Do you call it soda or pop?

[Elthy]

In Germany its also softdrinks...

[MartGonzo]

Coal? We had to make do with carefully-polished sheep droppings!

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If we're not careful, this could go on for some time...

(I was actually serious about the bread and dripping sandwiches, BTW; it's what happens when you're fed by people who grew up during the Great Depression. But nevermind...)

You could be right, but I'll try and restrain myself, there's something about reciting Monty Python sketches that's addictive

In truth I've never had bread and dripping sandwiches but know plenty of people that have, working class northern England towns tend to hold on to these things long past everyone else has forgotten.

[Frozen_Heart]

Neither.

In the UK they're called soft drinks.

[lajoswinkler]

In Hungary soda means carbonated water, and pop means music like Rihanna and Lady Gaga.

An interesting convergence on Arkansas vocabulary is that old people call every kind of sweet soft drink "Cola". Fanta is called "Yellow Cola". Probably because the first Western-style soft drink in Hungary was Cola.

Pretty much the same thing goes for Croatia, but nowdays "soda-voda" (carbonated water) is an archaic term from the times when it was made by waiters using those soda siphon bottles you can see in old movies. "Carbonated mineral water" is what we use instead for decades now for pure carbonated water, and actual names for Cola, Fanta, Sprite, etc.

Pop means that kind of music, or a Christian priest.

I don't think any old people here call other fizzy drinks "cola", but maybe it's because the ones that did already all died.

Some old people call carbonated mineral water "radenska", which is a brand of bottled carbonated mineral water that was very popular when it came out decades ago.

[szputnyik]

In Hungary soda syphons are still popular, but with a twist: vodka is poured into them instead of water. The resulting fizzy vodka is called "fény" (light).

[razark]

"coke" or "soda" is common around here. Otherwise, it's called by the actual brand name.

Now that I think about it, my children usually call it "soda".

[Woopert]

Soda. You should add an option for "soda pop," a lot of people say that as well in various parts of the world. (at least in the United States, other countries have their own terms )

[MC.STEEL]

Highly carbonized hydration fluid is what i call it.

[L3GO]

Australians and any other normal person could call it Soft Drink!

[Capt.Joseph Kerbertson]

I grew up in the Dakotas... it was coke.... all of it. Pepsi, mt.dew, sprite... it was coke.

[dharak1]

Pop. I live in Alberta, the Texas of Canada.

[TheCanadianVendingMachine]

I am the same with dhark. Pop, Alberta Canada. Very, very, very close to Edmonton

[Flymetothemun]

Pop. Favourite kinds are Mt. Dew, Dr. Pepper, and Birch and Root beers.

[tygoo7]

I say pop. My favorite is Mt. Dew.

[TheScareCake!]

In Lithuania, we call them Limonadas (lemonade), but we call it like that not because of lemons. My language is strange...

[AlexanderB]

Frisdrank (Fresh Drink), or shorter: Fris.

We also use the word Limonade (lemonade) for non-fizzy lemonade

and Sap for fruit juices.

[Ravenchant]

Gazirana pijaÄÂa (carbonated beverage) for softdrinks or just by the brand name. Carbonated water is either "mineralna" or Slatina/Radenska for two well-known producers.

[Nuke]

i like to call it 'not vodka'

[lajoswinkler]

Gazirana pijaÄÂa (carbonated beverage) for softdrinks or just by the brand name. Carbonated water is either "mineralna" or Slatina/Radenska for two well-known producers.

Well I might as well write it down in native Croatian instead of English, too.

It's "gazirano piće"/"gazirani napitak" for things like Cola-Cola, Fanta, Sprite, 7UP, etc.

Carbonated water is "gazirana mineralna voda" or just short "gazirana mineralna" or, as I've said, "radenska" (mainly used by old people who lived most of their lives in SFRJ). Regular mineral water is "mineralna voda" or just "mineralna".

"Gazirana" comes from French "gaz" for gas.