The word you use generally boils down to where you’re from: Midwesterners enjoy a good pop, while soda is tops in the North ...

There's little more disappointing about a bottle of soda than when it's flat. So if you have some left over, here's a trick ...

And the 12-ounce serving of soda pop is fading into history. In the 1940s and 1950s, soft drinks sold mainly in 6.5-ounce bottles. That was "one serving," and it contained about 5 teaspoons of sugar.

If you're a regular soda pop drinker, you may have noticed — perhaps with some alarm — that dark "stuff" tends to collect at the bottom of some soda pop bottles.

And while vintage Coca-Cola bottles conjure nostalgia and a chilled glass of root beer may remind us of childhood, soda (pop, or soda-pop) isn’t all sunshine and rainbows.

We spent months testing 11 of the best soda makers, carbonating water, apple juice and wine to find the model with the bubbly personality that will win you over.