American Quote by Keith Gessen

Pepsi brings your ancestors back from the dead.

— Lynne Tillman

I mean we might even go to war as to whether we love Coke or Pepsi and our whole identity is wrapped up in…

— Sheena Iyengar

“We drank Pepsi out of these old-fashioned bottles that Dad had found at some ancient country store, and I swear they tasted better than…

— Gayle Forman

In 1994, when I came to PepsiCo, there were really three businesses. They were soft drinks, which included both bottling and the concentrate company.…

— Indra Nooyi

“Brand Category Year of launch Schweppes Soft drinks 1783 Cadbury Chocolate 1831 Budweiser Beer 1876 Coca-Cola Soft drinks 1886 Heineken Beer 1886 Kodak Photo…

— Greg Thain

Remember Clear Pepsi? What a fail. It looked like Sprite, but tasted like Pepsi. What a bait & switch on my taste buds!

— Olivia Munn

“Inevitably, a story about Soviet food is a chronicle of longing, of unrequited desire. So what happens when some of your most intense culinary…

— Anya von Bremzen

Historians differ on when the consumer culture came to dominate American culture. Some say it was in the twenties, when advertising became a major…

— Barbara Ehrenreich

John D. Rockefeller was certainly the first to create a consumer product that was sold literally throughout the entire world. Those blue 5-gallon cans…

— Charles R. Morris

“In experiments at Baylor University where people were given Coke and Pepsi in unmarked cups and then hooked up to a brain scanner, the…

— David McRaney

PepsiCo is a $63 billion company. Half the company is snacks, and half the company is beverages. We have a glorious snacks business and…

— Indra Nooyi

While the Cold War had us questioning our next-door neighbors, big brands emerged to capture our trust. We became consumers.

— Joe Gebbia