“Take your medicine, Eric.”
My mother’s command from years ago rings in my ears as Jill Smith, co-owner of Colorado’s Salida Pharmacy and Fountain, explains why flavored sodas were invented in the 19th century—and why most soda fountains were found in pharmacies.
An egg cream, an iconic New York drink, from Brooklyn Farmacy and Soda Fountain. Containing neither eggs nor cream, it’s essentially a chocolate seltzer. (Courtesy of Brooklyn Farmacy and Soda Fountain)
“Back then, medicine was a liquid or a powder that tasted bad. Mix it into a soda, and it was far more palatable,” Ms. Smith says….