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Critical Soda Fact Number 3
My whole philosophy of soda can be summed up in the following quote by American pop artist Andy Warhol.
"What's great about this country is that American started the tradition where the richest consumers buy essentially the same thing as the poorest. You can be watching TV and see Coca Cola, and you know that the President drinks Coca Cola, Liz Taylor drinks Coca-Cola, and just think, you can drink Coca Cola, too. A coke is a coke and no amount of money can get you a better coke than the one the bum on the corner is drinking. All the cokes are the same and all the cokes are good. Liz Taylor knows it, the President knows it, the bum knows it, and you know it."
I love that quote. I mean, I read it and wish to weep tears of carbonated high fructose corn syrup. Coca-Cola is the great equalizer. If Coca-Cola was only available in the Brazilian rain forest as part of a biannual religious ceremony, manufactured by tribal priests through a secret process passed down through generations, if it was a sacramental drink that only select anthropologists and a few privileged celebrities could taste, it would be classified as ambrosia. Since its not, it's hip to disdain it and claim sensual superiority in other things. But our man Andy sees through that bull. Good for him.
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