Edwin Pawlowski wrote:

> Most soda today has "flavorings" rather than the real ingredient in raw
> form. It happens to be one of my favorite sodas, but I don't care for
> ginger as a spice in cooking all that much.

Many of the soft drink companies claim to use real ginger in their gingerales
and claim that the competitors use artificial flavouring. I grew up down the
street from an executive of Canada Dry and he kept us well supplied with their
products. His wife considered ginger ale to be a cure all and when ever one of
us was ill she would bring some over. We moved to another city and I met a guy
whose family ran a small time soft drink company. They often bottled for some
of the bigger brand names. He claimed that their gingerale was better than
Canada Dry because they used real ginger and that Canada Dry used artificial
flavouring. Go figger.


I got to make the pop making process from start to finish. They had recipes that
used very concentrated flavours, mixed it with a sugar syrup. The flavoured
syrup is then bottled along with carbonated water.