Coke, Soda, Or Pop?
The site, created eight years ago as a college project, asks visitors to enter their childhood zip code and the soft drink term they use. Their vote is then placed on a map as a colored dot.

What has emerged is a swath of Coke votes across the South, pop votes in the Midwest and Canada, and soda votes in the Northeast and California, and -- curiously -- in St. Louis and Milwaukee.

My dear grandmother introduced me to "Coke" when I was young and told me of a time when it was used medicinally. Of course, I later learned it contained cocaine and other so-called hang over remedies and initially was sold by druggists. Real old timers used to call is "sodi-dope" because of the old qualities.