-=> Mike Powell wrote to DAVE DRUM <=-

 >  MP> I would not make it in such a denomination.  I cannot see giving up my
 >  MP> Ski or Ale-8-One for long!

 > I've met Ale-8. But I hadda go look up "Ski" .... Hmmmm made by "Double
 > Cola". Wonder what their cloa drink tastes like.  Bv)=

 MP> A little surprised you had not encountered Ski before in Illinois.  It
 MP> is glass-bottled in Southern Illinois somewhere, and can be found on
 MP> tap in some restaurants in St. Louis.  Here in Kentucky, it was a big
 MP> thing until Coke-Cola bought the Greensburg Bottling Company and got
 MP> rid of all of the Double Cola drinks.  They actually kept Ski, and sold
 MP> it in place of Mello Yellow, in a limited area.

Both Mount & Do and its clone Mello Yell-o are nasty in my opinion.

 MP> The Kentucky Headhunters sang about it in their hit song, "Dumas
 MP> Walker."

 MP> Ski is now distributed locally by Ale-8, so it has made somewhat of a
 MP> comeback.

 MP> As for Double Cola, there are not many nearby places to find it.  I
 MP> think the closest place is Evansville.  I take that back... I can get
 MP> Illinois glass-bottled Ski at the local Cracker Barrel gift shop, last
 MP> I checked. ;)

 MP> "Double" comes from the size of the early bottles being twice as big as
 MP> other colas but for the same price.  IMHO, it is better than Coke or
 MP> Pepsi, especially the glass-bottled, real sugar version (which I think
 MP> is all that Excel makes -- Excel is the Illinois bottler).

When I was a kid (probably before your daddy met your mom) Co' Cola was
in 7 oz glass bottles and Pepsi was in 12 oz glass bottles. And cans of
soda (or brewski) were a futuristic pipe dream. I always preferred the 
"bite" of original Coke to the sickeningly sweet Burpsie Cola.

I've been doing diet soda since before I was diagnosed as mextra-sweet.
But if I do drink fully-leaded soda it's either Mexican Coke (which a
couple stores here carry) or Kosher for Passover Coke (yellow caps) in
season .... and avoid that nasty HFCS.

MMMMM----- Recipe via Meal-Master (tm) v8.06
 
      Title: Coca-Cola Pot Roast
 Categories: Beef, Vegetables, Sauces
      Yield: 8 Servings
 
      3 lb Beef chuck roast
      2 tb Oil
     16 oz Can crushed Tomatoes
     12 oz Coca-Cola *
      1 lg Onion; chopped or sliced
      1 pk Spaghetti sauce mix
  1 1/2 ts Salt
    1/2 ts Garlic granules
 
  * Use non-HFCS (Kosher for Passover) Co'Cola.
  
  Brown meat in oil for ten minutes on each side; remove
  to crockpot. Drain fat.
  
  Break up tomatoes in their juice; add remaining
  ingredients, stirring until spaghetti sauce mix is
  dissolved. Pour over meat. Cover; simmer until meat
  is tender.
  
  Thicken gravy; serve over sliced meat.
  
  MM by Sylvia Steiger
  
  Uncle Dirty Dave's Kitchen
 
MMMMM

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