What would be in your bag?

[Barbara L]

If someone asked you to pick up some soda for them at the grocery store, what would be in your bag? My daughter would have a bottle of Pepsi or some other kind of what I call pop. A lot of people would have seltzer water for mixed drinks. I would have a box of baking soda in mine. I have seen lots of debates on what people call carbonated soft drinks, but I don't remember ever seeing this one.

Barbara

 

[Andy M.]

My first response is a carbonated beverage such as coke or ginger ale. However, I'd ask what kind.

A lot of folks in this area still call them tonics.

 

[texasgirl]

It would depend on who it was asking, but, most of the time, it would be cokes of some kind.

 

[kleenex]

root beer, screw soda.

 

[SierraCook]

I have always called a carbonated drink a soda. Someone once told me they thought that calling it a soda was weird. Soda that is used for baking I have always called it baking soda. Some people call carbonated drinks either pop or soda pop.

 

[Half Baked]

In the South, everything is a Coke!

"Give me a Coke, please"

"Do you want Pepsi, Big Orange or 7-up?"

 

[Piccolina]

In Canada where "soda" is most often called "pop", the first thing that springs to my mind is soda water (seltzer), the second is baking soda

 

[Barbara L]

In the South, everything is a Coke!

"Give me a Coke, please"

"Do you want Pepsi, Big Orange or 7-up?"

The question wasn't what you call soft drinks, but what "soda" is to you. LOL

Where in the south do you live? I live in South Carolina and they don't call all drinks Coke here.

Barbara

 

[Half Baked]

I've lived in TN, GA and AL.

The question wasn't what you call soft drinks, but what "soda" is to you. LOL

LOL, I just get chatty.

I did vote on seltzer.

 

[VeraBlue]

My first response is a carbonated beverage such as coke or ginger ale. However, I'd ask what kind.

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I'm with you on that. If I'm referring to mixed alcoholic drinks, then soda is club soda. But, if it's G rated beverages, I'd assume flavoured, like cola or ginger ale..

 

[JoAnn L.]

Where I come from soda is either baking soda or we get an ice cream soda.

 

[kadesma]

In this bunch, it would be a mixed bag
DH, daughters and #2 son...diet coke, pepsi
Cade, Ethan, consider lemonade as soda
Carson (17months.) and Olivia (6 months) dig milk as soda
Me don't drink it at all..
Now sons-in-law, well, beer
goofey bunch what?

kadesma

 

[Barbara L]

I changed the wording of the poll question, as I think it might have been a little confusing.

Barbara

 

[mrsmac]

We don't call soft drinks soda, to me soda is baking soda or soda water.

 

[Claire]

I have lived so many places. Now it is the midwest. Pop is things like Coke, Pepsi, etc. When you order a "Scotch and Soda" it should mean club soda. But you can still find pockets of confusion. When I was a child, my memere asked me if I wanted tonic, and I was totally confused.

 

[Foodfiend]

Unless they specified baking soda, I would be picking up coke/pepsi products.

 

[BreezyCooking]

It definitely depends on where you are raised &/or where you live. I grew up in NY, & "soda" is definitely defined as a carbonated beverage like Coke, Pepsi, Ginger Ale - even seltzer, etc.

Baking Soda is called "Baking Soda".

I've so far found the same to be true here in Virginia.

Now when I visited my relatives in Illinois, I never once heard the term soda with reference to anything. Carbonated beverages were called "pop". Paper bags were called "sacks". And - this really threw me - jelly doughnuts were called "Bismarcks"!!

What a wonderful diverse world it is we live in!!

 

[Alix]

Mmmmmmmm Bismarcks!!! I'm craving one now dang it!

Soda here is baking soda. Pop is what we call carbonated stuff.

 

[JoAnn L.]

I love frosted bismarcks with a cherry filling. Yum!

 

[The Z]

Soda, to me, includes all carbonated beverages. If someone were to call and say they just wanted 'soda' (with no other qualifying information) I would get carbonated water... just plain soda that one would use in making mixed drinks (although I sometimes just drink plain soda straight up).