A Shop With 700 Flavors of Soda Is My Perfect Grocery Store

Galco ’s Soda Pop Stop is a store in Highland Park , LA , with shelf full of an incomprehensible array of soda ( and beer ! ) . But it ’s not just a freshness : it ’s a slip back to a time when soda pop music was a trade diligence like mod microbreweries , and the full land was n’t hooked on corn syrup .

Tom Scott has a merriment looking around the memory board , a phratry grocery business that was started in 1897 , and turned towards sodas by ownerJohn Nese15 years ago . These days , it stocks 700 unlike varieties of soda , from the original Moxie ’s to a brand - fresh cuke pop .

Nese ’s enthusiasm for soda , something that most the great unwashed think of as Coke - or - Pepsi , is infective : he talks about different brands like a sommelier explaining grapes , and his disdain for corn syrup accurately mirrors my feelings about boxed wine .