{"id":6022,"date":"2012-09-17T12:00:17","date_gmt":"2012-09-17T16:00:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/?p=6022"},"modified":"2012-09-17T05:56:25","modified_gmt":"2012-09-17T09:56:25","slug":"when-did-sodas-become-so-large","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/2012\/when-did-sodas-become-so-large\/","title":{"rendered":"When Did Sodas Become So Large?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/091712_0954_WhenDidSoda1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"575\" \/><\/p>\n<p>New York City has gone through with a controversial policy to ban the sale of soft drinks in cups larger than 16 ounces (about half a liter.) Brian Palmer looked at when soda servings got so big:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>During the great depression an upstart Cola company called Pepsi-Cola began to sell 12-ounce bottles for a nickel. This was twice the amount of cola that Coke sold for a nickel.<\/li>\n<li>In addition to making it a more attractive value proposition for consumers, this also meant that Pepsi could use the same bottles as beer makers, cutting costs.<\/li>\n<li>Pepsi gained so much market share that it looked like Coke would lose its dominant market position. Coke soon released a &#8220;Family Size&#8221; 21 ounce bottle.<\/li>\n<li>When Coca-Cola first worked with McDonald&#8217;s the original fountain soda had seven ounces. It hit 21 ounces in 1974.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Read more about the racial undertones behind the serving sizes, and an infographic that depicts the evolution of the soda container over <a href=\"http:\/\/www.slate.com\/articles\/news_and_politics\/explainer\/2012\/09\/new_york_city_soda_ban_when_did_soft_drinks_get_so_big_in_the_first_place_.html\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.slate.com\/articles\/news_and_politics\/explainer\/2012\/09\/new_york_city_soda_ban_when_did_soft_drinks_get_so_big_in_the_first_place_.html\">Slate<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New York City has gone through with a controversial policy to ban the sale of soft drinks in cups larger than 16 ounces (about half a liter.) Brian Palmer looked at when soda servings got so big: During the great depression an upstart Cola company called Pepsi-Cola began to sell 12-ounce bottles for a nickel. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6021,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6022","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-daily-bulletin"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/091712_0954_WhenDidSoda1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6022","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6022"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6022\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6025,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6022\/revisions\/6025"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6021"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6022"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6022"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6022"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}