A soft drink is a beverage that typically contains water, usually a sweetener and usually a flavoring agent. The sweetener may be sugar, high-fructose corn syrup, fruit juice, sugar substitutes or some combination of these.
Fun Facts
- In Australia and New Zealand, Sprite is called lemonade
- Sprite Zero is a kind of Sprite with no sugar
- Sprite became popular to teenagers in the 80'
- The Coke logo is made in 80 languages
- 94% of the world can recognize Coca-Cola
- During WWII, 5 million bottles of Coke were consumed by military personnel
- The first outdoor Coke sign was painted in 1894 and still is up in Cartersville, Georgia
- Asa Candler, an owner of Coca-Cola for 28 years, became mayor of Atlanta, Georgia
- Coca-Cola began their association with the Olympic Games in 1928
- Cuba and Panama were the first countries to bottle Coke out of the U.S
- "Do the Dew" is a popular slogan for Mountain Dew - it was started in 1993
- In 1995, Mountain Dew sponcered the first X-Games
- Mountain Dew was invented by Barney and Ally Hartman (brothers)
- Mountain Dew was originally made with whiskey, but not anymore
- Mountain Dew used to taste like 7-up
- There are 6 brands of Mountain Dew
- Pepsi was invented in New Bern, North Carolina
- Pepsi was orignally created to help with stomach pains
- During the Great Depression, Pepsi prices were 10 cents for a 12 ounce bottle. Once they changed it to 5 cents eachsales went through the roof
- Pepsi was the first foreign product in Russia
- Pepsi Cola was an imitaion of Coca Cola
- Pepsi was one of the first companies to switch from horse-drawn transport to motor vehicles
- The original logo for Pepsi was created in 1898
- You can get Fanta in 180 different countries
- There are 70 flavors of Fanta
- Fanta was created during the timke of World War II
- Fanta could be made from byproducts of cheese and cider production so Coca-Cola could make it in Germany and not have to send anything and still profit
- Some Fanta flavors are only available in certain countries.