Thread: quality soda pop

Originally Posted by ChesterCopperpot

If you're in a large enough city you can get two liter bottles of real sugar Coke around April. Jewish Passover Coke!

where? I'm from Indy too... I want to know where I can get this stuff by the 2l. there's a place by me that sells 24/12oz bottles, but its $20 for a 24 pack.

Originally Posted by 96firephoenix

where? I'm from Indy too... I want to know where I can get this stuff by the 2l. there's a place by me that sells 24/12oz bottles, but its $20 for a 24 pack.

I've not lived in this city long enough to know where it could be found, this was my experience in Chicago. I'm not sure if there are enough religious Jews in Indianapolis to justify the legendary Jewish Passover Coke.

Another Moxie fan here. The absolutely unique taste is worth the trouble to get. Only if you like it though. It's a love it or hate it drink for sure.

I'm a bit of a drink snob I guess.
All plastics used for bottling that I have encountered leach into the drink. All metals used for canning that I have encountered leach into the drink.
My brother was the head engineer for a large bottle manufacturer and I have to hear all about this junk.
I only use glass bottles for my drinks.

In my world:
-a pop is what you can purchase in most stores
-a soda is made from carbonated water and syrup
-a soft-drink is a lightly alcoholic beverage made from fresh ingredients and fermented in yeast, like a soft-beer (root beer, ginger ale, sarsaparilla)
-a hard beer Is what most here would call a beer
-a hard drink is made from hard liquor

For my dollar there is nothing better than a properly made soft beer.
I have to laugh at blenheim's (sp), they claim to be made the old fashioned way. It is a great ginger flavored soda, but not a ginger ale.

Originally Posted by deighaingeal

I have to laugh at blenheim's (sp), they claim to be made the old fashioned way. It is a great ginger flavored soda, but not a ginger ale.

Interesting - so a true ginger "ale" would be lightly alcoholic? Know of any commercial examples? (Preferably with as much heat as Blenheim's!)

Originally Posted by northpaw

Interesting - so a true ginger "ale" would be lightly alcoholic? Know of any commercial examples? (Preferably with as much heat as Blenheim's!)

Not right off. I have been looking for some time. Unfortunately soft beers fell out of fashion with the introduction of sodas. They are relatively easy to make with a little knowledge. If you're interested just PM.

Originally Posted by ChesterCopperpot

I've not lived in this city long enough to know where it could be found, this was my experience in Chicago. I'm not sure if there are enough religious Jews in Indianapolis to justify the legendary Jewish Passover Coke.

there's a good number here... up on the north side of town (6500 meridian St.) there's a temple, and there's another temple somewhere on the north east side where they all live in walking distance so they don't have to drive on the sabbath. Most of the Jews around here are messianic, so I don't know if they follow Kosher or not.

As for Moxie, I've never had it straight, just mixed with liqour, so I don't know what its like.

The best we can get here is Jones, there used to be a quality soda shop in St Louis that was amazing I used to buy a couple of build your own six packs usually filled with flathead. Unfortunately it's been closed for over a year.

Soda for me. Here in Ga everything is Coke though. I try to not drink soda, but when I do it is Sprite or root beer. My Dad brews his own beer and one year he made root beer for me that was real good. It had some serious bite. Anyone like A-Treat from Allentown PA? I grew up on that stuff living in North NJ. Just had a neighbor of my Dad's go back to NJ and she brought back some A-Treat. It was nice. It is considered cheap soda though.

Like the Australians in New Zealand we tend to refer to "soft drinks" by their commercial name rather than soda or pop. Kids might understand the concept of soda depending on how much American TV they watch.
Soda here would be a shortened term for Soda Water which is simply carbonated, unflavoured water.
A Coke is made by Coca-Cola and certainly not something to be confused with Pepsi.

Sprite / 7-Up and similar products are collectively known as lemonade.... something that made ordering mixed drinks in an American bar and interesting experience.
They thought I was mad when I asked for "vodka, lime & lemonade" - the reply I got was
"Well, we only have pink lemonade." Fortunately I remembered where I was and changed the order to include Sprite.