Woman sues Canada Dry, claims there's no ginger in its ginger ale

Atlanta Journal Constitution ^ | July 31, 2018 | Fiza Pirani

[luvbach1]

Bottom line: It does contain ginger; albeit a minuscule amount.

[Oratam]

A favorite New Yorker cartoon by Charles Addams:

"Just keep your shirt on. You'll see."

[Political Junkie Too]

I had a similar story. I replaced my 19" Sony with a 36" Sony, and then that was replaced with a 40" Mitsubishi flatscreen. I marveled at how the original 19" that I had for years was the same size as the picture-in-picture in the newer TV.

Now I have a 75" UHD 4K. It makes me think that I was originally like the people in the 1950s with 10" B/W TVs and a magnifier!

-PJ

[Forty-Niner]

“There is no cocaine in Coke.”

There used to be. My grandmother, born in the 1880’s was addicted to the original Coca Cola. Drank it all her life dying of stomach cancer in the 1950’s.

[T-Bone Texan]

Ginger actually does have medicinal properties when it comes to soothing a tummy ache.

Sounds crazy, but the component in question is called Gingerol.

[DUMBGRUNT]

More lemon in Lemon Pledge, than Country Time Lemonade.

[woodenickel]

There is no Hawaiian in my punch nether.

[caww]

People suing over things such as this need to get a life. How utterly bored and unhappy they must be.

[Secret Agent Man]

What you see is often a non food prop thats spray painted with a shiny transparent coating to look good in a photo.

[FrdmLvr]

They took the cocaine out of Coke in the 1800s I think.

[Sans-Culotte]

Ginger ale should contain ginger.

I guess it should be called "Ginger" Ale. Like artificial crab which is called "krab". I remember some candy bars from the 70's that contained "chocolaty".

[Buckeye McFrog]

It isn’t from Canada. It isn’t Dry. It doesn’t have Ginger and it isn’t Ale.

Sounds like a job for...

[stylin19a]

about living in Michigan ?

[editor-surveyor]

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She should have bought Vernor’s ginger ale. Its real.

Or ginger Kombucha also is real.

[editor-surveyor]

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But it is not “Ginger Ale.”

[editor-surveyor]

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Yep, Vernors still makes it with real ginger roots.
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[left that other site]

I have had an Uncle who saw a billboard that said “DRINK CANADA DRY”

He actually went north and attempted it, but his liver couldn’t take it.

[Mr.Unique]

Great minds....

Y’all were 5 seconds apart on that thought.

[Carriage Hill]

Right after 9-11 happened, I sped to Wal-Mart and grabbed the last portable TV they had, a 10” B&W Sony for my office at the Nursery/Gdn Ctr I owned, and I, my staff and customers were transfixed by the day’s events. I sent out for 5 pizzas and Cokes for all crowded into my office. While everyone else watched, I checked my Canon T6 gunsafe (6ft wide x 7.5ft tall).

http://i1048.photobucket.com/albums/s362/carriage_hill/DCP_0907a_zps3aff334a.jpg

[Carriage Hill]

It was actually in 1903, IIRC, was when they took the 5oz of coca leaf out of the 1gal of syrup, and switched to Kola Nuts for the stimulant properties. Coca-Cola now contains 34mg of caffeine per 12 fluid ounces. (Useless factoids I somehow retained from an article, somewhere...) Heh.