As offered on the menu of the trendy Cantonese restaurant we ate in tonight: Hot Pepsi with sliced Ginger.

My thoughts? 'That's weird.'

Andrew's thoughts? 'That sounds just the ticket for curing my cold!'

He duly ordered it, and reports that despite the fact that heating destroys the carbonation, it's a tangy and tasty concoction ...

As for its medicinal healing powers re the common cold, one can only hope.