Late last year, Pepsi prepared to introduce a new beverage, the old-timey and upscale 1893, or as its trademark application called it, “1893 From the Makers of Pepsi-Cola.” It’s just one of many products taking advantage of a strange trend in soft drinks right now: making products with real sugar is a selling point, something that the industry might not have expected just a few years ago.
Wow… What a shock. The only words I can think of are:
Why yes! We do like drinking something that isn’t made of throat burning corn plastic. You know, like most of the rest of the world? They’re really onto something… or at least on something.