Vernors Gingerale - Flint, MI - Murals on Waymarking.com

This a large mural depicting gnomes making Vernors Gingerale.

According to Wikipedia and local legend,Detroit's Vernors ginger ale shares the title of America's oldest soft drink with Hires Root Beer.

It was invented in 1866 (that's ten years before Moxie) by James Vernor, a Detroit pharmacist. In 1862, James Vernor was called off to the American Civil War. According to legend, he left a mixture of ginger, vanilla and spices sitting in an oak cask in a pharmacy he had been working in. After returning from battle four years later, he opened the keg and found the drink inside had been changed by the aging process in the wood. It was like nothing else he had ever tasted, and he purportedly declared it "Deliciously different," which remains the drink's motto to this day. Its current slogan is "Barrel Aged, Bold Taste!™". The apostrophe in the name "Vernor's" was dropped in the late 1950s

A Boston cooler is an ice cream soda drink made from Vernors and vanilla ice cream, named not after Boston, where Vernors is practically unknown, (Yeah! Moxie! {if you haven't tried moxie, don't, better off drinking shoe polish}) but after Detroit's Boston Boulevard, where it was supposedly invented.

City: Flint, MI Location Name: unknown Date: 1932, 1979, 2001 Media: paint Artist: Not listed Relevant Web Site: Not listed

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