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grocery shrink ray

15 Victims Of The Grocery Shrink Ray

The Grocery Shrink Ray continues its miniature spree across the supermarket aisles of America. Here's 14 more victims that have surfaced in the past week, as spotted by our watchful bands of deputized Consumerist reader-investigators... More »

Feature

2:59 PM on Fri Aug 1 2008
By Ben Popken
24,853 views, 57 comments

enhanced water

4 Waters Enhanced With 100% Hype

"Enhanced water" is gaining popularity and is helping companies such as Coca-Cola and Pepsi to turn a tidy profit. Many of these trendy drinks contain an array of ingredients and claim a variety of health benefits. Newsweek and the Center for Science in the Public Interest, an advocacy group that focuses on nutrition, say that the science behind many of these health claims is weak. They have assembled a small list of four "enhanced water" drinks which are probably doing little more than keeping you hydrated. More »

9:51 AM on Tue Jul 1 2008
By Jay Slatkin
20,528 views, 67 comments

Latest by mariospants: JD + Seven works well for me. Plenty 'o' vitamins in there. more »

pepsi

Get Your Drink On With Pepsi Blue Hawaii

If Ice Cucumber Pepsi only left you nauseous for more, Pepsi has unveiled its "Blue Hawaii" flavor available only in Japan. The antifreeze-blue concoction delivers hints of pineapple and lemon which if consumed, will make you feel as if you have sailed into a heavenly island paradise, or something. Having fully recovered from his Ice Cucumber Pepsi review last year, reader Peter sacrifices himself for a video review of Pepsi Blue Hawaii. The video, inside... More »

8:15 AM on Mon Jun 16 2008
By Jay Slatkin
3,724 views, 34 comments

Latest by Gstein: @acknight: a few summers ago? methinks it's closer to 5 or 6 and i loved that stuff! more »

bad service

Pepsi & Amazon Won't Fix PepsiStuff Error, Keep Ignoring Customer

Jon saved up a bunch of PepsiStuff points and decided to redeem them for an item PepsiStuff is promoting on its website. That's how these point redemption programs usually work, you see. PepsiStuff.com apparently thinks otherwise—they'll let you redeem the points for a COBY player (ha ha ha ha), but the Sony alarm clock is just redemption bait. You're not supposed to actually pick that. More »

7:11 PM on Tue Mar 11 2008
By Chris Walters
16,832 views, 50 comments

Latest by centralnewyorker: I admire your persistence in trying to obtain customer service. Companies need feedback. The item in question is the more »

new and exciting products

Cane Sugar Pepsi "Raw" Launches In The UK Only

We know that a lot of you get all excited over Mexican/Kosher Coca-Cola (no corn syrup), but what about you folks who prefer Pepsi? You'll have to go to the UK, where Pepsi is launching "Pepsi Raw"—a corn syrup free, "all natural" version of the soda.

Traditionally, Pepsi contains fructose corn syrup, sugar, artificial colourings, phosphoric acid, caffeine, citric acid and natural flavours.
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11:28 AM on Thu Feb 14 2008
By Meg Marco
8,495 views, 78 comments

Latest by cheesebubble: Born 'n' raised on coca-cola. Oh, dark mother, I suckle at your teat! more »

food

Aquafina To Admit Being From A "Public Water Source" On Label

Aquafina labels will soon say "Public Water Source," a nod by bottler PepsiCo to the fact that its bottled water is the same water that goes into a Pepsi, just pre-carbonation More »

12:32 PM on Fri Jul 27 2007
By Ben Popken
4,941 views, 46 comments

branding

Coca-Cola Is The "Best Brand," Microsoft Beats Apple

Coca-Cola has come out on top of the "Best Brands" Harris Poll for the first time ever. Sony, the leader for the past 7 years slipped to number 2. More »

2:58 PM on Tue Jul 17 2007
By Meg Marco
23,449 views, 25 comments

ew

Move To Japan So You Can Drink Ice Cucumber Pepsi

Yes, you read that correctly. More »
plastic food

Sodium Benzoate Messes With Mitochondria?

A new study shows that a common ingredient in soda has the potential to mess up your mitochondria. No, it's not the plot of Parasite Eve. From the Independent:
[An] expert in ageing at Sheffield University, who has been working on sodium benzoate since publishing a research paper in 1999, has decided to speak out about another danger. Professor Peter Piper, a professor of molecular biology and biotechnology, tested the impact of sodium benzoate on living yeast cells in his laboratory. What he found alarmed him: the benzoate was damaging an important area of DNA in the "power station" of cells known as the mitochondria.
Ok, we know its hard to take news seriously when it comes from a guy named Peter Piper, but sodium benzoate is no joke. It's in a lot of beverages. Coke, Pepsi, 7 Up, you name it. Constant readers will remember it as one half of the recent "sodium benzoate plus vitamin C = benzene = cancer" debacle. —MEGHANN MARCO More »

3:29 PM on Tue May 29 2007
By Meg Marco
4,215 views, 27 comments

Latest by Longevity: Thank you for your interesting story! I thought perhaps you may interested in this related ongoing discussion: Longevity Science: Soft Drinks Linked more »

happiness

Pepsi Loves You And Sends You Replacement Mountain Dew

Adam got two stale Mountain Dews from a vending machine, so he called Pepsi to express his displeasure. Pepsi response made Adam so happy he wrote to us to express his joy. Did Pepsi do anything "above and beyond?" No, not really. They were simply nice to Adam, and did what they said they'd do.
The result is a customer happy enough to write a mean old website about it. More »

1:13 PM on Fri May 18 2007
By Meg Marco
1,471 views, 16 comments

Latest by Stephen Colon: I've has similar experience with Golden Grahams and Fritos... With the Golden Grahams there were a few unidentified objects in more »