>Yeff wrote:
>> <http://www.popvssoda.com/countystats/total-county.html>
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>Love it! I call it soda. I grew up in Miami which, according to the
>map, is a soda state. I now live in New England which is a soda area
>too. That's what I always hear it called here.
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>--Lia


I call them whatever their actual name is. I call a Coke a Coke, a Pepsi a
Pepsi, and a Mountain Dew a Mountain Dew. If I use any generic term it would
have to be be soft drink.