Ramune Soda History - Ramune Marble Soda

Ramune has been working for 160 years now. It needs a break too.

The drink revolution that was started by an actual revolution.

In the 1800s, Japan had issues. I mean real issues. The same guys had ruled the country for like 250 years! Basically every Japanese person was bored out of their minds.

Then...in 1853, Perry showed up and was like, "whaaaaat?" This started a revolution. (He said it so loud it was heard from space.)

Some things happened. Miraculously though, someone had brought soda from the US. Everyone stopped fighting. (Ok, this is just a coincidence.)

The first soda was thought to be a bomb. Seriously. Some prankster shook the soda before presenting it as a gift to the Japanese.

This was given to the emperor and many people immediately pulled out their swords to protect him.

The Wandering Soda Samurai

Soda caught on. Sort of. It took about 10 years of wandering around testing flavors and names.

One man would travel from town to town and sell his new lemon-lime water.

He also added the Cobb-neck bottle.

It was called "Remon Sui" (Lemon Water). No one wanted to buy Lemon Water. (They could make that themselves...duh.)

So he changed the name to "Remoneedo" (Japanese pronunciation of Lemonade).

It was only a matter of time before it changed again to Ramune. Pronounced "Lah Moo Nay".

Original flavor ramune is very similar to its original flavor.