Mug Root Beer, the popular American brand of root beer, recently announced that it will be giving away free soda this month.

And while vintage Coca-Cola bottles conjure nostalgia and a chilled glass of root beer may remind us of childhood, soda (pop, or soda-pop) isn’t all sunshine and rainbows. With a high sugar ...

available in flavors including root beer, cherry cola, and grape—the type of drink that, despite years of anti-soda rhetoric and Poppi’s vision of collective psychosis, Americans simply cannot ...