New Jersey In A Bottle

Stockpot sold ice tea from a company based on Montclair. Joe's something? Can't recall it right now. Ice tea seems more healthful than sodee pop.

My suggestions -- Cranetown Cola or Speertown Seltzer. (Both are old names for sections of Montclair).

Lackawanna Lemon-Lime

Montclair Asbestos Ale (now with added fiber!)

"Passaic River Punch"? Mmmmm. Crisp chemical taste on the palate with subtle overtones of Agent Orange. Warning: May dissolve the enamel off of your teeth.

Next new flavors: Bayonne Dingleberry and Meadowlands Dioxin Classic.

High Fructose Corn Syrup or Cane Sugar?

The website is terrible.

They can learn from Boylan's-- The BEST NJ Soda!!!

And SPT(DB), commercially produced "Iced Tea" and "Soda" are essentially the same, save for the flavoring.

So it's a stretch to call one more "healthful" than the other....

Kinda like juice.

Joe Tea! Upper Montclair!

Link

"New Jersey Lightning" was what the local apple farmers used to call the hard apple cider that they sold. I believe that was their greatest economic resource except for selling their land for sub divisions.

Watchung Watermelon

7-Upper montclair

Grove Street Grape

Wellmont Watermelon

Raspberry Reval!

Joe Tea is the best! I love it!

On a really hot day, its a toss-up between Two Pensions Pepsi or F'ed Up Fieldhouse Fanta.

Stewart's Creme Soda, Root Beer or Black Cherry.

Years ago Snapple produced several excellent soft drink flavors. I was sorry they took them off the market.

Bloomfield Blast : Chocolate, rasberry with a hint of catnip.

Yes, I'll stick with Boylan's too. They have a great product, and don't need to conjure up pretentious names to market themselves. Boylan's is the true "New Jersey's Own!"

(The people behind "Jersey's Own" have got to be from New York, because most native New Jerseyans don't refer to the Garden State as simply "Jersey", as New Yorkers often do.)

And the prof is right - most commerically marketed iced tea is no different than soda. Take Snapple, for example: it's just another variation of high-fructose corn syrup flavored water, this time without the fizz.

"New Jersey Lightning" was what the local apple farmers used to call the hard apple cider that they sold.

They still make Laird's Apple Jack down in Colts Neck, a poster child of a town for the farmland-to-McMansion phenomena.

Magner's Irish Cider sounds not unlike "New Jersey Lighting". Known as Bulmer's in Ireland (where I first sampled it), but as Magner's here due to trademark issues, you can get it at Angelbecks or Bottle King. It's a great summer beverage: light, crisp, and a little sweet.

This is fairly old news. Which then conveniently reminds me of the phenomenon known as a "slow news day!"

Yoo-Hoo was originally a Jersey creation. (Remember the ads with Yogi Berra saying "Me-Hee for Yoo Hoo?") Then there was Brookdale Soda in Clifton for many years. There were several other area soda bottlers, including Cott and Boller. Only Boylan's seems to remain. The brand has become so chic that you can even find it on sale in South Carolina.

Thanks Cather, for making me feel old (but in a good way). When I was growing up in the 70's, we had cases of Brookdale Soda delivered to our house every other week. Brookdale Soda

"It's Cott to Be Good."

Man, am I old. :-)

I remember Brookdale Soda too. It was delivered in wooden crates. We didn't get it delivered weekly though...just for big parties or "cook-outs"

Mellon!

Snapple Root Beer was DELICIOUS. Maybe it suffered the same fate as Clear Coke? (undeservedly so)

Liberal lemon

Professor purple passion

Martta malt

Cathar caffeine

Pork Roll punch

Through my early 20's, when we purchased our Brookdale soda (my favorite was the lemon & lime, I miss that bright green-colored flavor) at a candy store in ER, we did so from an water-filled cooler, one in which the cold water rose to the neck of the bottles. We used to plunge our arms in up to our elbows as a way of cooling off. Not very sanitary, but lots of fun.

Of course Brookdale had its relevant info painted right on its bottles; paper labels would have washed off in the cooler. And so many "local" brands had great flavors: raspberry, blackberry, half & half, Tom Collins Mix, pineapple, sarsparilla, clear vanilla cream soda...the closest things these days are Goya's soda flavors, although IBC's root beer might just be the absolute best root beer I've ever tasted.

And for the critically discerning when it comes to carbinated jolts, Manhattan Special remains in a class by itself.

J Perlstein Jamba?

Montclair Whinecooler

My all time favorite soft drink:
Pure Spring 'Grapefruit and Lime'.

Pure Spring is bottled in Canada and I drank this variety as a young teen in Norway Bay, Quebec.

The best soup of all time comes from Canada too, Habitant Pea Soup.

How about for Glen Ridge : Gas Light Ale
Raspberry Ridgers
High taxed Tonic