Moxie Soda: Remember Moxi soda? I remember the name, but that's all. My neighbor used to get it from somewhere, and he let me try some years ago. It was so long ago that I don't...

jerryc41 Loc: Catskill Mts of NY

Remember Moxi soda? I remember the name, but that's all. My neighbor used to get it from somewhere, and he let me try some years ago. It was so long ago that I don't remember the taste. It's selling for $3.00 - $4.00 for a 12 oz bottle. I know the term "moxie" comes from the soda. any comments?

EDIT: I was going to order a bottle for $2.79. The shipping charge would be $33.33. 😂

Longshadow Loc: Audubon, PA, United States

The origin of words is always interesting.
I wonder how they came up with the name for the drink as the name (word) was never used before.

DrDon Loc: Hingham, Ma

I buy Moxie when I visit The Vermont Country Store every fall for apple picking. They always have it so it still manufactured. It is sweeter and less bitter than it was when I was growing up. Check with the manufacturer to see where it is sold.

jerryc41 Loc: Catskill Mts of NY

DrDon wrote:

I buy Moxie when I visit The Vermont Country Store every fall for apple picking. They always have it so it still manufactured. It is sweeter and less bitter than it was when I was growing up. Check with the manufacturer to see where it is sold.

It was supposedly the first commercially produced carbonated drink in the USA. It was sold for medicinal purposes.

DaveO Loc: Northeast CT

Not a favorite when I was a kid! I'll try it again if I see it!

rmorrison1116 Loc: Near Valley Forge, Pennsylvania

jerryc41 wrote:

Remember Moxi soda? I remember the name, but that's all. My neighbor used to get it from somewhere, and he let me try some years ago. It was so long ago that I don't remember the taste. It's selling for $3.00 - $4.00 for a 12 oz bottle. I know the term "moxie" comes from the soda. any comments?

EDIT: I was going to order a bottle for $2.79. The shipping charge would be $33.33. 😂

There's a small restaurant and petting zoo near Brickerville PA, which is north west of Ephrata PA, called the Pretzel Hut that sells Moxie soda. They have a nice collection of older Coca Cola memorabilia in the restaurant. I tried Moxie once out of curiosity. It's definitely an acquired taste. Personally, I don't understand how anyone can drink the stuff, it's pretty disgusting, for a soft drink.

If anyone is familiar with the Middle Creek Wildlife area, which is famous for the hundreds of thousands of snow geese and swans that stop there every spring on there way back north, The Pretzel Hut is about a mile or so from there. I believe they are currently temporary closed for the winter.

markngolf Loc: Bridgewater, NJ

jerryc41 wrote:

Remember Moxi soda? I remember the name, but that's all. My neighbor used to get it from somewhere, and he let me try some years ago. It was so long ago that I don't remember the taste. It's selling for $3.00 - $4.00 for a 12 oz bottle. I know the term "moxie" comes from the soda. any comments?

EDIT: I was going to order a bottle for $2.79. The shipping charge would be $33.33. 😂

In the late 40’s my dad had 40 - 50 old time wooden crates (held 24 Moxie bottles in the back room storage room). I can’t remember the selling price, but it was cheaper than Coke or Pepsi. I don’t think we ever sold all the cases.

I had lots of “Moxie” in those days.
Mark

GPappy Loc: Finally decided to plop down, Clover, S.C.

They still have Moxie Soda in vending machines all over Maine. To me it has a bit of cinnamon in the taste.

DaveO Loc: Northeast CT

GPappy wrote:

They still have Moxie Soda in vending machines all over Maine. To me it has a bit of cinnamon in the taste.

Next time I visit Nubble, I'll check York area!

cbabcock

I last lived in Maine about 11 years ago, knew about Moxie. There is a Moxie Festival in Lisbon, near Brunswick. Here is the info for this year http://moxiefestival.com/

JPetrie Loc: Chicago

I had lots of “Moxie” in those days.
Mark[/quote]

As Mark's comment suggests, "moxie" is a real word. It means spunk or nerve, courage or determination, know-how.

rmorrison1116 Loc: Near Valley Forge, Pennsylvania

JPetrie wrote:

I had lots of “Moxie” in those days.
Mark

As Mark's comment suggests, "moxie" is a real word. It means spunk or nerve, courage or determination, know-how.[/quote]

You need courage to try Moxie and determination to drink a whole bottle of it.

goofybruce

Moxie is available across most of northern New England (Vermont, N.H., Maine). When I go home to Haverhill/Woodsville, N.H., it is usually on sale at the local grocery store (Shaws) and at the Walmart. Usually stock up. There is also a place in mid-Pennsylvania where it is still made, as well.
As to taste, I think it's better than Coke, which I never liked. I find it somewhere between root beer and Dr. Pepper, but without the sweetness.
It might be worth a trip up Interstate 91 which follows the Connecticut River, get off in Woodsville/Wells River, then head back down 91 to pick up Route 4 in White River Jct., then across mid-Vermont to Rutland. Then either down Route 7 to Bennington, then to Troy and pick up Route 87, or from Rutland take Route 4 to Fort Ann, N.Y. then Route 149 to Lake George and then on south on 87 through Albany.
There's plenty to see and photograph along the way. The Connecticut River Valley between Bradford/Woodsville is known as the OxBow because the river wanders back and forth across the wide valley bottom.

fetzler Loc: North West PA

jerryc41 wrote:

Remember Moxi soda? I remember the name, but that's all. My neighbor used to get it from somewhere, and he let me try some years ago. It was so long ago that I don't remember the taste. It's selling for $3.00 - $4.00 for a 12 oz bottle. I know the term "moxie" comes from the soda. any comments?

EDIT: I was going to order a bottle for $2.79. The shipping charge would be $33.33. 😂

I drink this every couple of weeks. It is available at my local Cracker Barrel for about a $1.50. You can also order on Amazon for considerably more. (12 cans for about $26 shipping is free).

The taste is rather unusual and very hard to describe. I think one of the flavor ingredients is horehound.

jerryc41 Loc: Catskill Mts of NY

rmorrison1116 wrote:

... I don't understand how anyone can drink the stuff, it's pretty disgusting, for a soft drink.

Since it was first marketed as medicine, the bad taste was probably a selling point.