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Am I Blue?

The only disappointment in my trip to L.A. was the lack of interesting local brands of soda pop. I’d been told about a specialty soda pop shop that has brands from all over the country, but didn’t make it there. What I wanted was variety at the corner shops.
There is an upscale convenience store chain out West called Famima, which carries cultier foods. That’s where I rediscovered an elixir of my youth, Frostie Blue Cream Soda.
This is not a California carbonated delicacy. Not does it hail from the Antarctic, as its label might lead you to believe. Frostie Blue Cream Soda is, as its label attests, “a registered trademark of Frostie Root Beer LLC.” Before the Michigan-based Intrastate Distributors took it over a couple of years ago, the brand was owned by beverage companies in Texas, Georgia and Maryland
As blue as the antifreeze in a new Motortown automobile, Frostie Blue Cream Soda may not local to L.A., but neither is it local to accustomed carbonated beverage guzzling climes of Connecticut. It felt exotic enough that for the last three or four days of my trip, Frostie Blue Cream was just about all I drank.
P.S. That watermelon one, not so good.