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Drinks & Stuff: Mr. Pibb Goes to Washington

Drink Shaming and the Weird Political Dew-Vision of Soda Wars Sequels.

G. Clay Whittaker
Aug 09, 2024
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Not to get into politics in a “drinks” newsletter or anything, but political rhetoric is totally couched in soda wars right now.

I was not expecting the New York Times and Wall Street Journal to spotlight a bizarre Vice-Presidential soda skirmish this week, which started a couple of weeks ago in Ohio, over a bottle of Diet Mountain Dew.

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