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Bigger than Coke in old Shanghai – Green Spot Orangeade

Posted: August 11th, 2016 | 1 Comment »

Coca-Cola was of course available in old Shanghai, but it wasn’t the most popular soft drink – that was Green Spot. Green Spot was a brand of bottled non-carbonated orangeade. It was developed in the US in 1934 but became phenomenally popular in Asia in the late 1930s and throughout World War Two. By the late 1930s it was already being bottled in Shanghai under license by a Cantonese called Lau Bong.

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One Comment on “Bigger than Coke in old Shanghai – Green Spot Orangeade”

  1. 1 YTSL said at 11:35 am on August 12th, 2016:

    Thanks for the stroll down Memory Lane.

    Back in the 1970s, a highlight of a stay at Kuala Lumpur’s Federal Hotel for this then kid was the bottles of Green Spot found in the room mini-fridge that my parents would allow me to drink… I never could understand why it wasn’t available in more places. Haven’t drank it in years but remember preferring it to other soft drinks at the time. :)

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