Soft Drinks

I stumbled across a map of "Generic Names For Soft Drinks" today as I was surfing ye olde interweb. This map is a product of our newly data obsessed culture. I'm sure these statistics haven't changed much in the last 20 years, but our ability to collect them has gotten much easier, so here you go. Because you've always wondered, and now you can know. Here in Detroit, pop is definitely what you call soft drinks.

I still think it would be a little weird for someone to ask me "what kind of coke you want?" Would you say pepsi coke? sprite coke? coke coke? I guess it's no different than "what kind of jacuzzi did you buy?" No wonder Faygo doesn't do well outside of michigan. People from the south would think "what the hell is Red Pop? oh, you mean Red Coke. " I guess the real question is what do the people in the "other" category call pop/soda/coke? There seem to be some states where it varies by county. In one county it's pop, in another it's soda or coke. That would kinda be like living on the edge of a time zone.

I am happy to see that even in this mass marketed corporate oblivion that we call America, that there is still some regional distinction.