> Tonight Sam made me try Moxie, the drink which I believe Matthew described as liquid evil. It was OK. I couldn't drink a whole can of it, but it wasn't awful or anything. It was better than "birch beer", the other classic disgusting drink Sam made me try two days ago, and MUCH better than Dr Pepper.
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> If I was really thirsty and nothing else was available, I would drink Moxie, but I would not drink Dr Pepper.

I don't know if you all were alive during this time (I wasn't), but a while back, Moxie was all the rage. It was the most popular drink, much like Coke or Pepsi today. It was claimed to cure just about everything, from the common cold to toe warts. Then, the government made these laws against false advertisements or something, and Moxie started to lose popularity. Furthermore, there came the advent of newer, better-tasting sodas, that people preferred to Moxie's taste. As one person put it, "it tasted something like used...motor oil." Further contributing to the downfall of Moxie's popularity was the invention of the soda fountain. You know, those thing you go to at fast-food restaurants to fill your cups with sodas? Yeah, those. Well, Moxie was a bottle drink, and a bottle drink only. By the time they tried to put it in the fountains, it was too late to bring up its popularity. People were already introduced to tastier beverages like Coke, Pepsi, and 7-up. And since Moxie didn't taste as good as those other drinks, nor did it have any special medical powers, as once advertised, it was de-throned from the position of America's favorite beverage, replaced by Coke, the drink that won the Second World War. But that's a whole different story.