Government Coup

[Rogar]

I once had a very old recipe for root beer using actual roots and herbs. Seem like there was licorice, sassafras, molasses, and what all, that I scrounged in health food stores. For carbonation you added a bit of yeast and capped the bottles. There was a brief period when the sugars and yeast allowed just the right carbonation to taste a few bottles, before they all over pressurized and blew up. It was a fun experiment and the flavor was unique.

I've seen some connoisseur type root beer brands around.

[frugal-one]

When I was a little kid, one of the biggest treats of all was climbing into the Country Squire and going to a drive-in called Dog n Suds. They had great foot longs, bag-staining fries, and the best root beer I ever had. You could even get it in two gallon jugs so you could make floats for days afterward.

There is still Dog n Suds in Tomahawk…

[LDAHL]

There is still Dog n Suds in Tomahawk…

That’s good news. I thought they were defunct. And I’m only a few hours away.

[SiouzQ.]

Yes, I came from a "pop" state.

[Tradd]

Michigan was pop, but when I moved to Chicago in 96, I had to change to soda. No one I knew here said pop and they were confused by it. LOL

[bae]

Michigan was pop, but when I moved to Chicago in 96, I had to change to soda. No one I knew here said pop and they were confused by it. LOL

I grew up in the disputed border regions in Ohio, so we called it "soda pop".

[Alan]

I grew up in the disputed border regions in Ohio, so we called it "soda pop".

I grew up in SE Mo, right at the top of the Bootheel, a half hour drive east to Illinois and Kentucky, a 45 min drive south to Arkansas. We called it soda pop too, although it sounded more like sodey pop.

[Tradd]

I grew up in the disputed border regions in Ohio, so we called it "soda pop".

LOL

[Tradd]

Then there are party stores. A true MI thing.

[rosarugosa]

It was tonic growing up, which I guess was a regional weirdness. Almost nobody says that any more. I think most people around here now call it soda.