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Soda Pop (from page one) • In 1819, the first “soda fountain” was patented by Samuel Fahnestock, a Pennsylvania doctor who invented a system using a barrel of carbonated water with a pump and spigot to dispense it. The new system enabled pharmacies to serve carbonated water by the glass. Bottled soda water didn’t come along until 1835. • Flavored drinks began around 1820 with the addition of ginger root, then lemon in the 1830s, and tonic in 1858. Ginger ale was created in 1851 in Belfast, Ireland, by Thomas Cantrell, an Irish apothecary and surgeon. A Canadian pharmacist, John McLaughlin, opened a carbonated water plant in Toronto in 1890, where he began mixing the water with flavorings and fruit juices. He patented his recipe, Canada Dry Pale Ginger Ale, in 1907. • By 1860, 123 plants bottling soft drink water were in operation in the U.S. Pressurized seltzer bottles flavored with at least 15 different fruits became available, and the term “pop” was coined in 1861.

other carbonated mixtures, Alderton touted Dr. Pepper’s medicinal properties, with advertising stating that it “aids digestion and restores vim, vigor, and vitality.” • • Yet another pharmacist was hard at work on a new formula, this time in North Carolina. In 1898, Caleb Bradham blended kola nut extract, vanilla, and “rare oils,” calling his blend “Brad’s Drink,” introducing it at his New Bern drug store. He later changed the name to Pepsi-Cola, named after the terms “pepsin” and “cola.” He also peddled his invention as a drink that aided digestion, much like the pepsin enzyme – even though Pepsi didn’t even contain enzyme! • An average 8-oz. can of soda pop contains about 30 grams of sugar, or about 7 teaspoonsful, and contains more than 100 calories.

Royal Crown beverages broke ground in many areas, including the first canned soda, the first caffeine-free soda, and the first 16-oz. size. California chemist Neil Ward experimented with a formula for an orange-based soda for four years before marketing his new beverage, Orange Crush, in 1916. The drink featured orange pulp in the bottles to give it that “fresh squeezed” appeal, although the pulp was added after the brewing process. Still popular today, by Crush products come in the additional flavors of grape, strawberry, pineapple, watermelon, 1. W peach, cherry, and grapefruit. In 1929, Charles Grigg launched a new drink sc with a complicated name, “Bib-Label Lithiated m Lemon-Lime Soda.” Years later, Grigg finally agreed the name was far too cumbersome to se pronounce and changed it to simply 7Up.

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entirely possible -- for all dogs, all breeds, big and small. Dogs with medical conditions or those who by Matilda Charles are on medication are the possible exceptions. © King Features Synd., Inc. Know this going in: Housebreaking requires patience, fastidiousness and a plan. Call your local senior center, all the The first part of that plan requires setting churches, the food pantry and your state’s Naa strict Feed-Water-Walk schedule. Nutshell: He tional Council on Aging (www.ncoa.org). Get on eats, he drinks, he goes outside. This conditions the internet and do a quick search for "seniors I'm sure you've noticed that prices on your dog’s body to eliminate according to your will dining sites," "Meals on Wheels," "Senior food many of our necessary items have gone up and pleasure, so stick to it! No slacking, no excussharply over the past six months. The most worri- boxes," "Commodity Supplemental Food Proes. This is your chance to make the rest of your life grams" and “Free food for seniors in (enter your some of these is the price of food items. easier, cleaner and more aromatic. state).” The plan must also involve confinement. Of all the grocery store price increases, Baby gates and comfy crates are great. Free rein This pandemic, with all the restrictions beef and veal have risen the most. But they’ve all of the house won’t work during the housebreaking and compounding problems it is causing us all, gone up: bread, seafood, cereal and vegetables. phase. You can’t correct a mistake if you’re surmight well last for a very long time to come. Food Fresh fruit, on the other hand, reportedly went prised by it after the fact. You have to catch him in prices won't be coming down before that hapdown (although not at my store), as did milk the act. pens, if even then. 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This is pure nonsense. It’s one of those situ- completely separate Medicare program. By the way, the last time the Social Secuations where I don’t know how you disprove a neg- ative. It simply did not happen. I don’t know what rity tax rate was increased was in 1983, during the YOUR administration of Ronald Reagan, definitely not a else to say. In fact, later in his screed, the author of Democrat! SOCIAL SECURITY And speaking of Reagan, he gets a pass this garbage rebuts himself by trotting out the time-worn argument that President Lyndon Ba- on something that the internet diatribe blames on by Tom Margenau ines Johnson was the first chief executive to mis- President Bill Clinton. Specifically, the angry old use Social Security funds and spend them on other goat wrote this: “Which political party started taxpurposes. I have explained what LBJ did about 100 ing Social Security? Answer: Clinton and the Demotimes in this column. So, here comes explanation cratic Party, with Al Gore casting the tie breaking vote.” No. 101! In truth, Social Security benefits were first Because of the massive spending needed to fund the Vietnam War, Johnson’s administration made taxable during Reagan’s administration in was racking up huge deficits in the 1960s. But LBJ 1984. But I should point out here that the idea to tax came up with a clever way to hide some of those Social Security benefits was one of the proposals of deficits from the American people. He noticed that the 1982 National Commission on Social Security There are so many Social Security-bashing the government kept a completely separate set of Reform. This was a bipartisan commission headed screeds floating around on the internet. Some are books for the Social Security trust funds, which by Alan Greenspan that was charged with coming full of a few half-truths, but most are outright lies. I were running big surpluses at the time. So, he de- up with solutions to Social Security’s pending ficould spend every one of my weekly columns just cided to combine the Social Security accounts with nancial woes. In addition to taxing benefits, some trying to set the record straight. the overall federal budget ledgers. This made the of their other proposals included increasing payroll These things get passed around via emails budget deficits appear much smaller. But it is im- taxes and raising the retirement age from 65 to 67. from one gullible and naive nitwit to the next. ToAnd just so you know, those proposals and portant to note this was just a bookkeeping gim- day, I’m going to address one that has been pollutmick. He simply combined the accounts on paper. resulting legislation worked. The program has ing inboxes for almost a quarter-century now. In He did not take one nickel out of the Social Secu- been running strong for almost four decades since fact, I wrote my first column about it in 1997! It’s those changes were made. But it is about time we rity trust funds to spend for other purposes. still around, and it’s still spreading falsehoods. The author then goes on to say, “Franklin set up another bipartisan commission to keep the (By the way, I can give you a little clue Roosevelt, a Democrat, promised that participation program solvent for future generations. about how to tell these diatribes are half-baked and But that’s a topic for another column. Back in the program would be completely voluntary.” splattered with lies. They are full of misspellings, That’s not true. In order to make Social Security to this ridiculous rant. The author asks this quesrun-on sentences, far too many capital letters and more palatable to Republicans in Congress, the tion: “Which political party decided to start givlots of exclamation points. You just know they are original law excluded groups of traditional Repub- ing annuity payments to immigrants?” And he anwritten by some angry old goat sitting at the comlican voters such as doctors, lawyers and other swers it this way: “That’s right. Jimmy Carter and puter in his basement and letting the governmentself-employed people. But they were all eventually the Democratic Party. Immigrants moved into this hating venom ooze from his fingertips onto the brought into the fold. And just so you know, man- country, and at age 65, began to receive Social Sekeyboard!) datory social insurance is not unique to the United curity payments. The Democratic Party gave these As I said, there are many of these, but the States. There are 165 Social Security programs payments to them, even though they never paid a one I’ll address today is headlined “WHO TOOK around the world. And all of them are mandatory. dime into it.” MY MONEY?” It goes on for several pages trying Once again, that is just absolutely false. In That is the only way a nationwide social insurance to convince you that the Democrats are to blame truth, actuarial studies have shown that workers livsystem can work. for all kinds of supposed transgressions with the This half-baked harangue next alleges that ing here illegally who manage to obtain false docu Social Security program. FDR promised that “participants would only have ments, including fake Social Security numbers, and It starts out with a whopper. It says, “Demoto pay 1 percent of the first $1,400 of their annual who work “above the table,” pump about $2 billion cratic President Kennedy and Sargent Shriver were per year into the Social Security system and never incomes into the program.” the first ones to misuse the Social Security account. Once again, that’s just an outright lie. The collect a dime in benefits. 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for improving moods. It is still in use today for treating patients with bi-polar conditions. The government ultimately banned the use of lithium citrate in sodas in 1948. 7Up wasn’t Grigg’s first undertaking in the soft drink world. In 1919, his first soda, an orange drink named Whistle was marketed, followed by his second orange flavored drink he called Howdy. But when he found these drinks couldn’t catch up with the popularity of Orange Crush, he moved on to strictly lemonlime flavors. By 1920, the U.S. was home to more than 5,000 bottling plants. The first automated vending machine that dispensed soda into paper cups was introduced during this decade. Brothers Barney and Ally Hartman got their start as employees at an Orange Crush bottling plant in Augusta, Georgia. After the Great Depression shut the plant down, they moved to Knoxville, Tennessee, where they began experimenting, trying to invent a soda that would be the perfect mixer to complement their favorite whiskey. When the brothers found the perfect blend, they named their creation Mountain Dew, a slang term used by the Scottish and Irish to describe Scotch whiskey, and by the Appalachian people as a nickname for moonshine. The bottle was designed to look like it was a bootlegged beverage brewed from an Appalachian mountain still. It was decorated with an old wooden outhouse and hillbillies, including Grandpappy, a bearded old hillbilly brandishing a longbarreled gun. The drink they introduced in the 1940s had a much lighter, less sweet taste than the one we know today, and it also wasn’t the greenish-yellow color we’re now familiar with. The taste and color changes were made by a new marketing manager in 1958. It wasn’t until 1964, when Pepsi bought the company that Mountain Dew went nationwide. 

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