Steps: 2,194,953
Miles: 922.26
Miles to Virginia: 103.74
Charles Hires was a Philadelphia pharmacist discovered a recipe for a delicious herbal tea. The pharmacist began selling a dry version of the tea mixture and also began working on a liquid version of the same tea. The result of was a combination of over twenty-five herbs, berries and roots that Charles Hires used to flavor a carbonated soda water drink. The Charles Hires' version of Root Beer was first introduced to the public at the 1876 Philadelphia Centennial exhibition.
The Centennial International Exhibition of 1876, the first official world's fair in the United States, was held in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence in Philadelphia. Some of the exhibition buildings still stand in Fairmount Park (and that might be future entry).
The Hires family continued to manufacture root beer and in 1893 first sold and distributed bottled root beer.
In 1881, The first cola-flavored beverage introduced.
In 1885, Charles Aderton invented "Dr Pepper" in Waco, Texas. Alderton worked at a place called Morrison's Old Corner Drug Store and carbonated drinks were served at the soda fountain. Alderton invented his own recipes for soft drinks and found one of his drinks was becoming very popular. His customers originally asked for the drink by asking Alderton to shoot them a "Waco".
Morrison, owner of the drug store is credited with naming the drink "Dr Pepper" after a friend of his, Dr. Charles Pepper. Later in the 1950s the period was removed from the "Dr Pepper" name.
In 1886, Dr. John S. Pemberton, whom we already "met", invented "Coca-Cola" in Atlanta, Georgia.
In 1892, William Painter invented the crown bottle cap.
And finally, in 1898 "Pepsi-Cola" was invented by pharmacist Caleb Bradham of New Bern, North Carolina. Caleb Bradham most popular beverage was something he called "Brad's drink" was created in the summer of 1893, was later renamed Pepsi Cola in 1898 after the pepsin and cola nuts used in the recipe.
After seventeen years of success, Caleb Bradham lost Pepsi Cola. He had gambled on the fluctuations of sugar prices during W.W.I, believing that sugar prices would continue to rise but they fell instead leaving Caleb Bradham with an overpriced sugar inventory. Pepsi Cola went bankrupt in 1923. Caleb was bought out and PepsiCo is now in Purchase, NY.
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Both the Real World Walker and the Virtual Walker proudly drink Hire's Root Beer.
3 comments:
Depends on my mood. Im usually a Pepsi gal and I prefer to have either Vanilla or Wild Cherry when possible. Every now and then I've been known to have an Orange Crush, a DrPepper, 7UP or even an IBC (root beer or cream soda...preferance on the latter if available).
I prefer Coke to Pepsi and A&W to Hires. *shrugs*
I like IBC Root Beer and Cream soda. If you like them, you might like Steward's even better.
According to IBC's website:
"The smooth, creamy refreshment of IBC Root Beer began in 1919 with the Griesedieck family and the independent Breweries Company in St. Louis, hence the name of IBC Root Beer." - so its been around a while. :)
According to A&W's website (rootbeer.com!) Roy Allen and Frank White's root beer has also been around since 1919.
If you remember the picture of the sign that I posted that said 133 miles to Hershey? Well, the original Hires Root Beer Bottling plant was up the Horseshoe trail about 400 yards past that sign and is nothing more than ruins around a fresh water spring. Which is why it sprung (ugh no pun intended) to mind.
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