Seven in 10 black New Yorkers, and about 60 percent of Hispanics, said they usually drank regular sodas, compared with nearly 40 percent of whites.
In general, diet sodas, which replace sugar with artificial sweeteners and often have far fewer calories, are less popular in New York than regular, full-sugared drinks: 53 percent of residents said they usually drank regular sodas, and 23 percent said they usually drank diet.
I mentioned this to a local resident, Lorenz Weber, who seemed impressed that I had come all this way just to drink rauchbier, though he noted that he usually drank Pilseners himself.
His fearlessness awed even his soldier subjects, and between battles he hung out with Hemingway and Steinbeck and usually drank too much, seeming to pull everything off with panache.
I usually drank vodka in college because it was cheap and copiously available, but it was terrible.
A New York Times poll in August suggested that seven in 10 black New Yorkers and about 60% of Hispanics said they usually drank regular non-diet sodas.
