Where is everyone from :0

[Squidmama]

I'm super duper curious! What's the weather like there? Do you say soda? Or pop? You don't hafta say the city if you're not comfy with it, just the state or providence or just the country :v!

 

I'm in the USA right now, in the state Pennsylvania near the city Erie. We say Pop here, our Chinese restraunt food is amazing and its icky humid!

[Noog]

I'm in the southern USA, where it's icky humid but we don't say "soda" or "pop", we just use the brand name....

[Squidmama]

Ooo like Cola? Or is it always specific? Where I live, if you just go like an hour or so, everyone says soda. Its so interesting that a hop skip over is different!

[Noog]

Ooo like Cola? Or is it always specific? Where I live, if you just go like an hour or so, everyone says soda. Its so interesting that a hop skip over is different!

 

We say Coke, Sprite, Fanta, 7UP, Pepsi, etc. I can't remember the last time I've heard something else besides Soft Drink or just Drink.

[TheOxymoron]

I'm on the, I guess nothern, East Coast. We say soda here. It's been grossly hot here for the last couple weeks :l Hopefully that'll change soon though, I hate the hot!

[rachiee]

I'm from New York, and I live just outside the city--ahem, New York City. :laughingsmiley: (I'm actually from there, but moved to the suburbs when I was less than a year old.)

In my area, there are like, 5-10 pizzerias per square mile. I don't know if that's true or not, but there are lots of pizzerias where I live. /understatement

Nearly everyone in my area goes to Jersey to get their gas. It's a heckuva lot cheaper and someone else pumps it for you. Also, if you want to go shopping in Jersey, there's no crazy-high sales tax on clothes. (There's also a big freakin' mall not too far from my place, but it's not in Jersey so um, sales tax. :P)

We say "soda" here, and you aren't going to get funny looks if you want to order a "pie." You also won't get funny looks if you say "talk" as "tawk," "dog" as "dawg," et cetera. XD

If a New Yorker (generally from around the area where I live, anyway) is talking about NYC, they will, most of the time, refer to it as "the city."

The weather here ranges from scorching hot and humid in the summer and bitter cold in the winter. I believe that the snowstorms are much worse than the heatwaves.

 

tl;dr: I don't live in NYC but pretty close to it. Soda = soda not pop lol, pizza = a pie, NYC = the city. :)

[TheOxymoron]

OMG New York! I've always wanted to go there! Tt's something I really want to do when I get older :) There's just so many cool things about it that I find super interesting! Okay, I'm done obsessing over your hometown now. Lol :P

[inkt]

I'm from Southern California - San Diego to be more specific. "Soda" is more common here. I think I laughed the first time I heard someone say "pop".

[Squidmama]

That's so neat Noog!

 

Yaaay Northern East cost. Its been soooooo gross here too. It just keeps getting hotter and hotter every summer. I'm gunna go north until it stops ;w;

 

 

Eee I was born in New York City and visit up there often its like aaaa one of my favrote places to be! In the city there are a lot of people that say pop--but like only in the district where all trains and mesuemes are. Prolly cause of all the tourists. Like, I had no idea the rest of the state says Soda until I visited my aunt and uncle. The first word I knew how to spell was pizza pie, lol.

 

Ooooooooooooooo Southern California! I want to visit there some day! San Diego always sounds so neat :I!

[Ali Cat]

Over in North Carolina, here xP It's ridiculously hot still; I think tomorrow is supposed to have a real feel of 105 or something?

 

But we say the name of the soda, like Noog was saying. Coke, Sprite, Pepsi, etc.

 

We do have Bojangles and Cookout. Which I hear are southeast chains, apparently. Someone, correct me if I'm wrong on that D:

[Ruto]

I live in Texas and it has been especially hot the past month. I hate the weather during summer. :( I say "soda" and "coke" interchangeably, regardless of the brand name.

[Wembly]

5-10 pizzerias per square mile.

Nearly everyone in my area goes to Jersey to get their gas. It's a heckuva lot cheaper and someone else pumps it for you. Also, if you want to go shopping in Jersey, there's no crazy-high sales tax on clothes.

"the city."

Soda = soda not pop lol, pizza = a pie, NYC = the city. :)

I agree with all these points. While I live in New Jersey not NY, it is nice to hear someone admit that people from NY come here all the time. Sometimes I think 1/2 the state is people visiting from NY.

 

There are seriously a ton of pizza places here too. I seriously just google maped pizza and there are 6 pizza places listed in a 2 mile road from my house and I know there are more that aren't listed. Also when referring to pizza, it is always a 'slice of pie' not a 'piece of pizza'

 

Also, I say I live by the beach, if you say 'oh so you live at the jersey shore' the answer is no, I live at the beach, because local people call it the beach, everyone else calls it the shore...

 

Oh and even here when people say the city, everyone is talking about NYC too. I never realized people in other places specified what city they were going to until I went to college in PA.

[Yuika]

I live in Florida, the "sunshine state," i.e. icky humid summer ALL YEAR 'ROUND. Maybe that sounds good to some people, but it is NOT. P: The only good thing about Florida is the beach and the expensive theme parks. And even the beach sort of sucks.

We say soda.

[xpinksugarxprincessx]

I live in Washington state, just a bit north of Seattle.

 

It's been really hot here for us, nearly 80. It really doesn't always rain (we don't even get the most rain in the country, on average) but this heat is a lot higher than we're used to. We're really not picky on anything. Soda is soda or pop or coke or whatever it is. I've never heard anybody debate about it at least. There are four Starbucks within walking distance of my house plus three other coffee shops (but I'm a Starbucks snob so I never go to any others). It's the strangest thing to me to go to another place and not have a Starbucks on every corner. I know I'm home when I'm at my airport because there are three Starbucks from getting off my plane to the exit.

 

And honestly, if you've ever read The Pacific Northwest According to Jeff Foxworthy (not sure if he really wrote it but I always hear it credited to him), it's exactly true.

[somekaitlin]

I'm in south/central Texas and it's hot and dry here too - I guess like the rest of the midwest this summer ^_^ . But people here just tend to stay indoors with their air conditioner. Until a few months ago I hadn't even realized that not everyone in the U.S. has an a/c - people tend to get heat stroke here if they don't have at least passable air cooling. I guess I've just been thinking about it lately.

 

As for ordering fizzy drinks, I agree with Noog - I say, "Can I have a Dr. Pepper?," but if someone's offering drinks to houseguests or something, my family has always said "Would you like some water, soda, etc." if we have more than one type of soda around. Otherwise we just ask if they want the band we have. So brand name in the singular, soda in the plural. Does that make any sense? Kinda sleepy...

 

Personally, I think the Chinese food here is not very good, but the Mexican food is amazing! XD

[Nika]

I'm in Oakland, California, where it's sunny and warm, but not grossly hot. I spent most of the summer working in Ohio, where it was 100% humidity and almost 100 degrees every day. I feel for you guys in the heat! And when people say The City here, they mean SF.

 

PS If you said pop here people would thing you're totally crazy. I never even heard the word until I spent a summer in Chicago.

[Miriam]

Texas! Livin' in a suburban town outside of Houston. I say soda and the weather here is extremely hot and humid. Darn this Texas drought...

[Kwa]

I live in Melbourne, Australia. We call soda 'Soft Drink' here, but usually just refer to the specific variety, Coke, Pepsi, Sprite or whatever. Contrary to popular beliefe, we don't have Koala's and Kangaroo's everywhere, you have to go to the zoo to see them and it's not a complete desert here. It's winter here at the moment, but we're heading into Spring now, so it's starting to warm up nicely!

 

Melbourne is a great place to live!! We have great schools an hospitals, lots of shopping and restraunts, it's right on the water, and only a few hours drive and your at the mountains in the snow. I would reccomend everyone come down under for a holiday one day! You'll never want to leave!

[Tedhaun]

To be honest, I really live in Rhode Island, and also near Hasbro. I'm possibly one of the only people here at TDN (as well as JNF, ToonZone, and RetroJunk) that actually lives near the place responsible for Transformers, G.I. Joe, My Little Pony, Mr. Potato Head, and a lot of other popular Hasbro stuff. :king:

[Ruka]

Almost everyone here who replied is from the US,

well, how about I introduced my own country: Singapore!

 

Singapore is located at South of Malaysia,

below Johor Bahru (our countries are linked by 2 Causeway Bridges :P).

It is a very small country, size of approx. 2.73 square miles!

The weather here is hot and humid... Causes me to sweat a lot! *cries*

And we only have 2 seasons: sun & rain (I'm so jealous you guys have the 4 seasons!)

Just like Noog, we people say Coke, Pespi etc., or we say fizzy/gassy drink.

Singapore is a multi-racial country, so the food there is diverse!

 

Edit: Anyone living in the same country as me? :P

[Spritzie]

I'm in Colorado, US... about an hour south of Denver.

 

Weather: All 4 seasons are distinct for us, but we generally have very short spring/fall.. the weather is always in a hurry to get super hot or freezing cold. In recent years, we haven't been getting the snow storms we used to in the winter. We often have 70 degree days in December/January. The weather can change quickly, from 70 degrees to snow. Or a blizzard that shuts down most of the state with massive amounts of snow, then there's no sign of the snow in most places within 24 hours. The last month, we've been having tons of severe thunderstorms will flooding, though before that, we were super dry and hot, with fires all over the state. (And we're normally very, very, very low humidity.)

 

I say pop. That's how I grew up, but I generally got looked at like I was crazy when I said it at a friend's house. I always liked what my friend from middle school's little brother always said (He was 5). He called every soda "Dr Pepsi Pop"

[Ashbash]

I'm in Indiana in the US. It's been pretty hot which I don't like. I'm ready for winter haha. I live kind of near the Chicago area and we say pop. But my school is on the other end of the state and everyone there seems to say Soda. So I personally just say whichever one comes out of my mouth first haha.

[Sakabato]

I'm from Malaysia, obviously, living here in Rawang.

 

The weather here is typically warm and humid.

 

I say soda, because it sounds more specific.

[Manta]

I'm a New Yorker!! :D Nassau County, so it's far away enough from the city that I can see the horizon, but close enough that I can feel smug when I tell my Pennsylvania friends "I'm less than 30 minutes from the city, traffic depending!"

 

Yeah. It's soda. At school (I go to school in the middle of Pennsylvania) there's always people who say pop, and people who say soda. It's really silly haha xD

 

NYC is the city. If I mean another city, I'll say the name, but if I'm talking about the city, it's NYC :)

 

I dislike the weather here. It's always humid. A few weeks ago, it hit 110. Good thing I was out of state :rolleyes_anim:

 

Also, I fold my pizza ;)

[Nimphal]

Ehm, I originally come from Bulgaria but live in Wales, UK right now... I always say Cola - soda means a different thing in Bulgarian :D The weather in Bulgaria right now is hot like hell, but in Wales it is typically British, I enjoy the latter :D