Mix up the team bonding over drinks with bonding over ice cream and a 3D animated movie for the whole staff and their kids.

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Another 8 million tons go into soda, baked goods, cereal, candy, ice cream, sports drinks and more. (These figures do not include 11.5 million tons of corn sweeteners.) If the price of sucrose remains at 35 cents to 40 cents a pound, sugar users in the U.S. will spend a billion dollars more this year than last.

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The city is also home to food theme parks such as Gyoza Stadium and Ice Cream World, vending machines filled with canned coffee drinks, and probably more food fads than anywhere else in the world (today its pancakes, tomorrow it might be cod roe).

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