Lemon & Paeroa is a soft drink from which country?

Lemon & Paeroa is a soft drink from New Zealand.

Often shortened to L&P, the lemon-flavoured drink originated in Paeroa, a town in New Zealand’s Waikato region. Its traditional recipe combined lemon juice with naturally carbonated mineral water from a local spring. The brand estimates that the drink dates to 1907, although commercial development of the spring water began earlier.

The drink’s name joins its two defining ingredients and locations: lemon and Paeroa. By the mid-1910s, advertisements promoted “Lemon and Paeroa” as bottled mineral water with added lemon. Production later moved away from the original Paeroa factory, and the brand is now manufactured by Coca-Cola Europacific Partners.

L&P is strongly associated with Kiwiana, the collection of distinctly New Zealand cultural icons. Paeroa is home to a giant L&P bottle statue, built in stages beginning in the late 1960s and now one of the country’s best-known roadside attractions. A common mistake is identifying the drink as Australian because both countries share many beverage brands and regional products; L&P’s origin is specifically New Zealand.