text: do you refer to all carbonated drinks as soda, pop or coke? as i grew up in texas, all carbonated drinks were called cokes.  "i'll take a coke." "what kind of coke would you like?" "make it a mountain dew."  :-) my fiance was born in texas, raised in georga and mostly southern states calls them cokes. i am from the mid east and call them sodas.