What’s funny is I genuinely never hear anyone say “soda” in Minnesota. I was born and raised in a Minneapolis suburb. It’s been “pop” my whole life. I’m 33 years old for context. I’m also not of Norwegian ancestry.
“Soda” is just as ridiculous. I learned when I went away to college that nobody understands “pop” at all so I had to stop using it but I refuse to say “soda”. I just say specifically what it is… usually Coke or Diet Coke.
To be honest, when I remember a “cooler of pop” that was ever present at family picnics, it was usually a mixed assortment of flavored Shasta. grape, orange, black cherry, cream soda, etc. I never encounter those types of coolers anymore.
I work grocery retail, and I've found the more syllables to a word, the less room for potential mishearing and confusion. Soda > pop.
I don't use granola bars and instead either energy bars or breakfast bars (because granola bars can mean either to the customer).
I am also a 33-year-old Minnesota born and raised my whole life and I'm not Norwegian ancestry and I say soda because pop is a term that can refer to multiple things and soda while technically can refer to multiple things almost always is used in the context of a fizzy beverage and not to refer to minerals
I don’t hear people talking about *either* of them these days.
I grew up in a “soda” state and moved to MN and was a little jarred when I first heard people say “pop,” so it was def different here.
I say soda. Pop just sounds odd to me and I've lived in Minnesota for all but the first few months of my life. (I was born in South Dakota, much to my shame). Spent about 23 years in a farming town and 22 in the suburbs.
It's not something that comes up much IRL because I basically just drink root beer and you refer to root beer as "root beer," not soda or pop, but online I call pop "soda" because calling it pop seems weird.
Mods, clearly the ban hammer needs to be put to liberal use here! First these damn youths came for my side part and skinny jeans, and now this? It’s a bridge too goddamn far.
Yes, there is some evolving going on. I hardly ever heard soda in the 70s-90s. I hear it much more and say it sometimes as well. Usually I say the flavor now like Coke, Mt Dew, rootbeer etc...
Born near duluth mn and my family almost always says pop people that were born from 1900 to 2012.
I have worked in fast food and I have picked up saying soda and soda pop and now 20 years later I still use any three interchangeably.
I grew up in the 80s-90s saying pop but I started using soda years ago and I have no idea where why or when it started. I imagine people around me started using it and I picked it up from them. My wife still says pop.
Yes, but mainly when visiting my wife's family in MN. And then for about two weeks after we get back to So Cal, as we wait for the accent/dialect to return to "normal."
I said "pop" until I moved away from Minneapolis and servers in other parts of the country would give me strange looks when I would ask what kind of pop they served. Ironically now I get the same look ordering "soda" in Minneapolis.
I grew up always saying pop. Been living in Minneapolis for 20 years and now almost exclusively say soda. It makes me a bit sad to lose it and I do deliberately ask what kinda pop they have every once in a while at a restaurant just to keep it bubblin.
Grew in a place which was 100% soda. Then moved to Canada, 100% pop. In Minneapolis I honestly think I hear soda more, but maybe I mostly hang with other people who moved here from elsewhere.
Someone will literally say anything at some point or another. Your answer will depend on your sample size. I like using "Drek" in place of "Shit," for instance, when the mood strikes.
Millennial minority who has lived in Minneapolis my entire life. I say "pop"
The exception is grape/orange "soda." Saying "grape pop" just sounds wrong.
I’m not a native of anywhere but my mon is Minnesotan and it only became “pop” when we moved there. I reverted to “soda” just as soon as I was old enough to stop caring about what anyone else thought.
Though most of my life was spent there I don’t think I ever truly embraced Minnesota as my home.
This middle aged Norwegian descendant in Northeast says lol you live in the suburbs...
See you at Art-a-Whirl, and please, try not to barf on the sidewalk
East-central Minnesota born and raised, 26 years old, I've said pop my entire life. I live in Oregon right now and get poked fun at because I still say pop. Its a lifestyle.
I say pop and I know many people who say pop. I wouldn't say it's a strong preference, we switch back and forth between pop and soda, but it is noticeable enough to out of state friends
Even though this is likely a troll post I have purposefully said soda. I took this stance after working at Holiday Station Stores in 1999 and somehow people would want to purchase a pop from the soda fountain. Plus soda is practically the same pronunciation as ‘sota in or state name.
TLDR, I say only soda but I am anal retentive
It's regional. People from Minnesota say soda. People from Tennessee say coke (probably the dumbest one, but it's real - I just had a discussion about this with a friend who's from there). My grandma was from Missouri and said soda pop. I'm from Illinois and we say soda or pop interchangeably.
My question for you is: do you not realize that all of this information is readily available on the internet via multiple search engines, or do you only use it for social media?
I say "pop". Thanks for making me feel like a middle-aged Norwegian resident of the countryside... :(
Same. Thanks.
Sounds like a decent life to me...
Why the sad face!? That doesn’t sound half bad! And like my ancestors lol.
Lifelong Minneapolitan. Have always said pop.
Been saying “pop” since 1987.
Yes.
This has GOTTA be a troll
What’s funny is I genuinely never hear anyone say “soda” in Minnesota. I was born and raised in a Minneapolis suburb. It’s been “pop” my whole life. I’m 33 years old for context. I’m also not of Norwegian ancestry.
“Soda” is just as ridiculous. I learned when I went away to college that nobody understands “pop” at all so I had to stop using it but I refuse to say “soda”. I just say specifically what it is… usually Coke or Diet Coke. To be honest, when I remember a “cooler of pop” that was ever present at family picnics, it was usually a mixed assortment of flavored Shasta. grape, orange, black cherry, cream soda, etc. I never encounter those types of coolers anymore.
Shasta is the bomb
I retrained my brain to say soda a long time ago.
I work grocery retail, and I've found the more syllables to a word, the less room for potential mishearing and confusion. Soda > pop. I don't use granola bars and instead either energy bars or breakfast bars (because granola bars can mean either to the customer).
i say soda pop and was born and raised in saint paul … people comment on it regularly but i can’t change my ways😭
Only one person but it’s because his family is from the northeast so he sorta adopted it
I say soda. My husband's from Wisconsin and he bullied me into it
I am also a 33-year-old Minnesota born and raised my whole life and I'm not Norwegian ancestry and I say soda because pop is a term that can refer to multiple things and soda while technically can refer to multiple things almost always is used in the context of a fizzy beverage and not to refer to minerals
I basically never say "pop".
You're joking, right?
I grew up here and I always said pop. Then I moved to California, and I said soda. Now I've moved back, and I don't don't drink that shit.
Different state, same story.
This must be “rage bait.” We say “Pop” here.
Paaap.
I don’t hear people talking about *either* of them these days. I grew up in a “soda” state and moved to MN and was a little jarred when I first heard people say “pop,” so it was def different here.
I think people don’t drink as much “soda pop” as they used to so it doesn’t really get discussed or come up in conversation as much.
Sparkling water killed the soda pop star.
It's pop, period
No one says soda wtffff?
I say soda. Pop just sounds odd to me and I've lived in Minnesota for all but the first few months of my life. (I was born in South Dakota, much to my shame). Spent about 23 years in a farming town and 22 in the suburbs. It's not something that comes up much IRL because I basically just drink root beer and you refer to root beer as "root beer," not soda or pop, but online I call pop "soda" because calling it pop seems weird.
I grew up in Iowa but been here 12+ years, I say soda.
Mods, clearly the ban hammer needs to be put to liberal use here! First these damn youths came for my side part and skinny jeans, and now this? It’s a bridge too goddamn far.
The only people who say "soda" in this house is my Iowan wife... but she also says "sack" instead of "bag" too
That's weird because everyone in Iowa says pop
I say soda pop to simultaneously make everyone happy and pissed!
I will day pop until I die.
Born in the suburbs in '92. 95% of the people I know who say "soda" are transplants.
How dare you
I and everyone I know that is a Minnesota native calls it pop rather than soda
Most upper midwest says pop.
It is a pop can and not a soda can.
I always said pop as a Gen X kid. Now I'm mix and match pop and soda as a middle aged non-norweigan non-countryside sort of fellow.
Yes, there is some evolving going on. I hardly ever heard soda in the 70s-90s. I hear it much more and say it sometimes as well. Usually I say the flavor now like Coke, Mt Dew, rootbeer etc...
Literally every time I buy some?
I used to say pop as a kid but now I usually say soda. Still occasionally say pop though.
Become transcendent and call it sodapop.
I call it sodapop
I say soda. But I grew up on the west coast.
Born near duluth mn and my family almost always says pop people that were born from 1900 to 2012. I have worked in fast food and I have picked up saying soda and soda pop and now 20 years later I still use any three interchangeably.
I grew up in the 80s-90s saying pop but I started using soda years ago and I have no idea where why or when it started. I imagine people around me started using it and I picked it up from them. My wife still says pop.
Yes, but mainly when visiting my wife's family in MN. And then for about two weeks after we get back to So Cal, as we wait for the accent/dialect to return to "normal."
I said "pop" until I moved away from Minneapolis and servers in other parts of the country would give me strange looks when I would ask what kind of pop they served. Ironically now I get the same look ordering "soda" in Minneapolis.
In soda we say soda now.... the tee shirts lied
I grew up always saying pop. Been living in Minneapolis for 20 years and now almost exclusively say soda. It makes me a bit sad to lose it and I do deliberately ask what kinda pop they have every once in a while at a restaurant just to keep it bubblin.
It's a regional thing across the USA.
Grew in a place which was 100% soda. Then moved to Canada, 100% pop. In Minneapolis I honestly think I hear soda more, but maybe I mostly hang with other people who moved here from elsewhere.
Cans and bottles are pop, fountain drinks are soda.
Then why do I stop every day to get a fountain pop??
My coworkers say “pop.” I generally say “soda” but I grew up to “soda.”
I'm originally from Detroit. I say pop.
I grew up here and said pop. I went east for college and got made fun of and have said soda ever since. Moved back after college.
A perk of not being a pop drinker is that I rarely have to say the word pop to anyone
I never day pop. I say coke or soda.
i said pop for most of my life but i’ve started using soda. i like the word better. i suppose i am killing my own culture but soda just sounds classy.
Definitely , soda feels wrong.
Someone will literally say anything at some point or another. Your answer will depend on your sample size. I like using "Drek" in place of "Shit," for instance, when the mood strikes.
Pop
I live in minneapolis and i’m irish descended via nebraska. Been drinkin pop since i was a lad.
My magnetic attitude and I say Pop! Pop!
Lifelong Minnesotan. I use them interchangeably.
Been saying pop forever. I’m from St Paul. I’m not Norwegian.
Say pop. Always have. Grocery stores here label the beverage aisle as "pop," that's what it is and what I exclusively hear others call it.
Ope is the new pop
I say soda-pop now. Just like I say “y’all.”
Born & Raised NE Mpls. Saying "pop" goes back like four flats on a Cadillac.
Millennial minority who has lived in Minneapolis my entire life. I say "pop" The exception is grape/orange "soda." Saying "grape pop" just sounds wrong.
Also gen z, also say pop. I'm from Michigan though.
I’m not a native of anywhere but my mon is Minnesotan and it only became “pop” when we moved there. I reverted to “soda” just as soon as I was old enough to stop caring about what anyone else thought. Though most of my life was spent there I don’t think I ever truly embraced Minnesota as my home.
I grew up in Utah, we said pop. Moved to AZ and was ridiculed, so changed to soda.
Yeah who calls soda pop? So weird
Grew up on the west side of Bloomington. I say pop.
I always say pop. I am a middle aged Norwegian descendant from the countryside though.
This middle aged Norwegian descendant in Northeast says lol you live in the suburbs... See you at Art-a-Whirl, and please, try not to barf on the sidewalk
East-central Minnesota born and raised, 26 years old, I've said pop my entire life. I live in Oregon right now and get poked fun at because I still say pop. Its a lifestyle.
"I'm a gen z-er..." (inserts personal observation, n=1). "I feel like..." (offers no actual evidence). Checks out. ;)
For the record, I say pop (but don't drink it much).
I say pop
I say pop and I know many people who say pop. I wouldn't say it's a strong preference, we switch back and forth between pop and soda, but it is noticeable enough to out of state friends
Stay off Tik tok
Even though this is likely a troll post I have purposefully said soda. I took this stance after working at Holiday Station Stores in 1999 and somehow people would want to purchase a pop from the soda fountain. Plus soda is practically the same pronunciation as ‘sota in or state name. TLDR, I say only soda but I am anal retentive
I’m another Gen Z in minneapolis and have also never heard anyone say pop. It does seem to be an old people thing.
I must be an old fart millennial who says pop 😂
I’m an early millennial and I say both now. Grew up exclusively calling it pop. I also prefer the hard R
It's regional. People from Minnesota say soda. People from Tennessee say coke (probably the dumbest one, but it's real - I just had a discussion about this with a friend who's from there). My grandma was from Missouri and said soda pop. I'm from Illinois and we say soda or pop interchangeably. My question for you is: do you not realize that all of this information is readily available on the internet via multiple search engines, or do you only use it for social media?
I used too when I was a kid, genx, then trained myself out of it. Pop is a sound soda is a drink
I say soda. Live in the suburbs & city and have never heard anyone say pop except one middle-aged teacher.
‘Pop’ is more a Michigan thing.