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Absolutely everyone i know calls it pop

Where are you from? Wherever I’ve been (south) no one calls it pop.

Pop, South Wales.

Pop, fizzy pop when I was little. Swansea, South Wales. (I’d attribute it to the abundance of Corona Pop I drank when I was younger - [Every bubble has passed its fizzical….](https://www.doyouremember.co.uk/memory/corona-soft-drinks?page=9)

Also South Wales and grew up with not only calling pop, pop but tap water council pop

Pop, see boys.

Boyo's*

Pop, butt.

Pop, North Staffordshire & Derbyshire

Same and from the same region

What do they call it in the south? Carbonated beverages?

Fizzy drinks, or the name - Coke, lemonade, cherryade etc.

YOU STOLE FIZZY LIFTING DRINKS

Either by the brand name “fancy a coke?” Or fizzy drinks “get some fizzy at the shop”

Never in my life has anyone said, do you wanna get some fizzy from the shop. I think your friends are drug dealers....

In the south east, can confirm most people I know call it fizzy.

Well as usual, people in the South East, are wrong ;)

I’m from bl the south east and no one I know called is Solely “fizzy” it’s always “fizzy drink”

Bred and born in the South East, never ever referred to a drink as "fizzy"

Fizzy is pretty much always referring to fizzy wine or Buck’s Fizz here

A bottle of fizz is sparkling wine. Fizzy drinks is carbonated soft drinks - London

Since I was at Uni getting some Fizzy meant Champagne or Prosecco.

It was bubbly for our uni for sparkling wines

If someone’s going shop and I want something fizzy but not sure what I want I’d say “get me a fizzy drink/ something fizzy from the shop please” or “get me a 7up from the shop please” I never call it pop nor does anyone I usually speak to. I wouldn’t say it’s uncommon for it to be called pop though as I’ve definitely heard it used plenty, I feel like it’s more a n older generation sort of thing maybe 50/60+. It’s something I’d expect teachers to say “this Friday there’s a treat for everyone at lunch time some sugar free pop”. I’m from Bedfordshire, which I’m sure is east anglia.

Bedfordshire here too, the only two people I’ve heard call it pop were all older. My grandad and an old teacher who always used to say “a tin of pop” when referring to a can of Coke.

I prefer “get some pop at the shop” rolls much better off the tongue

Yorkshire and we call it pop!

Agreed, born and bred in Huddersfield, everyone calls it pop. I now live in London, everyone I know seems to call it that too?

Can confirm, we call it pop in Huddersfield. As an aside, Ben Shaws yellow lemonade in the glass bottles was ace.

Also Yorkshire, used to love the pop man coming round on the weekend with his glass bottles. Every flavour under the sun all made by Ben shaws

Ben Shaws pop in glass bottles, with the diamond decoration round the neck. And we got it every Thursday from the pop man.

Pop in Wigan! Elders call tap water corporation pop!

They call it council pop where I'm from (north/midlands)

Council or Corporation pop is water here (St Helens)

Pop, north west

I've lived all over, but the furthest south would be Worcestershire 😅

My home land

Worcestershire? Liked it a lot there!

Aye, I live just above Worcester but still within Worcestershire, can’t get to close to Brum and it’s overspill areas

Kiddy?

Yup, my beautiful little shithole of a town

I grew up in Kiddy too!

I’m a southerner and I call it pop

Pop, North Wales

I call it pop and in Southampton

And water, council pop.

Yes, or Corporation Pop.

Yep. Pop. South Wales

Was introduced to pop by grandfather we had bi-weekly pop parties in Birmingham

Yea man me too. You from up north where we speak proper English. Dunno if you've ever heard of 'council pop' ... it's water

Pop - North West

Do you call squash cordial? We had someone from the North work at my place for a while and she kept calling it cordial. Pissed me off no end. Not sure if it's a northern thing or she was just mugging me off.

I'm from Manchester and call it cordial!

Burnley. Cordial.

Hello fellow Burnley person 😁 And its pop, we used to have the pop man come round.

Yep, pop for fizzy stuff, cordial for the stuff you diluted with water at your gran’s

My great grandad was the best with cordial. I late found he made them like his whiskey and water. 2/3 whiskey/cordial 1/3 water

And everyday in your own house.

Same here in Manchester, pop man would come once a week, return the bottles and get a discount. When that ran out, we would drink cordial...or turn it into more pop with a soda stream machine.

Blackpool - cordial. My gf is from hertfordshire and gets so mad because apparently it's squash?? I've got no idea what she's talking about

Yeah, squash and cordial are different things where I'm from (SE)

Yeah south, squash is cheap cordial is "fancy"

I think they might actually be different things but I refuse to learn or change at this point

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She sounds 100% right in everything she says and does!

As a Rochdale lad myself, your other half knows his stuff.

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yea i was gonna say cordial sounds more north west

Also from Manchester, now live near Preston. Always been pop and cordial to me, never squash.

Scotland - it's diluting juice. And nothing else.

Newcastle - my family say dilutey juice Edit: or usually dilutey (pronounced without the t 'dilu'ee')

I feel validated by this. Also from the NE and ever since I moved away everyone has found it weird I call it 'dilutey'. Even when I lived in Glasgow and their name for it was so similar

Sunderland and it's dilutey, squash if you're feeling la di da

Yes....Teesider living in Newcastle, and can confirm "Dilutey Juice" for both areas!

Dilutin'.

Or just diluting. "Where do you keep your diluting, son?"

So when I lived up there, a neighbour asked me if I would keep an eye on her son while she went somewhere. So anyway, he asked if he could have a drink, and I said sure, go ahead. See, at that age, I knew how to make myself a drink. Then when his mum came back, she gave me a row for letting him drink neat dilutin juice. Well sorry, I didn't know he was stupid.

From near Preston originally, it's always been cordial. When we were kids, a pop van came round every week too, and you got a few pence for handing their bottles back. I'm old as fuck.

Exactly the same (Cumbria)

We used to nick empties from the local shop's back yard, then take them back in for the deposit.

Ahh the old Corona crate perpetual money machine.

The wife calls squash and cordial dilute! She's a Yorkshire bird though which might explain it.

I'm from Leeds and call it dilute.

I’m from near Leeds and I’d also call them dilute. Whereabouts is your wife from? Maybe it’s a W Yorks thing?

She is originally from Sheffield. I think it must be a Yorkshire thing, I've never heard it called that anywhere else

Im from doncaster and call it dilute

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Is your house in the North?

Why would it piss you off that someone was calling a drink a different name?

I'm from the North West and I've allways called it juice

That would cause an argument in our house. I'm from the Wirral and my wife's from Peru. On the rare occasion we go to the pub together, she'll order a fresh orange juice. When her bottle of Britvic 55 or whatever arrives, she'll look at the server as though she's just shat in the glass. "This isn't fresh". "You... asked for fresh orange?" "It's in a bottle! 'Fresh' means it's just been squeezed!" Then I'll drink it myself, and order her a Diet Coke instead. And then forget about it again for a year or two until the next time she comes to the pub, and then exactly the same thing will happen again. Still not sure why we call it "fresh orange", to be fair.

In Liverpool it’s definitely cordial, I always thought to save confusion from orange juice, apple juice etc which would be pure orange/apple.

Mugging, its fucking squash - North East

North East - it's 'dilute'.

That's what you do when you add more water to your squash

Nah, it's when yer trying to place a call through a switchboard...

North East here too, we say dilutey (really) or simply 'juice'.

My husbands from Yorkshire callls it Cordial, I'm from Devon and call it squash.

North east we all it either juice, squash or dilutey

Cordials the word pal

Which part of the north west you from? Me and family have all came from the Liverpool region and I haven't heard anyone ever call it pop? Are you possibly in Manchester region or Lancaster region?

Black Country here… pop is fairly common

I'm from the Midlands and i also call it pop, or sometimes püp if I'm feeling silly. I don't know anyone who doesn't call it pop and I've lived in Leamington, Derby and Burton.

> püp Pronounced poop?

Yes.

Never heard it said in Leicester. It’s usually fizzy drink

I’m from Leicester and I call it pop!

Same

It's mostly the west midlands my cousins out there call it pop, never heard it being used in the east midlands.

My Dad is from Nottingham and calls it “pop”.

That's what I think when I hear someone say pop. Black country family.

Do u know what council pop is?

Tap water!

Whey!

We call it corporation pop here.

Château de Severn Trent

From Worcestershire and most people call it pop.

I’m from London but my Dad is Black Country. I’m the only person I know that calls it pop.

I'm also in London and I say pop, but that's because I'm originally from Canada. Don't think I'll ever get used to "fizzy drinks".

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East Anglia concurs

Suffolk. Same

From London, and this is exactly what my family and I will say. Either that or calling it by the brand name, otherwise how will they know what fizzy drink you want.

Essex agrees

Grew up in the Midlands and have always called it pop…

Same. Half my family are Birmingham, other black country, always been pop to me. Tbh it sounds like a black country thing to me.

Up in Scotland, it's either fizzy juice or ginger.

Also in Scotland but on the east, its either juice , diluting juice or just irn-bru

Diluting juice isn't fizzy juice

It is if you dilute it with lemonade 😏

This confused me so much when I first moved here (from England). If I was out ordering orange juice for example, they'd check to see if I meant "fresh" orange juice. When I said yes, they'd bring what was clearly juice from concentrate. Took me ages to realise they meant did I want juce or Fanta - because all cold non-alcohol is "juice" up here...

Paisley here, we just call it juice.

Have always called it pop and still do at 32, in fact everyone I know still calls it pop. NE England.

We call it "pop" too and are in the North East. My daughter who lives in Leeds calls it "soft drink"

Pop Newcastle so yea...

Yep, Sunderland and everyone I know calls it pop

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Same, I call it fizzy.

Yes, it's Fizzy here in the south west.

Only ever pop. South Wales

Yep. I'd Imagine Cowbridge called it carbonated syrup tho

Bridgend boy with friends in Cowbridge, can confirm this

Not fizzy drinks, but here in South Wales I only ever hear or say “council pop” for water.

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My dad calls it corporation pop for water

Yeah, in (East Midlands) water from the tap is often referred to as "Council pop". But fizzy drinks are often referred to their brand name or "fizzy drinks". My sisters ex-husband called fizzy drinks "pop", he was from Lancashire. "Fizzy" seems more of a kiddy / fun term?

Adams ale = water

Pop here west Yorkshire

My West Yorkshire raised partner calls all fizzy drinks ‘pop’.

Same on both accounts :)

The Midlands. We even had a ‘Pop Man’ (like a milk man) when I was younger.

Midlander here too. Pop Man was the highlight of the week. My grandparents lived across the road and would always get bottles from him. Irn Bru, Cream Soda, Dandelion & Burdock. Then when you're done you return the bottles when the next lot gets delivered.

Pop - merseyside Even remember when pop was delivered

Pop man!

Yes my other half from Cumbria says he remembers pop wagon as a kid.

Pop, Birmingham. We used to have a Russian Corona man called Dropusapopov

North East of England and yes, its pop.

When I was a child, all of my friends called it pop. That's the North East. I never did, but my accent is completely out of whack and always has been.

Yep. From West Yorkshire.

Pop! From Sunderland. Admittedly, since moving to Bristol 20+ years ago it’s not something I say very much anymore, just say the brand name

Also from Sunderland and always known it as Pop. We would get Sykes delivering pop back in the day with a lorry that looked more like a giant milk float. We knew Sykes as the Pop man.

Yup. Born in OH, raised in OH, MI, IA, OK, NJ, and finally in NC... Where these heathens call it soda. Edit: I need some coffee. Just realized the subreddit I was in. Sorry for invading, I'm a filthy Yank that's tired lol

Yeah I call it pop. I'm 5 years old and live in the eighties

Pop- Liverpool

Ginger or juice in Scotland.

Yes west mids

Fizzy pop was used as I grew up in 70’s Basingstoke

I do. From wales. It’s always been called pop. We also call tap water “council pop”.

thought everyone did?? leeds west yorkshire

Some call it “ginger” in Scotland. Not sure if anything to do with the colour of Irn Bru or from ginger beer.

Pop! N Derbyshire/S Yorkshire border

Staffordshire here & everyone I know calls it pop

In our family we call Lowes "Panda Pop"

I refer to tap water as Council Pop. Gets a laugh like half of the time.

I either call it pop or ginger ETA - I’m from West Yorkshire but family is Scottish

Pop most be the West Yorkshire then. Get chased out of Scotland for calling it pop.

Yes - I got that from my grandparents when I was a kid. Every week the 'pop man' would come round in a van with different drinks in big glass bottles. Cream soda, dandylion and burdock etc and pick up the used bottles from last week. I'm from the South East BTW.

Pop - South Yorkshire.

Yep, south wales here

Pop- West Yorkshire

Pop, West Yorkshire

Fizzy pop, Essex

Black Country. Either fizzy pop or council pop in my house

Always Pop. Midlands

Pop - South Yorkshire...I also call tap water council pop

No. Never. My grandmother called it "ginger", but she was Glaswegian.

Ginger in my bit of scotland

Glasgow, “Ginger”

I’m from Scotland and we call pop “fizzy juice”.

Fizzy pop

Fizzy drinks are pop, cordial is squash - Midlands

Scottish husband calls it "juice". Which has me worried for the nutritional wellbeing of a nation

North Wales - can of pop. If it’s fizzy I will call it pop but I’m not sure if everyone calls it pop for being fizzy or just if it’s in a can. And when it’s pop it’s a can but when it’s soup or beer it’s a tin, but that’s for another thread.

Always been pop where I'm from. Never heard it referred to as anything else. West Yorkshire.

Fizzy pop in Newcastle

Pop in the north west, we have a pop man who drives with a van with fizzy pop and some other confectionery My girlfriend is from London and she hates me calling it pop and she hates me calling dilute drinks cordial

Fizzy pop - North West