How did a ‘health drink’ from the early 1800s spawn so many names and variations? An expert in American dialects explains.

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

Would you consider soda a medicinal beverage? Selling drinks purported to have health benefits has been around far longer than you might imagine.

Few American linguistic debates have bubbled quite as long and effervescently as the one over whether a generic soft drink should be called a soda, pop or coke.

The soda fountain features a counter with old-fashioned swivel stools and shelves filled with artisanal candy and chocolates, caramel wafers, and chewing gum. Soda jerks dressed in 50s-style ...

A pharmacist uses a soda fountain to prepare a drink for a customer, who sits on the other side of the counter in a drugstore in 1895. Graphic House/Archive Photos/Getty Images ...

ALABAMA: Payne's Sandwich Shop and Soda Fountain, Scottsboro The exterior of Payne's Sandwich Shop and Soda Fountain. Debbie C./Yelp This old-fashioned restaurant dates all the way back to 1869.

In the 1960s, Waco, Texas–based Big Red Soda somehow became — and remains — the de facto Juneteenth beverage of choice in the Lone Star State. (Maybe it was all because of the name.) ...

The moment you spot the vintage ice cream cone paintings adorning the windows of Big Ed’s Soda Grill in Vermilion, Ohio, you know you’ve stumbled upon something special – a place where nostalgia isn’t ...