100 Years of Pop
No, I'm not talking music. Having grown up in Ypsilanti, MI, about a half-hour east of Detroit, a fixture of my youth was pop (called soda here on the east coast), and not just any pop, but Faygo, which is celebrating it's 100th anniversary.
I remember enjoying many a bottle of Faygo in my youth, especially Red Pop (although a competing pop, Mello Yello, was a close second for pop-chugging contests). It's truly a mid-west and American classic.
Faygo is one of many immigrant success stories from early last century...I have to wonder whether the Feigenson brothers would have had the same success if our government had bent over backwards to accomodate them in continuing to speak Russian, rather than learn English, and our society put more emphasis on their "diversity" than on their hard work, innovation, and productivity.
Hats off to Faygo...go crack open a Red Pop!
H/T The Corner
I remember enjoying many a bottle of Faygo in my youth, especially Red Pop (although a competing pop, Mello Yello, was a close second for pop-chugging contests). It's truly a mid-west and American classic.
Faygo is one of many immigrant success stories from early last century...I have to wonder whether the Feigenson brothers would have had the same success if our government had bent over backwards to accomodate them in continuing to speak Russian, rather than learn English, and our society put more emphasis on their "diversity" than on their hard work, innovation, and productivity.
Hats off to Faygo...go crack open a Red Pop!
H/T The Corner