Alright Midwest peeps let’s settle this heated debate.
Pop or Soda?
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STL: “soda” or “sodie”
Soda. But I also moved here from the west coast and held on to soda as it trolled my midwest friends
Michigander here - Pop.
Northern Illinois checking in. It’s pop.
Soda is where ya go for the land of 10,000 lakes.
I use both; often soda to pad out shorter sentences and pop for longer.
Soda, always and forever. (I even converted friends and my spouse from “pop.”)
So we’re fighting already? lmao
Pop
Pop normally, but I switch to soda when traveling.
Next question should be gym shoes, tennis shoes, or sneakers.
What I’d like to know is if the grass needs mowing or the grass needs mowed?
Strangely, Decatur, IL is in the “soda” region, but my family usually says, “pop.” I knew a guy from Peoria that said “sodie,” no idea if that was regional or just him.
My spouse is from that central IL area and also says sodie.
We also used to talk about “booze cruises” where I’m at (northern IL), and she always knew it as “road sodez” (or something like that).
I’d just like to know why STL and the central IL region is so deep in saying “soda”. Granted, any time I’ve headed up to Chicago I don’t think I’ve heard “pop” so I’m not sure how ubiquitous it is in most of IL even including Chicago. But having not grown up there I can’t say myself.
Anyways, it’s definitely soda in most of IL. Don’t think I’ve ever heard it called pop there, other than by my grandma who was from the southside of Chicago.
It’s absolutely pop in Chicagoland area, where I grew up. I knew I was “downstate” when I started hearing soda, which to me used to be a float (pop with ice cream in it).
Pop (in Illinois)
Pop in iowa
