Christian M
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Neither Red Bull nor Frappuccino are really soft drinks per se. Soft drinks contain mostly carbonated water, sugar, corn syrup, caffeine and other crap you shouldn't be feeding your body if you really care about it. However all of those ingredients are quite cheap and the cost of soft drinks comes mostly from the shipping weight required to get it to the store, and partly packaging. Due to this, prices on soft drinks are often quite reasonable, with the two major vendors, Coca-cola and Pepsi, alternating sales at most grocery stores. There are also all sorts of generic brands out there.
In the case of Frappuccino, which is a coffee drink, but still something that should be enjoyed in moderation, the price is understandable. The coffee part of the drink is cheap, just like soft drink ingredients, but the fatty part of the drink comes from modified dairy products with preservatives to keep it from souring without refrigeration. Further, the glass bottle packaging is significantly more expensive that the usual plastic or aluminum casing for soft drinks. Then you're also paying a premium for the Starbucks brand name.
The Red Bull one does mystify me though. In that case, there is no specific ingredient, packaging, or shipping weight characteristic that should cause a can of Red Bull to cost more than a two-liter of Pepsi, but it does.
You probably don't want to hear this, but I'd use this as an opportunity to have yet another good excuse to avoid these products. Water (the uncarbonated, uncaffeinated, unfruitinated kind) should be your best friend. |
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