Pepsi Was Originally Called ‘Brad’s Drink’
Pepsi’s inventor was a drug store owner named Caleb Davis Bradham who referred to the beverage as “Brad’s Drink.” The recipe for the soda involved sugar, water, caramel, lemon oil, nutmeg, and kola nuts among other ingredients and was later renamed Pepsi-Cola because Bradham believed his concotion prevented indegestion aka “dyspepsia.”