What's your favourite drink? Whatever it is, there's a strong chance it's older than the State of Israel.

Israel is often presented as an ancient nation, returned to a homeland thousands of years old, this is a lie presented by a modern political ideology. The state itself was declared on 14 May 1948. That makes it younger than most of what is in your fridge.

Guinness was being brewed in Dublin 188 years before that day. Coca-Cola had been on sale for six decades, and Dr Pepper for a year longer. The tea bag, Lucozade and 7 Up were all on shop shelves before the state existed. Fanta was first poured in wartime Germany in 1940.

Here are fourteen of them, oldest first.