On Tue, 31 May 2011 12:27:42 -0700 in rec.food.cooking, Terry
Pulliam Burd > wrote,
>Speaking of "old fashioned soda fountain," whatever happened to
>phosphates? When I was a kid (I believe it was during Millard
>Filmore's administration), my grandmother used to take me into town
>and deposit me at a (real compounding) pharmacy that also had a real
>old fashioned soda fountain while she shopped. One of my favorite
>requests was for a cherry phosphate. IIRC, it's really just club soda,
>cherry syrup and something (lemon?),

Seems to me that something would have to be phosphoric acid (as
found in many colas) or it wouldn't really be a phosphate.