We may not think
‘Codswallop’ has anything to do with food or drink seeing as it’s a name given
to nonsense or things that don’t appear to make any sense.
However, the word does
have links to drink. A ‘wallop’ was once a slang term for a weak beer. In the
nineteenth century, a Mr Hiram Codd began to manufacture soft drinks and
patented bottles with gas pressure inside them. The staunch drinkers of
stronger beer and alcohol jokingly referred to the soft drinks as ‘Codd’s
Wallop’, joking that it was a weak beer.
Hence, the word began to
be applied to anything that didn’t make sense or seemed a bit farcical.
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