→Subscribe for new videos every day! https://www.youtube.com/user/TodayIFoundOut?sub_confirmation=1 →How “Dick” came to be short for ‘Richard’: https://youtu.be/BH1NAwwKtcg?list=PLR0XuDegDqP2Acy6g9Ta7hzC0Rr3RDS6q Never run out of things to say at the water cooler with TodayIFoundOut! Brand new videos 7 days a week! More from TodayIFoundOut Why do Mentos and Diet Coke React? https://youtu.be/wLH8U7CMrCo?list=PLR0XuDegDqP01NqW8KRpOy-_y2m6S2VEF Was Coca-Cola Ever Really Green?… and 5 other facts https://youtu.be/EmUo-TEP2FU?list=PLR0XuDegDqP1IHZBUZvKkPwkTr6Gr0OBO In this video: The term “soft drink” though is now typically used exclusively for flavored carbonated beverages. This is actually due to advertising. Flavored carbonated beverage makers were having a hard time creating national advertisements due to the fact that what you call their product varies from place to place. For instance, in parts of the United States and Canada, flavored carbonated beverages are referred to as “pop”; in other parts “soda”; in yet other parts “coke”; and there are a variety of other names commonly used as well. Then if we go international with the advertisements, in England these drinks are called “fizzy drinks”; in Ireland sometimes “minerals”. To account for the fact that they can’t refer to their product in the generic sense on national advertisements, because of these varied terms, these manufactures have chosen the term “soft drink” to be more or less a universal term for flavored carbonated beverages. Want the text version?: http://www.todayifoundout.com/index.php/2011/07/why-carbonated-beverages-are-called-soft-drinks/ Sources: http://www.hutchbook.com/Industry%20History%20Soda%20Pop/Default.htm http://articles.famouswhy.com/a_short_history_of_soft_drinks/ http://kids.britannica.com/comptons/article-9277126/soft-drink http://www.science-house.org/CO2/activities/co2/soda.html http://strangemaps.wordpress.com/2008/08/18/308-the-pop-vs-soda-map/ http://www.newworldencyclopedia.org/entry/Soft_drink http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crown_cork