Non-alcoholic beverages that are not primarily coffee, tea or dairy based. Belongs here: Chocolate, Ginger Ale, Ginger Beer, Horchata, Kombucha, Lemonade, Root Beer. Does not belong here: a fermented beverage with meaningful alcohol content, such as Boza or Kvass, grouped under fermented beverages and beer despite the shared low-alcohol character with Kombucha and Ginger Beer here; the line drawn is production method rather than alcohol content, a modeling note for a successor to revisit if the atlas starts tracking ABV as a fact.
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1. Soft Drink (Wikipedia)
WikipediaSoft drink, History section, 1676 Paris monopolyQuote, Soft drink, History section, 1676 Paris monopoly
The Compagnie des Limonadiers of Paris was granted a monopoly for the sale of lemonade soft drinks in 1676, making it the first marketed soft drink.
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