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Pop, Soda or Coke?

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Real Estate Broker/Owner with Turn-Key Properties LLC, Missouri and Kansas Real Estate

POP SodaMy grand kids call me Pop, out of pure, unadulterated pretension I did a vanity Google on "pop" I found something really interesting.

When I moved to Missouri from upstate New York in 1973 I was shocked at the cultural differences, one of which was the pop vs soda wars. I had never heard of soda (or sodie as it was pronounced in Hallsville, MO).

So I was really confused. This was only part of the quandary, I remember one night I answered the phone and a lady said... "You're brother's gone off in a Holler"! I yelled to Mom, "Mom, some lady say;s Ray's yelling about something"! Having no idea that a holler in Missouri was a ditch.

My sister-in-law being from Missouri called those weeds at the side of the road "Shoo Make", we had always called is "soo-mac".

Boy, did I have a lot to learn. I thought shoe make was something a cobbler did.

Then came soda, or sodie! I had no idea what the heck that was. I drank pop!

So I found this website, seems some university is doing a study on the dialect differences pertaining to soda vs pop.

I found it rather fascinating. http://popvssoda.com:2998/POP VS SODA

Pretty fascinating!

Seems as they put it Pop is cooler! Or those in the north say pop more that soda, or sodie as they said in Hallsville, MO.

When I was 18 I moved to New Orleans,at that time the drinking age was 18 but the first drink I ordered in a tavern was club soda and limes.... The bartender said, you must be from New York!

I guess you take your history with you. You can even vote online http://popvssoda.com:2998/

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Comments (2)

Justin Ukaoma
Vizion KC - Kansas City, MO
Kansas City Real Estate Investments

That's a pretty interesting little map.  I was broght up saying pop but whenever we would visit relatives down south they would say coke.  I never realized how wide spread that was down there.

Mar 18, 2009 04:10 PM
Ben Edsall
Turn-Key Properties LLC, Missouri and Kansas Real Estate - Kansas City, MO

I have to wonder what the "other" responses were since they covered pop, soda and Coke.

Mar 19, 2009 03:48 AM