Ok, talk about your mundane, pointless questions. But I seem to remember, back in the early 80s, my folks picking up pizza or Chinese food and also soda (maybe RC in particular) in an odd wax paper or maybe styrofoam carton that looked something like a milk carton. It was in a quantity meant to be shared, like a 2 liter. Does anyone else remember this? My husband thinks I’m nuts, and my mom never remembers the same things I do.
Bonus points if you can find a picture. I’ve looked on eBay and a few other places, but I just keep getting the cardboard containers for returnable bottles.
I think the root beer stands would let you refill little glass growlers, but that’s not exactly what I’m thinking of.
If it helps, this would have been in either Texas or Indiana.
A&W and Dog’n’Suds. Root beer isn’t quite as carbonated and isn’t as acidic. I would have a hard time believing Coke, Pepsi, or Dr Pepper could have been sold this way.
I don’t know anything about cartons of soft drinks in waxed cardboard cartons in the 1980’s, but I know you could buy beer is 1/2 gallon cartons in Tennessee at “to go” package stores in the 1970’s. Kind of like a way to get draft beer economy at a to go place. They weren’t very popular (not nearly as popular as growlers are today), but I did sell a few…
It wasn’t a storage method. It was a way to get an amount of bulk soda home with your burgers. Nobody expected the stuff to remain fizzy past a couple of hours.
We used to get these all the time, for several years, our Friday night dinner was the pizza,wings and a sub special from a local place, and it came with one of those containers of Pepsi. They actually had a hole in the top that you could punch out with your thumb and slip in a straw. It was handy if you had someone who you were okay sharing a straw with.
I remember when I was a kid and there was an A&W near where I lived. I don’t recall the product in question because I was probably about 5 or 6 at the time.
