Perhaps to start feeling better about myself, given newspapers' fortunes these days, I need to start gloating over others' misfortunes, such as soda makers':
After generations of increasing sales, the amount of soda sold in the United States dropped slightly last year.
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Some of the best-known brands were the hardest hit. Coke Classic sales dropped 2 percent and Pepsi was down 3.2 percent.
Nah. That's the back door of the politics of envy, and I'd have to become a liberal.
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Kind of makes one long for those days at the *soda fountain*...(sighs)...
The drop is sales must explain all these *new* drinks coming out...coke zero, cherry coke, black cherry coke, coke with lime, vanilla coke...not to mention all these *energy* drinks that are proported to turn a meager individual into a Malibu surfing, cliff-diving dynamo, complete with the obligatory blonde on the arm and the high performance convertible to drive her around in.
(I'm still waiting for all that, btw...LOL)
Personally, I like:
WATER: The OFFICIAL drink of mankind.
Bob G.