Pepsi is one of the leading softdrink brands and really popular in the north.
Pepsi's original recipe included sugar and vanilla. Pepsi is so tasty!
I love their rival Coca-Cola,did you know Pepsi was originally called Brad's Drink?
Yes! It was created in 1893 by Caleb Bradham, and renamed in 1898.
Bradham was a phrmacist and he sold it at his soda fountain.
It was interesting how it was originally marketed, for it's digestion aid and to boost energy.
Right, well if it had cocaine as an ingredient like Coke did, I bet that it gave people a lot of energy!
That's for sure, he managed to sell 7,968 gallons of syrup in 1903. I bet it was really sought after.
Wow! Amazing that these drinks were medicinal when they originated.
-ounce bottles, and sales increased to 19,848 gallons. In 1909, automobile race pioneer Barney Oldfield was the first celebrity to endorse Pepsi-Cola, describing it as "A bully drink...refreshing, invigorating, a fine bracer before a race." The advertising theme "Delicious and Healthful" was then used over the next two decades.
In 1923, the Pepsi-Cola Company entered bankruptcy—in large part due to financial losses incurred by speculating on the wildly fluctuating sugar prices as a result of World War
Pepsi
Pepsi is a carbonated soft drink manufactured by PepsiCo. Originally created and developed in 1893 by Caleb Bradham and introduced as Brad's Drink, it was renamed as Pepsi-Cola on August 28, 1898, and then as Pepsi in 1961.
History.
Pepsi was first introduced as "Brad's Drink" in New Bern, North Carolina, United States, in 1893 by Caleb Bradham, who made it at his drugstore where the drink was sold. It was renamed Pepsi-Cola in 1898 after the