Origin of the name Cherrycoke

Paul Mackin pmackin at clark.net
Wed Jul 12 09:45:06 CDT 2000



On Wed, 12 Jul 2000, Bruce Appelbaum wrote:

> but my guess is that TRP just
> appropriated the name of a once-popular soda fountain drink, back in the
> days when the soda jerk would have to manually mix the syrup and seltzer in
> the glass.  A couple of pumps of CocaCola syrup and a shot of cherry syrup =
> cherry coke.

And they were only a nickel.

			P.




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