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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