I love regional drinks as a quick and cheap way to check out local food culture!
Coffee milk sounded so good and I bought 2 tall bottles to bring home with me. It was… interesting… 😁
I maybe had 3 glasses trying to “get it right” but it may have just not been for me, but I still think about it after 10+ years, so it made a lasting impression, if nothing else.
Cheerwine is possibly my favorite regional soda, but Dr Enuf was good too. I had the red one, as it looked like the Cheerwine on the same trip.
In Pennsylvania, A-treat is still around under new owners, and people seem to be surprised by the clear birch beer.
I’ve bought Dr. Enuf deliberately more than once, but I’m not sure I would call it good. 😂 Both flavors taste like cough syrup to me. I’d like to try birch beer, but I haven’t seen anything like that around here.
I like the olde tyme medicine / cocktail bitters type taste!
I had a fun time last year outside of Pittsburgh there was a diner that had the original soda fountain in it, and I ended up talking with the soda jerk about a lot of the oddball ingredients and he gave me some of the phosphates and I was tasting them straight up and mixing them with flavors in different proportions and such.
A-Treat has an online store now, with the brown and white birch beers both available, as well as the pumpkin cream and cranberry ginger ale holiday flavors, which I also love. There’s a few other Pennsylvania birch beers, the PA Dutch red version and the clear Kutztown ones are on Amazon I saw, but the A-Treat is the most local to where I live.
It was a blast. We went to grab breakfast on our way out of town and this place popped up as I was looking for the best breakfast along the way. It intrigued me that a pharmacy was the number 1 rated breakfast spot.
It’s Lincoln’s P&G. Half the place is a regular pharmacy, and the other is a diner/soda fountain. This is the menu with the soda specials and they have a bunch of old photos of the place on this page.
They advertised top notch pancakes, which I’m usually meh about, but these were light and had a nice crispy outside that seemed to set them apart. Good stuff if ever anyone is ever passing through there.
I love regional drinks as a quick and cheap way to check out local food culture!
Coffee milk sounded so good and I bought 2 tall bottles to bring home with me. It was… interesting… 😁
I maybe had 3 glasses trying to “get it right” but it may have just not been for me, but I still think about it after 10+ years, so it made a lasting impression, if nothing else.
Cheerwine is possibly my favorite regional soda, but Dr Enuf was good too. I had the red one, as it looked like the Cheerwine on the same trip.
In Pennsylvania, A-treat is still around under new owners, and people seem to be surprised by the clear birch beer.
I’ve bought Dr. Enuf deliberately more than once, but I’m not sure I would call it good. 😂 Both flavors taste like cough syrup to me. I’d like to try birch beer, but I haven’t seen anything like that around here.
I like the olde tyme medicine / cocktail bitters type taste!
I had a fun time last year outside of Pittsburgh there was a diner that had the original soda fountain in it, and I ended up talking with the soda jerk about a lot of the oddball ingredients and he gave me some of the phosphates and I was tasting them straight up and mixing them with flavors in different proportions and such.
A-Treat has an online store now, with the brown and white birch beers both available, as well as the pumpkin cream and cranberry ginger ale holiday flavors, which I also love. There’s a few other Pennsylvania birch beers, the PA Dutch red version and the clear Kutztown ones are on Amazon I saw, but the A-Treat is the most local to where I live.
That sounds like a lot of fun. The historical soda/medicines are so interesting. I’ll have to take a look at that store.
It was a blast. We went to grab breakfast on our way out of town and this place popped up as I was looking for the best breakfast along the way. It intrigued me that a pharmacy was the number 1 rated breakfast spot.
It’s Lincoln’s P&G. Half the place is a regular pharmacy, and the other is a diner/soda fountain. This is the menu with the soda specials and they have a bunch of old photos of the place on this page.
They advertised top notch pancakes, which I’m usually meh about, but these were light and had a nice crispy outside that seemed to set them apart. Good stuff if ever anyone is ever passing through there.