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la and other sodas, “pop”? Well, it seems that the word describes the sound made when someone opened an old bottle. Pop! Way back in 1812, an English poet named Robert Southey used the term to describe the sound of removing a cork from a bottle of something kind of like ginger beer and kind of like soda water. Thus, pop, can refer to the soda or cola itself, all these years later. Now if that’s not a conversation starter, I don’t know what is! It’s these kinds of details — and stories — that make bottle collecting not just a hobby, but a fun form of historical preservation.