{"id":11940,"date":"2012-06-27T15:16:11","date_gmt":"2012-06-27T22:16:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/?p=11940"},"modified":"2012-06-27T15:16:11","modified_gmt":"2012-06-27T22:16:11","slug":"why-soda-is-also-called-pop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/2012\/06\/why-soda-is-also-called-pop\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Soda is Also Called &#8220;Pop&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"pf-content\"><p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/etymology-pop.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-11941\" title=\"etymology of pop\" src=\"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/etymology-pop.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"559\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/etymology-pop.jpg 559w, https:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/etymology-pop-340x365.jpg 340w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 559px) 100vw, 559px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The first known reference of the term &#8220;Pop&#8221;, as referring to a beverage, was in 1812 in a letter written by English poet Robert Southey. In this letter, he also explains the term&#8217;s origin: &#8220;Called on A. Harrison and found he was at Carlisle, but that we were expected to supper; excused ourselves on the necessity of eating at the inn; supped there upon trout and roast foul, drank some most admirable cyder, and a new manufactory of a nectar, between soda-water and ginger-beer, and called pop, because &#8216;pop goes the cork&#8217; when it is drawn, and pop you would go off too, if you drank too much of it.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Why carbonated beverages are called soft drinks\" href=\"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/2010\/05\/why-carbonated-beverages-are-called-soft-drinks\/\" target=\"_blank\">Reference<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The first known reference of the term &#8220;Pop&#8221;, as referring to a beverage, was in 1812 in a letter written by English poet Robert Southey. In this letter, he also explains the term&#8217;s origin: &#8220;Called on A. Harrison and found he was at Carlisle, but that we were expected to supper; excused ourselves on the necessity of eating at the [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":11941,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[689],"tags":[2800,2798,2801,2799,2802],"class_list":["post-11940","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-quick-facts","tag-drink-facts","tag-pop","tag-pop-facts","tag-soda","tag-soda-facts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11940","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11940"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11940\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11942,"href":"https:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11940\/revisions\/11942"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11941"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11940"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11940"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11940"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}