider Texas the deep south?

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[(Anonymous)]

da

You're mostly right: most of Texas is no longer considered part of the deep south with the exception of east Texas, which is still commonly considered as such

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[(Anonymous)]

It isn't? I'm Minnesotan and I just assumed the furthest south states were.. the deep south. lol

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[(Anonymous)]

This is so true. It's coke, even if it's Pepsi down here.