Dow Jones and the Temple of Doom: jaytkay: Where could a curious Chicagoan obtain some Moxie?

You can try ordering a hot dog with ketchup, for starters

Huh? How would that work?

/ The Vienna Beef factory is short walk from my place
// You philistine

Pfft, I make my own soda out of local solar-filtered water, natural yeasts, organic agave syrup, and homemade artisanal bitters.

Ice-cold Moxie on a humid summer's day. Mmm.

/just stopping by to counterbalance the haters

You know what other pop (I'm from Chicago, we farking call it pop) is also disgusting? Cheerwine. It's huge in North Carolina, and when we first moved here, I was dared to try it and I did. Took a couple sips, then immediately puked it up on the sidewalk. Have not touched the stuff since, and it's been nearly four years now.

My boyfriend is from New York, and he loves Dr. Brown's Cel-Ray....that's something else I cannot understand people drink. Yeesh.

I sorta like Moxie. Can only get it when I'm up in NY. Initially, it tastes like A Coke & Root Beer thing, but suddenly you realize it's a mixture of prune juice,motor oil and store brand cough syrup. Here in the South, we had a couple of sodas that were almost there. Buffalo Rock ginger ale comes close. Almost everything is carbonated corn syrup these days, anyway. There are a few micro-brew root beers and Jamaican or Mexican sodas that are still delicious.

bloatboy: LaChanz: chookbillion: What on earth is Moxie? What does it taste like?

It's like someone took a crap in your mouth.

There's a party in my mouth and everyone's throwing up.

/tastes like carbonated Nyquil

This! Tastes like carbonated old-tymie cough medicine.

/oh how i miss it

I finally got around to trying it last year and ... I wasn't really impressed. It didn't really taste like much of anything quite honestly, just tasted like, maybe a more "fruity"? version of supermarket cola. That was from a can anyway, also had it from a bottle earlier this year, and, it was a bit better, but, really, still didn't have much of a flavor to it. Maybe they keep all the flavor in Maine or something.

Dr. Brown's Cel-Ray though, now that's a man's drink demanding a festival right there. Complete with giant pastrami sandwiches on rye.

Moxie sucks, but compared to Beverly it tastes like Aphrodite's breast milk

Moxie. Nectar of the gods.

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What Moxie & Pepsi may look like

Came for the 'Bored of the Rings' reference. Very surprised to find one.

Tim, Tim Benzedrine
Hash, Boo, Valvoline
Clean, Clean, Clean for Gene!

Approves.

/Get off my lawn

You either love Boxxy or you hate her.

WTF? They still make *Moxie*?!?

... I thought that stuff was gone decades ago!

Well.
Seems to be a lot of very descriptive no votes here.

When I was first introduced to it, my Mainer friend told me it was an acquired taste. I was hooked by the second bottle.

Has to be cold though.

bwilson27: You either love Boxxy or you hate her.
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Stop that.

kmmontandon: Getting passionate enough about a soda to say "love" or "hate," much less hold a festival in its honor, is ... well, pathetic.

You do realize that the world doesn't revolve around you, right? Where did you get the idea that you get to tell other people what they should care about, and to what degree?

It tastes like dirt and I love it.

There middle ground when it comes to Moxie. It's called "never heard of it".

For those in other parts of the country:

Moxie tastes sort of like Chinese company developed a black licorice flavored knock-off of Dr. Pepper but didn't get either flavor quite right. Also there's probably lead in it.

Here's a link to the official press release:

Logowinner.pdf

Still can't really see the logo. So here's a link to it:

T-shirt_order.pdf


/Cheerwine is not bad, kinduv a cherry Pepsi thing

scout13fox: Still can't really see the logo. So here's a link to it:

Awww horsecar! I would vote for anything with a horsecar!

Sounds like Kofola. Cola with bitters added. Yecch... http://www.kofola.cz/index/kofola

My dad was from Maine, so he still liked Moxie to the end. We used to pick up a case of it in Lancaster PA everytime we drove out to Oklahoma to visit him.

/he's gone now
//so that's, like, one case per year they won't sell anymore...

Man, that guy is filthy. Do filthy hippies drink Moxie?

/never heard of the stuff

Sounds like a tampon

So is Moxie the Big Red of the Northeast? I'd like to try it someday. I do love Big Red.

I've never heard of Moxie, but down here we'd call that Coke.

There is a reason why Coke beat out all of the other regional sodas. 100 years ago to become the biggest one nationwide. It tastes good, unlike Moxie.

Tried a bottle of the stuff when I was in Maine a couple of years ago...very underwhelming. Nothing more than another mass produced corn syrup beverage. There is a local brewer here, Red Ribbon, dating back to the '30s, that makes some kick ass ginger ale, and a triple hot version of it as well. Fark Moxie.

/pop snob thread

Dow Jones and the Temple of Doom: For those of us who just found out about Moxie, do we fall in the love it or hate it category? I'm confused

Hate it. Until you love it. The operative flavor is angostura bitters. Take a Dr. Pepper & add 10 drops of bitters, and you approximate the flavor.

My hater friends say that Moxie tastes like root beer cut with cough syrup. This is incorrect. Moxie is actually a cola beverage with gentian root extract added.

To make your own Moxie at home: Take a 12 ounce can of root beer. Drink half. Fill with cola. Now add 1 teaspoon Angostura Bitters.

I am a huge fan of rum and moxie.

(And yes, I make my own sodas, and indeed, Moxie has too much sugar in it. But it's still got the bitter kick.)

jaytkay: Where could a curious Chicagoan obtain some Moxie?

America's Market in Wheeling.

While you're there, try Ski, Blenhiem's, and Cheerwine. You'll thank me later.

So....when hipster comes to Maine, it's over.

kbotc: jaytkay: Where could a curious Chicagoan obtain some Moxie?

America's Market in Wheeling.

While you're there, try Ski, Blenhiem's, and Cheerwine. You'll thank me later.

Thanks!

And, as a former Angeleno, I should make sure So Cal Farkers know about Galco's up by Pasadena

Obscure?

Because it takes nerve to even try it, it's why we have the expression "That takes Moxie!" and variations thereof.

Moxie is the nectar of the Gods. I wish I could go buy some now, but it isn't sold in New Mexico. Not having Moxie is pretty much the only thing I regret about leaving New England. That and the lack of whole belly clams.

Manic Depressive Mouse: I was hoping it would be this Moxy Link

/best link I could find.

I was hoping it would be this Moxxi

malaktaus: Moxie is the nectar of the Gods. I wish I could go buy some now, but it isn't sold in New Mexico. Not having Moxie is pretty much the only thing I regret about leaving New England. That and the lack of whole belly clams.

dont know where you are at in new mexico, but if you do like to take a drive to phoenix--the soda shop--they have moxie.
Link

mekki: chookbillion: What on earth is Moxie? What does it taste like?

Moxies tastes like drinking root beer that has been sitting in your grandfather's old leather shoes for a couple of days.

i do like that description---funny