When the soft drink was first introduced in 1937, it was known as Sun Tang Red Cream Soda — but Big Red tastes like no other cream soda on the market.

The ingredient that gives the popular soft drink its bright color, red dye No. 40, is supposed to be removed from food and ...

Fifty-five years ago, some golf caddy referred to Sun Tang Red Cream Soda as "Big Red" while in the company of Sun Tang President Harold Jansing. It forever changed the name, and possibly fortunes ...

The Shady Maple Smorgasbord has a reputation for being the largest buffet. As you might imagine, that means it has plenty of ...

A ban on Red No. 3 requires companies to remove the dye from their products by 2027. The change has prompted food and ...

The flavor of a Big Red is sometimes described as 'bubble gum,' which isn't far off. The original 1937 formula combined lemon and orange oils with vanilla and was called "Sun Tang Red Cream Soda." ...

In fact, the beverage, invented in Waco in 1937, originally had the lengthy moniker “Sun Tang Red Cream Soda.” Descriptive, but not as catchy as Big Red, which became the name after an ...

Big Red originated in Waco, Texas, in 1937, under the name Sun Tang Red Cream Soda. Its present-day name was inspired by a golf caddy, who referred to the Sun Tang Red Cream soda as "big red." ...

In the 1960s, Waco, Texas–based Big Red Soda somehow became — and remains — the de facto Juneteenth beverage of choice in the Lone Star State. (Maybe it was all because of the name.) ...

The first batch of Big Red soda was made in 1937, and once it left the Waco bottling plant, it sparked a cult of feverish fandom that continues to this day.

The video was enough to put some viewers off red soda—or any fountain drink, for that matter. “And a 100% chance I don’t want it if you have to wash the ants out before I drink it!” one ...