It’s not that Foxon Park is the best soda, it is just that the entertainment value of drinking with a not quite long enough straw out a tall, skinny 7 1/2 oz. bottle is part of the experience. (Of course, Sally’s carries Pepsi products, if I remember, but Modern and Pepe’s carry FP). Speaking of the Birch Beer, I brought some back to Illinois, and couldn’t get anyone to try it. Finally the sister of our neighbors tried it, and she cried, “Ugh! It tastes like Pepto-Bismol!” I had never thought of it that way, but it kinda does. Of course, I LIKE Pepto-Bismol.
If you are ever in Wallingford, CT, best grinders at Rosa’s Deli.
BTW, the nearby Phoenix soda place ALSO has Avery’s, Pop Shoppe and Cliquot Club, and a bunch of others from different parts of the country.
I had wondered whatever happened to Cott Soda (”It’s Cott to be good”). It turns out that they became a supplier for store brands (e.g. Wal-Mart). I stumbled upon their distribution center in Columbus, GA.
The soda I miss is Canada Dry Jamaica Cola, NOTHING goes better with a ham and cheese on a poppy seed hard roll than that.
I’ve driven past that spot of Rosa’s Deli a thousand times; it looks like kinda a dive. :* Never occsured to me to stop.
Now, I’m 5 hours drive, and chances are I never will get to try it out.