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 ...

The terms soda, pop, and coke for sweetened carbonated beverages reflect regional linguistic patterns in the US, shaped by historical, economic, and cultural factors.

As for the Midwestern preference for “pop” – well, the earliest American use of the term to refer to a sparkling beverage appeared in the 1840s in the name of a flavored version called ...

Linguists don’t fully know why “pop” became so popular in the Midwest. But one theory links it to a Michigan bottling company, Feigenson Brothers Bottling Works – today known as Faygo ...

With burgers sizzling and classic rock thumping, many Americans revel in summer cookouts – at least until that wayward cousin ...