History of 7-Up Name OriginIn the village of Price’s Branch, Missouri, a Mr C.L. Griggs invented popular orange drink in 1920 called Howdy.
Aiming to improve on it, Griggs marketed another drinks as Bib-label Lithiated lemon-Lime Soda.
The drink was tasty but the sales were bad (with that name, hardly surprising), so he tried to think of a better name.
The story goes that after six tries he came up with ‘7-Up’, and this was the name that made the drink the bestseller it is today.
No doubt the association with the card game seven-up helps in the game the trump card is a turned-up card and there is a fixed total of seven points to win.
History of 7-Up Name Origin
