In 1967, the Pure Spring pop company, which dominated the Eastern Ontario market up to about 1970, produced "Expo Chocolate" in celebration of the centennial exposition in Montreal that I'm sure you all remember. Expo Chocolate was dire -- almost as bad as Swiss Creme Soda, another Pure Spring product, which was fluorescent pink and tasted of sugar and not much else.

Those were the only losers of the Pure Spring line. Their ginger ale was wonderful and I miss it sorely.

Tab Cola was my first experience of artificial sweetener. It was, indeed, vile. Fresca has improved considerably since it first appeared; the grapefruit flavour assorted very oddly with its original sweetener, saccharine, but is now actually quite palatable.