Alright Midwest peeps let’s settle this heated debate.
Pop or Soda?
STL: “soda” or “sodie”
Michigander here - Pop.
Northern Illinois checking in. It’s pop.
Soda is where ya go for the land of 10,000 lakes.
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).
Soda. But I also moved here from the west coast and held on to soda as it trolled my midwest friends
Pop (in Illinois)
So we’re fighting already? lmao
I say soda. I feel it’s about split 50/50 in my local area
Soda, always and forever. (I even converted friends and my spouse from “pop.”)
I use both; often soda to pad out shorter sentences and pop for longer.
Pop in iowa
Pop
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).
