(This venue is closed, at least under the Sammy Sosa moniker. As of February 2015 the grocery that does business here has retained the awning but effaced the ballplayer's name and image.) Mexican Pepsi was dark matter in my soda universe: I'd hypothesized its existence from the presence of Mexican Coke but never detected it directly. (After our orbits finally crossed I noted multiple accounts online, though rarely from New York.) This cane-sugar-sweeteened soda (12 fl. oz., $1.50) seemed to offer a fizzier, more rounded body than I recalled from corn-syrup Pepsi, but the day was too hot to dally over a head-to-head comparison.
Sammy Sosa Deli Grocery
476 East 187th St. (at Third Ave.), Belmont, Bronx
718-933-1122
