Friday, February 23, 2018

Soda

“What goes out of a glass container is the same way it went in” -John Nese

Soda. The flavored carbonated beverage the world has enjoyed since the advent of carbonated water. What brings us back to drink more of it are the flavors that it has to offer to the populace.

In the early years, soda was something was enjoyed mostly at places where drugstores or malt shops were located. Mineral water, flavored syrup made from fruit peels and a glass are what made for the best drinks ever made in the world.

When bottling became a thing, Moxie took advantage of the technology to allow the people to enjoy their soda on the go. It was a revolution for soda drinkers. With soda being bottled like water and liquor, the beverage could now be taken anywhere you wanted to be.

Yet its disheartening that not many people remember Moxie in a world where the soda isle has been monopolized by Coke and Pepsi.

All was fine and dandy for sodas until the late-1970’s for when it all went downhill.

With the commodities crisis in full effect, soda companies phased in Corn Syrup as their alterative to artificially high sugar prices and Aspartame after Reagan’s Administration approved the substance to be “safe” for consumption.

Most major soda manufacturers thought it was a good idea to swap sugar with Corn Syrup as they believed that the two were the same. Yet they were wrong.

For switching from sugar to Corn Syrup, soda went from a non-hazardous drink enjoyed during an afternoon to the bane of people’s health in the decades after.

When the 1990’s played its hand, soda in the U.S. gained a bad wrap with nearly everyone for the cause of obesity and diabetes.

When soda was still mostly sweetened with sugar, such problems were minimal.

But with Corn Syrup and Aspartame, those problems blew everything out of proportion.

Thankfully people have gotten smart with the soda companies and have gradually moved away from drinking soda sweetened by the two, and demand the return to real sugar.

For many heavy soda drinkers, sugar is the sweetener of choice.

Sugar never leaves a nasty after taste compared to the other two, nor does it require lab chemicals to process and refine. In addition, there is a spore in corn that can’t be refined out of the manufacturing process which has caused problems for individuals who have allergies to corn and wheat products.

Which is why people prefer sugar over the others.

As the 2nd decade of the 21st Century wraps itself up, the return to sugar soda rises. Whether this will be a boom for the sugar industry for the rest of the world is of another matter. But if all does go well then it’ll hopefully be the end of government farm subsidies for corn.

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