The Great Pop vs. Soda Controversy

[Jonathan Lighter]

You mean RC isn't still Royal Crown, much as Coke is Coca-Cola?

  Say it ain't so.

  Even if it's so.

  JL

Wilson Gray <hwgray at GMAIL.COM> wrote:
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I don't remember AAA, but I do remember Dad's Old-Fashioned Root Beer.
Wasn't RC originally "Royal Crown Cola" and a contemporary of NeHi?
How about Garrett snuff and Mail Pouch snuff or Bull of The Woods
chewing tobacco (Sung: Bull of The Woods chewing tobacco / Mellow and
sweet. Sound of bull lowing: "Mmaaw!" Spoken: He's the boss!).
Remember when "bull of the woods" was a common slang term for
"foreman, supervisor," whence "He's the boss!"?

-Wilson

On 5/23/07, Charles Doyle wrote:
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> And how about Grapette? AAA Rootbeer? Orange Crush? Stumbling down Memory Lane . . . .
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> --Charlie
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> >Date: Wed, 23 May 2007 08:13:44 -0400
> >From: Wilson Gray
> >Subject: Re: The Great Pop vs. Soda Controversy
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> >Nehi?! Cut my legs and call me "shorty"! It's been over a half-century since I last saw a reference to that particular brand of soda water. Is it still in existence?
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> >-Wilson
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