Which New Zealand soft drink is often shortened to L&P?

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Which New Zealand soft drink is often shortened to L&P? It is Lemon & Paeroa.

L&P is a sweet, lemon-flavoured carbonated soft drink associated strongly with New Zealand. Its name combines the flavor ingredient, lemon, with Paeroa, the North Island town whose mineral spring originally supplied the drink’s distinctive water.

The brand’s origin is generally dated to 1907, although the early commercial history developed over several years. Paeroa spring water was bottled commercially from 1909, and “Lemon and Paeroa” was advertised by 1915. The drink was made by adding lemon to the local mineral water.

L&P is now manufactured by Coca-Cola Europacific Partners, and production moved away from Paeroa in 1980. That change sometimes causes confusion: the brand remains named for the town even though modern production no longer depends on its original spring. Paeroa’s giant L&P bottle remains a famous New Zealand landmark.

Source: Wikipedia · fact-checked Sept. 2026

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