Drinks

This article resumes the different beverages found in One Piece universe.

Alcohol
In One Piece, rum and other alcoholic beverages such as sake are prevalent throughout the series. In the real world, water was impossible to take on long journeys as water improperly stored water goes stale within days leading to water posioning and other dieases. Alcholic drinks were seen as a cheap alternative as they did not turn stale like water does and can last for much longer (in many cases years) as well as a cheap leisure persuit and social drink. Oda himself continued this tradition with his own story and even provided explaination for why certain drinks were linked to pirates in one SBS. One of the more prominent cases is the song Binks' Sake which is a typical pirate song about delivering alcohol.

In the 4Kids English dub, any references to alcohol were altered to "juice", in line with their toning down of the anime for a younger audience. The uncut FUNimation dub, however, keeps all references to alcohol intact.

Rum
Rum is a strong alcoholic drink that has been historically linked with pirates in particular and sailors in general. It is distilled from sugar cane and thus was abundant in the heavily pirated Caribbean. Rum in particular was one of the cheapest and usually the cheapest, alcholic drink for purchase and was bought by the barrel load.

Rum was also the official drink of the British Navy; this was originally brandy, but was later changed to rum simply because it was cheaper.

Sake
Sake (pronounce Sah-kay) is a Japanese word which translates to "alcoholic beverage". It has come to refer to a drink brewed from rice and references to it can be found in anime and manga throughout.

Sake is found commonly throughout the series, though other drinks such as beer and rum can be found in the series. The first reference to drinking sake came from Shanks in Chapter 1 (anime Episode 4) and Higuma's incident at Partys Bar in Luffy's hometown.

Shanks, who has traveled the world, thinks his hometown in West Blue makes the best sake in the world.

Cola
Cola is a type of beverage in the One Piece world. It is presumably identical to real life cola, which is a sweet carbonated drink, usually with caramel coloring and containing caffeine.

People usually drink cola while watching special events or something along those lines. Sanji, for example, was complaining about the price of cola during the final event of the Davy Back Fight.

Cola is also an essential source of energy for the second newest Straw Hat Pirate, Franky. Franky is able to store cola in a mini-fridge he has where his stomach would normally be, and he can store up to 3 bottles (6 liters) of cola. Depending on the amount of cola he has stored, his attacks can be a lot more powerful, and they are weaker when he has less cola. The Straw Hats' new ship, the Thousand Sunny, also uses cola for attacks.