Here. Have some Slurm.

[slipjig3]

I've just learned that yet someone else of my acquaintance likes to buy Moxie by the case. Whilst I'm aware that this is largely a regional matter, I really must ask:

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[tidesong.livejournal.com]

Uhhh. What is it?

[slipjig.livejournal.com]

It's allegedly a soft drink, the oldest in America. It's still produced in Maine, which is why the only folks who can get it are for the most part in the Northeast (with a few exceptions). Thing is? It's gentian-flavored soda pop. Now you may be thinking that you've never heard of gentian-flavored anything THERE IS A REASON FOR THIS. It doesn't taste like ass, because ass would frankly be preferable. It tastes like cold sores and annoyance. Not pleasant.

[marmota.livejournal.com]

Most people would encounter gentian flavor in two things; bitters, and robitussin. The former is sadly underused in contemporary cocktails, and the latter, unless related to a severe drug problem, is only associated with the unpleasantness of fevers and colds. I had the pleasure of encountering Moxie first, so was able to form an unbiased opinion of it... and I think it's great.

[slipjig.livejournal.com]

Ye gods, I hear ya. Moxie is a reminder that soft drinks were originally meant as medicinals, made by the only people not to figure out that bubbly sugar water sells better.

[gardenfey.livejournal.com]

So it must be good for you!

Moxie is an acquired taste.

[chris-walsh.livejournal.com]

Ye gods, I hear ya. Moxie is a reminder that soft drinks were originally meant as medicinals, made by the only people not to figure out that bubbly sugar water sells better.

With that extra dash of cocaine for that extra zing! (True anecdote: someone I knew refused to believe that Coca-Cola was called Coca-Cola because it had once had cocaine in it. She thought it originally had chocolate in it. Being told "No, then it'd be Cocoa-Cola" didn't sway her.) Not quite "Ye Gods" there, but slightly maddening.

(...I like chocolate Cokes. I'd get some from the pharmacy fountain -- yes a pharmacy still had one -- across the street from the Hermiston Herald where I worked from 1997 to 2000...)

[chris-walsh.livejournal.com]

...and I've only heard of it because A) you and Anna have mentioned it briefly, B) Stephen King's occasionally referenced it and C) a few days ago I saw a Moxie Maine bumper sticker.

[slipjig.livejournal.com]

*nodnod* It's got a devout cult following. I have no idea why.

[malefica-v.livejournal.com]

Same reason people ingest durian, I suspect.

[chris-walsh.livejournal.com]

Was that one of the things you looked out that time the three of us were in Burlington? Or was it something you'd actually want to drink?

[we-happy-few.livejournal.com]

'cause it's awesome!!!!

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[slipjig.livejournal.com]

AIEEEEE! *grabs Bible, hides behind futon*

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[chris-walsh.livejournal.com]

"DIET"???!!!!

"Diet Moxie! 95% Less Horrible, Which Somehow Makes It Worse!"

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[chris-walsh.livejournal.com]

"To the Wikipediamobile! Let's go!"

Moxie: The drink once was called "Moxie Nerve Food." Ads claimed it cured such ailments as "softening of the brain" and "loss of manhood." Elizabeth Hand in her novel Generation Loss calls it "Dr. Pepper laced with rat poison."

This must be the Van Helsing of soft drinks.

[weyrdbird.livejournal.com]

Gentian Violet in a bottle, iirc.

[felisdemens.livejournal.com]

J is obsessed.

[daev.livejournal.com]

I used to think I'd like to try Moxie until I read the novel Generation Loss, in which there is a description of it that was ... extremely effective in changing my mind.

[icarusfallen8.livejournal.com]

There is an Ice Cream shop somewhere east of Troy called Moxie's that keeps it on hand. Good ice cream, stay away from the bottled stuff.

[rubian77.livejournal.com]

I don't go out of my way for it, but lucast does.

Definitely an acquired taste.