To mark the back-to-school season, when lunchboxes across North America get filled with sticky peanut butter and jam sandwiches, gourmet soda company Jones Soda has launched a PB&J-flavored drink.

When I was little, I categorically refused to eat Hoppin' John. At some point I got into my head (I think my dad helped), that Hoppin' John was not in fact black-eyed peas, but some dude named John's ...