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		sph on Jan 19, 2022 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Dinosaur food: 100M year old foods we still eat to... Soda isn't more convenient than buying bottled water in a shop, so I don't think it's because of water quality.

kwhitefoot on Jan 23, 2022 [–]

Isn't the availability of bottled water a relatively recent thing? It certainly wasn't available for most of the time that I lived in the UK (1955 to 1985), but sweetened carbonated drinks have been a thing for well over a hundred years.

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