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tod
response 67 of 149: Mark Unseen   Jan 10 21:15 UTC 2006

It comes from a bartender named Mr.Boston that worked for the Purple Gang on
Hastings St.  The vanilla ice cream was Stroh's and the ginger ale was
Vernors.  That's what gramps told me and he lived right there on Hastings.
slynne
response 68 of 149: Mark Unseen   Jan 10 22:02 UTC 2006

Mmm. I love Boston Coolers. Does anyone remember the Vernors flavored 
ice cream? That was good too. 
keesan
response 69 of 149: Mark Unseen   Jan 12 00:02 UTC 2006

Jim is back from Ireland and does not know what they call soda there.  He did
not drink any because nobody offered it to him.  He lost 5 pounds in 5 weeks
eating other people's cooking and is now making it up eating chocolate and
cookies.
bhoward
response 70 of 149: Mark Unseen   Jan 12 01:46 UTC 2006

I usually have the opposite problem, gaining weight from all
the tasty guiness and my cousin's (in Dublin) cooking.
twenex
response 71 of 149: Mark Unseen   Jan 12 02:01 UTC 2006

"minerals".
nharmon
response 72 of 149: Mark Unseen   Jan 12 03:22 UTC 2006

I enjoy some Root Beers, Coca Cola Classic, Cherry Coke, Sierra Mist,
7-Up and Dr. Pepper.
ric
response 73 of 149: Mark Unseen   Jan 12 16:46 UTC 2006

I also prefer Fresca to Squirt.
tod
response 74 of 149: Mark Unseen   Jan 12 23:42 UTC 2006

I've never met Fresca but I bet you two make a cute couple.
richard
response 75 of 149: Mark Unseen   Jan 13 02:20 UTC 2006

fyi, the original diet sodas, the first ones that came out as diet 
brands, were Tab and Fresca.  The pepsi company looked at tab's sales 
and came out with Diet Pepsi soon thereafter.

richard
response 76 of 149: Mark Unseen   Jan 13 02:22 UTC 2006

I miss the old returnable 12 ounce glass bottles.  I used to love 
getting cokes in glass bottles when I was little and looking on the 
bottom of the bottle where it always had the town where the bottle was 
made. Since you returned all your bottles, a lot of those returnable 
bottles traveled around as much through the years as the average well 
worn twenty dollar bill.  

Plastic bottles just aren't the same.  You can still get glass bottles 
in other countries, like Mexico, but not in the U.S.
charcat
response 77 of 149: Mark Unseen   Jan 13 02:30 UTC 2006

coke can still be found in a 8 oz returnable bottle in michigan, but you
have to look for it (they tast better also). I believe they are made for
the people who have vintage old coke vending machines.
tod
response 78 of 149: Mark Unseen   Jan 13 05:01 UTC 2006

Does Dr.Pepper come in a bottle?
other
response 79 of 149: Mark Unseen   Jan 13 06:06 UTC 2006

Depends on how Mrs. Pepper is feeling.
happyboy
response 80 of 149: Mark Unseen   Jan 13 09:47 UTC 2006

ALERT!!!

        /poopytrombones
slynne
response 81 of 149: Mark Unseen   Jan 13 14:13 UTC 2006

I wonder if the Coke that is sold in those 8oz glass bottles is made 
with sugar or corn syrup?
tod
response 82 of 149: Mark Unseen   Jan 13 16:09 UTC 2006

Same amount of sugar in 8 oz of oj as in 8 oz of Coke...less sugar in 8oz of
Coke than in apple or grape juice...
edina
response 83 of 149: Mark Unseen   Jan 13 16:18 UTC 2006

That's somewhat disturbing.
slynne
response 84 of 149: Mark Unseen   Jan 13 17:12 UTC 2006

It is a different kind of sugar though from what I understand. Still, 
water is generally a better choice. 

Sometimes I take the sparkly water and mix it with juice and that makes 
for a very refreshing drink in the summer time. 
mcnally
response 85 of 149: Mark Unseen   Jan 13 18:15 UTC 2006

 Real-sugar Coke afficionados can also haunt Mexican restaurants
 and markets, which often sell Coke imported from Mexico, where
 it's still made with sugar, rather than corn sweeteners.

 The politics and economics of sugar in this country are actually
 kind of interesting, in a depressingly corrupt kind of a way.
happyboy
response 86 of 149: Mark Unseen   Jan 13 18:23 UTC 2006

in a depressingly slavecamp missing fingers
company store corporate plantation in florida sort
of way?
mcnally
response 87 of 149: Mark Unseen   Jan 13 19:05 UTC 2006

 I was thinking of the other end -- payoffs and graft and federal sugar
 subsidies and special corn-sweetener "incentives" and other joys of our
 "free market" system.
tod
response 88 of 149: Mark Unseen   Jan 13 20:10 UTC 2006

If you want sugar, go buy some packaged meat at the store.  The whole country
is on insulin pablum.
richard
response 89 of 149: Mark Unseen   Jan 14 01:58 UTC 2006

you can get coke in glass bottles around here in any decent latino or 
south american owned bodega, of which there are many in nyc.  They 
ship many products from south of the border for benefit of their 
customers from that region.
gull
response 90 of 149: Mark Unseen   Jan 14 02:39 UTC 2006

Re resp:75: Oddly, Fresca is one of the few diet pops I actually like. 
 
tsty
response 91 of 149: Mark Unseen   Jan 14 06:17 UTC 2006

i used to drink nehi grape - not too often though. laundrymat had the
machine .. then i moved and could't take the laundrymat with me ...
  
found a new one but no nehi  ...... /damn
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