[NJARC] Re: survived vacation

[Alex Magoun]

Jon,

 

Thanks to your delivery, I've converted my Kosovoan housemate to the great
taste of cane sugar-sweetened Dr. Pepper, and driven one of my six-packs to
Dorchester, Mass., where friends enjoyed a Dr. Pepper appertif before
dinner.  I also use it for a refreshing breakfast drink (better than Tang,
not quite as healthy as OJ).  I'll be ordering more next time, but one
disappointing observation remains before my eyes completely lose their
fine-detail resolution.  This wonderful stuff uses "natural and artificial"
flavors.  Sigh.  If you know anyone at the plant that can explain what and
why, I'd love to know.

 

John, your case is sitting in the Library-not on the floor of the museum,
but it'll be here for your next visit.

 

Moxie was a product of great curiosity about 40 years for a young boy in a
small Massachusetts coastal town.  What's with the dorky 40s guy pushing a
glass of black liquid at you?  I think it was available only at Hooper's,
the grocery that handled the remaining carriage trade in town; maybe wealthy
matrons were the only people who still sipped the puzzling beverage after a
day of cribbage at the beach club.  Finally I gave in and bought a bottle,
which I found pretty foul.  But as my father said of hard liquor, Moxie's
obviously an acquired taste, and now that micro root breweries are a coming
trend and we tire of mass-marketed Coke and Pepsi, I'd glad take on Moxie's
peculiar nasty-medicine flavor as an alternative.