I used to call it pop, but now I call it soda, thanks to one of my best friends spanish_rhode insisting that everybody around her call it soda as well.

I know I'm hooked on the stuff, so it's one of the things I give up when I'm fasting... so no soda on Wednesdays or Fridays, during Great Lent, Nativity Fast, Dormition Fast, etc. I actually find that when I get through those fasts, I'm not nearly as addicted to them. (Though the last couple of days have been horrible... I feel like I'm getting a cold, so all that I'm craving is Cherry Coke for the caffeine to be used as a stimulant to fight this thing.)