What ever happened to people knowing the roads?

[Pete from Boston]

"Pop" LOL.  I live in Oklahoma where everyone says "pop" and I am still not used to it.  I also had a girlfriend in Missouri who said "soda" which still doesn't sound right to me.  Where I come from in Arkansas, everything is a "coke".

In my part of North Carolina, some people say "drink" for all carbonated beverages. I imagine it gets confusing if an outsider asks for a drink and gets a soda instead though.

I grew up in eastern NC where we mostly say "soda" so hearing anything else is weird for me. Here's a map of the divide, it's interesting:

Wow, why so many names for tonic?

[hotdogPi]

Where is the yellow in this picture? Southern New Hampshire? Oklahoma?

[The Nature Boy]

Where is the yellow in this picture? Southern New Hampshire? Oklahoma?

The choice of yellow in a map that also has green and blue was a bit weird. But it looks to me like Southern New Hampshire is a lighter shade of red but I could be wrong. It would seem weird that that southern NH would randomly use "soft drink" when the surrounding area uses soda (with the exception of some Bostonians).

[1995hoo]

I've only known one person who ever routinely used the term "soft drink," and he was from North Carolina. About the only place I normally hear that term used has been in various McDonald's TV commercials over the years.

[hbelkins]

It's pop here.

My Vue hybrid shuts off when the vehicle is stopped in "D" and the brake is depressed, such as at a red light or in a drive-thru.