Coke and Pepsi: Despicable

The last time I had a cola was in the late 1960s, and I actually could tell the difference between Coke and Pepsi; I preferred the latter, because it tasted cleaner, with less sugary syrup.

The point to be made here, however, is that I, like nearly everyone raised in an upper-middle household, stopped drinking this poison when we realized that it really was poison.

OK, but did that drive Coke and Pepsi out of business?  Hell no.  They simply turned their marketing efforts onto inner-city families that have little or no access to information on nutrition and health.