Where does the word pop come from reffering to soda?!
Where does the word pop come from reffering to soda?
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I think it's literally from the popping sound it makes when you open the can or the bottle.
the little fizzy bubbles popping?
I don't know that, but down here in the South, every soda is called "Coke".
carbonated soft drinks (soda) are full of bubbles... bubbles pop - hence the nickname
the carbonation.
It actually used to be reffered to as soda pop. Now some people call it soda an dsome call it pop.
The midwest. Those people have crazy names for everything.
It probably reffered to the popping sound made when opening a glass bottle. That's the only thing I can think of that makes any sense on the subject.
Now adays it's the carbon dioxide but I think perhaps long ago they used "hops" (like in beer production) and that accounted for the fizzyness.
sheri g has the 'soda pop' and I have to agree with emailbob2 on the Midwest.
I am from MD and it was a 'Coke' or a 'soda'. I remember hearing the 'soda pop' from older family members. I never heard just 'pop' until I moved to OH. Funny but I end up correcting my kids when they say pop because that isn't what I'm used to. They were born in OH. Oh well each area I guess has its own little ways of doing things.
the carbonated water holds pressure and thus the 'pop'. the contents of soda is pressurized so that once opened, further cooling occurs so that openning a bottle with ambient temperature at ambient temperature somehow results to a cool soda