Waiters could offer only fruit juice or soda water with food, unless customers specifically asked for something stronger.
Whether its computers, drugs, even farm equipment or soda water, your revenue line gets squeezed 3% or 4% by the dollar exchange rate.
The egg creams (soda water mixed with chocolate or vanilla syrup and milk) and cherry-lime rickeys (lime juice and maraschino cherries mixed with lemon-lime soda) are not to be missed here.
Mr Gribbin's prose is confident, and his amusing asides include an explanation of the origins of soda water and the observation that the length of a French nobleman's title was, by and large, inversely proportional to his social standing.
But in the short term the only bright spots were America and in France, where a campaign to promote cognac as a long drink (with tonic, which is not, unlike soda water or ginger ale, really a natural accompaniment) raised sales for the second year running.
If you don't want to abstain entirely, there are ways that can help you cut down, including opting for smaller glass sizes, diluting alcohol with soda water or a low-calorie soft drink, alternating between alcoholic and non-alcoholic drinks and keeping a few nights each week booze-free.
Relish sweet touches like a mini bar filled with beer, soda and water, plus a pastry awaiting you each day.
Now the trains are going back west empty, but he hopes to fill them with beer, soda, water and paper, all of which already go west-to-east.
At the same time, Mr. Charoen began diversifying, developing lucrative soda-water and iced-tea lines and building up a sizable property portfolio that included prominent Bangkok hotels.
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Godard and her colleagues acquired 90 beverages of three types, (sugar soda, diet soda, water) from 30 fast food restaurants in a 22-mile area near Roanoke, in southern Virginia.
But Americans are continuing to cut back on soda in favor of water, sports drinks and bottled teas.
Customers at restaurants and night clubs might order a carafe of sweetened cranberry juice, tonic water or soda beverages covered under the ban to mix with a bottle of vodka.
The recipe is the same for all makers, utilizing flour, sugar, water and baking soda - plus the obligatory spices.
It's why Coca-Cola, which holds 13 percent of the bottled water market compared with PepsiCo's 10 percent, doesn't seem to think bottled water will ever overtake soda.
Add the Starbucks commitment to success and I look forward to having a healthy juice alternative to coffee and tea, let alone soda, energy drinks, premium water and more.
Or should I reach back into the bag amid the discarded soda cups, shredded plastic bags, losing lottery tickets and cigarette-butt-filled water bottles to rescue the beer cans and soda bottles, and return them to the supermarket for the deposit?
These use an electrical process to transform salt and water into chlorine and caustic soda (a.k.a. lye), which are the building blocks of everything from plastics to soap.
In terms of volume, soda is only twice as big as bottled water.
Bottle water from your own faucet in plastic soda bottles, and gather canned goods you already have in the pantry.
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You add the carbonated water to the syrup and you get soda (or pop, or soda pop, depending on where you live.) The ratio of syrup to soda is the soda multiplier.
They're also given water and sports drinks but never soda while traveling on planes and buses.
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"We see the sport as being where NASCAR was 15 to 20 years ago, " says Coca-Cola spokeswoman Susan McDermott, whose company sponsors fresh-water angler Aaron Martins with Vault, its soda-energy drink hybrid.
Based in Israel, SodaStream is a global leader in the home beverage carbonation market, producing soda making systems that enable consumers to easily transform ordinary tap water into carbonated drinks instantly.
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Many of the soda beverages from the dispensers fell below U.S. drinking-water standards, according to the findings.
If the water was refrigerated beforehand, you'll have nearly instant soda.
Whether filming hippos in the clear water of Mzima Spring, flamingo chicks in a dried-out soda lake or the complex layers of life within a massive baobab tree, the Roots always let their subjects tell their own stories making astonishing discoveries along the way.
But over the years, as soda increasingly came under fire for fueling the nation's rising obesity rates, water quietly rose to knock it off the top spot.
With growth in the soda segment flattening out, in part due to government antiobesity campaigns (soda sales have been banned in schools), the growth and competition are in water, where market leader Danone is fighting it out with Coca-Cola and Pepsi.
They buy secret concentrate from Coca-Cola Co. and add water and sugar to turn it into the world's best-known soda, distributing it in cans and bottles across the world's next developing markets.
Because of concerns that plastic bottles create too much waste, experts say bottled water could be hit by a public backlash similar to the one that has whipsawed the soda industry with pushes for bans and taxes.
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