andrewjnyc said:
I can't believe the game refers to soda as "pop". I'm truly offended! Time to start a petition and call Jack Thompson...
I'm from Buffalo ... what's this soda thing you keep talking about?
BTW - If you are going to use the short-hand form ... Pop is correct, not soda.
Technically, soda now is a superset that incorporates beverages that come in the non-carbonated variety; loganberry, etc.
and carbonated beverages; cola, etc.
When one wants to use a single word to describe either subset, the colloquialism is for soda to represent no carbonation, and pop to represent carbonated ones.
The history stems from the original artificial drinks being termed sodas
and much later similar beverages added carbonation they were dubbed soda pop.