I love cream soda.... my brother is a chef and he mentioned that originally a cream soda was a drink that the old timey drug store soda clerks would make by putting actual cream in an otherwise regular Coca-Cola drink. Now, we have this delicious treat Cream-Soda.... can't get enough of it. I also like Vernor's ginger ale. Its a different drink. It tastes like a regular ginger ale, but the makers of it wanted to give it a spicy taste and actually put a peppery flavor....not sure what kind whether it is a black or one of the many red varieties of red pepper but it does taste more like a red pepper flavor. When you drink the soda at room temperature its hot! Its good as well refrigerated.

Hank's Black Cherry Soda when I can find it, otherwise I just go with Dr. Pepper. All in all I don't drink a lot of cokes anymore (coke, not soda-- I'm from the South :-p) since they're super sugar water and I just don't need that.

I hereby predict that not a single person who picks cola will actually say cola. They'll all say Coke, Pepsi or some other brand name. Way to be branded people! :p

Black cherry is a great flavor to go with soda, i love it.  I've been to NYC a couple of times and have gotten Dr Brown's Black Cherry Soda there.  Its the perfect thing to go with a pastrami sandwich.

My goodness, sorry twesterm, but saying "coke" in place of cola or even soda is just stupid haha.

I don't even like saying soda...and especially not soda pop.

I'll call cream sodas "sodas," but any kind of cola or perhaps lemon-lime drinks I'll call "pop." I'm from the Midwest...most people around here call it just "pop."

Anyway...Pepsi is my favorite cola, but I'd have to go with Jones soda as my favorite. So many different flavors! And stof can appreciate it since they're Canadian hehe. My favorite flavor is probably Fufu Berry.

 It's a regional thing.  People just look at you funny in Texas if you say soda, pop, cola, or cold drink and we all know exactly what you mean when you ask the waitress what kind of cokes do you have?

Coke proper or Mountain Dew Code Red are both pretty good.

 Well, I used soda pop so that everybody would know what I was talking about.        

Just as a warning, the worst soda in history is Dr. Brown's Cel-Ray, whoever thought that a CELERY based soda would be a good idea was insane (although its been around for a while so there must be some lunatics out there who like it).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cel-Ray

Spruce beer - The great smell you get from your spruce tree is now in a can. Most people hate it, but its one of the best flavors of soda you can get.

Ginger beer - Sinus clearing soda that has tons of kick, but there is a specific brand that I've brought down from Canada but i only know what the bottle looks like, not the actual name. It comes in a short, fat glass bottle that holds roughly 12 oz. of soda.

IBC root beer - by far my favorite root beer, sadly this is the only one i can easily get in NY.