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I used to have family in South Jersey. There was a drink only found in the river towns of Burlington County. It went by the names Drink-A-Toast and Tak-A-Boost. You could get it at soda fountains or buy a giant glass jug of the syrup and make it at home with water or seltzer. It tasted like cola with some kind of fruit in it, maybe plums. Anyone else ever hear of it?
I love horchata. Every Spanish-speaking country has its own version. I like the Salvadoran version best. In Spain, they make horchata with chufa nuts (aka tiger nuts).
It is good stuff. The kind they make here is from rice. Served from a big glass jar.
Sweetened, and flavored with vanilla and cinnamon? The Mexican restaurants in this area serve that type of horchata.
Yep, kind of like rice pudding in a drink but it's not super sweet. That may be regional. Not something I would have everyday but a good thing on a hot day (like right now at 102). I like the agua frescas too. Jamaica is the best.
I used to have family in South Jersey. There was a drink only found in the river towns of Burlington County. It went by the names Drink-A-Toast and Tak-A-Boost. You could get it at soda fountains or buy a giant glass jug of the syrup and make it at home with water or seltzer. It tasted like cola with some kind of fruit in it, maybe plums. Anyone else ever hear of it?
Yes! It's named 'Boost!' now, I love the stuff. I live on the Philadelphia side of the Delaware, right at the foot of the Betsy Ross Bridge and it's weird how it's never made it across the river. Same for the panzarotti. Both delicious and unique to South Jersey.
Even though it's brewed in MA, Arctic Splash iced tea is very popular in the River Wards section of Philadelphia. A bar in Fishtown even uses it to make a cocktail and people have had it as the 'highlight' drink at weddings. It's only good in the cardboard, pint containers, though.
A 'real' Philly lunch is a Fishtown Surf and Turf (hot sausage sandwich with a fishcake crushed on top) and two pints of Arctic Splash!
By unique if you mean found mostly in the region, probably not much, but flavored iced tea is very popular here, especially this time of year. it is probably more popular when you get further south, more into the true south. Also I have to say and am not happy about it; crappy wine. All the wines I have had, produced here are sweet: might as well drink ice tea.
Grapette Cola was made in Camden, Arkansas, back during my 1950s childhood days, and came in wonderful glass bottles shaped like bears, cats, etc. The cap had a picture of a clown, whose widely smiling mouth became a slot when the cap liner was removed, so the bottle could be used as a bank. Great marketing technique to make Grapette very appealing to kids.
Grapette's still around, I think, but not in those collectible bottle-banks, a few of which are still in my possession. They were originally obtained at a little neighborhood grocery around the corner from my grandparents' house in Conway, AR.
Pepsi Cola was invented in New Bern, N. C. but everybody drinks that.
My favorite soft drink was invented in Texas--Dr. Pepper. Everybody drinks that too.
My mother used to make tea out of tree roots that were discussed on other posts but there was one she made out of tree branches when we would get a cold that I cannot remember the name. I liked it better than sassafras tea.
They started selling it recently here in Illinois; used to drink it sometime when I lived in NC. And today someone left a few Moon Pies -- salted caramel flavor of all things -- in the break room. That's not a Moon Pie in my book.
A very good SC beverage, by the way, is Blenheim's Ginger Ale. They went out of business, but South of the Border bought them out and continue to make their ales from the original recipes.
Well, I originally hale from LI, NY, so I would have to say, our famously potent Long Island Iced Tea.
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