Jeremy Guenette was sitting in an Idaho parking lot waiting for his kids to finish back-to-school shopping two years ago, when he noticed business was booming at a nearby truck mixing colas, cream and fruity flavours.

"For about 45 minutes, I just watched people come and go from the Soda Tsunami. They probably had about 150 customers and I think maybe one went to the [adjacent] taco truck, so I was just very intrigued," Guenette recalled.

A few sips of a dirty soda later, he not only understood the hype but was frantically searching for an equivalent back home in Alberta.

When none could be found, he opened Sip Soda Co. — an Edmonton-area shop that helped bring the hit drink north of the border.

While dirty soda is still quite nascent in Canada, the fizzy drinks with fun names are rapi

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