What's the history of soda? Who invented that shit...

What's the history of soda? Who invented that shit? How did it become one of the largest most profitable commodities today?

It was invented by the Native Americans as an herbal cure for gingivitis

>largest most profitable commodities today?
Control of water resources

coca leaf from south america, cola nut from africa
and sodium bicarbonate, also used for baking, killing pests and paint removal

How did it become so fucking huge?

by sheer capitalism
also it´s a good drink, even communist countries have their versions

They put a ton of sugar in it, and humans are hardwired to crave that shit.

What's the story with them and Mexico? How did they fuck up the place that badly? Did they bannanna republic that shit?

Fruit cordials date back to Elizabethan times. Soda water came along in the 18th century, as a mixer for hard liquor and as a drink in its own right. By the early 29th century Schweppe had started mixing sugar and flavorings into his carbonated soda water, and they went on to be one of the earliest mass produced "consumer" product, encouraged by the British demand for Tonic Water, soda with added quinine, which was valued for its anti-Malarial properties in British India and Africa.

Alright, nobody has said it yet.

Alcohol tastes like shit.

If you're spending less than ten dollars on the bottle, than yes. However, it's blasphemous to mix some things with soda.

>What's the history of soda? Who invented that shit? How did it become one of the largest most profitable commodities today?
Unironically the Jews.

>wants to make an argument that alcohol doesn't taste like shit
>posts ONE GOD KING EMPEROR BEVERAGE OF SHITTASTE that tastes like someone put 200 pairs of dirty socks in a bowl, poured factory ethanol on it, wringed the socks, pulled them out and called it a drink

Are you still in your "chug this handle of gas station whiskey to get wrekt breh" dudebro college phase?

Go get a nice wine and cheese pairing and get back to me.

>Single malt
>irish

pick one retard

Jaegermeister unironically tastes good.
I don't understand why people feel the need to drown it in Redbull.

Most people don't really prefer to drink pure liquid liqourice

This, it's sugar and water, everyone loves sugar and water.

> By the early 29th century
Fucking time travelers. Stop fucking your ancestors and go home.

>muh classy drinks
You poser drinkers are the worst kind of druggies

I hate the taste of whiskey but i can drink vodka like there's no tomorrow.
Am I turning into a russian?

If you legit can't taste the difference between good and bad alcohol you're probably the same kind of person who think raw, medium and well done all taste the same.

If you can't enjoy something as good as pic related then there's something seriously wrong with you.

Booze is meant to get you loosey goosey.
Soft drinks taste nice.

The advantage of a nice booze is that instead of it causing a gag reflex, it provides flavours. Some boozes have more complex flavours than others.

das liquorist maine

Chattanooga is the site of the World's First Coca-Cola
Bottling Company. Before Coca-Cola first appeared in
bottles, it was sold as a fountain drink for more than a
decade. The world's best known taste was born on May 8, 1886 in Atlanta, Georgia. The taste originated in a three- legged brass kettle sitting in the backyard of Dr. John Stythe
Pemberton. Pemberton, a local pharmacist and concocter
of medicinal beverages, stirred up a caramel-colored syrup
creation that we know today as Coca-Cola. Soon after,
Pemberton began selling the drink mixed with soda water
in a nearby pharmacy.
In the summer of 1899, Mr. Benjamin F. Thomas and Mr. Joseph B. Whitehead ventured down to Atlanta from
Chattanooga to meet with Mr. Asa Candler. Mr. Candler had
purchased the Coca-Cola Company seven years earlier and
was the president of the company at the time.
When they conveyed their idea to bottle Coca-Cola to Mr. Candler, he thought they were doomed to fail. He was
concerned that if Thomas and Whitehead were allowed to
bottle the product, they would lose everything they had
invested. His greatest fear was that their efforts might
damage the reputation of the Coca-Cola Company in the
process. After much persuasion, Candler signed a contract,
selling the bottling rights to Thomas and Whitehead for
$1.00 (A dollar, which by the way, he never bothered to
collect).
The two new entrepreneurs returned home with renewed
determination. Securing support of colleague John T. Lupton, the two opened the World's First Coca-Cola Bottling
Company. The original facility was located at 17 Market
Street where Patten Parkway now stands. As the business
continued to thrive, the plant was moved to 201 Broad
Street, and finally in 1970, to its current location at 4000
Amnicola Highway.
Chattanooga Coca-Cola’s 476 employees are proud of
their company’s continued support of the many civic
and charitable organizations actively serving the
Chattanooga and North Georgia communities.

soda...........it's called coke, you fuck

t. manchild

Vodkaholic here

Red bull and vodka or vodka so cold ya tounge gets frostbite are best

Soda tastes good and caffeine is addictive.

The Irish were doing it before the Scots. Both are very good at it, and the pissing contest between fans of either is pointless.

Muh nigga! Fine aged rum is criminally underappreciated.

You mean to tell me in all the world of spirits, that absolutely none of it is good? The fine malt whiskeys of Scotland, Ireland, and Japan, the cognacs and armagnacs of France, every single bourbon, brandy, rye, oat, wheat, sorghum, and rum, every regional variant the world over from Serbian Rakija to Korean Soju, ALL of it is awful? You mean that every fucking culture that has ever turned a fermentation into a distillate is just lying to you, and none of us genuinely enjoys the taste of liquor.

>29th century
Fuck off, phil of the future

There's a good documentary about it on youtube. Soda Wars. They had a chance to buy Pepsi at one point.