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Post #31187 by aquarj on Tue, Apr 22, 2003 8:36 PM

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While we're still on this topic, here's some overkill. Naomi found a Japanese site, and sure enough, Ramune comes from the word lemonade, by way of a pretty long history in fact. She ran the japanese text on the site thru an auto-translator, so it doesn't all make sense, but anyway here's the text, followed by a link to the site....

"The soda bottle is born in British the process which carries out a cork at the marble which is also the special feature of a soda bottle -- now -- about 150 years -- before -- it is said that it was suggested in Britain It greatly spread centering on Europe those days. Even now, a soda bottle may be unearthed from the ruins of a castle of an aristocrat of those days.
The drink soda which grew up in Japan It was carried into Nagasaki(South island; Kyushu) by Japan at the time in the end of a curtain, and manufacture started after that also in Kobe and Yokohama. The ball soda which carries out a cork at a marble was in fashion from the Meiji (After samurai-EDO period, beginning of Western influenced culture;1868-1911) 20s (1890 around) , and it grew up as a having-100 years of history drink until it continued till the present of Taisho(1912-1925), Showa (1926-1989), and Heisei (1989-still).

Since it sounded [ loud ] "methamphetamine" when the Perry Black Ships in the U.S.(He is the famous as the man who negotiated to "shell-fish-Japan to open the country for trading at this era), arrive at Nagasaki in Uraga, "carbonic acid lemonade is loaded on the warship, and the important person of the Edo Shogunate was made to drink, and opening a cork, the episode of the government official having been surprised and having applied the hand to the sword of the waist involuntarily, saying, "Is it a new-type gun?" remains. A name called a soda is called this thing that spoke the word "lemonade."

A soda is the season word of summer. In the world of a haiku poem, the soda is the season word of summer. As for sound of the word "soda", a refreshing breeze is felt with the scorching heat of summer. If only a trumpet is carried out and a bottle is leaned, the sound of a glass ball will bring about cool and a dream.

Why is the marble contained? As for the soda, unlike other soft drinks, the marble is carrying out the role of the "cork" of a product. By the pressure of the gas contained in contents, mouth rubber and a marble are stuck by pressure and it has become a cork. Incidentally, "BI" of a marble is the abbreviation for Portuguese "glass" (glass), and is called thing of a glass ball."

http://www.sinfonia.or.jp/~isd-oka/sub/story/image/story.htm

-Randy