Would you consider soda a medicinal beverage? Selling drinks purported to have health benefits has been around far longer than you might imagine.

Coca-Cola's "It's the real thing" slogan hasn't exactly been true for a long time, but at a candy shop in NYC, you can try a ...

La King's Confectionery: Don't Miss. At the soda fountain in La King's, you can get Purity Ice Cream, the oldest brand of ice cream in Texas. It dates back to 1889, when it opened in Galveston.

That means the company sold nine soda fountain drinks per day in its first year of operation, which was 1886. The Coca-Cola company didn't sell its first bottle until 1894, eight years after the ...