[Jeff Waegelin]

I was thinking about this, and I realized that I say both "soda" and "pop" depending on who I'm talking to. My family generally calls it "soda" because that's what my mom and dad (from Missouri and Idaho, respectively) say, and we lived in California for a while when I was younger (and it's soda, there). With my friends, however, I generally say "pop", because that's what they call it. One thing is for sure, though... vending machines are always "pop machines", never "soda machines" to me.