Alright Pepsi, you got me here. Is the idea of a nitrogen-infused cola actually significantly different than a standard CO2 cola? Certainly they’re right about the fact that nitrogen bubbles are smaller, but how much of a difference does that actually make? Does it impact taste at all? Other than the nitrogen, this seems to…
OK, please forgive me here. Obviously, I try to use this blog to promote the smaller brands, but this tempted me. I’ve had a raspberry cola that I recall fondly, and everyone knows the glass bottle Coke is the best. My family has had a few small raspberry bushes for the majority of my life,…
Here it is! The final soda of the trip that started this blog. Another incredibly designed logo grabbed my eye, this time it was Nichol Kola. Nichol Kola is apparently America’s Taste Sensation! My cursory googling leads me to believe it was a pre-WWII cola from Baltimore, sold initially for, you guessed it, a nickel.…
One of my favorite video games of all time is Fallout: New Vegas. It’s an open-world role-playing game set in the area around a post-apocalyptic Las Vegas. There’s an omnipresent brand in the game called Sunset Sarsaparilla, which is a pre-apocalypse soda company. You collect bottle caps during the game (which are used as currency)…