One of our favorite pizza places doesn't have fountain soda so they sell it by the can and it ruins the experience.
Did you guys ever play wizards? Where you drink cans and when you open a new can you tape it to your old can and by the end of night everyone's drinking from giant can staffs.
Cans of pop are definitely better to me than plastic bottles of pop. But also, he’s unfortunately right that it’s fun to suck on a beverage bottle. I wouldn’t call that “power” or whatever, but it’s fun and satisfying.
Mostly joking about the tonic thing, but it was a pretty common term when I was a kid from my parents who are from northern MA. Instead of getting an orange soda, my dad would call it an orange tonic. It was common in Boston, too back in the day. But yeah, I call it soda. Pop is weird