Vernors Ginger Ale Soda Pop
by Liv | Published on November 26th, 2006, 5:22 pm | Food
As most of you know, I grew up in a suburb of Toledo, Ohio called Oregon. Why was it called Oregon? I have no clue, but then again, the Boro is named after some war hero who road a horse. Anyways Vernors is a way of life up there. In the same way if you asked for tea here, they'd assume you want sugar-tea, in Ohio if you asked for Ginger Ale you'd most likely get Vernors.
For the first-timer, Vernors offers a pop, and fizzle no other soda does. People have been known to spontaneously start coughing our spewing Vernor's out their nose upon first taste. Basically the stuff has enough carbonation to launch a Titan II missile into lower orbit.
If you were sick, it was the cure for the cold. If you were partying, it was the ale in the punch, and most of all it was a monumental occasion when you were old enough for your first Vernors.
Vernors is the one drink that actually takes work to produce. Unlike sodas of today, Vernors still requires an aging process in Barrels to get that authentic taste.
The irony of the invention of Vernor's actually does have something to do with the south, more importantly the Civil war. You see, it's inventor, James Vernor was sent off to war only to return several years later and finding his pharmacy supply of Ginger Ale was still sitting in barrels from many years before. His vanilla, & Ginger concoction had be transformed from it's soda counter version of itself, into something else. It had now became the bubbly Vernors we would all come to know and love.
Anyhow, I miss Vernors alot living in the south, and was happily surprised when my mom and dad had returned from their trip to Ohio with 2 cases of Vernors. It is without a doubt the nicest of surprises when you can drink a barrel aged & shipped 650 miles, Michigan ginger ale in my North Carolina home.
I'm telling you, it doesn't get much better than that.
After all these years today I have a can of vernors sold in a near by store. 
Talk about excited!!! My sister still lives in OH..Oregon as a matter of fact.There is nothing like a cold Vernors Giner Ale.
