Subj : Re: Fried Fish
To   : DAVE DRUM
From : Mike Powell
Date : Tue Mar 21 2023 17:23:00

> Back in the '80s - when I was trailer trucking I mostly hauled car parts
> to the Corvette plant in Louisville or bottles to (mostly) Bardstown and
> booze out. A few times I hauled stuff to Wally World from the Walmart
> distribution center in North Little Rock, AR (Searcy, actually) to various
> WalMart locations in Kentucky. It was at a WalMart break room on the east
> side of Lexington, near Utteringtown, that I first met a clear soda called
> "Ale 8" which was so loaded w/caffiene that it made the hair on the back
> of my neck march in lockstep. And they think  Mountain Dew has a lot of
> caffiene. HAH! Never seen Ale-8 outside of Kentucky.

The Corvette plant is in Bowling Green, but there are two big Ford plants
in Louisville.  Ale-8-One is one of my favorites.  They used to (maybe
still do) have a chart on their web site about the caffiene content of
their soda.  It actually has less in it than several better known sodas.
The claim is that it is the mix of the caffiene and real ginger that makes
it more potent.

It is bottled just east of Lexington in a town called Winchester.

Back to Long John Silvers and other such restaurants, IIRC the last
Druther's and the last Jerry's are/were in Kentucky.

Mike


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