Galco's Soda Pop Stop
Last summer strawberrygoth linked me to the following video:
A week later we made our way up the 110 to Galco's Soda Pop Stop near Pasadena and soon had our cart loaded with bottles of wonderful soda bottles in such unique flavors as rose, cucumber, and chocolate. Galco's is a treasure trove of specialty sodas-aisles and aisles of soda. There is also a nice selection of old fashioned candy, a couple of aisles of alcoholic products, and a deli section. I was happy to see that they carried the candy cigarettes as well.
As we browsed the aisles, store owner John Nesse came out to assist us-not that we needed much assistance. But he was wonderful to chat with-passionate about soda and eager to help us find the flavors we were interested in and introduce us to flavors we had not considered. After we purchased our sodas he carried our bags out and even opened the doors to the car for us!
So what about our selection? We tried Moxie out of curiosity, which is one of the first soft drinks produced and where the term "moxie" comes from. strawberrygoth and I agreed it tasted a lot like bad cough syrup. But that is our opinion and I encourage everyone to try it. Sweet Blossom rose soda had a pleasant taste a lot like carbonated rose water. Jeff's Chocolate Egg Cream soda is simply wonderful-it is the color and flavor of hot chocolate but served cool with the fizz of bubbles. Mr. Q Cumber is simply a refreshing cucumber flavored soda.
I also bought some candy-Big Cherry, a Hershey's bar, Cherry Mash, and Smoothie butterscotch peanut butter cups. Big Cherry and Cherry Mash were very sweet. Too sweet in my opinion. The Hershey's bar is actually made from the original recipe unlike what is found in the supermarket. The flavor was stronger and sweeter than the supermarket version but still average in my opinion. As a fan of butterscotch I was excited to try the Smoothie butterscotch peanut butter cups. It was actually a peanut butter cup with butterscotch instead of chocolate. I found this too sweet.
It is not to often I make it to Pasadena but when I do I make it a point to stop by Galco's Soda Pop Stop-its such a gem!
strawberrygoth is getting very serious over ... a bottle of root beer
Aisles and aisles of soda
Old fashioned candies!
strawberrygoth 's loot
My loot!
Click to viewA week later we made our way up the 110 to Galco's Soda Pop Stop near Pasadena and soon had our cart loaded with bottles of wonderful soda bottles in such unique flavors as rose, cucumber, and chocolate. Galco's is a treasure trove of specialty sodas-aisles and aisles of soda. There is also a nice selection of old fashioned candy, a couple of aisles of alcoholic products, and a deli section. I was happy to see that they carried the candy cigarettes as well.
As we browsed the aisles, store owner John Nesse came out to assist us-not that we needed much assistance. But he was wonderful to chat with-passionate about soda and eager to help us find the flavors we were interested in and introduce us to flavors we had not considered. After we purchased our sodas he carried our bags out and even opened the doors to the car for us!
So what about our selection? We tried Moxie out of curiosity, which is one of the first soft drinks produced and where the term "moxie" comes from. strawberrygoth and I agreed it tasted a lot like bad cough syrup. But that is our opinion and I encourage everyone to try it. Sweet Blossom rose soda had a pleasant taste a lot like carbonated rose water. Jeff's Chocolate Egg Cream soda is simply wonderful-it is the color and flavor of hot chocolate but served cool with the fizz of bubbles. Mr. Q Cumber is simply a refreshing cucumber flavored soda.
I also bought some candy-Big Cherry, a Hershey's bar, Cherry Mash, and Smoothie butterscotch peanut butter cups. Big Cherry and Cherry Mash were very sweet. Too sweet in my opinion. The Hershey's bar is actually made from the original recipe unlike what is found in the supermarket. The flavor was stronger and sweeter than the supermarket version but still average in my opinion. As a fan of butterscotch I was excited to try the Smoothie butterscotch peanut butter cups. It was actually a peanut butter cup with butterscotch instead of chocolate. I found this too sweet.
It is not to often I make it to Pasadena but when I do I make it a point to stop by Galco's Soda Pop Stop-its such a gem!
strawberrygoth is getting very serious over ... a bottle of root beer
Aisles and aisles of soda
Old fashioned candies!
strawberrygoth 's loot
My loot!