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Pop

Soda, always and forever. (I even converted friends and my spouse from "pop.")

Soda always.

Michigander here - Pop.

So we're fighting already? lmao

I say soda, but everyone around me says pop.

I’m in Iowa. Does Lemmy support flair?

Soda born and raised.

Pop (in Illinois)

I knew a lot of folks in southern Indiana who said Coke.

Personally I prefer soda.

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.

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... 🤷‍♂️

Pop, always. My mom who grew up in Chicago proper says soda, the heathen.

Well it sure ain't coke!

I say POP....my wife says SODA......so my kids say SODA POP

Pop in iowa

STL: "soda" or "sodie"

Northwest Indiana and we say Pop.

There both wrong the right answer is obviously soda pop water

Grew up in Michigan exclusively saying pop. Joined the military and lived in a few non-Midwest places and now I say soda exclusively. I make fun of the rest of my Michigan-native family for continuing to say pop. 😂

I mean, the answer is pop.

However, I had the biggest crush on someone from New Jersey in high school who said soda, so I started saying soda. It stuck.

I'd just like to know why STL and the central IL region is so deep in saying "soda". Granted, any time I've headed up to Chicago I don't think I've heard "pop" so I'm not sure how ubiquitous it is in most of IL even including Chicago. But having not grown up there I can't say myself.

Anyways, it's definitely soda in most of IL. Don't think I've ever heard it called pop there, other than by my grandma who was from the southside of Chicago.

Soda, grew up in Michigan. But all it took was living in liberal California for 2 years to make pop sound weird.

I use either! But I tend to say soda

Pop normally, but I switch to soda when traveling.

Next question should be gym shoes, tennis shoes, or sneakers.

As someone who lives in "pop" land, eternally soda

grew up in Michigan where everyone says "pop," decided to start saying "soda" when I was 14 cuz I wanted to rebel. I can say either now, but typically say "pop" in Michigan so I don't get any funny looks

I waffle. Mostly pop.

Pop. This is the way.

Kansas City, here. We generally say Pop. But I hear Soda with some frequency.

Certainly not "Coke."

Strangely, Decatur, IL is in the "soda" region, but my family usually says, "pop." I knew a guy from Peoria that said "sodie," no idea if that was regional or just him.

Soda. But I also moved here from the west coast and held on to soda as it trolled my midwest friends

About a 50/50 split in the Marquette iron range. I use both terms depending on who I'm speaking with.