Anyone Remember Hoffman Soda

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If you are from the NY/NJ area and are "middle 20th century vintage" you might remember Hoffman (they dropped the 2nd n) beverages. Exotic flavors but the best were Cream and Ginger Ale. We always had a quart bottle on the table for holiday dinners. The Newark water is the best (from Wanaque reservoir, Newark Budweiser is also best in USA). I remember the "soda bottle water tank" gone for almost 50 years. Don't know why this popped into my head this am. Joe
 
pharmer said:
If you are from the NY/NJ area and are "middle 20th century vintage" you might remember Hoffman (they dropped the 2nd n) beverages.
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Yes, originally from north NJ and remember Hoffman. Our family always had Brookdale as a regular soda item at home. Dad would go to a beverage discount store and pick up his Black Label Beer and Brookdale soda. The bottles were thick returnables.
 
Nehi Grape was what Radar drank and was heavily featured in the series. Here in Ct we had and still have “Foxon Park” out of East Haven CT. Glass bottles and flavors like the old days. They have a web site and they ship. Many flavors - highly recommend White Birch, Root Beer and Ginger Ale. They have grape too !
 

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I grew up in NYC in the '40s and '50s and we had a "Seltzer Man" who delivered seltzer in the old siphon bottles as well as quart bottles of Hoffman sodas right to our door. I still remember the old advertising jingle:

"You don't have to go to university
To know what you should do when you are thirsity.
Drink Hoffman's, call for Hoffman's
Hoffman's is the finest when you're thirsity."

Tough to get the Spell Checker to ignore "thirsity".
 
As a lad across the pond we had a Corona man who would park his lorry in the middle of the block and yell "Corona! Corona man!" Needless to say kids would hit their moms up for a few shillings and scurry out.


 
HKSmith said:
I grew up in NYC in the '40s and '50s and we had a "Seltzer Man" who delivered seltzer in the old siphon bottles as well as quart bottles of Hoffman sodas right to our door. I still remember the old advertising jingle:

"You don't have to go to university
To know what you should do when you are thirsity.
Drink Hoffman's, call for Hoffman's
Hoffman's is the finest when you're thirsity."

Tough to get the Spell Checker to ignore "thirsity".
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You likely remember Rheingold and Ballantine.
 
We had a local brand on the Eastern Shore of Md. Think it was called Marvel's.They had different flavored fruit type drinks...root Beer and a chocolate drink like Yoo Hoo...but much better. Of course, Nehi grape and Orange. One I remember that was made by Canada Dry (and still may be) was called Island Lime. My daughter loved it but hasn't found it for a few years. It was the best lime soda I ever drank. And we had RC Cola(and Moon Pies of course) back then. And 2 cent deposit bottles around for soda and beer. They provided funding for my forays to the dump to shoot rats and ground hog shooting around bean fields
 
Out here on the West Coast, I remember Nesbitt's. usually their orange, but their cream soda was pretty good too. Also, Pop Shoppe. Now we have Jones Soda and their madness.:)
 
Mark 40 said:
Yes, originally from north NJ and remember Hoffman. Our family always had Brookdale as a regular soda item at home. Dad would go to a beverage discount store and pick up his Black Label Beer and Brookdale soda. The bottles were thick returnables.
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Loved Brookdale Celery soda. Nice thing, you could go and take an empty wood case and fill it with any 12. In the ‘60’s, maybe a buck and change as long as you brought the empties back. Joe
 
BITD the local Coca Cola bottler my Dad worked for had their own line of flavors.

Coke has the flagship brand, Sprite, Tab, and Fresca in the 1960's.

Key Beverages were the flavors (called soda water on the invoices). 7oz bottles, named after their franchise, Keystone Coca Cola.

With the advent of canned soda, that was the end of Key Beverages. Coke's line of flavors were Fanta. And as the can became the prevalent product , the days of independent lines like Key came to an end. The advent of large canning co-ops hastened their demise.

I still have some bottles and cap to remind me of a time long past.

PS - the lemon lime was the best.
 
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