What is the difference between Beverage and Drink?
Most of us if not all of us already encountered this, ‘Would you like a drink?’ Or ‘should we order a drink?.’ Drinks and drinking are part of our social culture. Drinking water is essential to all forms of life and without water one would not survive. Essentially a beverage, as a form of liquid, is also a drink. However, the rituals and the background to the two terms enable some subtle differences to be apparent. How do we define 'drink'? Drinks come in many different shapes and sizes. The most common drinks are water, milk, juices, tea, coffee, soft drinks, and alcoholic drinks. Alcoholic drinks such as wine and beer contain ethanol. There are soft drinks or cool drinks, flavoured drinks, and carbonated drinks or fizzy drinks. Different countries have different names for their soft drinks ranging from soda, soda ‘pop’, and brand names like coco-cola, Pepsi. The soft drink is made from refined cane syrup or corn syrup and usually very sweet because they