Soda

Father’s Day is almost here! Fortunately, the day for our dads fall on the month of June, when we can expect warm weather for BBQs and outdoor entertainment. This year, let Beverage Universe provide you with your favorite sodas to kick back and drink with dad and the rest of the family.

While there are hundreds of soft drinks available, a few rise to the top as America’s most popular soda brands. Here are our top 10 soda brands and some interesting facts you may not know about your soda of choice.

Ah, soda. The sound of a popped soda can tab floods us with nostalgic childhood memories of warm and relaxing summer days. Soda has become a staple part of the everyday American diet, lined up in cans and bottles eagerly within hand’s reach in fridges far and near.

Soda history is a fascinating love affair between entrepreneurs, scientists and the American consumer. Originally touted as health-enhancing beverages capable of curing everything from tuberculosis to hair loss, the first sodas contained what pharmacists called nervines, which could have included varying amounts of cannabis, opium, morphine, cocaine and even strychnine. Wildly popular in the late 19th century, soda fountains sprang up all over the U.S., providing these healthy, energizing drinks to customers who thoroughly enjoyed the way these medicinal beverages made them feel.

The ‘90s were saturated with oddball Nickelodeon characters – Rugrats, Ren and Stimpy, Doug – noisy with the sound of raw guitar-heavy, grunge bands like Nirvana and Pearl Jam, and suffered an invasion of weird-looking, Japanese pocket monsters called Pokémon. The pre-Internet, post-hair band decade of the 1990s also gave us a multitude of tasty and not so tasty beverages we still drink, dream about or recoil at the thought of drinking again.