Drinks

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

Alcohol
Alchohol (酒「さけ」 Saké) are types of beverages that can impair the drinker. In One Piece, rum and other alcoholic beverages 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 poisoning and other diseases. Alcoholic 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 pursuit and social drink. Oda himself continued this tradition with his own story and even provided explanation 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.

The first reference to drinking Alchohol came from Shanks in Chapter 1 (anime Episode 4) and Higuma's incident at Partys Bar in Luffy's hometown.

It should be noted that the word "Sake" is used often in the series to refer to alcohol in general due to that being how the Japanese language works. However, as English has adopted "Sake" into its lexicon to refer to Nihonshu (See below), it is actually a mistranslation to refer to all alcohol in One Piece as "Sake", because in English, "Sake" refers exclusively to "Nihonshu", while often it is another form of alcohol being discussed.

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, alcoholic 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.

Nihonshu (Sake)
Nihonshu (日本酒「にほんしゅ」 Nihonshu) is a particular type of traditional Japanese wine brewed from Rice. However, English lexicon has, over time, adopted the Japanese word Sake (see above) to refer exclusively to Nihonshu". Nihonshu is easily distinguished from other types of Alcohol by the traditional white bottle and traditional method of drinking it. Sipping it from small dishes, rather than from mugs, bottles, or cups.



Sake is seen being imbibed at several points during the series, but is rarely named as such. The first time it is definitively seen being drank was during Shanks and Whitebeard's meeting, complete with the traditional round bottle. In fact, Whitebeard appears drinking traditional Nihonshu more often than any other character in the series so far. It should also be noted that Gaimon's home-made alcohol he and Buggy shared during Buggy's "After The Battle" cover story and anime episode appears to be "Sake" as they drink it from dish-shaped holders rather than full-on cups.

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.