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I like an ice cold Cherokee red with some coney island chili dogs.
Pop don't taste as good like it used to in the glass bottles.

Dr Pepper. And it ain’t even close.

Not much of a drinker, but step-dad had a nice assortment of the hard stuff that he would get as gift bottles from his talks with the speakers bureau. I inherited it when mom moved, so I had to devise some way to make some of it palatable. My cognac and Diet Pepsi recipe drove my drinking buddies a little crazy.

When I was a kid it was Frostie root beer. In fact, there is a bottle in the refrigerator here. Been there a while.

As a kid, it was always a choice between 12oz Coke or 16oz RC cola, depending upon how thirsty you were. Coke tasted better, but RC had a third more pop. Pop was 10 cents, hard to get that money out of the folks. Had to find five 2 cents apiece redeemable pop bottles.

Folks never bought soda when my sister and I were kids. It was Kool-Aid or the hose in the summer. However, one day they came home with a 24 bottle wooden case with a variety of cold pop. Dad said it was ours and we could drink as much as we wanted whenever we wanted to. Immediately we went at it, I drank six and my sister four. Both got stomach aches. Dad laughing, it was a setup to see how we would react and how fast till it was gone. RIP Dad.

I do remember when I was a kid that a soft drink came in a 12 oz. can or a 12 oz. glass bottle. Smaller glass bottles came out of a machine at the fillin’ station. I remember when 16 oz. glass bottles first came out. Nowadays, they have single serving plastic bottles that are a liter...!

Gotta have plenny o drank with that 14” jersey mike beast

Favorite? Probably not.

But I do like a good Birch beer.
As a rule prefer Red/Brown.

But I really like Frozen Run. It's clear.


I really miss Hires Root Beer.
The absolute best.
A&W is good, generic is better than
Mug or Barfs.

Never even heard of birch beer til you guys mentioned it.

How's it compare to root beer, taste wise?

Root Beer if it's summertime and you've worked up a good sweat from hard labour.

Otherwise I like Coke. The real Coke with real sugar. Caffeine and Sugar is a performance drink in my opinion.

Diet drinks will interfere with your brain function, so say the scientists.

Loved the old Root Beer Floats From A&W when I was a kid. Served in that great big ole frosty mug that weighed about 5 lbs !

A homemade Dr Pepper float nowadays is pretty good. 😜

Ever smell or taste fresh birch?
Wish it weren't so, but shipping on pop would be a bitch.
Otherwise I would send you some Ma's and Frozen Run.
Ma's is like generic, but it's good Birch beer.
4or 5 cans to the buck.

Currently doing sugar free September. But when I’m on the pop, it’s Pepsi for me.

Hires was a good one.

Can't remember the name, a place "upstate" from NYC we stopped at when I was a kid had big bottle to go. Memory serves it was the best I tasted to that point, be we left that area before I hit 4th grade

I might have to search around for a birch beer now that we've been talking about it. Maybe I can locate a bottle or can somewhere, been years since I had one.

One like this



Gets used almost every day. Matter of fact, will be getting filled with that concoction I mentioned in an earlier post, Tart Cherry juice, squeeze of lime, and Soda Stream soda water, as soon as I'm done here and start my HOCKEY game.