Dr Pepper is a carbonated soft drink marketed as having a unique flavor. Dr Pepper is the oldest major soft drink in America, having been created, manufactured, and sold in 1885 by pharmacist Charles Alderton. Charles Alderton worked at a drugstore in Waco, Texas, owned by Wade Morrison. Legend has it that Morrison named it … Read more
Pepsi is a carbonated soft drink produced and manufactured by PepsiCo. The recipe for the soft drink Pepsi was first developed in the 1880s by Caleb Bradham, a pharmacist and industrialist from New Bern, North Carolina. The original recipe included sugar, vanilla, oils, spices, African kola nuts and carbonated water. Bradham said the drink could … Read more
Coca-Cola (often referred to simply as Coke) is a carbonated soft drink produced by The Coca-Cola Company. Coca-Cola is the most popular and biggest-selling soft drink in history, as well as one of the most recognizable brands in the world. Originally intended as a patent medicine, it was invented in 1886 by John Pemberton. Coca-Cola … Read more
Beer is the world’s most widely consumed alcoholic beverage. Beer is the 3rd most popular drink overall, after water and tea. Beer is one of the world’s oldest prepared beverages, possibly dating back to the early Neolithic or 9500 BC. In Mesopotamia (Ancient Iraq) the Sumer people, about 4000 BC in the middle east were … Read more
Wine is an alcoholic beverage made from fermented grapes or other fruits (rarely). Wine is made with grapes, but not typical table grapes you’ll find at the grocery. Wine grapes (latin name: Vitis vinifera) have thick skins, are small, sweet, and contain seeds. There are many different kinds of wine grapes–over a thousand. It is … Read more
Legend has it that in 2737 BC, Shen Nung, the second emperor of China, discovered tea when leaves blew into his pot of boiling water. There are six main tea types – black, green, white, yellow, oolong and pu-erh – but they all come from one plant, Camelia sinensis.It’s how the leaves are treated that … Read more
Coffee is a brewed drink prepared from the roasted seeds of the coffee plant. It is one of the three most-popular beverages in the world (alongside water and tea). Coffee is the second most traded commodity on earth. Crude oil (unrefined petroleum) is the first. Its popularity is mainly attributed to its invigorating effect, which … Read more