I can't stand southerners (I'm in the south btw!) calling soda (Any type of soda) Coke. "Oh, I'm drinking a Coke." Says she, while merrily gulping down a Pepsi. WTH? Pop is a northern thing and Coke is a southern thing, and you can't complain about one without the other. Pop makes far more sense to me, but out west they make even more sense. They call it a Soda there. How did they get so smart out West? Oh yeah, that's where most of the Native Americans had to go.