Origins of Famous Beverage Brand Names

  • Coca-Cola got its name from coca leaves and kola nuts used as flavoring by its creator John Pemberton, where he changed the 'K' of Kola to 'C' for a better look.

  • Fanta came from the German word for imagination (Fantasie or Phantasie), because the inventors thought that imagination was needed to taste oranges from strange mix, which is Fanta.

  • Pepsi derived its name from the treatment of dyspepsia, an intestinal ailment.

  • A&W was formed when Roy Allen set up a roadside stand in 1919 to offer new drink called root beer and went into partnership with Frank Wright, which eventually combined their surname initials in 1922 to name beverage A&W Root Beer
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