You want "freedom" with that?

When I was still a peon at SUNY Potsdam, there was a semester when the issue of what name a carbonated beverage should bear came to the forefront of many individuals' psyches. This wasn't a war between Pepsi and Coke, though it's origins and mechanisms were equally ridiculous. No, this was the "pop" versus "soda" debate. It seemed that most everyone from upstate, northern and urban New York referred to carbonated beverages as "soda," while the denizens of Rochester, Buffalo and the Finger Lakes region vehemently allied themselves with "pop."

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