I prefer Pepsi-Cola to Coca-Cola but when it comes to Christmas, the soda pop from Atlanta beats Pepsi cold.

When you think of Coke, your mind fills with images of Santa Claus, Christmas trees, polar bears, and homecomings. And it doesn’t stop there. Coke also rides the coattails of the Fourth of July, free enterprise, youthful idealism, and, above all, of America the beautiful.

What do you get from Pepsi? Memories of a day at the beach, a Russian tailgunner brandishing a Pepsi bottle from his perch on a Tupolev Tu-95 “Bear” bomber, and Joan Crawford.