A Pepsi collectible does not always belong neatly in a collection of soda advertising.
It might also be music memorabilia, sports merchandise, movie promotion, fashion, foreign advertising, restaurant material, or packaging from a country thousands of miles from the place where Pepsi-Cola began. As Pepsi expanded internationally and increasingly attached its name to entertainment and popular culture, the range of objects carrying its familiar red, white, and blue identity expanded with it.
For collectors, those crossovers create some of the most interesting corners of Pepsi collecting. They also make identification more complicated. A foreign Pepsi sign may look unfamiliar while being entirely authentic, and a promotional can may be sought as enthusiastically by fans of the celebrity pictured on it as by soda collectors.
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