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Location: Omaha, NE | The thread on Green Stamps got me thinking about something...what regional pop brands did you have as a kid?
I grew up in Evansville, Indiana. We used to drink "Ski", which was kindof a cross between Mountain Dew and Squirt. As of a few years ago, you could still get it. |
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Location: Budd Lake, NJ | Some friends from New England obligingly let us sample their "Moxie;" to me, it tasted like some form of pasteurized swamp water. Here in New Jersey, Hoffman's Bottling Co. made celery soda, which my sister and I loved--it was the neatest shade of pale green.
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Location: St Louis | Not regional brands but we always drank Fanta, Orange Crush, A&W Root Beer and Squirt.
And yes we did call it 'pop'. I was born in southern Michigan and it wasn't until I moved to St. Louis that I heard it called 'soda'. |
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Location: Upper Left USA | Born in Massachusetts where I was raised on tonics like Moxie and Orange Crush. I preferred frappes.
Now I'm on the left coast drinking pop and shakes.
Actually, I'm drinking a grande hazelnut breve'.
Nice question |
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Location: Orange County, California | Shasta bottling is right around the corner from my office. I see them delivering liquid CO2 and carbouys of concentrated acid in the morning on the way to work... |
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Location: CT | Did anyone have a Pop Shoppe? Go in and grab a plastic case or 2 and fill with whatever flavors you like, return the bottles when finished and do it again. Yummmmm..... |
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Location: closely held secret | Originally posted by MWoody:
Born in Massachusetts That explains so much... |
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Location: Colorado Rocky Mountains | Born in Massachusetts, but raised in Southern California, here's a few I recall: Barley's Chocolate Soda, Bubble-Up, Diet-Rite Cola (the only diet drink on the market back in the 60's), and Hiram's Root Beer. These brands all came out of an old lever-style front door pop machine located outside the side door of the police station across the street from our boy scout monthly meeting place. |
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Location: The Great Pacific Northwest | Other than it's Soda not Pop. We had them. More private ma/pa places, but there was always Friendly's. Which reminds me of a story...
When I was in Pensacola in my first Navy school... hangin in the club and drinking a Soda. I mustof had class or formation or something or else it would have been a beer, and I would have had a better attitude. A guy bumps into me and asked if I wanted a "Pop". I figured I offended some tradition and was about to get "popped" so I swung first.. It turns out, appearently he was just offering the new kid a free drink. :( We laughed later... much later..
Soft drink names are funny. Ice Cream Soda, Frappe, Malt can all be the same thing or totally different things depending on the part of country you come from.
Then of course there is Foot Long, Grinder, Club and Sub which can all be different or the same too.
Dr. Browns Cel-Rey Soda rocks!!!!! |
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Location: Upper Left USA | "Originally posted by MWoody:
Born in Massachusetts
That explains so much..."
When I move out here in "76" I was promptly taught that the letter "R" was not a vowel!
Time Out! This is post number 6666 for me! Should I pull a standingovation and come back as a much more lovable character? |
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Location: Central Massachusetts | 
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Location: Latitude 39.56819, Longitude -105.080066 | Well some folks called it "POP" but around the Austin/Rockdale/Taylor area of Texas in the 60's it was called ...."soda water".....(usually pronounced "SODEE WATA")
RC was one of my favorites ...ROYAL CROWN COLA for the youngsters out there. |
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Location: Marlton, NJ | I used to love going to the candy shop or Jewish deli and having Chocolate Egg Creams.. something you can only appreciate if you're from NYC... Seltzer, Milk and Chocolate syrup.
Mmm mmm mmm... and Miles is correct ... it's soda! |
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| I used to like a soda called Verner's Ginger Ale. I always thought they stopped making it then I was pleasantly surprised to see it was still available in Canada (where it is made)when I ventured north of the border a while back. Great soda. Nothing quite like it. Still hard to get here in my part of the states though.
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Location: Orange County, California | Orealia (sp) which became Orangina was a favorite of a NorCal GF in the 80's... |
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Location: ranson,wva | royal crown and dr.pepper was and still are my fav's. there was some small soda pop company where i grew up in west virginia but we never bought any because the stuff tasted like a cross between swampwater and fermented apple juice..jason |
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Location: Campbell River, British Columbia | Then Orealia must have been bought out, Orangina comes to North America from Algeria via France, though it is now produced in North American plants. |
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Location: Midland, MI | Originally posted by Northcountry:
I used to like a soda called Verner's Ginger Ale. I always thought they stopped making it then I was pleasantly surprised to see it was still available in Canada (where it is made)when I ventured north of the border a while back. Great soda. Nothing quite like it. Still hard to get here in my part of the states though.
Randy Canada? CANADA?!?!?!?! Vernors is a Detroilet institution, mon frere. Just like Faygo and Better Made chips. |
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Location: NJ | Hoffman was probably one of the the most "regional" soda's where/when I grew up.
Wasn't until one of my annual Summer Sojourns (of my youth) to western Pennsylvania (to my uncle's house) that I discovered the the whole "pop"/"soda" correlation . . . |
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Location: south east Michigan | That's it.... I gonna bring some Vernor's to the next tour. When my Bro-in-law from Boston comes into town he takes a few cases home with him. |
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Location: Capital District, NY, USA Minor Outlying Islands | Funny, I read "pop bands" not pop brands! I was going to say Blotto ... as to the soda ... I can't remember. |
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Location: ranson,wva | ive seen vernors here at the gian food's here in frederick..jason |
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Location: Tennessee | We call it soda out here on the left coast. There is a very regional soda out here ... available only in Southern California and perhaps parts of Nevada and Arizona.
When I get to SoCal, I load the car with 12 packs before heading north.
Oh, yeah ... when mixed with Jack Daniels it becomes "Cactus Jack". |
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Location: Hiram, Georgia | growing up in Georgia, didn't have either pop or soda, it was all called Coke. For example one might ask"what kind of coke do you want" and you might reply "I'll have orange coke ,please" ! |
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Location: Central Massachusetts | Originally posted by philmax:
... didn't have either pop or soda, it was all called Coke. For example one might ask"what kind of coke do you want" and you might reply "I'll have orange coke ,please" ! same here! I thought I was alone in this one |
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Location: Houston, TX | Unbelievable. Read all the posts and the last one nailed it.
As I was reading through this thread I was thinking about my own experience growing up in a small town in western North Carolina. I was 18 or 19 and traveling well north of Richmond the first time I heard anybody refer to that kind of carbonated drink as a pop or a soda. It was always "What kind of coke you want?" when I was growing up.
There's probably some subtext about the power of branding in the TV age. Here's a Kleenex, I need a Q-tip, etc.
Every now and then I'm ok with the branding thing, because sometimes it just sounds better than saying "tissue" or "cotton swab".
Seriously, come on...
"What'll it be buddy?"
"A pop"
Somehow there is an implied lisp when a guy orders a pop. I don't make the rules, it's just how it is. |
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Location: Midland, MI | Originally posted by intermetroman:
Seriously, come on...
"What'll it be buddy?"
"A pop"
Somehow there is an implied lisp when a guy orders a pop. I don't make the rules, it's just how it is. Which is why it's properly referred to as soda. ;) |
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Location: South of most, North of few | Originally posted by Northcountry:
I used to like a soda called Verner's Ginger Ale. I always thought they stopped making it then I was pleasantly surprised to see it was still available in Canada (where it is made)when I ventured north of the border a while back. Great soda. Nothing quite like it. Still hard to get here in my part of the states though.
Randy One of my fav's also. Still available at most supermarkets down here in Fl. I usually get a 12 pack when I get to do the shoping duties.
And, BTW, when I moved here from NY, I was informed that it IS soda, and not POP. (ya'll) :D |
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Location: Madison, Wisconsin | It was Coke for us in PA as well.
What about regional beers? When I lived in the Great Northwest, we had Raineer Beer. Some of the best commercials ever put out. |
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Location: the BIG Metropolis of TR | The use of the word "Coke" instead of "pop" or "soda" was used more prevalently in the South since Coca Cola (Coke) was invented in Atlanta by a pharmacist named Doctor John Pemberton.(in 1886)
I was born in Washington,D.C. and growing up there in the '50's to early '60's (moved down South in '63) everyone outside my family would say "pop" or "soda" but I always called it "coke" because my parents were born and raised in the South and thats how they referred to it!!(My father was born in Travelers Rest,S.C. and my mother was born in Anderson,S.C.)
I liked Pepsi over Coke but would still say...."I'm going to get a coke"...... |
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Location: Omaha, NE | In Evansville, it was "Coke". A typical conversation might be:
"Do you want a coke?"
"Yeah, as long as you are up"
"Ok, what kind"
"Seven-up"
Regional beers: Evansville had "Sterling", but we moved away before my beer drinking days kicked in. Here in Omaha, the only brewery left when I got to town was Fallstaff. Years ago, my Father in law worked at the Storz brewery, but they've been shut down for years.
I remember back in the '70's when Coors came to town. They had the cans with two little push button thingys on top to open. Dad didn't like them, so he made me open them. |
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Location: NJ | first let us establish that it is soda. Pop was my father.
we had newport soda made in camden NJ until the late 70's he also distributed utica club beer which my dad liked. these sodas had the best flavors cherry, grape, lime the cola was horrible. I keep looking for a lime soda that tasted that good.
liberty bottling works another small timer in camden he lasted until the early 70's. good flavors again but not a good cola spelled kola.
crescent bottling works again in camden nj. bottled up until the 90's good flavors great ginger ale. horrible cola |
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Location: the BIG Metropolis of TR | Originally posted by alpep:
.....utica club beer which my dad liked. Al,don't you mean "utica beer which my Pop liked."
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Location: NJ | Originally posted by Trboy:
Originally posted by alpep:
.....utica club beer which my dad liked. Al,don't you mean "utica beer which my Pop liked."
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Location: Boise, Idaho | I grew up in Milwaukee, where we had more regional beers than I can remember. I know we had regional pops, but I'm too old to remember those.
When I moved to Kansas, they always went out for a "coke", too, even though they might be going to the A&W for a root beer or the Tastee Freez for a shake. We never got out of the cars. Even had a drive-up at the liquor store. |
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