Tuesday, 21. August 2007
Topic: STRANGE - on August 21, 2007 at 3:19:00 PM CEST
Diet Coke is 99% Water (And That Is Now a Good Thing)
Back in the day, when people noted that Diet Coke was 99% water, it was an insult. The point was that water was free, and Diet Coke was just free water plus a little bit of artificial this and that — so you would have to be a fool to pay so much for it.
Of course, times have changed. Bottled water now generates an estimated $50 billion in sales each year, with that number growing rapidly. According to this CBS News report, which puts soda revenues at $68 billion a year and stagnant, bottled water is now as big a business as soda.
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