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Warning: Creating default object from empty value in /home/jimstant/public_html/fetchmyflyingmonkeys/wp-content/themes/platformpro/admin/class.options.metapanel.php on line 49 Ever notice how all my memories center around sugary treats? | Fetch My Flying Monkeys
I was in the Fresh Market yesterday and glanced over and saw they had red cream soda so I bought a few bottles. You can’t really find red cream sodas around these parts. When I was a kid my mom would make us ice cream sodas using Barq’s Red Cream Soda, which they don’t sell here, over vanilla ice cream about once a month as a treat for not shoving each other down a storm drain or setting each other on fire. Yes, we got rewarded for not killing or maiming each other with ice cream in lieu of any allowance. Also, there were no sprinkles on these ice cream sodas because WE WERE POOR.
The soda pop that trips my memory circuits is Squirt. It was always available at the little hole in the wall grill – only about five booths and a counter with round seat stools, and the individual juke box pods in each booth and several on the counter. The cook always wore his wife beater, a white garrison style cap, a stained white apron and khakis, and there was always a waitress squeezed in there too.
The place did not offer sprinkles on the ice cream cones.
Red Cream Sodas are double damn good. Smart move with the guard. I grew up with ‘em as well. I loves me the Fresh Market, problem is, the closest one around here is about a 3 or 4 hour round trip, but I’ve been known to do it on occasion. I’m hooked on carbonated lemonade. Anyway, if you ain’t had a good ice cream soda, you ain’t lived. Fact.
Fresh Market is da bomb. Red cream soda fucking rocks. Oh, did you know the Fresh Market now makes sandwiches? Made with their rotisserie meats. I am about 15 minutes from a Fresh Market. Jealous yet? Ha!
Definitely jealous…I insist on a trip to the Fresh Market when I am up visiting my parents, just to remind myself that not all grocery stores are overly-brightly-lit hellholes filled with rude people and questionable brands. As much as I hated living in the city, the lack of decent grocery options is a real drawback of rural life.
Then again, I’d probably blow my whole paycheck (and entire caloric budget) on their fancy cupcakes and cheeses if I had one near me.
No. Big Red has more of a bubble gum flavor, whereas red cream soda has a creamy ever so slightly cherry flavor- but not strong cherry. Yes, I am a cream soda connoisseur, also known as a cream soda scientist.
I was always convinced the bad food additives my mom gave me killed off the weak body and brain cells. Later, it was the same with alcohol. The cells left over were the smart and strong ones.
So…….does red cream soda make a decent mixer or are you drinking it straight? FYI when I was 16 a buddy of mine figured out how to get into his parents’ liquor cabinet. Later that night when we ran out of orange juice and were so hammered that we learned, the hard way of course, that drinking and driving might kill you but vodka and root beer will make you wish you were dead!
Oh Hell, I think Jeffro is my brother. I grew up in the same hole in the wall grill he did and I LOVE SQUIRT…. Its my fav…Thanks for the memory Jeffro…..Wow
I could never have sprinkles on my ice cream either. But unlike you guys, we were actually poor…..LOL.
Remember those big pops (popsicle/ice cream something or other)? you could buy them at any convenience store for 10 cents? mmmm I can’t find them anymore.
Well…if some hussies would just keep a dime between their knees, we wouldn’t have so many siblings with different last names coming through the school system, now would we. Dimes between their knees and drinking red cream soda…everybody would be so much happier.
I’m older than dirt, but a big treat was a 6 oz. bottle of coke, which cost 5 cents if you drank it at the store. If you took it with you, you paid a penny deposit on the bottle.
We’d hunt pop bottles until we had enough for the big treat: 16 oz Frosty root beer and a Zero candy bar. We’d sit in front of the corner grocery and enjoy our treat in the blistering summer heat.
Probably… Faygo makes a few
Cream soda flavors. And we’re not real generous with our Faygo! We don’t really even share with other Yankee states… I’ve heard you can sometimes find it at dollar stores in the south.
Ever had a Rock & Rye? Tastes like slow gin with coke, minus the drunk. I think it’s a cream soda, too.
Since no one bothered to answer your question: Squirt is grapefruit flavored… For me, stomach cramps in a can, but delicious!
The soda pop that trips my memory circuits is Squirt. It was always available at the little hole in the wall grill – only about five booths and a counter with round seat stools, and the individual juke box pods in each booth and several on the counter. The cook always wore his wife beater, a white garrison style cap, a stained white apron and khakis, and there was always a waitress squeezed in there too.
The place did not offer sprinkles on the ice cream cones.
What the hell is with the lack of sprinkles in everyone’s life?!
Was that the lemon-lime soda?
Now I want ice cream.
Me too, especially since I have red cream soda.
You and your yankee treats! lol!
My mom bribed me and my brothers and sisters not to kill each other too!
We had more of a reward system then a bribe. And some Yankee treats are damn good.
Red Cream Sodas are double damn good. Smart move with the guard. I grew up with ‘em as well. I loves me the Fresh Market, problem is, the closest one around here is about a 3 or 4 hour round trip, but I’ve been known to do it on occasion. I’m hooked on carbonated lemonade. Anyway, if you ain’t had a good ice cream soda, you ain’t lived. Fact.
Fresh Market is da bomb. Red cream soda fucking rocks. Oh, did you know the Fresh Market now makes sandwiches? Made with their rotisserie meats. I am about 15 minutes from a Fresh Market. Jealous yet? Ha!
Do. Not. Tease. Me. Like. That.
Damn, woman!
Definitely jealous…I insist on a trip to the Fresh Market when I am up visiting my parents, just to remind myself that not all grocery stores are overly-brightly-lit hellholes filled with rude people and questionable brands. As much as I hated living in the city, the lack of decent grocery options is a real drawback of rural life.
Then again, I’d probably blow my whole paycheck (and entire caloric budget) on their fancy cupcakes and cheeses if I had one near me.
Oooo I go directly for their beautiful veggies and the delicious rotisserie meats- particularly the ribs. THEN I hit the bakery.
I would give up my Fresh Market to live in the country. I sure would.
I’ve never had red cream soda. Is it different than regular cream soda?
I mean, besides being red.
Yes. It is better. And prettier.
Does it taste kinda like Big Red?
No. Big Red has more of a bubble gum flavor, whereas red cream soda has a creamy ever so slightly cherry flavor- but not strong cherry. Yes, I am a cream soda connoisseur, also known as a cream soda scientist.
So as a child your Mother gave you a monthly dose of food coloring. Nice. No wonder you are the way you are…and I don’t mean the red hair.
I shall up the voltage on my taser just for you.
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I was always convinced the bad food additives my mom gave me killed off the weak body and brain cells. Later, it was the same with alcohol. The cells left over were the smart and strong ones.
It’s a theory.
I like your theory.
So…….does red cream soda make a decent mixer or are you drinking it straight? FYI when I was 16 a buddy of mine figured out how to get into his parents’ liquor cabinet. Later that night when we ran out of orange juice and were so hammered that we learned, the hard way of course, that drinking and driving might kill you but vodka and root beer will make you wish you were dead!
Ha! Oooh I had friends that could get into their parent’s booze. I called them “best friends.”
I’ve never had the red cream soda either.
Sounds interesting.
You must seek it out.
I would be surprised if you have any left when you get home from work today. That dinosaur looks like he just got the best birthday present ever!
The dinosaurs are spoiled. Of course, they face danger every day what with the cats throwing them down to the dog.
When I was a young kid, I always liked the IBC Cream Soda, ’cause it looked just like beer!
I’ve seen that in stores. Yeah, anything that looked like booze was always a winner with kids.
I have noticed a lot of your memories have murder (or the lack thereof) in them as well…
Yes. My life has always been filled with murder, well, mostly failed murder attempts.
Ahhh, Memories of The Pop Shoppe pop!
And ice cream trucks before they started selling drugs! Ha!
Red Cream Soda is da bomb. Fact.
True dat.
Oh Hell, I think Jeffro is my brother. I grew up in the same hole in the wall grill he did and I LOVE SQUIRT…. Its my fav…Thanks for the memory Jeffro…..Wow
I bet they still have it at World Market.
A&W root beer on a hot summer day back when they had the GLASS gallon jugs and not that plastic shit they started using later…
Mmm root beer floats…
I could never have sprinkles on my ice cream either. But unlike you guys, we were actually poor…..LOL.
Remember those big pops (popsicle/ice cream something or other)? you could buy them at any convenience store for 10 cents? mmmm I can’t find them anymore.
And I don’t think anything’s a dime now.
Well…if some hussies would just keep a dime between their knees, we wouldn’t have so many siblings with different last names coming through the school system, now would we. Dimes between their knees and drinking red cream soda…everybody would be so much happier.
YEAH! Life would be easier.
TRUE…the penny candy of our youth is now about $1.39…LOL!
I’m older than dirt, but a big treat was a 6 oz. bottle of coke, which cost 5 cents if you drank it at the store. If you took it with you, you paid a penny deposit on the bottle.
We’d hunt pop bottles until we had enough for the big treat: 16 oz Frosty root beer and a Zero candy bar. We’d sit in front of the corner grocery and enjoy our treat in the blistering summer heat.
Ooo my brithers and I would go collect pop bottles for the cash. Then we’d get into fights dividing up the money.
I LOVE cream sodas, of any color! And indeed, they are a rare animal.
I think they hog them up north!
Probably… Faygo makes a few
Cream soda flavors. And we’re not real generous with our Faygo! We don’t really even share with other Yankee states… I’ve heard you can sometimes find it at dollar stores in the south.
Ever had a Rock & Rye? Tastes like slow gin with coke, minus the drunk. I think it’s a cream soda, too.
Since no one bothered to answer your question: Squirt is grapefruit flavored… For me, stomach cramps in a can, but delicious!
I never heard of Rock & Rye but now I will hound you to send me some. HA!
Where should I send it?
Don’t toy with my emotions unless you mean it. Ha!
I really mean it! It’s the least I could do for all the entertainment you provide me!
It’s my pleasure.
Oh. I was going to send it c.o.d.
Oh hell.
Suit yourself…
Can you imagine the postage on a case of soda? ‘Cause I’d be wanting a case.
When you are President, will there be sprinkles for everybody? (Except France, of course)
YES! Sprinkles and bacon for eveyyone! (Except France.) Ha!
Bacon sprinkles!
I second that!
Shoving each other down a storm drain? Nice.
We were lil murderous assholes.
I went out and found Grape Nehi and OMG!!! want some more.
Grape Nehi is like crack.
where you at chica http://i.imgur.com/ZqB2A.gif sorry if this was in your links I’ve been bad about visiting them lately
I want those owls.
I have been si busy it’s insane. Or maybe I’m insane. Either way, insanity keeps you busy.