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Old 06-02-2009, 09:48 AM
 
Location: New England & The Maritimes
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I saw someone had started a thread about Tab, which reminded me of another oft-forgotten tonic of yore: MOXIE.

A proud New England tradition, Moxie tastes somewhere between stale coke, prune juice, and coffee. What does everyone else think??

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Old 06-02-2009, 11:20 AM
 
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Everytime I saw the "Tab" thread I thought the same thing. Moxie! The only beverage I ever spat out immediately. Awful, awful, awful.
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Old 06-02-2009, 11:23 AM
 
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ugh - my roomate was obsessed with buying this stuff when I lived in PA ........ pretty much every road trip had a big ol' bottle of moxie

carbonated robatussin
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Old 06-02-2009, 01:00 PM
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Location: Massachusetts & Hilton Head, SC
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Everytime I saw the "Tab" thread I thought the same thing. Moxie! The only beverage I ever spat out immediately. Awful, awful, awful.
LOL, I spat out Dr. Pepper - that tastes like carbonated prune juice to me.
Maybe Moxie is the Yankee version?

Apparently there's a Moxie festival in Maine every year:

"Moxie Festival Lisbon Falls, Maine. Drink Moxie"
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Old 06-02-2009, 05:17 PM
 
Location: Newton, Mass.
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I don't like it myself but my girlfriend loves it. When she was in NYC with me for the first time I had to locate the only place in New York City that sold it--a funky and dusty used bookstore/cafe in Brooklyn that sells it at a premium price. Now I stock up in Mass. and keep the stuff in my NYC fridge at almost all times.

It's funny that Finger Laker calls it Robitussin because apparently it was invented by a Maine-born doctor who had settled in Lowell as a medicine. He then saw the popularity of soft drinks at the time and carbonated it for that purpose. This was apparently the original of a number of soft drinks, and may explain why many New Englanders still use the word tonic when referring to them. It's apparently the Maine state soft drink and there's speculation the name came from Moxie Falls in Maine.

Although I don't drink the stuff, I have a metal reproduction on my kitchen wall of an old Moxie ad from the 50's with Ted Williams.
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