Jones Hallow-One

Halloween is four weeks away.  To celebrate, your favorite blog, good old Cans in the Basement, will be displaying the 2013 Jones Halloween Soda Cans.  For a "treat" to go with this "trick", I will also provide a helpful soda factoid. These are useful facts; they are things everyone who wishes to be taken seriously in the soda world needs to know.

Halloween Soda Factoid Number One

Do you know the original name of Pepsi?  It certainly wasn't Pepsi.  It was originally called Brad's Drink and was created by Caleb Bradham in 1893.  What can you do with his tidy piece of data? Well, if you have a friend named Brad, you can ironically offer him a Pepsi.  "Dude, Brad my man, seriously, lemme buy you a Pepsi.  It's your drink after all."  Of course, this will be harder to do as the years wane on since the name Brad, at least in America, has been dropping steadily since 1975. It was at it's peak in 1975 as the 98th most popular baby name in America.  It has been dropping ever since. Thankfully, however, Pepsi sales haven't suffered the same fate.