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A drink or beverage is a liquid intended for human consumption. In addition to their basic function of satisfying thirst, drinks play important roles in human culture. Common types of drinks include plain drinking water, milk, juice, smoothies and soft drinks. Traditionally warm beverages include coffee, tea, and hot chocolate. Caffeinated drinks that contain the stimulant caffeine have a long history.

In addition, alcoholic drinks such as wine, beer, and liquor, which contain the drug ethanol, have been part of human culture for more than 8,000 years. Non-alcoholic drinks often signify drinks that would normally contain alcohol, such as beer, wine and cocktails, but are made with a sufficiently low concentration of alcohol by volume. The category includes drinks that have undergone an alcohol removal process such as non-alcoholic beers and de-alcoholized wines. (Full article...)

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Pepsi-Cola in a plastic bottle.

Pepsi-Cola is a carbonated beverage that is produced and manufactured by PepsiCo. It is sold in stores, restaurants and from vending machines. The drink was first made in the 1890s by pharmacist Erich Drafahl in New Bern, North Carolina. The brand was trademarked on June 16, 1903. There have been many Pepsi variants produced over the years since 1903, including Diet Pepsi, Crystal Pepsi, Pepsi Twist, Pepsi Max, Pepsi Samba, Pepsi Blue, Pepsi Gold, Pepsi Holiday Spice, Pepsi Jazz, Pepsi X (available in Finland and Brazil), Pepsi Next (available in Japan and South Korea), Pepsi Raw, Pepsi Retro in Mexico, Pepsi One, Pepsi Ice Cucumber and Pepsi White in Japan.

In October 2008, Pepsi announced they would be redesigning their logo and re-branding many of their products by early 2009. In 2009, Pepsi, Diet Pepsi and Pepsi Max began using all lower-case fonts for name brands, Mountain Dew has been renamed "Mtn Dew", and Diet Pepsi Max was re-branded as Pepsi Max. The brand's blue and red globe trademark became a series of "smiles," with the central white band arcing at different angles depending on the product. The new imagery is starting to be used. In the case of Pepsi, the logo has the medium-sized "smile", while the new lower-case font used on Pepsi's products are to be reminiscent of the font used in Diet Pepsi's logo from 1975-86. (Full article...)

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... that 9 to 5 actor Dabney Coleman flew to New York City to pursue acting the day after an actor stopped by for a drink?
... that Al-Rantisi Hospital can extract drinking water from air?
... that the "Mayor of Picklesburgh" is decided by a pickle juice drinking competition?
... that trembleuse cups and saucers enabled people with unsteady hands to drink hot beverages?
... that Maxine North swore never to return to Thailand after the death of her undercover CIA husband, but ultimately settled there and introduced bottled water to the country?
... that the Buddha is said to have sat under a charoli tree at Bodh Gaya for seven days without eating, drinking, washing, excreting, or lying down?

... that Baileys Irish Cream was the first liqueur to use cream and alcohol together in a manner sufficiently stable to allow commercial distribution?

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The following are images from various drink-related articles on Wikipedia.

Image 1Various distilled drinks (from List of drinks)
Image 2Kaapi, Indian filter coffee. (from List of national drinks)
Image 3A classical Chinese tea set and three gaiwan. (from List of national drinks)
Image 4Guinness, a dry stout beer, is strongly associated with Ireland. (from List of national drinks)
Image 5Mate, a traditional beverage in southern South America, especially in Argentina, Paraguay, Uruguay, and the south of Brazil. (from List of national drinks)
Image 6Coffee accessories in small shops in Baščaršija, Bosnia and Herzegovina. (from List of national drinks)
Image 7Lemon, lime and bitters is commonly consumed in Australia and New Zealand. (from List of national drinks)
Image 8Krupnik, the national drink of Poland. (from List of national drinks)
Image 9Bottles of Zhuyeqing (Chu Yeh Ching) baijiu produced in Shanxi, China. (from List of national drinks)
Image 10Thai iced tea is a popular drink in Thailand and in many parts of the world. (from List of national drinks)
Image 11Many in both Peru and Chile consider pisco sour their national drink. (from List of national drinks)
Image 12Kvass, popular in the Baltic and Slavic countries. (from List of national drinks)
Image 13Cider (from List of drinks)
Image 14Clear vodka served with pickled cucumber – the usual way of consuming vodka in Slavic countries of the so-called "vodka belt". (from List of national drinks)
Image 15Palm wine is collected, fermented and stored in calabashes in Bandundu Province, Democratic Republic of the Congo. (from List of alcoholic drinks)
Image 16A typical informal faikava in Tonga with the touʻa serving the men. (from List of national drinks)
Image 17A Glencairn whisky glass. (from List of national drinks)
Image 18A hard cider produced in Michigan, U.S. (from List of alcoholic drinks)
Image 19Indian Masala chai served in a red clay tea cup. (from List of national drinks)
Image 20A display of spirits in a supermarket (from List of drinks)
Image 21Red wine is popular in many European countries, notably France and Italy. (from List of national drinks)
Image 22The 7-layered tea of Bangladesh. (from List of national drinks)
Image 23Singapore Sling, a gin-based sling cocktail from the city-state Singapore. (from List of national drinks)
Image 24Ice milk and lemon tea (from List of drinks)
Image 25Various bottles and containers of Russian vodka (from List of alcoholic drinks)
Image 26A fully supplied bar with various types of drinks (from List of alcoholic drinks)
Image 27A reservoir glass filled with a naturally colored verte absinthe, next to an absinthe spoon (from List of alcoholic drinks)
Image 28A berele glass containing tej, a honey wine brewed and consumed in Ethiopia.
Image 29Caipirinha is the national drink of Brazil and is made from cachaça, lime, and sugar. (from List of national drinks)
Image 30Per capita, people in Turkey drink more tea than in any other nation. (from List of national drinks)
Image 31Mixed drinks: a non-alcoholic Shirley Temple (left) and alcoholic Cosmopolitan (right) (from List of drinks)
Image 32Coca-Cola is thought by many to be a symbol of the US. (from List of national drinks)
Image 33A kvass street vendor in Belgorod, Russia, 2013. (from List of national drinks)
Image 34A glass mug of mugicha, a type of roasted barley tea (from List of drinks)
Image 35The popular Indian drink mango lassi. (from List of national drinks)
Image 36Peach kompot, traditional to several countries in Eastern and Southeastern Europe. (from List of national drinks)
Image 37Desi daru from India (from List of alcoholic drinks)
Image 38The espresso comes from the Italian esprimere, which means "to express," and refers to the process by which hot water is forced under pressure through ground coffee. (from List of national drinks)
Image 39Bottled beer (from List of drinks)
Image 40Beer being poured from a cask (from List of drinks)
Image 41Founders Old Curmudgeon old ale (from List of alcoholic drinks)
Image 422004 data of alcohol consumption per capita (age 15 or older), per year, by country, in liters of pure alcohol (from List of drinks)
Image 43Various views of a bottle of mezcal. The "worm", which is actually the larval form of the moth Hypopta agavis that lives on the agave plant, can be seen in the middle image, at the bottom of the bottle. (from List of alcoholic drinks)
Image 44Characteristics of boba tea (also known as "bubble tea" or "pearl milk tea") -- the national drink of Taiwan -- are the tapioca balls that rest at the bottom of the beverage that are drunk with a wide straw. (from List of national drinks)

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Hiram Walker (July 4, 1816 – January 12, 1899) was an American entrepreneur and founder of the Hiram Walker and Sons Ltd. distillery in Windsor, Ontario, Canada. Walker was born in East Douglas, Massachusetts, and moved to Detroit in 1838. He purchased land across the Detroit River, just east of what is Windsor, Ontario, and established a distillery in 1858 in what would become Walkerville, Ontario. Walker began selling his whisky as Hiram Walker's Club Whisky, in containers that were "clearly marked" and he used a process to make his whisky that was vastly different from all other distillers.

It became very popular, angering American distillers, who forced the US government to pass a law requiring that all foreign whiskeys state their country of origin on the label. From this point forward, Hiram Walker's Canadian Club whisky was Canada's top export whisky. He established and maintained the company town that grew around his distillery, exercising planning and control over every facet of the town, from public works to religious services to police and fire control. (Full article...)

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“

...good company, good wine, good welcome, can make good people.

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— William Shakespeare
Henry VIII

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High-fructose corn syrup (HFCS), also known as glucose–fructose, isoglucose and glucose–fructose syrup, is a sweetener made from corn starch. As in the production of conventional corn syrup, the starch is broken down into glucose by enzymes. To make HFCS, the corn syrup is further processed by D-xylose isomerase to convert some of its glucose into fructose. HFCS was first marketed in the early 1970s by the Clinton Corn Processing Company, together with the Japanese Agency of Industrial Science and Technology, where the enzyme was discovered in 1965.

As a sweetener, HFCS is often compared to granulated sugar, but manufacturing advantages of HFCS over sugar include that it is cheaper. "HFCS 42" and "HFCS 55" refer to dry weight fructose compositions of 42% and 55% respectively, the rest being glucose. HFCS 42 is mainly used for processed foods and breakfast cereals, whereas HFCS 55 is used mostly for production of soft drinks.

The United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA) states that it is not aware of evidence showing that HFCS is less safe than traditional sweeteners such as sucrose and honey. Uses and exports of HFCS from American producers have grown steadily during the early 21st century.

Used in Soft drinks.

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Soft Drinks:	Carbonation • Cola • Orange soft drink • Frozen carbonated drink • Root beer • Soda water • Lithia water •
Miscellaneous:	Drink industry • Lemonade • Limeade • Orange drink • Slush (beverage)

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