Warren Buffett drinks 5 cans of Coke a day — here's why he switched from Pepsi after nearly 50 years

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• Warren Buffett famously consumes five cans of Coke a day.
• However, Berkshire Hathaway's billionaire boss drank Pepsi for nearly 50 years, and only switched sodas because an old neighbor intervened.
• Don Keough, a coffee salesman who lived across the street from Buffett in Omaha and turned down a chance to invest with him, eventually became Coca-Cola's president and operating chief.
• After learning that Buffett drank Pepsi-Cola Cherry, Keough sent him samples of the upcoming Cherry Coke, spurring Buffett to switch brands and pronounce Cherry Coke as the official drink of Berkshire Hathaway's annual shareholder meeting.
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Warren Buffett famously consumes five cans of Coke a day. However, he drank Pepsi for nearly 50 years, and only switched sodas because an old neighbor intervened, Glen Arnold wrote in "The Deals of Warren Buffett Volume 2: The Making of a Billionaire."

"I'm one quarter Coca-Cola," the 89-year-old investor told Fortune in 2015, explaining the drink accounts for 25% of his daily calorie intake.

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