Date:  Tue, 21 Mar 1995 08:19:57 -0500

From:  Heilan Yvette Grimes <HEP2[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]AOL.COM>

Subject: TONICS



>Larry Horn wrote:

>

>Actually, speaking not of chuckholes but of frappes, which David also was,

>I was just in South Station in Boston and was delighted to observe that the

>soft drinks (including iced tea!) for sale at the main snack bar are all

>listed under the general capitalized heading "TONICS". (And cabinets are

>still alive and well in Westerly, R. I., at least as of a few years ago.)

>I wonder what out-of-towners make of it.    --Larry



When I first moved to New England I told someone I was going to the store to

buy a bottle of pop. They had no idea what I was talking about. I explained

and they said what I really wanted to do was go to the store and buy a bottle

of tonic. Somehow, it didn't have the same ring--sounded so medicinal. But,

then, this is where Moxie was invented, and still sold. (Moxie, in case you

don't know, is a chocolate milklike substance that tastes like medicine that

people up here swear is a soft drink.) I went to the store and addition to my

previous elusive search for a thick shake I added an even more elusive search

for a bottle of Barq's Creme Soda.--Yvette