The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-08-15
COME HEAT OR COLD
PEOPLE DRINK SODA
Firmly
Not a Boiling Hot Summer to Bring
in the Trade. II

Indeed, the sundae is, strictly speaking,
a cafe dish. and 1t originated some years
ago In big Chicago restaurant. At pres
ent the nut sundae' Is the thing for which
sweethearts are forgetting their respective
modest men in all the world; and the
nut sundae is merely spoonful Of ice
cream underneath mixture Of chocolate
cream and nuts.
But only reformer who views with
horror has to be told that our fountains
supply something besides egg phosphates
and sundaes. It's a -and-neck race
with the barkeeper and the fountain boy
to see which one will have the most glo-
rious inspirations. At some Minneapolis
fountains you could surround a new drink
every day from now until the middle of
next August. Altho the sale of cold
drinks fall off In winter, they are still to
be had at certain fountains, and hot drinks
come in, of course, with snowstorms.
A Multitude OF Solaces.
IF you are thirsty for plain sodas you
can get at one place-here's the menu
twenty-five sorts, including rose and
blood orange soda. There are fourteen
ice cream sodas to be had four simple
ices; six 'sherbets'; nine plain phos-
plates; twelve 'frappes'; sixteen sun
daes'; no less than sixteen lemonades' !;
twenty-five egg drinks, and a cheering as
sortment of seventy-one fancy mixed
y
shine,' coffee boushea, or a May bird :?
never did, but sell EN-. And one of
our boys would hand you over silver
moon or q White House and never get
'em mixed.
1.-The local novelties this year, so far as
I can remember, are the chop suey,'
ping pong and maple nut sundaes, the
frozen menthe' frappe, the cafe egg a
la mode the Turkish grape punch and
the Heavenly Twins. The last Is really
two drinks in two glasses-an ice cream
and an ice.
But besides the regular compounds
that we make up ourselves We sell an
immense amount Of liquids that need no
preparation, especially mineral waters
twenty varieties, perhaps-and popular
'tonics. That reminds me that something
in the tonic class was pretty nearly the
most popular drink we had not many
years ago, and now the same drink IS sell
dom heard of, at least in the northwest
mean our old friend 'Moxie, that used
to steady the nerves of half the United
States of America. We still provide eight
or ten milk shakes. but we haven't had
call for Moxie since the last populist
convention.
No WInkIns at the Clerk. ~,t
"No alcoholic drinks are scarcely to- be
had at Minneapolis fountains. A trifle Of
sherry or claret is sometimes used for
flavoring; but there's nothing stronger
than the name in such 'intoxicants as
mint cocktails Persian mint juleps,
ST.. Julien punches and 'Manhatt an
RECKLESS Some cities go in for sporty
soda. At Detroit for. instance, one drug
store takes out regular retail liquor
license and is prepared to make all COM
ers as happy as Grover Cleveland It's a
'swagger' resort, too, partonized by all
the best society. But such a scheme
| would never work in Minneapolis. If one
of our matinee customers were to lose her
| dignifed self possession after drinking a
| golden fizz'- or horses neck neither she
| nor we would ever recover from the social
| shock"