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"Now this pop fact is funky," says Garry Sowerby, after Réal d'Entremont of the Musée Acadien de Pubnico-Ouest explains why Canadians call the popular carbonated beverage "pop" and Americans call it "soda." In the neck of this bottle is a glass semi-circle with a hole in the middle. The hole allows liquid through the neck, but the semi-circle prevents the marble from rolling free in the bottle. When carbonated beverages were first bottled in Canada in Hamilton, ON, the marble covered by a layer of wax was used to seal the beverage and maintain the carbonation. When people pushed on the wax/marble seal to open the beverage, it made a "pop" sound from pressure, and this is how pop became "pop" and not "soda"! (A different bottling method was used int the United States.)