No pop:until 12 yrs.

[Trek420]

If no marketing, then looks like the parents /adult fans have to spread the good word. Interesting! It's like making baking soda or Xerox machine part of one's life/living...either you like/use it or not.

Not likely to happen, the Onion being of course being entirely a humor/parody magazine. The cola/culture wars continue.

We did not have pop at home or rarely did. I knew this was different than other families and there may have been times I felt ... not deprived that's not the word I'm looking for not sure what the right term would be .... just different.

This was 50's-60's I was not bombarded with "everyone must eat fast food all the time and this kind".

My parents were farmers till huge agribusiness made it even more difficult to sustain a small farm. They sold most of the property and both got jobs in town. Even with two parents working full time, three kids, they maintained an astounding garden on the land they kept.

We ate real well.

The joke was if they'd have kept a few chickens, a sheep or two, maybe a cow .... we'd be self sufficient we ate hardly any "junk". Neither of them were "preachy" about eating natural. My sibling Duck on Wheels may have more input on this, it could be because my Dad's degree in chemistry maybe he knew/thought that a more natural diet could be better. My Mom has very strong opinions about genetic modification of food and because beets and therefore beet sugar are often modified she avoids sugar unless it's the natural stuff.

Since she's active, still gardens, able to live independently at 87 ... maybe she's on to something. She credits a philosophy of "keep moving" so maybe you can drink Pepsi, eat chips and ride your bike But we ate fresh, local from the start and I don't crave cola at all.

I like Blue Sky http://drinkbluesky.com/products/index.php?cat=2 but not enough to keep it around.