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> Btw, in Wisconsin when I was growing up, all soft drinks were called  
> pop, as it is in my part of the Ozarks. Soda was a high-fallutin'  
> word used by people who also had dinner at supper time and referred  
> to real dinner as "lunch."

Here they were called 'pop', or 'dope',  or by the generic term Coke.  As in:

"I'm going to the service station."
"Get me a Coke while you are there."
"What kind?"
"An orange one."