Soft drinks

Like doughnuts, I've given up soda. I'm only allowing myself to drink soda on April 1 of every year. Those who know me, may be surprised since I drink 3-5 glasses of diet soda in a sitting, but I've gone 4 weeks and going strong.

On a related note, has anyone noticed how big the soft-drink aisles have gotten at the super markets? No single product get that much shelf-space per serving! In the bread aisle, how many loaves of Wonderbread can you count? In the canned soup aisle, how many Campbell's tomato soup do you find? And in the soft drinks aisle, how many cases and bottles of Coca Cola do you see? It's pretty amazing. The only reason there are so many are because they sell proportionately more soda than anything else.

So why am I so impressed? I knew America loves soda, but until today, it was just a fact. The magnitude never sank in. I walked down that aisle thousands of times in dozens of supermarkets, and never thought twice about just HOW much soda that really was. Pretty amazing.