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You've likely seen shelves of "healthy" sodas popping up at your local grocery store, but are they actually good for us?
Soft drinks go by many names—and each one tells a story. From 1800s pharmacies to modern dialect maps, here’s how our favourite bubbly beverages became cultural flashpoints.
An expert in American dialects explains how a ‘health drink’ from the early 1800s spawned so many names and variations.
For a drink so widely popular, it’s interesting that it goes by so many different names. Katz created the map below to show what parts of America primarily use soda, pop, or coke.
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These flavored, sweetened versions gave rise to the linking of the word “soda” with a sweetened carbonated beverage, as opposed to simple, carbonated water.
Foods and drinks with wellness benefits might seem like a modern phenomenon, but the urge to create drinks with medicinal properties inspired what might be called a soda revolution in the 1800s.