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Posted on 9/25/20 at 10:14 pm to SuperSaint
quote:
you need to take a hike Bozo
I'd pay $4 to watch you two rassle nekkid.
Posted on 9/25/20 at 10:15 pm to TulaneLSU
This is from Barq’s official history on their website:
Edward Charles Edmond Barq Sr.
Inventor of Barq's Root Beer is born to French parents in New Orleans.
1871
Mr. Barq moves to the beach resort town of Biloxi, Mississippi.
He bottles and sells his first Barq's. Its unusual, sharp taste draws a unique following. The rest, as they say, is history.
Edward Charles Edmond Barq Sr.
Inventor of Barq's Root Beer is born to French parents in New Orleans.
1871
Mr. Barq moves to the beach resort town of Biloxi, Mississippi.
He bottles and sells his first Barq's. Its unusual, sharp taste draws a unique following. The rest, as they say, is history.
Posted on 9/25/20 at 10:16 pm to TulaneLSU
quote:
Regardless of where it was invented, Barq's is as much a part of New Orleans culture as is Zapp's potato chips
Zapps Founder is from Texas and are manufactured in Gramercy.
Absolutely ZERO ties to New Orleans
You’re a fraud and have no clue what you’re talking about
This post was edited on 9/25/20 at 10:19 pm
Posted on 9/25/20 at 10:17 pm to tgrbaitn08
quote:
Except that you live with your brother in Algiers
And you thought I was Asian
Are you right this time or again WAY off base?
Posted on 9/25/20 at 10:17 pm to mikelbr
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mikelbr
Posted on 9/25/20 at 10:19 pm to TulaneLSU
This is a good read about Barq’s and the building in Biloxi where it was invented
Birthplace of Barq’s
Birthplace of Barq’s
Posted on 9/25/20 at 10:20 pm to Finkle is Einhorn
Friend,
As I said, Coca Cola's history department has put less than no effort into Barq's history. The Barqs brothers had a lovely house in the French Quarter into the 1890s and their company, the Barqs Brothers Bottling Company, was incorporated in New Orleans in 1890. It is true that Charles, the elder, a man who famously and beautifully wrote, "Love is the refined essence of hope," moved to Biloxi and started bottling Barq's root beer there in the late 1890s. The question remains, though, when was that root beer invented. I believe it was 1893 and in the French Quarter.
Yours,
TulaneLSU
As I said, Coca Cola's history department has put less than no effort into Barq's history. The Barqs brothers had a lovely house in the French Quarter into the 1890s and their company, the Barqs Brothers Bottling Company, was incorporated in New Orleans in 1890. It is true that Charles, the elder, a man who famously and beautifully wrote, "Love is the refined essence of hope," moved to Biloxi and started bottling Barq's root beer there in the late 1890s. The question remains, though, when was that root beer invented. I believe it was 1893 and in the French Quarter.
Yours,
TulaneLSU
Posted on 9/25/20 at 10:21 pm to Finkle is Einhorn
The Barq’s argument is moot. The best root beer from either state is from Abita springs.
Posted on 9/25/20 at 10:34 pm to tgrbaitn08
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Zapps Founder is from Texas
And is a gawd damn Aggie
Posted on 9/25/20 at 10:37 pm to TulaneLSU
You don’t seem to be able to read
From Barq’s own website on the official history of the drink it says the man moved to Biloxi in 1871 and bottled the first drink there
From Barq’s own website on the official history of the drink it says the man moved to Biloxi in 1871 and bottled the first drink there
Posted on 9/25/20 at 10:37 pm to Finkle is Einhorn
You need to calm down
Posted on 9/25/20 at 10:38 pm to TulaneLSU
New Orleans sure does like to steal things and claim them as their own. Maybe that’s what New Orleans should be best known for
Like claiming Mardi Gras from Mobile Alabama
Like claiming Mardi Gras from Mobile Alabama
Posted on 9/25/20 at 10:43 pm to LSUintheNW
quote:
Are you right this time or again WAY off base?
Some people just can't read between lines
Posted on 9/25/20 at 10:48 pm to Finkle is Einhorn
Friend,
When the Biloxi and Mississippi historians can produce primary source material showing that Barq's root beer was invented in Biloxi, then I will agree with you. But right now, the history for the argument is little more than tradition. That tradition is not even consistent on when C. Barq invented the root beer in Biloxi. Some argue 1898, other 1900, and still others 1901. Source material would settle this internal squabble.
What we do know is that Charles Barq and his brother had a house and a bottling company in the French Quarter in 1890. At the same time, the French Quarter was a hotbed for chemists and pharmacists, each concocting their own elixirs and solutions to sell as pharmaceuticals. I believe the creative spirits of New Orleans gave Charles the famous recipe while he was in New Orleans (he lived in both cities at that time). If the Biloxi theory is ever proven, it still does not detract from the central role Barq's plays in New Orleans culture, for whether it was invented in Biloxi or New Orleans, that bottled root beer has accompanied millions upon millions of poorboys, something for which we have definitive proof for a New Orleans origin, just like the snoball, despite what Baltimore tries to claim.
Yours,
TulaneLSU
P.S. Mardi Gras was first celebrated near Venice, LA a century before Mobile's first Mardi Gras.
When the Biloxi and Mississippi historians can produce primary source material showing that Barq's root beer was invented in Biloxi, then I will agree with you. But right now, the history for the argument is little more than tradition. That tradition is not even consistent on when C. Barq invented the root beer in Biloxi. Some argue 1898, other 1900, and still others 1901. Source material would settle this internal squabble.
What we do know is that Charles Barq and his brother had a house and a bottling company in the French Quarter in 1890. At the same time, the French Quarter was a hotbed for chemists and pharmacists, each concocting their own elixirs and solutions to sell as pharmaceuticals. I believe the creative spirits of New Orleans gave Charles the famous recipe while he was in New Orleans (he lived in both cities at that time). If the Biloxi theory is ever proven, it still does not detract from the central role Barq's plays in New Orleans culture, for whether it was invented in Biloxi or New Orleans, that bottled root beer has accompanied millions upon millions of poorboys, something for which we have definitive proof for a New Orleans origin, just like the snoball, despite what Baltimore tries to claim.
Yours,
TulaneLSU
P.S. Mardi Gras was first celebrated near Venice, LA a century before Mobile's first Mardi Gras.
This post was edited on 9/25/20 at 10:51 pm
Posted on 9/25/20 at 10:55 pm to TulaneLSU
quote:
What we do know is that Charles Barq and his brother had a house and a bottling company in the French Quarter in 1890. At the same time, the French Quarter was a hotbed for chemists and pharmacists, each concocting their own elixirs and solutions to sell as pharmaceuticals. I believe the creative spirits of New Orleans gave Charles the famous recipe while he was in New Orleans (he lived in both cities at that time). If the Biloxi theory is ever proven, it still does not detract from the central role Barq's plays in New Orleans culture, for whether it was invented in Biloxi or New Orleans, that bottled root beer has accompanied millions upon millions of poorboys, something for which we have definitive proof for a New Orleans origin, just like the snoball, despite what Baltimore tries to claim.
Posted on 9/25/20 at 11:11 pm to TulaneLSU
Friend,
Barq’s Red Cream soda is the GOAT soft drink
Yours,
Bourre’
Barq’s Red Cream soda is the GOAT soft drink
Yours,
Bourre’
Posted on 9/25/20 at 11:13 pm to Tiger985
Yes, but did you have one of the free refill plastic cups? Our family used it so much the color was almost gone.
Posted on 9/25/20 at 11:26 pm to Bourre
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Barq’s Red Cream soda is the GOAT soft drink
One of the best F&D threads was a hunt for the regular creme soda in BR.
Posted on 9/26/20 at 12:31 am to TulaneLSU
fricking incredible thread.
Perfection of the highest order.
I have visited most of these in my youth.
Perfection of the highest order.
I have visited most of these in my youth.
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