On Thursday, March 22, 2018 at 11:12:57 AM UTC-4, Nancy Young wrote:
> On 3/22/2018 10:40 AM, Steve 'Weenie Wonder' Wertz wrote:
> > Cindy Hamilton wrote:
> >
> >> Since I'm a Detroiter I grew up with Faygo. Their red
> >> cream soda is called simply "redpop". Looks like the
> >> "red" implies "strawberry". I liked it when I was a kid,
> >> but it's much too sweet for me now. In fact, I stopped
> >> drinking Coke a few years ago and when I last tried it,
> >> it tasted just awful.
> >
> >
> > Isn't Vernor's Ginger Ale a Michigan "thing"...it is fairly widely distributed here in >the Chicagoland area.
>
> We had Thanksgiving at my SIL's in Michigan and stopped to get
> soda to bring with the wine. No problem grabbing Cokes but no
> ginger ale to be seen, so we asked at the counter.
>
> The clerks didn't even know what ginger ale was, it was like we'd
> asked for some exotic ingredient from Thailand. Finally one offered
> We have Vernor's? and it was our turn to say What?
>
> I'm pretty sure we found the only two American people who had never even
> heard of ginger ale or Canada Dry.
>
> nancy

Canada Dry is often kept separate from other sodas, near the
mixers like tonic and club soda.

Cindy Hamilton