No, no, no, ya'll have it all wrong! Down south here, Dr. Pepper is the standard by which all are judged. I like a good Barq's root beer everynowandthen though. But we don't call anything 'soda' or especially not 'pop' here...nope everything is a coke , like every brand of facial tissue is a Kleenex and every brand of cotton swab is a Q-tip. So perhaps I'm wrong then, maybe Coke is the standard, or else we might call everything a Dr. Pepper? But then that doesn't roll off the tounge as easy. Sure tastes good though!