The word you use generally boils down to where you’re from: Midwesterners enjoy a good pop, while soda is tops in the North and far West. Southerners, long the cultural mavericks, don’t bat an eyelash ...

Introduction: To the stars -- The beverage of kings -- Meet me at the soda fountain -- The medicine men -- A snail in a bottle -- The bar is dead, soda is king! -- Was ist Coca-Cola? -- ...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Valerie M. Fridland, University of Nevada, Reno (THE CONVERSATION) With burgers ...

With burgers sizzling and classic rock thumping, many Americans revel in summer cookouts -- at least until that wayward cousin asks for a "pop" in soda country, or even worse, a "coke" when they ...