When you go out to eat do your order pop or soda?

My brother-in-law, Robb Schmidgall, just sent me a funny research study that was done to determine what generic name people use for their beverages. The study maps out what parts of the country use pop, soda, and coke to refer to their soft drinks.

Growing up in Minnesota it was definitely pop. In fact, I remember going to the pop shop as a kid.

What I don’t get is how many people in the southeastern US use coke to refer to soda. So how do you order a Pepsi Is it just me? Coke is coke. Soda is soda. But it looks like there are a large percentage of disillusioned people who refer to all soda-pop as coke

Not sure why this fascinates me so much Must be Friday.

Check out the map.