A few days before I left for Pasadena I happened to see a video about John Nese, a man obsessed with soda pop, and his store in Los Angeles. I checked out the address of the store and saw that it was just a little bump from what was already a meandering route from LAX to Pasadena.
Galco's is amazing! Over 400 different types of sodas and 500 different beers. Since I was only going to be in town for three days I limited myself to four sodas: Mr. Q Cumber, Jamaica's Finest Ginger Beer; Cheerwine and Double Cola.
The Mr. Q Cumber was delightful! You might not think cucumber and soda are meant to be said together but the soda was very refreshing on a hot day. Not pictured, the ginger beer was also excellent. Not quite as spicy as Blenheim (which, by the way, I can no longer find in the city) but it still had a good kick to it. Cheerwine is a tasty cherry cola. Double Cola is not imaginatively named, it has twice the cola flavor as other sodas.
To make Galco's all that much cooler, while I was there a tractor trailer pulled into the parking lot with a delivery. To get the forklift needed to unload the delivery, Mr. Nese had to pull his car out of the storage shed. He drives a DeLorean!
If you clicked on the Cheerwine link you'll notice that it is a little nutty. It is sane compared to the Pop Shoppe. Beware of flatulent clouds and harp playing bunnies!
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