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The owners of Taylor Gourmet opened up a new spot further down on H called Taylor Charles Steak & Ice. They have a soda brand there called Penn soda, but I swear it tastes just like Boylans & Pucks. You should give it a try
hi! Got the skinny from someone here in Durham NC with a Puck's fountain machine. A few posts up was correct about the hostile take over. The 2 grandsons of Boylan's didn't like that the new corp heads were monkeying with the preservatives and changing recipes, so they started Puck's, which is now more inline and based on their original family recipes. They are delish! He said as far as he knew it was one of 3 Puck's fountain machines around, hopefully more coming out soon.
Apparently, the two brothers who ran Boylans were unfortunately on the short side of a hostile takeover of their company by a bank. The new ownership has been cheapening the product for some time now. Well the two brothers knew they had a good product and started their new company, Puck's. Basically all the same recipes and flavors as Boylan's. I cannot find much on the web but was forwarded some powerpoint slides on the company.
This. The brothers also repurchased their former production plant once the new Boylan's management shifted production elsewhere.
I'm an operator who is currently using Boylan's but will be switching to Puck's because of this. I felt compelled to comment on this thread because, despite the branding, BOYLAN'S IS NO LONGER A NATURAL SODA COMPANY. Out of the 8 flavors our restaurants carry, 7 of them have had the formula changed to contain Sodium Benzoate, as well as some artificial colors & flavoring that weren't in the old formulas. Note that despite buying 100 boxes a week of Boylan's we were never notified of these changes - I had no idea until Puck's pointed it out and I checked the ingredient statements on our boxes.
Hope this helps anyone else looking for information, since there isn't much out there at the moment. Puck's may not be the right answer for you, but make sure you know what Boylan's is actually offering.
Pucks soda can be found at a million different pretentious sandwich shops in the DC metro. It's basically the easiest indicator to know that you're in an overpriced and low quality outfit. If you walk in and see a Puck's soda fountain, know you're about to pay about 3x as much as you should for a dry turkey sandwich with toppings you've only convinced yourself that you like because you think they're "unique".
Not to say that I don't like Puck's, because I do appreciate anything that is not pushing HFCS, but I've found an almost direct correlation between their presence and me getting ripped off by businesses that wouldn't last two minutes outside of a major city on the east/west coast.
Pucks soda can be found at a million different pretentious sandwich shops in the DC metro. It's basically the easiest indicator to know that you're in an overpriced and low quality outfit. If you walk in and see a Puck's soda fountain, know you're about to pay about 3x as much as you should for a dry turkey sandwich with toppings you've only convinced yourself that you like because you think they're "unique".
Not to say that I don't like Puck's, because I do appreciate anything that is not pushing HFCS, but I've found an almost direct correlation between their presence and me getting ripped off by businesses that wouldn't last two minutes outside of a major city on the east/west coast.
Have we really gotten to the point of hypersensitivity, where a sandwich shop is *pretentious*?
Have we really gotten to the point of hypersensitivity, where a sandwich shop is *pretentious*?
Would be interesting to know which sandwich shops are being referred to as pretentious
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