# Nostalgic American Beverages? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Tags:** food-cooking\ **Created:** [March 21, 2021, 4:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nostalgic-american-beverages/938350 "2021-03-21T16:39:12Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 12\ **Page:** 10
**Author:** ![Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/qadgop_the_mercotan/32/83_2.png) [@Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Qadgop_the_Mercotan)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2021, 12:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nostalgic-american-beverages/938350/181 "2021-04-04T12:37:51Z")
> [@Spoons](#): > > Did you ever drop a truckload of Fizzies in the swim meet? No, but I did deliver the med school cadavers to the alumni dinner. ---
**Author:** ![ThelmaLou](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thelmalou/32/390_2.png) [@ThelmaLou](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ThelmaLou)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2021, 2:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nostalgic-american-beverages/938350/182 "2021-04-04T14:42:22Z")
> [@terentii](#): > > I used to love soda fountain phosphates. Cherry and lime were my favorites. The last time I had one was around 1985, at a Bridgeman’s ice cream parlor in St Paul. I’ve looked for them in Toronto, but I think they’ve gone the way of Fizzies. In 1971 I lived in a building built in 1900 by the (then) current owner’s father, and my apartment was right next door to a soda fountain. You could go in there and neighborhood-fixture Mr. Cassius would mix up any combination of soda you wanted. Besides the standard cherry-Coke, I liked chocolate-Coke and lemon-Dr Pepper. This was in Denver on the corner of York & 21st. I just looked it up on Google Maps. Building is still there, but the soda fountain is a funky thrift store. My apt front door is way to the left-- the door with vertical black iron bars – they weren’t there in 1971. Why post the picture? Feeling nostalgic… [![](https://i.imgur.com/IBgvOK6.jpg?1) ](https://i.imgur.com/IBgvOK6.jpg?1) ---
**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2021, 2:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nostalgic-american-beverages/938350/183 "2021-04-04T14:55:50Z")
Believe it or not, that shop looks exactly like Bean and Baker in Toronto. Maybe there’s a standard design for ice cream parlors and malt shops out there somewhere. [![](https://i2.wp.com/harltonempire.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/Bean-And-Baker-Malt-Shop-Toronto-10.jpg?fit=720%2C480&ssl=1) ](https://i2.wp.com/harltonempire.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/Bean-And-Baker-Malt-Shop-Toronto-10.jpg?fit=720%2C480&ssl=1) I see now that they’ve shut down in the last year or so. Crap! 😠 I’m afraid it wasn’t just the pandemic. They were heavily dependent on university student trade, which meant they did very little business in the summertime. ---
**Author:** ![ThelmaLou](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thelmalou/32/390_2.png) [@ThelmaLou](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ThelmaLou)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2021, 3:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nostalgic-american-beverages/938350/184 "2021-04-04T15:06:10Z")
Damn! If those walls could talk, eh? > [@terentii](#): > > Maybe there’s a standard design for ice cream parlors and malt shops out there somewhere. An archteype. Plato probably watched them go past the cave opening… ---
**Author:** ![Dr\_Paprika](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dr_paprika/32/3042_2.png) [@Dr\_Paprika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr_Paprika)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2021, 3:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nostalgic-american-beverages/938350/185 "2021-04-04T15:18:48Z")
Before or after? Because the memory and smell of that bucket of dissected heads will always be with me. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![jnglmassiv](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/f07891/32.png) [@jnglmassiv](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jnglmassiv)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2021, 5:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nostalgic-american-beverages/938350/186 "2021-04-04T17:32:02Z")
> [@bmoak1](#): > > I like the tamarind because it is a unique flavor. I don’t care for sweets or soft drinks but that tamarind Jarritos does have a compelling flavor. It’s sort of like a tea. ---
**Author:** ![mundylion](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mundylion/32/3604_2.png) [@mundylion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mundylion)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2021, 5:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nostalgic-american-beverages/938350/187 "2021-04-04T17:37:56Z")
About the small cartons of milk. I don’t see them in the milk coolers of my grocer but one can find the 8oz boxes of shelf stable milk. Both my local grocers have them as does Amazon (of course!) I find them perfect to keep in my cupboard, chilling one if I am planning to drink it straight. [https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/81hffHqMggL._SL1500_.jpg](https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/81hffHqMggL._SL1500_.jpg) ---
**Author:** ![digs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/digs/32/14889_2.png) [@digs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/digs)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2021, 7:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nostalgic-american-beverages/938350/188 "2021-04-04T19:10:17Z")
> [@mundylion](#): > > About the small cartons of milk… Keep your eyes open. I noticed a cooler in the corner of our local donut shop, and got a nostalgic hit when I saw that ubiquitous feature of all my 60s school lunches, the “half pint of milk”. > [@Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](#): > > My grandfather always referred to all soft drinks as “sody warter”. As will I from now on. > [@chela](#): > > Tab 1 calorie cola My mom would leave the last half inch in her bottle. “I figured if there’s only one calorie in there, it’d sink to the bottom.” > [@Dr\_Paprika](#): > > However, the blueberry stuff gave you fascinating emerald stools. Of course, that appealed to me much more then, than it would now. This sounds sad, like life is beating you down. See, that’s why you should never grow up. Drink crazy stuff! Dye your stools to match your shoes! Live to the maximum! ---
**Author:** ![BippityBoppityBoo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bippityboppityboo/32/5745_2.png) [@BippityBoppityBoo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BippityBoppityBoo)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2021, 7:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nostalgic-american-beverages/938350/189 "2021-04-04T19:12:28Z")
> [@mundylion](#): > > About the small cartons of milk. I don’t see them in the milk coolers of my grocer but one can find the 8oz boxes of shelf stable milk Don’t see the 8 oz cartons anywhere anymore, but my grocery store, Walgreens cold chest and the gas station/convenience stores all sell single serve 16oz bottles of milk, with a screw top lid. They are often not in the dairy cooler but in with the single serve sodas and energy drinks, juices, iced teas. A lot of the drive through restaurants like McDonalds carry 8 oz single serve milks to go with their kid’s meals, you can buy one with buying a kid’s meal. I’ve also done just fine with the shelf stable boxed milk. Keeps in the pantry til I need it and a quart costs only a dollar at The Dollar Tree. For a dollar it doesn’t break the bank if I don’t use it all. ---
**Author:** ![Folacin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/folacin/32/3195_2.png) [@Folacin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Folacin)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2021, 7:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nostalgic-american-beverages/938350/190 "2021-04-04T19:22:26Z")
> [@BippityBoppityBoo](#): > > A lot of the drive through restaurants like McDonalds carry 8 oz single serve milks to go with their kid’s meals, you can buy one with buying a kid’s meal. I was going to mention this - I don’t think you actually need to buy the kid’s meal, they’ll likely sell you the milk separately (one online menu has it for $1.00). ---
**Author:** ![BippityBoppityBoo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bippityboppityboo/32/5745_2.png) [@BippityBoppityBoo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BippityBoppityBoo)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2021, 7:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nostalgic-american-beverages/938350/191 "2021-04-04T19:28:44Z")
Thanks-it was a typo. I meant to type with **out** but slipped the **out** stitch. I plead Grandma babysitting airhead. Onto to Toy Story 2 and _beyond_. I get milk that way all the time, _sans_ the kid’s meal. ---
**Author:** ![Dr\_Paprika](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dr_paprika/32/3042_2.png) [@Dr\_Paprika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr_Paprika)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2021, 9:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nostalgic-american-beverages/938350/192 "2021-04-04T21:08:02Z")
It’s hard enough to wear a matchy-matchy mask. Unfortunately, given current demands sometimes the currants do not match the drops. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nostalgic-american-beverages/938350.md?page=9)