Here's the X-factor in the Pop/Soda Wars: The Coke People.

[SmileyBoy]

Now, I'm on the Pop side myself, but let's look at what the folks from the South have to say about this. The people who call pop/soda "Coke".

OK, now I have a proposal to end this silly little feud: whichever side manages to intice the Coke people to join them is the winner. In that, the Coke people can still choose to say Coke if they want, but you'd have to convince them that calling it either Pop or Soda is more legitimate. You're not trying to proselytize them.:) Just try to get them on your side.

OK???

On your mark... Get set... GO!!!

[GumboYaYa]

1. Unless you are from New Orleans where we call it "Cold Drink."

Every thing is different in the big easy.

One chilly evening I actually heard a guy in a Circle K ask if they had any hot cold drink.

[htuttle]

2. If you ask for a 'coke' and the waitress says 'What kind of coke'?

What do you answer if you want 'Coke'?

Do you just say 'Coke' again?

I'd suggest 'soda' instead, since 'pop' is a noise, not a beverage. :)

[Don_G]

3. The Great Pop Vs. Soda Controversy

Soda, Pop or "Coke." It appears to be regional more than anything.

Link: http://www.popvssoda.com/

[wyldwolf]

4. misconception about the south...

I'm originally from Macon, now in Atlanta, and have traveled all over the south.

Never heard "coke" used as a generic term for a softdrink unless someone serves a Pepsi when Coke is ordered.

[girl gone mad]

7. It is a lot less common these days..

maybe because there are more "foreigners" here now, or maybe because other brands are mor conspicuous. Growing up in Texas, though, anything with fizz was AKA "coke".

I prefer "refreshing chilled carbonated beverage", but soda would work, too.

[kitkatrose]

9. Trust me, it's alive and well.

At least in Memphis it is.

[wyldwolf]

10. well,then, I would say that in Georgia at least...

...it is blasphemy. Atlanta is the home of coke. We know what it is and to many, nothing else will do. I know people who would rather drink piss than pepsi out of sheer southern loyalty to coke.

[SmileyBoy]

11. I have a question: Does Coke sponsor all the Atlanta sports teams???

Like the Falcons, Braves, Hawks, Thrashers, etc???

Just curious, because Fargo is a Pepsi Town. Seriously. Pepsi dominates the drink industry here.

[wyldwolf]

12. Yes... or they have...

Pardon the play on an old ad slogan but "Coke Is It!"

[solinvictus]

14. Double Cola

I prefer Double Cola, Chattanooga's own soda company. I walk past their world wide, international headquarters every morning on the way to work. For the record, I've usually heard "cold drink" to refer to soda in Alabama, except in local BBQ joints where the waitresses referred to everyone as "honey" and a "coke" was indeed a catch-all reference to carbonated beverages.

[strategery blunder]

5. I say both

probably because I have lived in BOTH Arizona and the Midwest.

[SheepyMcSheepster]

6. Born and raised in NC and we always just used the specific name

for whatever beverage we were requesting. If i was to use a general term for carbonated beverages i would use "soft drinks" instead of "pop" or "soda".

[Champ]

8. Pizzop!!!!!!!

That's what I call it.

[Mr. Blonde]

13. Interesting

When I was younger I called it coke. Then when I moved 90 miles (same state though) I switched to calling it pop. Or (God forbid) soda pop.

[ForrestGump]

15. It's RC Colas and Moon Pies

on the hood of NSMA's car...