SoftDrinks

The report this week that McDonald's Corp. and Coca-Cola are pushing McDonald's indie franchises to lower the price of all sodas to $1 this summer makes little difference to consumers. At any price, we get screwed. I know, I know. Railing against the mark-up of fountain soft drinks is as useful as...

If you're drinking a fountain beverage from a restaurant right now, you probably want to skip to the next blog entry. You've been warned. A team of microbiologists from Hollins University in Roanoke, Virginia have conducted one of those studies that we never -- ever -- like to hear about. They...

First time visitors to Japan are often struck by how Western the country seems. All the very latest technological gadgets and a love of pop culture that borders on the crazy.But scratch the surface, and you'll soon see that things are different in Japan -- vastly different. A different way of...

This post is part of our series ranking the top 25 bygone products and trends we'd like to see return. Devotees of M*A*S*H will remember Radar O'Reilly's devotion to the purple soft drink Grape Nehi, a soft drink that has sadly disappeared from shelves of American grocery stores. Since the...