Canada Dry has put out all sorts of sodas over the last century. My favourite, which I have not seen for years, was Lime Ricky. Imagine a strong and not particularly sweet mixer – a lime match for their Bitter Lemon mixer.
Or alcohol anyway. I’m not quite old enough to remember the ads, but I remember hearing jokes about it.
Also the “e” and that white bit combined to make a “d” for the official French name: Expos de Montréal.
To beat this dead horse:
Canada Dry sponsored the Jack Benny Show in the 30s & they used to frequently joke that Bandleader Phil Harris would go up north to drink canada dry…
Whoooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooa.
Apparently, I live down the road from the original one opened in 1964, in Boardman, Ohio.
I recently learned that some studies have demonstrated that Cognitive Behavioral Therapy is an effective treatment for Irritable Bowel Syndrome. No kidding.
No shit? You just blew my mind.
I always thought that was elb in red, white and blue, but knowing it stood for the Expos, I knew I must be wrong and figured it was some kind of weird M that I couldn’t make out unless I concentrated on it. Not caring all that much, I didn’t.
I also never knew that the weird lights and “decor” atop McDonald’s restaurants were intended to be French fries. I just thought it was really bad 70s architecture (it still is).
While the name canola definitely is partially a marketing construct, canola is absolutely a different plant than rapeseed. Not like, elephants and chimpanzees different, but like, the difference between a terrier and a beagle.
I didn’t just learn this, but I remember how dumb I felt when I did learn it. I was 19 years old, working at a concrete company that made manholes. My foreman told me to get some styrene, and I was lost. We had old southerners there, who said things like Si-reen (siren), and when I heard styrene, I had an absolutely blank look on my face. Why didn’t he just say styrofoam?:smack:
Mmmm, Buffalo Rock!
From childhood I remember another nice brand of golden ginger ale, “Kist”, but I haven’t seen it in freaking eons. So Buffalo Rock it is, when I want golden.
What about Schweppes Canada Dry?
My odd little fact is that Soweto, which is a lovely name comes from South West Township. I always thought it was an African language placename.
There is apparently a very strong connection between our brains and our guts. Who knew, eh?
Thank you!
Oh come on, it has evolved like every other plant or animal has in the last 35+ years. I don’t see them changing the name of oats or wheat though. A dog is still a dog, a rose is still a rose, and canola is still rapeseed.
Anyway, I don’t mean to hijack this thread, so enough of this from me.
Canada Dry is the brand name, Vox Imperatoris’s assertion notwithstanding. The 1907 recipe was much paler and drier than competing ginger ales, which is why it became popular in New York around that period. Prohibition was part of the reason that sales of the existing version went national, and also the genesis of new products to complement [mask] bathtub gin and moonshine.
Ironically, Cadbury Scheppes plc actually owns Canada Dry (as part of their Dr. Pepper/7UP operation).
I will continue the hijack for a moment: Canola is a result of selective breeding of rape to make an edible oil, since rapeseed oil from the natural cultivar is toxic to people. Yeah, it’s technically just a different variety of the same plant, but it has been pretty heavily modified from the original version. You can still argue that it should be just called rape, but the word canola (Canadian oil, low acid) distinguishes it from the varieties that produce the toxic acid. Rapeseed oil could mean oil from conventional rape as well as the non-toxic kind, while canola definitely only means the edible kind.
I didn’t claim that it wasn’t the brand name; I was just explaining the origin of it, since I thought it was interesting.
Valete,
Vox Imperatoris