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Regional drinks I am sure the same is true elsewhere in the world, but in the US one way regional identities struggle to persist is consumption of regional sodas. I’m from Mass and have always loved Moxie (the soda’s brand is the origin of that word) and coffee milk. I’ve always enjoyed trying other drinks when I travel. I think Vernors is my favorite from “abroad.”
Moxie is horrible but I respect that y'all like it. It's like if malort was a soft drink
I love regional drinks as a quick and cheap way to check out local food culture!
Coffee milk sounded so good and I bought 2 tall bottles to bring home with me. It was.... interesting.... 😁
I maybe had 3 glasses trying to "get it right" but it may have just not been for me, but I still think about it after 10+ years, so it made a lasting impression, if nothing else.
Cheerwine is possibly my favorite regional soda, but Dr Enuf was good too. I had the red one, as it looked like the Cheerwine on the same trip.
In Pennsylvania, A-treat is still around under new owners, and people seem to be surprised by the clear birch beer.
I've bought Dr. Enuf deliberately more than once, but I'm not sure I would call it good. 😂 Both flavors taste like cough syrup to me. I'd like to try birch beer, but I haven't seen anything like that around here.
I like the olde tyme medicine / cocktail bitters type taste!
I had a fun time last year outside of Pittsburgh there was a diner that had the original soda fountain in it, and I ended up talking with the soda jerk about a lot of the oddball ingredients and he gave me some of the phosphates and I was tasting them straight up and mixing them with flavors in different proportions and such.
A-Treat has an online store now, with the brown and white birch beers both available, as well as the pumpkin cream and cranberry ginger ale holiday flavors, which I also love. There's a few other Pennsylvania birch beers, the PA Dutch red version and the clear Kutztown ones are on Amazon I saw, but the A-Treat is the most local to where I live.
That sounds like a lot of fun. The historical soda/medicines are so interesting. I'll have to take a look at that store.
It was a blast. We went to grab breakfast on our way out of town and this place popped up as I was looking for the best breakfast along the way. It intrigued me that a pharmacy was the number 1 rated breakfast spot.
It's Lincoln's P&G. Half the place is a regular pharmacy, and the other is a diner/soda fountain. This is the menu with the soda specials and they have a bunch of old photos of the place on this page.
They advertised top notch pancakes, which I'm usually meh about, but these were light and had a nice crispy outside that seemed to set them apart. Good stuff if ever anyone is ever passing through there.