I say 'pop' but only when I'm making fun of people who call soda, 'pop.'

Wow, some people have waaaay too much time on their hands. Nothing like Irn Bru (http://www.irn-bru.co.uk/), though.

I say "pop," but only because I like to be contrary. Which is not news to anybody.

(I find the big nexus of "soda" around St. Louis to be pretty amusing.)

Anybody in Minnesota who says soda instead of pop is dragged behind a snowmobile until they have learned to say pop.

Soda pop is best in the morning when you don't have nothing to talk about -
Don't you know the lights are out?
Can't you move a little higher?
--M. Mooney, CAN

I call it 'vodka' - it's soft enough for me. Add some salmon, dill, and rye bread, and you get a Russian sushi experience, at which point all this relationship debate becomes happily irrelevant.

Ok i like Ivan's answer. Vodka it is.

I used to say 'pop' when I lived in a pop area. Then went to college in a mixed area and said both 'soda' and 'pop'. Then moved to a soda area and now say 'soda'.

Eric:

It is obvious you can adapt to any culture. Whether it be stone age tribes in New Guinea or Armani tribes in Beverly Hills.

Yeah, Ivan wins. But the general "soda" tendency is just more proof that I am an East Coast girl at heart. :)

I call it a fizzy drink! Well technically I call it: Fanta, Dr Pepper, Pepsi, etc - whatever I wish to drink.
I am a law unto myself and live in England.

Down in Texas many people call all Soda "Cokes". So for example, a customer in a restaurant might ask "What kind of Cokes you got?", to which the staff might answer "Coke, Sprite, Orange Soda, etc."

Me, I grew up saying Pop, but now say the less amusing soda.

J. has the south pegged. Here in Georgia everything is a "coke"

I call it a Coke but the damn Yankees around the Great Lakes call it pop. My baby brother calls it Coca Cola.

This map gives new meaning to blue states vs. red states.

When I was very young my family called them pop, this was pre WWII. We moved to Texas from Oklahoma after 1942 and there they were called soda pops, then just cokes, or pepsi, or the biggie, Ornge crush, (that is not a spelling mistake, I'm try to spell it as pronounced). Later in life I moved around the south, they are all co-colas there. Now if I mention one, it is called by name. If I offer, I first offer a cold drink, then explain the menu of what I have to offer.

It's spot on. I'm from New Jersey, and we're at 80-100% "soda". It's definitely "soda"!!!!

Everyone else is wrong.

Yep, here everything is a Coke... Hell, I call Mountain Dew a Coke.

In my younger days, everything was a pop, because we lived in Tulsa for a few years.

Now do one for seltzer!