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Re: What's the last thing you ate or are currently eating?
« Reply #210 on: June 08, 2018, 03:25:01 PM »
America's first soft drink, and still the best? I love it, with or without a couple of shots of Jim Beam mixed in

They've changed the recipe to modern ingredients.  I miss the original from my youth but this is better than nothing.  They've only recently started distribution here in New England, bottled locally.

Polar Beverage here in Worcester does bottling and canning for nearly every major soft drink brand as well as produce their own.

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Re: What's the last thing you ate or are currently eating?
« Reply #211 on: June 08, 2018, 06:17:15 PM »
They've changed the recipe to modern ingredients.  I miss the original from my youth but this is better than nothing.  They've only recently started distribution here in New England, bottled locally.

Polar Beverage here in Worcester does bottling and canning for nearly every major soft drink brand as well as produce their own.

It used to say aged in oak barrels on every bottle and can. Now it's whatever they can make the cheapest. I like Jamaican ginger beer too, but it's harder to find around here and much more expensive. I used to get a single bottle at a time in a neighboring city on rare occasions, but have little reason to go there since I quit working. It's very spicy so it's not something I would want to drink all the time, but if 12 ounces didn't cost more than 2 liters of Vernor's I might buy it more often.

ETA: Halo Burger, here since 1923, sells Boston Coolers made with Vernor's. Just thinking about it makes me crave one and a QP Burger, or maybe a couple of Olive Burgers. The Halopeno Burger looks good too. I haven't had one of those yet. "Seven Days without a Halo Burger Makes One Weak!"

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Boston Cooler

A Boston Cooler is typically composed of Vernors ginger ale and vanilla ice cream.

The origin of the term "Boston Cooler" lies in Detroit, Michigan, the city in which Fred Sanders is credited with inventing the ice cream soda. The name is a mystery, having no apparent connection to Boston, Massachusetts, where the beverage is virtually unknown. One theory suggests that it was named after Detroit's Boston Boulevard, the main thoroughfare of what was then, according to the theory, an upper-class neighborhood a short distance from James Vernor's drugstore. Boston Boulevard, however, did not exist at the time. The streets and subdivision that became the Boston-Edison neighborhood, approximately five miles from Vernor's drugstore, were not platted nor incorporated into the city until 1891, and its first homes not constructed until 1905, nine years after Vernor closed his drugstore.

It is known that by the 1880s the Boston Cooler was being served in Detroit, made with the local Vernors. Originally, a drink called a Vernors Cream was served as a shot or two of sweet cream poured into a glass of Vernors. Later, vanilla ice cream was substituted for the cream to make a Vernors float. Unlike a float, however, a Boston Cooler is blended like a thick milkshake. Both Sanders soda fountains and Michigan-based Big Boy restaurants (which had Boston Coolers as a signature item until the Elias Brothers sold their franchise to new ownership in the 1980s) used their milkshake blenders to prepare the drink.

It can be found most often in the Detroit region's many Coney Island-style restaurants, which are plentiful because of Detroit's Greektown district influence. National Coney Island is one of the few restaurant chains to list the Boston Cooler in its menu. The Kerby's Koney Island chain lists a Boston Cooler on its menus, but that variant is actually a Vernors float, as the ice cream is not blended. It is also found at the Detroit-area Dairy Queens and at Halo Burger, a Flint, Michigan based fast food chain.
 
A Boston Cooler is also available on the menu at the Chow Food Bar in San Francisco.
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Re: What's the last thing you ate or are currently eating?
« Reply #212 on: June 08, 2018, 07:36:39 PM »
Wife and I went out for Mexican vittles tonight.
She had chicken fajitas and I did the burrito/chalupa/taco combo.....pretty good eats.



Ginger ale.......... This is good if you can find it. 



Cracker Barrel has a section with old style sodas that are being bottled again using the original recipes (ie: cane sugar instead of corn syrup as the sweetener). I found some there.
My favorite is Red Arrow root beer, though.
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Re: What's the last thing you ate or are currently eating?
« Reply #213 on: June 08, 2018, 10:55:56 PM »
There's a Cracker Barrel within 6 miles of my house but I've never been there. Maybe I should go take a look. I'd like some birch beer if they have it. Sarsaparilla too. I can't recall having that in decades.
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Re: What's the last thing you ate or are currently eating?
« Reply #214 on: June 09, 2018, 01:07:22 PM »
Beef barbacoa. Like the pork carnitas yesterday, I don't have any tortillas to eat it on. And no beans or rice as a side dish. Just a pile of beef on my plate, shredded with a fork and soaking in its sauce. It tastes like it has the same spices that are in chili powder; chili peppers, cumin, etc. It's not too spicy but I can feel some heat. That's the way I like it, hot enough to feel it but not hot enough to burn my taste buds off.
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Re: What's the last thing you ate or are currently eating?
« Reply #215 on: June 09, 2018, 04:17:37 PM »
There's a Cracker Barrel within 6 miles of my house but I've never been there. Maybe I should go take a look. I'd like some birch beer if they have it. Sarsaparilla too. I can't recall having that in decades.


I have a bottle of Sioux City Birch Beer on the shelf that I got the last time I was there, but have not tried it yet.
Ours has sarsaparilla also by Sioux City. It is good stuff. I have bought several bottles when they have it in stock.

Every time I go there I check the clearance table. They usually have a few bottles of Red Arrow on clearance for 1/2 price because the labels are scratched.
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Re: What's the last thing you ate or are currently eating?
« Reply #216 on: June 09, 2018, 05:06:37 PM »
Sioux City is the only brand I've seen that had root beer, birch beer, and sarsaparilla. It's good stuff. I've mostly seen it served by the bottle at restaurants. I think I can get the root beer without making a special trip for it, but not the others.
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Re: What's the last thing you ate or are currently eating?
« Reply #217 on: June 10, 2018, 03:29:10 PM »
Chicken flavor Japanese style yakisoba noodles. I added some chopped up chicken. Not a bad breakfast. Cheap too, since the yakisoba was on sale.

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Re: What's the last thing you ate or are currently eating?
« Reply #218 on: June 10, 2018, 07:04:17 PM »
Beef barbacoa. Like the pork carnitas yesterday, I don't have any tortillas to eat it on. And no beans or rice as a side dish. Just a pile of beef on my plate, shredded with a fork and soaking in its sauce. It tastes like it has the same spices that are in chili powder; chili peppers, cumin, etc. It's not too spicy but I can feel some heat. That's the way I like it, hot enough to feel it but not hot enough to burn my taste buds off.

What cut of beef did you have?
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Re: What's the last thing you ate or are currently eating?
« Reply #219 on: June 10, 2018, 08:50:13 PM »
What cut of beef did you have?

Mystery meat. Whatever was in the package in Kroger's meat department. I'm too lazy to do any real cooking if I don't have to. All I had to do was heat it up and shred the chunks. It was nice and tender whatever it was. I had a coupon I could use up to 5 times but only bought 1 of those and 1 of the pork carnitas. I froze them until I needed them.
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