"Variants of the original Solo include Solo Super (less sugar), Solo Sunset and Solrik (juice). Solo (Norwegian soft drink) Solo is an orange-flavoured soft drink, owned by the Norwegian companies Ringnes, Oskar Sylte, Aass, and Mack. The recipe was originally Spanish, and brought to the Tønsberg Bryggeri by Torleif Gulliksrud in 1934. Solo quickly became Norway's most popular soft drink, and until the 1960s was bigger than Coca-Cola in Norway. In 1999, Pepsi passed Solo in market share, leaving Solo as third most popular. Solo also has a history in Sweden and is today produced by Vasa Bryggeri in Sundsvall."
"a controlled burn. Chinquapin is the birthplace of Caleb Bradham (May 27, 1867 – February 19, 1934), inventor of Pepsi-Cola. Randall Kenan (born March 12, 1963) is an American author of fiction and non-fiction who was raised in Chinquapin, North Carolina. Among his books is the collection of short stories Let the Dead Bury Their Dead, which was named a New York Times Notable Book in 1992. Kenan is the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, a Whiting Award and the John Dos Passos Prize. As of 2014, the population of Chinquapin, North Carolina - that is, of ZIP code 28521"
"a circa-1950s neon Dr Pepper sign, which has the company's ""10–2–4"" logo from the time, in downtown Roanoke. In October 2015, the city of Roanoke declared October 24 (10-2-4) to be its official Dr. Pepper Day. Dr Pepper Dr Pepper is a carbonated soft drink marketed as having a unique flavor. The drink was created in the 1880s by pharmacist Charles Alderton in Waco, Texas and first served around 1885. Dr Pepper was first nationally marketed in the United States in 1904, and is now also sold in Europe, Asia, North and South America, and Australia, as well as New"
"Barq Brothers bottled carbonated water and various soft drinks of their own creation. Early on their most popular creation was an orange-flavored soda called ""Orangine"", which won a gold medal at the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition World's Fair in Chicago, Illinois. Edward Barq moved to Biloxi, Mississippi, in 1897 with his new wife. The following year he opened the Biloxi Artesian Bottling Works. 1898 is often given as the debut year for what was later to be known as ""Barq's root beer,"" but some sources say this particular product was not produced until some two years later. It was on"
"Dr Pepper Dr Pepper is a carbonated soft drink marketed as having a unique flavor. The drink was created in the 1880s by pharmacist Charles Alderton in Waco, Texas and first served around 1885. Dr Pepper was first nationally marketed in the United States in 1904, and is now also sold in Europe, Asia, North and South America, and Australia, as well as New Zealand and South Africa as an imported good. Variants include a version without high fructose corn syrup, Diet Dr Pepper, as well as a line of additional flavors, first introduced in the 2000s. The name ""Dr."
"with cream"", appears in Agnes Marshall's 1888 cookbook. The 18th-century English aristocrat John Montagu, 4th Earl of Sandwich is best known for his links to the modern concept of the sandwich which was named after him. When he ordered his valet to bring him meat tucked between two pieces of bread, others began to order ""the same as Sandwich!"". In the city of Leeds in 1767, Joseph Priestley made his ""happiest"" discovery when he invented carbonated water (also known as soda water), the major and defining component of most soft drinks. Carbonated lemonade was available in British refreshment stalls in"
"the doctor decided to make the water more palatable by adding Jamaican ginger and sugar. The new concoction's popularity took off and Dr. May partnered with A. J. Matheson to open the Blenheim Bottling Company in 1903. Conveniently located next to the mineral springs, the Blenheim Bottling Company plant was constructed in 1920. Producing as little as 18 to 20 cases a day, the company remained a small, humble operation for 90 years. In 1993, Blenheim was bought by the Alan Schafer, who also owned the world-famous South of the Border roadside attraction. Since the original plant was older, Schafer"
"McLaughlin, who first formulated ""Canada Dry Pale Ginger Ale"", originally made his new soft drink, it was far less sweet than other ginger ales then available; as a result, he labelled it ""dry"". In 1890, Canadian pharmacist and chemist John J. McLaughlin of Enniskillen, Ontario, who after working in a soda factory in Brooklyn, New York, opened a carbonated water plant in Toronto. McLaughlin was the eldest son of Robert McLaughlin, founder of McLaughlin Carriage and McLaughlin Motor Car. In 1904, McLaughlin created ""Canada Dry Pale Ginger Ale"". Three years later, the drink was appointed to the Viceregal Household of"
"Robert Cade James Robert Cade (September 26, 1927 – November 27, 2007) was an American physician, university professor, research scientist and inventor. Cade, a native of Texas, earned his bachelor and medical degrees at the University of Texas, and became a professor of medicine and nephrology at the University of Florida. Although Cade engaged in many areas of medical research, he is most widely remembered as the leader of the research team that created the sports drink Gatorade. Gatorade would have significant medical applications for treating dehydration in patients, and has generated over $150 million in royalties for the university."
"to 1908 in the remaining southern states, white Democrats disenfranchised most blacks and many poor whites by creating barriers to voter registration, such as poll taxes, literacy tests and grandfather clauses. They passed laws imposing Jim Crow and racial segregation of public facilities. On March 12, 1894, the popular soft drink Coca-Cola was bottled for the first time in Vicksburg by Joseph A. Biedenharn, a local confectioner. Today, surviving 19th-century Biedenharn soda bottles are prized by collectors of Coca-Cola memorabilia. The original candy store has been renovated and is used as the Biedenharn Coca-Cola Museum. The near exclusion of most"
"as a pharmacy dispenser, and later managed one of the largest pharmacies in Brooklyn. Because of the long-held belief in the health benefits of natural mineral waters, by the late 1880s a carbonated beverage industry had developed. With the addition of flavourings, they were increasingly consumed for pleasure, and often this was at drugstores. After embarking on a tour of European carbonated water producers, McLaughlin returned to Toronto in 1890, where he founded a soda water bottling plant. In 1904, he launched Canada Dry ""pale dry"" Ginger Ale and in 1907, received a patent for ""Canada Dry Ginger Ale."" McLaughlin"
"is the sweetener that is added. Barq's Barq's , is an American soft drink. Its brand of root beer is notable for having caffeine.<ref name=""http://www.overcaffeinated.org/database/soda-pop/barqs-root-beer.php"">Caffeine Database | Caffeine and Ingredients in Barqs Rootbeer, OverCaffeinated.org's Report on the Ingredients in Barq's Rootbeer</ref> Barq's, created by Edward Barq and bottled since the turn of the 20th century, is owned by the Barq family but bottled by the Coca-Cola Company. It was known as Barq's Famous Olde Tyme Root Beer until 2012. The Barq's Brothers Bottling Company was founded in 1890 in the French Quarter of New Orleans, by Edward Charles Edmond Barq"
"in 1809. The drinking of either natural or artificial mineral water was considered at the time to be a healthy practice, and was promoted by advocates of temperance. Pharmacists selling mineral waters began to add herbs and chemicals to unflavored mineral water. They used birch bark (see birch beer), dandelion, sarsaparilla, fruit extracts, and other substances. Flavorings were also added to improve the taste. Soft drinks soon outgrew their origins in the medical world and became a widely consumed product, available cheaply for the masses. By the 1840s there were more than fifty soft drink manufacturers – an increase from"
"Tarax Tarax is an Australian brand of soft drink. Tarax was the brand-name of an independent Victorian soft drink manufacturer and bottler. George Pethard (senior) (1855–1929), an English-born storeman based in Numurkah, established a business selling a herbal soft drink described as a ""non-alcoholic beer"" made without yeast, known as ""Taraxale"". ""Tarax"" derived from ""taraxacum"", the Latin name for the dandelion. George (junior) (1885–1961) joined his father's business in 1898 and moved to Bendigo in 1902, establishing the business behind ""Taraxville"", his home in the suburb of Golden Square. The business was expanded between the Wars, with Tarax Bars being"
"Barq's Barq's , is an American soft drink. Its brand of root beer is notable for having caffeine.<ref name=""http://www.overcaffeinated.org/database/soda-pop/barqs-root-beer.php"">Caffeine Database | Caffeine and Ingredients in Barqs Rootbeer, OverCaffeinated.org's Report on the Ingredients in Barq's Rootbeer</ref> Barq's, created by Edward Barq and bottled since the turn of the 20th century, is owned by the Barq family but bottled by the Coca-Cola Company. It was known as Barq's Famous Olde Tyme Root Beer until 2012. The Barq's Brothers Bottling Company was founded in 1890 in the French Quarter of New Orleans, by Edward Charles Edmond Barq and his older brother, Gaston. The"
"the proceedings on May 28, 1913. Bludwine Bludwine, later Budwine, was a brand of cherry-flavored soft drink and flavored syrups that was originally produced in the United States by the Bludwine Company and Bludwine Bottling Company. The Bludwine Company was founded by Henry C. Anderson in spring, 1906. Bludwine Company produced the master elixir in Athens, Georgia, and various Bludwine Bottling Company locations processed the elixir into syrup and bottled soft drinks prepared from the syrup. The syrups were also shipped to and used at soda fountains as an ingredient to add flavor to various beverages. In 1911 Bludwine was"
"waned since the 1970s, it has still remained on the market, albeit with far lower prominence, relegated primarily to supermarket shelves. Pictures at the State Library of Victoria Tarax Tarax is an Australian brand of soft drink. Tarax was the brand-name of an independent Victorian soft drink manufacturer and bottler. George Pethard (senior) (1855–1929), an English-born storeman based in Numurkah, established a business selling a herbal soft drink described as a ""non-alcoholic beer"" made without yeast, known as ""Taraxale"". ""Tarax"" derived from ""taraxacum"", the Latin name for the dandelion. George (junior) (1885–1961) joined his father's business in 1898 and moved"
"and oats, lemon, orange, grape, ginger and peppermint. Refined sugar, created from imported raw sugar, was also used. as ""a real invigorating, life-giving drink with a pungency and flavor that are unsurpassed"". In 1912, the U.S. Bureau of Chemistry analyzed a sample of Bludwine syrup as part of ""U.S. v. Bludwine Co."", and published results stating the syrup contained 0.142% citric acid, 0.066% phosphoric acid, 62.5% total solids, 0.11% alcohol, 0.11% ash, 1.2% sucrose, 63.7% total sugar as invert, 0.37% total acid as citric, flavor: capsicum and color: amaranth. In 1921, the company changed the name of the soft drink"
"In 1906, John James Mangham and a fellow pharmacist discovered the formula for NuGrape in Bremen, Georgia. NuGrape NuGrape is a brand of grape-flavored soda pop. The NuGrape brand was invented in 1906, first bottled in 1921, and by April 1933, The National NuGrape Company was founded in Atlanta, Georgia. In 1922, licensing rights were sold to the Olla Bottling Works in Olla, Louisiana where it was made and distributed for many years. NuGrape was followed up by the popular Sun Crest brand of soft drinks in 1938. In 1965, the National NuGrape Company introduced Kickapoo Joy Juice, a product"
"Charles Alderton Charles Courtice Alderton (June 21, 1857 May 29, 1941) was an American pharmacist, and the creator of the carbonated soft drink Dr Pepper. Charles Courtice Alderon was born (June 21, 1857, Brooklyn, New York), the eldest of five children to English parents. Alderton attended Framlingham College in England, studied medicine at the University of Texas, and worked as a pharmacist in Waco, in a shop called ""Morrison's Old Corner Drug Store"", which had a soda fountain. Alderton noticed that customers were tiring of the traditional flavors of sarsaparilla, lemon and vanilla, and so to try and revive sales,"
"with flakes of coconut; and Uncle Joe's Mint Balls, traditional sweet mild mints manufactured in Wigan since their inception in 1898. Vimto and Tizer are soft drinks invented in Manchester in 1908 and 1924 respectively. Boddingtons is a bitter developed in Manchester and promoted as the ""Cream of Manchester"" in a popular 1990s advertising campaign credited with raising the city's profile. The Greater Manchester Campaign for Real Ale is a branch of the national Campaign for Real Ale, an advocacy group that supports, promotes and preserves the beer and drinks industry, and recognising outstanding venues with awards; The Nursery in"
"Crush (soft drink) Crush is a brand of carbonated soft drinks owned and marketed internationally by Keurig Dr Pepper, originally created as an orange soda. Crush mainly competes with Coca-Cola's Fanta. It was created in 1911 by Canadian beverage and extract chemist Neil C. Ward. Most flavors of Crush are caffeine-free. In 1911, Clayton J. Howel, president and founder of the Orange Crush Company, partnered with Neil C. Ward and incorporated the company. Ward made the recipe for Orange Crush. Howel was not new to the soft drink business, having earlier introduced Howel’s Orange Julep. Soft drinks of the time"
"& Brothers’ confectionary was considered to be the best made in Pittsburgh, having a reputation for using the finest ingredients. The company was credited with popularizing the chocolate egg candy, and also sold exotic fruits, nuts, spices, flavored sugars, bon-bons, cookies, and crackers. The company was perhaps most famous for their drink Lemon Blennd, also known as Lemn Blend or Lem-N-Blennd. Lemon Blennd was created in 1914 by druggist E. J. W. Keagy in the North Side of Pittsburgh, and was originally sold as a frozen ice slush drink. Keagy closed his store in 1928 and went to sell his"
"Big 8 Beverages Big 8 Beverages is a soft drinks company based in the town of Stellarton, near New Glasgow, Nova Scotia, Canada. Established in 1986 and owned by the Sobeys chain of supermarkets, which is also headquartered in Stellarton, the company produces fizzy soda drinks of a wide range of flavours, and also bottles mineral water for home or office consumption. The Big 8 brand name was created in the 1930s by Fenton and Day Beverages, and is now owned by Sobeys. Created in the 1930s by Fred Day and his brother-in-law George Fenton. They named their cola Big"
"Fizzies Fizzies were tablets that created a ""carbonated"" soft drink when added to water. Ruth Millard invented the idea for Emerson Drug Company, manufacturer of Bromo-Seltzer, by adding a fruit flavor that children liked. Lem Billings, a close and long-time friend of President John F. Kennedy and the Kennedy family, has also been given credit as inventor. ""As Vice President at the Emerson Drug Company in Baltimore, he was responsible for inventing the 1950s fad drink Fizzies by adding a fruit flavor to disguise the sodium citrate taste."" Once perfected, Emerson named the creation Fizzies. The tablet was dropped into"
"of all Borden trademarks in the US. The company was founded by Gail Borden, Jr., in 1857 in Connecticut as ""Gail Borden, Jr., and Company."" Its primary product was condensed milk. Struggling financially, the company was saved when Jeremiah Milbank, a partner in the wholesale food distributor I. & R. Milbank & Co. and the son-in-law of banker Joseph Lake, agreed to invest and acquired 50 percent of the stock. The company changed its name in 1858 to the New York Condensed Milk Company. The company prospered during the Civil War by selling condensed milk to Union armies. Borden began"
"Bubble Up Bubble Up is a lemon-lime soft drink brand created in 1919, by Sweet Valley Products Co. of Sandusky, Ohio. It is now manufactured by the Dad's Root Beer Company, LLC and owned by Hedinger Brands, LLC for the United States, Canada, and Mexico, and by Monarch Beverage Company of Atlanta for international markets (in particular Asia and Africa). Bubble Up began in 1919 as a lemon-lime carbonated soft drink. Originally owned by Sweet Valley Products of Sandusky, Ohio, Bubble Up was produced ten years before its well-known competitor, 7 Up. The first trademark registration was filed on August"
"that the nation’s first ice cream soda was supposedly born, though Sanders is not the only man to stake his claim for inventing the drink. One evening during the summer of 1876, Sanders ran out of fresh cream for his cream sodas. In an effort to please the store full of eager customers, he used a scoop of ice-cream instead. His patrons were thrilled with the taste and word of the new beverage spread. The substitution of ice cream for regular cream became a customary offering at soda fountains and stores throughout the nation. In addition to candy and the"
"Dr. Brown's Dr. Brown's is a brand of soft drink made by J & R Bottling. It is popular in the New York City region and South Florida, but it can also be found in Jewish delicatessens and upscale supermarkets around the United States. Slogans for the products have included: ""Imported From the Old Neighborhood"" and ""Taste of the Town."" Dr. Brown's was created in 1869 and was commonly sold in New York delicatessens and by soda salesmen who sold the product from door to door in Jewish neighborhoods. According to former marketing director, Harry Gold, a New York doctor"
"visitors each October. Eastern North Carolina pork barbecue uses a vinegar-and-red-pepper-based sauce and the ""whole hog"" is cooked, thus integrating both white and dark meat. Krispy Kreme, an international chain of doughnut stores, was started in North Carolina; the company's headquarters are in Winston-Salem. Pepsi-Cola was first produced in 1898 in New Bern. A regional soft drink, Cheerwine, was created and is still based in the city of Salisbury. Despite its name, the hot sauce Texas Pete was created in North Carolina; its headquarters are also in Winston-Salem. The Hardee's fast-food chain was started in Rocky Mount. Another fast-food chain,"
"Canada Dry Canada Dry is a brand of soft drinks owned since 2008 by the American company Keurig Dr Pepper. For over a century, Canada Dry has been known for its ginger ale, though the company also manufactures a number of other soft drinks and mixers. Although Canada Dry originated in Canada, it is now produced in many countries around the globe, including the United States, Mexico, Colombia, Peru, Japan, & a number of countries of the Middle East & Europe. The ""Dry"" in the brand's name refers to not being sweet, as in a dry wine. When John J."
"a group of nineteenth century brick houses at the corner of Union and East Front streets which is one of the finest architectural complexes in the state."" The Eli Smallwood House next door and the Jones-Jarvis house are nearly identical. Across the street is the Slover-Bradham House. It was the Union Army General Burnside's headquarters, whose ""distinctive style of facial hair became known as sideburns, derived from his last name."" The house later became that of Caleb Bradham, a pharmacist who invented Pepsi-Cola in 1898. Jarvis-Slover House, Jones-Jarvis-Hand House, Jones-Jarvis House, General Foster's Headquarters, Tryon Palace Jones-Jarvis House Jones-Jarvis House,"
"Canada Dry, Canfield's, Hansen Natural, Vernors, Seagram's, Schweppes, Sussex, Buffalo Rock, Boylan Bottling Company, Polar Beverages, Ale-8-One, Blenheim, Foxon Park, Fitz's, Sprecher, Market Basket/Chelmsford, Red Rock, Reed's Ginger Brew, Chek (River of Dreams), Shasta, and Sussex Golden Ginger Ale. Vernors is a flavoured golden ginger ale aged for three years in oak barrels before bottling. It was the first U.S. soft drink, originating in 1866, although it was modelled on imported Irish ginger beers. In Detroit, Michigan, a drink made with vanilla ice cream and Vernors ginger ale is called a Boston cooler. Blenheim is a golden ginger ale made"