AMAZING Facts About Pepsi.

• The former American hockey league team the buffalo Bisons were bought by Pepsi… and even adopted a strip in the company’s famous red, white and blue colors
• The two-liter fizzy-drink bottle was first introduced by Pepsi
• Since 2009 Pepsi has marketed itself as “pecsi” in argentina… due to the fact its name gets mispronounced in south America
• The original name for the cola beverage was “brad’s drink”… and it did not become Pepsi-cola until 1898
• Pepsi was originally created as a drink to aid with stomachache
• Pepsi was the first widely-available American product to be sold in the USSR
• A key marketing ploy for Pepsi during the 1970s and 1980s was to highlight the fact they had beaten coca-cola in blind-tasting tests
• The current company was formed out of a merger between Pepsi-cola and Frito-lay
• The coca-cola company turned down the chance to buy Pepsi… on three separate occasions
• In 2011 Pepsi restarted the so-called “cola wars” by showing a commercial where Santa Claus and a polar bear enjoy their brand on holiday… in a direct ploy to mock coca-colas’ traditional adverts
• Every can of regular Pepsi contains roughly eight teaspoons of sugar
• The Pepsi-cola company entered bankruptcy during the great depression due to the huge increase in the price of sugar
• Pepsi faced abuse and threats from the ku klux klan when they tried to tap into the African-American market during the 1940s
• There are some bizarre flavors of Pepsi around the world… including ice cucumber, french chestnut dessert and monkey-bread fruit
• Frappuccinos and other cold ready-to-drink star bucks products are distributed by Pepsi
• Despite “Pepsi perfect” appearing in scenes of back to the future part ii set in 2015, this product has never been created
• Pepsi created a contest in Russia for customers to win a car by choosing the right key… but sued a man who opened a vehicle as they hadn’t actually put a key in any of the bottles
• Supposedly when the company translated the advertising slogan “come alive with Pepsi” into Chinese, the result was… “Pepsi brings your ancestors back from the grave”
• Pepsi man” is the official company mascot in Japan… and he has his own play station and saga video games