Posted on 07/27/2013 1:38:23 PM PDT by neverdem
It seems that not even Beyonce or new, lower-calorie options can convince Americans to drink more soda.
Coca-Cola Co., PepsiCo Inc. and Dr Pepper Snapple Group Inc. all sold less soda in the second quarter in North America, dashing hopes for the moment that splashy new marketing and different sweetener mixes could get drinkers back.
Coca-Cola Co. said it sold 4 percent less soda in North America, while PepsiCo Inc. simply said its decline for the region was in the "mid-single digits." Dr Pepper sold 3 percent less of the fizzy drinks...
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Coke Zero for me.
Jack Daniels.
Brand-name soda hit levels at which I simply will not pay. For example. I buy generic in bulk. I haven’t bought soda in a bottle from a gas station in years. I could afford it, but I’m simply not going to buy it, period, end of story. I have absolutely no idea how people making 30K a year could possibly afford it. So, after taxes, they have to work 1/3 to 1/2 an hour for a soda at a movie?
I also bought an adapter, online, that allows me to use refillable CO2 cans, at $3 per refill, instead of the $25+ that SodaStream charges. With that, SodaStream is a lot cheaper than the regular sodas.
I agree with you. I will absolutely not drink any diet anything or anything sweetened with HFCS, and I don’t think my kids should either. Very, very bad.
I suppose the fact that Americans DON’T HAVE THE MONEY ANYMORE to purchase these kinds of items ever dawned on the morons down at the Ass. Press. Like some schoolyard bully, their boy down at the White House has stolen everyone’s soda money.
I grab a 100oz plastic bottle of off-brand coke for $1 when I’m in the mood at the Dollar Tree. That adds up to almost 9 12oz cans fo a buck.
Wow does the Wookie know that Bouncy is contributing to Obesity with the soda she is promoting?
Anyway, due to prices going up I can’t afford sodas, I am trying to ween off of them. I do buy a case of Seltzer Water (with no Sodium) and I drop a few drops of the flavor bottles like Crystal Light and other flavors.
Now I’m trying to start drinking tea. Does anyone knows what kind of tea the Chinese Restaurants serve when you order? I love the tea and I notice no need to add sugar due to the flavor.
No cigarettes. Just nutritious beer.
Speaking of Sun-Tea, I had a 4 star french restaurant that I decided to serve Sun Tea, as a treat in the summer.. It was a major nightmare, after a month I had to develop methods to produce hundreds of gallons of the stuff, throughout the year, it was such a success..
The man that bought the place got the shock of his life when he tried to replace it, the customers complained and abandoned the restaurant in droves, not that the competition had it, because they never did.. He had to bring it back, and never missed complaining about it when we’d talk.. LOL
I used to dream of opening an Ice Tea Cafe... I definitely wouldn’t now of course
Lipton makes these big green tea bags now. I take one of those in a midsized Ragu glass bottle, (thoroughly cleaned for those in Rio Linda), set it in the sun a couple hours like you said. Rotate a couple of bottles at a time. Saves the top fridge shelf where the big bottle used to go.
I love colas, however “Coke” has gotten so damned expensive that about 5 years ago I switched to “Big K” colas from Kroger. A pack of 24 costs about the same as a 6-pack of Coca Cola, and tastes as good, or better, to me. In fact, if I drink a Coca Cola in a restaurant it tastes “watered down” or something.
Our Kroger sells a lot of “Big K” drinks, which could account for that 4% drop if that’s the case nationwide.
How much of this is due to the cost? A 12 pack of brand name soda is $3.50 - $4. A generic brand like Big K or Walmart’s Sam’s Choice cola is $2.50 to $3.
We’ve switched to generic, lowering the cost AND consumption, since it doesn’t taste quite as good.
But how much of the reduction in brand name sales is due to a switch to generics or Soda Stream, instead of an actual reduction in soda consumption?
Coca-Cola has nobody to blame but themselves for running obesity commercials.
Effing idiots running that company. When is the last time anyone recommended to buy Coca-Cola stock?
Yuengling is the drink of the gods.
Other than seltzer, I haven’t had a bottle ir can of soda in decades.
Could be green or oolong, sometimes with jasmine.
Do these companies get their ingredients from Monsanto?
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