This morning's adventure lead my wife and daughter to Pasadena to take some photos of various Back To The Future houses. You can easily find photos of these various locations on line. On the way there we drove down Fair Oaks and passed Fair Oaks Pharmacy. I had passed this little pharmacy and soda fountain a few years ago one night and made note of it wanting to return. It looked like an old fashioned soda fountain like my mother always talked about. Well since we had some time to kill we stopped in to check it out. Sure enough it was exactly what I thought it was. There is an actual pharmacy and classic soda fountain and bar. Most of the floor space is dedicated to selling nostalgic items ranging from toys, game and posters. At the soda fountain they serve ice cream and a small menu of soups, sandwiches and a few other things. They also mix sodas. The young guy behind the counter was very friendly. He was from Jersey and has only been in California 8 months. He mixed up a chocolate phosphate for us. My mother has long told me about getting chocolate phosphates when she was a little girl at the pharmacy soda fountain. So we gave it a try. The guy behind the counter warned us that we may not like it. We had suspicions that we wouldn't like it. Then we tasted it and you know what. We didn't really like it. We never quite finished the whole thing. I kept sipping at it trying it again and again thinking it would get better, but it didn't. My tongue was torn. It was saying, yum there is some chocolate in there and then it would say, but what is that horrible watery flavor. Anyways the guy was really nice and didn't even charge us for the drink. He could tell we had a bad taste in our mouths and so he whipped up a Coke with phosphate. He told us that another man who works there is a bit of a soda historian. He told him that Coke with phosphate tastes like what Coke originally tasted like. I must say, it was super, super tasty. So that was a pretty good morning adventure. This photo is the of my lovely wife just before tasting the oddity that is the chocolate phosphate. It was something I saw today.
Saturday, July 16, 2011
Day 56 - Chocolate Phosphate - 07.16.11
This morning's adventure lead my wife and daughter to Pasadena to take some photos of various Back To The Future houses. You can easily find photos of these various locations on line. On the way there we drove down Fair Oaks and passed Fair Oaks Pharmacy. I had passed this little pharmacy and soda fountain a few years ago one night and made note of it wanting to return. It looked like an old fashioned soda fountain like my mother always talked about. Well since we had some time to kill we stopped in to check it out. Sure enough it was exactly what I thought it was. There is an actual pharmacy and classic soda fountain and bar. Most of the floor space is dedicated to selling nostalgic items ranging from toys, game and posters. At the soda fountain they serve ice cream and a small menu of soups, sandwiches and a few other things. They also mix sodas. The young guy behind the counter was very friendly. He was from Jersey and has only been in California 8 months. He mixed up a chocolate phosphate for us. My mother has long told me about getting chocolate phosphates when she was a little girl at the pharmacy soda fountain. So we gave it a try. The guy behind the counter warned us that we may not like it. We had suspicions that we wouldn't like it. Then we tasted it and you know what. We didn't really like it. We never quite finished the whole thing. I kept sipping at it trying it again and again thinking it would get better, but it didn't. My tongue was torn. It was saying, yum there is some chocolate in there and then it would say, but what is that horrible watery flavor. Anyways the guy was really nice and didn't even charge us for the drink. He could tell we had a bad taste in our mouths and so he whipped up a Coke with phosphate. He told us that another man who works there is a bit of a soda historian. He told him that Coke with phosphate tastes like what Coke originally tasted like. I must say, it was super, super tasty. So that was a pretty good morning adventure. This photo is the of my lovely wife just before tasting the oddity that is the chocolate phosphate. It was something I saw today.
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