[Madame Dufarge]

When I was a kid, we called vanilla Cokes "dishwater."

The local Mom and Pop store, which was really a bookie joint - but I digress, had an old-fashioned marble topped soda fountain.

They'd put Coke syrup, seltzer water and vanilla together and it was like nectar of the Gods. Add your 10-cent comic to the mix and it was kid heaven.

[TonyInOhio]

The local Mom and Pop store, which was really a bookie joint - but I digress, had an old-fashioned marble topped soda fountain.

We had one of those, too, open until about ten years ago. It was most assurredly NOT a bookie joint! However, they did have a neat-o soda fountain.

Forget those kid-stuff cherry and vanilla syrups - you haven't lived until you've enjoyed a Chocolate Coke from the R & O Lunch Counter.

Tony

[Grampa Dave]

Sounds like you had the same great decadent past while growing up like mine.

Real Vanila, syrup, real coke syrup, real cherry syrup, fresh seltzer/carbonated water, and it was nectar from the gods.