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unusual facts about beverage



2007–08 Tulsa Revolution season

The Revolution made XanGo energy drink the team's official beverage for the 2007–08 season.

Admiral Beverage

Admiral Beverage is a corporation based out of Worland, Wyoming which produces and distributes Pepsi products.

Apple wine

Cider, a fermented alcoholic beverage made from apple juice

Arizona Beverage Company

The company roots trace back to 1971 when friends John Ferolito and Don Vultaggio opened a beverage distribution business in Brooklyn, New York.

Beverage antenna

Harold H. Beverage experimented with receiving antennas similar to the Beverage antenna in 1919 at the Otter Cliffs Radio Station.

Black Coffee

Coffee, served as a beverage without cream or milk or sugar.

Blenheim

Blenheim Ginger Ale, a beverage bottled in Blenheim, South Carolina, United States

Cermex

Since 1996, Cermex has been the overwrapping and palletizing division of the Sidel Group, part of the Swedish holding Tetra Laval, a global company that provides packaging for food and beverage products including water, soft drinks, milk, juice, sauces, edible oils, beer and alcoholic beverages.

Cerveza preparada

It is made with tomato juice, Clamato, or V8 Vegetable Juice mixed with beer and seasoned with hot sauce (e.g., Tabasco, Tapatio, or Búfalo).

Coca wine

In Atlanta, John Pemberton, a pharmacist, developed a beverage based on Vin Mariani, called Pemberton's French Wine Coca.

Community Transit

The double-decker bus' nickname, the "Double Tall", refers to the fact that it has 2 floors, hence it is twice the height of the other buses, as well as the fact that Community Transit reaches into Seattle, hometown of Starbucks Coffee, whose beverage sizes include Double Tall.

Crystal Rock Holdings

It based in Watertown, Connecticut, that specializes in bottled water, water coolers, coffee, and other hot beverage related products used around the office.

Efes Beverage Group

Muhtar Kent, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of The Coca-Cola Company, was the top executive of Efes Beverage Group from 1999 through 2005.

Eugenio Garza Lagüera

Eugenio Garza Lagüera (18 December 1923 – 24 May 2008) was a Mexican businessman and philanthropist who served as chairman of the board of the Monterrey Institute of Technology (ITESM) and Femsa; Latin America's largest beverage corporation.

Green–white–checker finish

On the final lap, some angry fans again threw debris (seat cushions, alcoholic beverage bottles) on the track at Gordon's car, which angered many observers, including Fox commentators Chris Myers and Jeff Hammond.

Honest Tea

In 2009, Honest Tea US got an unpaid endorsement when The New York Times revealed that the White House is now stocking Honest Tea, as it is President Barack Obama's preferred beverage- specifically, the "Black Forest Berry" and "Green Dragon" flavors.

Icelandic outvasion

In 2005 a group of Danish journalists found that Thor Björgólfsson, his father Björgólfur Guðmundsson and friend Magnús Þorsteinsson all have background in Russia, where they ran beverage businesses in the 1990s before moving to Iceland.

Joseph P. Lordi

Gov. Richard Hughes named him as Director of the New Jersey Alcoholic Beverage Commission, and in 1968 as the Essex County Prosecutor, replacing Brendan Byrne.

Junk Raiders

The president of OpenLuna, an organization that seeks to get folks on the moon, he is also the builder behind "Beer-bot", a beverage-dispensing robot that keeps beer out of children's hands.

Limeade

Most major beverage companies now offer their own brand of limeade, such as A.G. Barr plc of Glasgow and Newman's Own since 2004, with Minute Maid even introducing a Cherry Limeade drink in response to the popularity of Limeade.

Louis Ginzberg

The Eighteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, ratified on January 16, 1920, declared that "the manufacture, sale, or transportation of intoxicating liquors within... the United States... for beverage purposes is hereby prohibited."

Luther Lassiter

Queried on the subject of his pitching, Lassiter himself said, "Oh, sure, I played some baseball. In fact, it was at some little old ball game that I once ate twelve hot dogs and drank thirteen Cokes and Orange Crushes, and everybody fell to calling me Wimpy" (after the J. Wellington Wimpy character of the Popeye comic strip by the same name who loved to eat hamburgers).

Maibowle

May wine, a traditional German beverage, known also as Maibowle, among other names.

Man on the Flying Trapeze

At the start of the film, two burglars, played by Tammany Young and Walter Brennan(!), break into Ambrose's cellar late at night, get drunk on his homemade applejack, and start singing "On the Banks of the Wabash, Far Away"; Ambrose is forced to handle the situation, and he winds up being arrested for distilling liquor without a license.

Massimo Zanetti

The Massimo Zanetti Beverage Group owns more than 20 consumer brands worldwide, including Chock full o'Nuts, Chase and Sanborn, MJB, Hills Bros., Segafredo Zanetti Espresso, Meira Oy, Brodies and Tiktak, that span a variety of products from espresso and coffee to tea and spices.

McKenzie River Corporation

McKenzie River Corporation is a beverage marketing firm based in San Francisco, CA.

Milo Dinosaur

According to a reporter for The New Paper, the "Dinosaur" in the beverage's name on its own means "a heap of Milo or Horlicks powder on the iced drink".

Mitch Morgan

The Mitch Morgan is a popular beverage at the Oak the New Fat Alley Barbecue in Telluride, Colorado, where the drink originated.

Nestea

Bottled in Subotica, Serbia under authority of Beverage Partners Worldwide (Europe) AG.

Orzo

Caffè d'orzo ("coffee of barley"), a roasted grain beverage often simply called "orzo" in Europe

Pinolero

The first disputed origin is that the term is derived from the word pinol, a form of toasted ground corn that is the main ingredient for Pinolillo, a powdered form of the pinol which is used in a variety of local cuisine and beverage preparations.

Polish Festival @ Federation Square

A range of services and merchandise is sold at marquees around the main stage, while food stalls along the Yarra Terrace serve traditional Polish dishes, snacks and beverages.

Postum

The caffeine-free beverage was created by Postum Cereal Company founder C. W. Post in 1895 and marketed as a healthful alternative to coffee.

Recycling in the Netherlands

Metal cans - beverage and soup cans, although usually extracted from trash by separation techniques

Reverse vending machine

The bottle/can is then automatically rotated; the bottle/can is then scanned by an Omnidirectional UPC Scanner, which scans the beverage container's UPC.

Robert Wood Johnson Foundation

The American Beverage Institute, a restaurant industry trade group which opposes many anti-drunk-driving measures, and the Center for Consumer Freedom, a coalition of restaurant and food companies (quoting the American Beverage Institute), have labeled RWJF as anti-alcohol or neo-prohibitionist.

Rosilane Camargo Motta

Her nickname is derived from her predilection for Fanta, an orange–flavored carbonated beverage manufactured by Coca-Cola.

Sioux Falls Jazz and Blues Festival

JazzFest features a main stage, second stage for local talent, the Sanford Children's JazzQuest Area, a poetry tent, various food and beverage vendors and many craft and non-food booths.

Snapple Theater Center

The complex opened on May 22, 2006 and is sponsored by the beverage company Snapple.

Sqwincher

During the Iraq War, Pat Reardon of beverage distributor Hagemeyer North America began a fundraising campaign to buy Quik Stiks to give to soldiers in Iraq where the temperature is frequently hot.

Supersaturation

Some beverage products such as ales and stouts, e.g. Guinness, rely on this effect to produce the 'head' on the surface of the poured product.

Teas

Tea, a traditional beverage made from steeping the processed leaves, buds, or twigs of the tea bush (Camellia sinensis) in water.

The BOC Group

Gist providing logistics design, management and operation in a number of sectors including food, beverage and fashion retail for large corporations including CocaCola(TM).

Tong Seal

The festivity includes dancing, consumption of the alcoholic beverage Zozu, butchering animals such as cows, goats, pigs, Mithun and other animals for the meals.

Topo chico

Approximately six years after it opened, the “Gran Fábrica de Aguas Minerales de San Bernabé” was established next to the spring, and in 1908, both companies merged to form what is known today as Compañía Topo Chico, S.A. Under the leadership of Manuel L. Barragán, the company managed to navigate the business climate following the Mexican Revolutionary war and become one of the largest and most respected beverage bottlers in the country.

United States open container laws

On the Las Vegas Strip in Nevada and on the Fremont Street Experience in the city of Las Vegas, the law allows the possession and consumption on the street of any alcoholic beverage in an open container throughout the year, although the container must be plastic for certain special events such as the 4th of July and New Year's Eve.

Zesto

Zest-O Corporation, one of the largest beverage companies in the Philippines, and its flagship product: Zest-O juice drink


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