I hope everyone is having a great Monday! Lots of pool time this weekend, and some shopping too! P.S. The Nordstrom Anniversary Sale ends today!
So I found this list on wikipedia last night, and thought it was pretty comprehensive. Do you see your favorite drink on the list? If not, what is it? Next week, I’ll be posting southern food from the South. Talk about comprehensive!
- Ale-8-One
- Barq’s Root Beer – first made in Biloxi, Mississippi
- Big Red – cream soda originally from Waco, Texas
- Blenheim Ginger Ale
- Bourbon – made in central Kentucky
- Buffalo Rock ginger ale
- Buttermilk
- Cheerwine – a longtime favorite in North Carolina and Virginia
- Coca-Cola – first made in Atlanta
- Double Cola – based in Chattanooga, Tennessee; also produces Ski soda
- Dr. Pepper – a popular drink in Texas before achieving national popularity
- Dr. Enuf – available in eastern Tennessee
- Frostie Root Beer – first made in 1939 in Maryland
- Grapette – grape soda first made in 1939 in Camden, Arkansas; currently available exclusively at Wal-Mart stores nationwide
- Grapico – grape soda made by Buffalo Rock
- Hurricane Punch
- Lemonade
- Mello Yello – a lemon-lime soda product of the Coca-Cola Company, sold primarily in the South
- Mint julep – associated with the Kentucky Derby
- Mountain Dew – originally made in southwestern Virginia
- Muscadine wine and juice – usually homemade, though also commercially available from some regional vineyards
- Nehi soda – produced by RC Cola, including grape, peach, and orange flavors
- Orange juice from Florida
- Rum – several small-batch varieties, primarily in and around New Orleans [1]
- Sugarcane juice
- Pepsi Cola – first made in New Bern, North Carolina
- Red Rock Cola – Invented in Atlanta in 1885, predating Coca-Cola
- RC Cola – first made in Columbus, Georgia
- Sazerac cocktail
- Shasta sodas – founded in Baltimore, Maryland and offering a variety of flavors
- Slurpee – frozen drink sold by 7-Eleven originally of Dallas, Texas
- Southern Comfort – New Orleans based whiskey, with sweeteners added.
- Sun Drop – citrus drink found in northern Alabama, central Tennessee, the Carolinas, western Kentucky, southeastern Missouri, and parts of Virginia
- Sunny Delight (SunnyD) – invented in Mount Dora, Florida in 1964
- Sweet tea – usually served with ice, lemon, and sugar, sometimes with mint
- Tennessee whiskey – Jack Daniel’s and George Dickel are the two remaining brands
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I’ve updated my blog sale too! I’m obviously trying to get rid some of my summer closet, to make room for some fun, new fall items.
Wow! This IS pretty comprehensive. I have to say that muscadine wine is one of our favorites! I also love muscadine jelly. Ahhh!!! The sweet flavors of the south…
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Happy Monday!
What a fun post! I love all the different bottles and cant wait to see what you have in store for the rest of the week!
You should add Firefly to that list!
I loved Big Red as a kid. Definitely too sweet for me now. And I've always like some Sweet Tea! Can't wait to read the post on Southern food!
I'm all about lemonade, sweet tea and Dr. Pepper! Yum
Cute and fun! I think they are missing Ski here though-bottled in the south, same as Frostie.
How awesome is the pic of all of the different Coke bottles?
I love a good coke, especially one from the fountain with tons of ice! Yum! Can't imagine anyone drinking buttermilk though…cooking yes, drinking, not so sure!
Funny how all the coke bottles changed and grew much larger…
We spent the weekend in the pool too, it's just too hot not to be in the water!
Happy Monday!
I have always loved Coke classic in the bottle….I remember as a kid taking it out of the red cooler and opening the bottle right there, yum! Nostalgic to read your post…lotsa research there!!!
Oh, I love Dr. Pepper.
I'm not surprised that here in New Orleans, we have credit for Southern Comfort. ha ha!
Jay and I are both sweet tea addicts, but he is obsessed with Dr. Enuf, and I love Cheerwine and Peach Nehi. Food Lion even sells Cheerwine flavored sherbet! Yum!
I think it's so bizarre that Mountain Dew's original slogan was "It'll tickle yer innards." Blegh, lol!
Although you did have Ale 8 on your list (the drink of Central Ky) I still love my Mt. Dew (guilty pleasure of course)!
Whew! As much as I love buttermilk biscuits, I could not drink that.
Love the Cheerwine, though.
dr. enuf…..definitely a staple in my neck of the woods….by the way, i heard through the grapevine that you and i are sorority sisters! which chapter are you an alum of? i'm a zeta chapter zta! xoxo
Barq's root beer poured on top of a heaping scoop of vanilla ice cream is the best summer treat around!
I love Coca Cola and those bottles are too cute!:D
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I'm from the North and I've never even heard of some of these…on my next trip down South I am going to search for some of them!
Lazy Magnolia Southern Pecan Beer.
And of course a Jack and coke or spire is always good.
Coke in the little bottle is the best!
Mountain Dew…yum! 🙂 I miss it!
LOVE CHEER WINE! And sweet tea OF COURSE!