Subj : soda pop
To   : Dave Drum
From : Ruth Haffly
Date : Thu Sep 01 2022 13:34:40

Hi Dave,

 DD> buy) Bubly (8 packs), Nixie, Lifewater, etc. My favourite Polar
 DD> flavour (currently)
 DD> is Cranberry-Lime.

 RH> We usually stick with Wegman's brands if we can. For travel, it's
 RH> whatever's availabe, usually LaCroix or Bubbly.

 DD> Both of those are "premiumP brands in this area. Price-wise, anyway.

 RH> LaCroix is the premium brand around here; Bubbly is run of the mill,
 RH> IMO.

 DD> My local stores certainly don't price it like run-of-the-mill. Their 8
 DD> packs are priced right with LeCroix ... and more than Polar's 12 pack.

Guess it just depends on your taste and location.

 DD> Polar is a Taxachussetts firm (Worcester, MA) since 1882. They have a
 DD> licence/franchise agreement with Keurig-Dr. Pepper and thus are now a

 RH> We got/drank the Polar water the 6 months we were stationed at Fort
 RH> Devens. Had to pay deposit on the cans so tried to keep consumption
 RH> down.

 DD> That will vary state-to-state. Some states have a can/container
 DD> deposit and others don't.* When I was a youngster soda (and beer)
 DD> bottles were
 DD> washed and reused. So, there was a bottle deposit charged if one took
 DD> them off the premises. That 2c per bottle wasn't a lot but it did add
 DD> up. I used to collect discarded soda bottles around my neighbourhood
 DD> and ca$h them in for movie or Dairy Queen money.

My parents didn't drink that much and never let us kids "scrounge"
bottles in the neighborhood. Bottles they emptied/returned were turned
back into grocery money.

 DD> *STATES WITH CONTAINER DEPOSIT LAWS; California, Connecticut, Hawaii,
 DD> Iowa, Maine, Massachusetts, Michigan, New York, Oregon, Vermont, Guam

The HI one came out while we were there; cut our (my) consumption
dramatically. I don't think we even filled one grocery (brown paper) bag
in the remaining 3 years we were over there.

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Catch you later,
Ruth
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