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() is a carbonated soft drink served in a Codd-neck bottle. It was introduced in 1884 in Kobe as a carbonated lemonade by the Scottish pharmacist Alexander Cameron Sim. The name is derived from the English word lemonade.

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Beverage.image
250px|A lemonade bottle
Beverage.type
Soft drink
Beverage.manufacturer
Various
Beverage.distributor
Nishimoto Trading Co., Ltd., Sangaria U.S.A., Inc.
Beverage.origin
Japan
Beverage.introduced
1884
Beverage.color
Clear

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Subclass of
soft drink
Named after
lemonade
Country of origin
Japan
Manufacturer
Sangaria
Image
Ramune-lemonade,japan.JPG
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Commons category
Ramune
inception
1884-00-00
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() is a carbonated soft drink served in a Codd-neck bottle. It was introduced in 1884 in Kobe as a carbonated lemonade by the Scottish pharmacist Alexander Cameron Sim. The name is derived from the English word lemonade.

==History== In 1884, Alexander Cameron Sim introduced a lemonade carbonated beverage to the Kobe foreign settlement. The drink soon became popular with Japanese people after it was advertised in the Tokyo Mainichi Newspaper.

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