Republished from popvssoda.com. Yellow/green = SODA Blue = POP

Republished from popvssoda.com.

Yellow/green = SODA
Blue = POP
Red = COKE

My previous photo, which makes reference to “sprinkles,” plunged me into a debate on whether they should be called “sprinkles,” or “jimmies” or (heaven forbid) “hundreds and thousands.”

That reminded me of an even more profound fissure in American culture: The Great Soft Drink Nomenclature Debate.

This map was created by Matthew Campbell and Prof. Greg Plumb of East Central University in Oklahoma. The original version of this image is clickable, to reveal county-by-county statistical data.

And let the record show: It’s called soda both in my native New Jersey and here in my adopted home of California. I would have it no other way.

The Great Debate: Soda vs. Pop vs. Coke (by Telstar Logistics)