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Message: <blockquote data-quote="jian" data-source="post: 9684965" data-attributes="member: 78087">That’s interesting. I’m from the U.K. and have lived in Canada (BC) for two years, and have never heard anyone use the term soda fountain (or indeed soda jerk) outside old American films, where they seem to have often been specific stores/bars selling soda from a machine (resembling a modern soda gun or bar gun), though there’s also machines in drugstores and some diners. I therefore tend to associate the phrase with both a machine that produces soda and a store that sells soda from machines, but only in the US before 1980 or so.[URL unfurl="true"]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soda_fountain[/URL][URL unfurl="true"]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soda_gun[/URL]In the U.K. and Canada (and NZ, where I’ve also lived) people seem to call the machine (usually found in pubs, bars, and some restaurants) a soda gun or bar gun. The machine that dispenses fizzy drinks in cinemas (you know, where you can press the buttons for ice and different flavours) generally seems to be called a soda machine, similarly to a Slurpee machine in 7-11 etc. But I can see why you might call it a soda fountain.</blockquote>