Pop or Soda?

I can't explain it myself, but here's the definition

QUININE [quinine] , white crystalline alkaloid with a bitter taste. Before the development of more effective synthetic drugs such as quinacrine, chloroquine, and primaquine, quinine was the specific agent in the treatment of malaria . Almost insoluble in water, it dissolves readily in alcohol and other organic solvents. It is derived from the bark, called quina quina by the indigenous people of Peru, of several species of Cinchona and is used in the form of a salt, especially the sulfate. By the middle of the 17th cent. Jesuit missionaries had brought cinchona bark to Europe from South America, and quinine was isolated in 1820 by the French chemists J. B. Caventou and P. J. Pelletier ; chemical synthesis was achieved in 1944 by R. B. Woodward and W. E. Doering, American chemists.

 

Well, don't drink Canadian Dry if you're pregnant...sheesh Nice to know!

 

that is correct

 

As a citizen of the land of pop, I proudly vote soda.

 

We normally do refer to it all as Coke in Texas. I dunno why, sort of dumb if you ask me. I've started trying to refer to it as soda, but it's not like it matters because when I'm referring to it, I either say Dr. Pepper or Coke cuz DP is what my boyfriend always drinks and Coke is my thing.

 

I'm from Texas, and sometimes people will call all those types of drinks 'coke'. "Soft drink" is also a pretty common term.

 

i grew up calling it pop in ontario. on the prairies, it was soda and now i call it kiddiecrack. that stuff is evil

cheers!

 

Soda pop.

 

fizzy, or fizzy drink

 

soda

 

I call it soda-pop.

 

Methinks the term 'pop' is more Canadian slang and 'soda' is more American, although I could be wrong. I've always said 'pop'.

 

I just call it all root beer.

 

Pop.

 

I call it soda, but most people here call it pop

i've met one of those "all soda is a coke" people before too

 

I say grab me a drink, generally. As for the rest, I don't have a preference at all.

 

I say pop. Soda sounds wierd to me.... totally.

 

minnesota, pop

lol

i try calling it soda... to be more... less minnesotan but it comes out rediciously norigen anyway...

so it's pop.

 

and a Dr Pepper is a DP (Kinky Ramona).

After reviewing the poll
seems there's a buncha yankees/ Canucks here... *L*

 

well I'm sure a yankee