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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 »

economy

Hey North America: Why Aren't You Buying 20 Oz Bottles Of Coke?

Oh no! You know there's something wrong with the economy when people stop buying (comparatively) expensive 20 oz bottles of Coke. The Wall Street Journal says that sales of Coke's biggest profit-maker are down and its affecting the company's bottom line. More »

stunts

Dr Pepper Promises Free Soda For Almost Everyone In US If Axl Rose Will Release "Chinese Democracy" This Year

Yeah, it's a PR stunt—but a funny one, especially because the only two people excluded by Dr Pepper's pledge are "estranged GNR guitarists Slash and Buckethead." Someone in the Dr Pepper PR department really likes Axl Rose. Rose says neither he nor his label are in cahoots with Dr Pepper, and that he'd share his drink with Buckethead because "some of Buckethead's performances are on our album." More »

health

Rise In Gout Blamed On Fructose In Soft Drinks

Gout sounds like something characters in Dickens novels get, but apparently it's a modern affliction as well—at least in the U.S. where the number of cases has doubled in the past few decades. Now researchers are saying that "Men who consume two or more sugary soft drinks a day have an 85% higher risk of gout compared with those who drink less than one a month." More »

debate

Should Soda Makers Stop Marketing To Kids Under 16?

The Center For Science In The Public Interest (CSPI), and the International Association of Consumer Food Organizations (IACFO). have joined together to start the "Global Dump Soda" campaign. More »

new and exciting products

New High-Tech Sprite Makes Its Own Ice When Opened

Do you like half-frozen Sprite? Move to the UK. That's where Coca-Cola Company is debuting "Sprite Super Chilled." More »

your health

Are Food Additives Making Your Kids Hyperactive?

A new study suggests that food additives such as the commonly used preservative sodium benzoate may cause children to become hyper. More »

coke

Enviga Study In Obesity Bought And Paid For

Coke-Nestle paid for their own study on Enviga's benefits to appear in the February issue of Obesity, as the codicil above, spotted by reader Karl, reveals. More »

enviga

Full Copy Of Coke's "Fat-Burning" Enviga Study

We've got a a copy of the study Coke based its controversial fat-burning claims for Enviga, the quaintly titled, "Effect of a Thermogenic Beverage on 24-Hour Energy Metabolism in Humans." The study, published in the February issue of Obesity, says it, More »


coke

Pepsi Snitches on Coca-Cola Trade Secrets Thief

The wonderful world of industrial soft-drink espionage. Three employees of Coca-Cola Inc. are under arrest for attempting to sell trade secrets (and a sample of a new drink — what can they add cherry and vanilla to this time?) to rival Pepsi. More »

coke bl ?k

Reader Actually Likes Coke Bl?k

Unbelievably, one of our readers actually likes Coke Bl ?k, the unique cup of coffee brewed with Coca-Cola instead of water! Clearly suffering from some sort of head trauma or an afternoon deeply inhaling at the glue factory, Courtney W. writes: More »