Compared to alcoholic drinks, soft drinks like "lime juice" appeared rather lately in both newspapers. This suggests that both Chinese and foreign consumers in Shanghai were not used to drinking soft drinks. Soft drinks were probably competed by spirits. Unexpectedly, orange squeeze and fruit juices appeared in the Shenbao as early as 1934, that is about fifteen years before soft drinks were advertised in the British North China Daily News. This lag time further supports the assumption that alcoholic drinks which were so popular among the foreign community might have impeded the adoption of soft drinks by foreign consumers in Shanghai.
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