Holy crap - CHEERWINE sighting!
 

I went to my local indy grocery store tonight to fill my Jones Soda fix, and my jaw hit the floor when I saw six-packs of Cheerwine sitting right above the Jones row.

For the uninitiated, Cheerwine is a cherry soda that's particularly indigenous to the southeastern US; it was ubiquitous when I was in college in Raleigh, but I hadn't seen a trace of it in eleven years back up north. Even their website shows their "territory" ending in Virginia; to find it in suburban Philly was off the charts.

AND my wife likes it, so we'll be getting that much more. Cool!

MMMM yummy... where was this?????

I love Cheerwine.. I picked up my taste for it while growing up in North Carolina, and I always pick up a couple cases when I visit my parents, or make them bring a couple when they come up here.

We now have Krispy Kreme here too... If we can just get a Bojangles, I'll be all set with all the food products I miss from North Carolina!

A Thriftway in West Chester.

You can have it shipped directly from their web site, but I don't know what they charge for shipping.

Last time I looked (I admit, several years ago, the first time I noticed "cheerwine.com" on one of the cans), it was something like $23 a case, which is too much for soda in my book, no matter how good!

I saw Cheerwine Sherbert at the grocery store today, but I too am in NC, just like Cheerwine and BoJangles. Long live the BoBerry Biscuit!

Cheerwine sherbet?? Hmmm I'll have to look for that when I visit the 'rents in July.

I saw it at Food Lion in Chapel Hill.... I would assume that other Food Lions would have it too.

They also had Sun Drop Sherbert.

Leave it to Food Lion to have such things!

I can get Cheerwine, Bojangles and Krispy Kreme all in a span of about ten minutes here. Actually, I could if the starter hadn't gone out on my car. I can't get shit right this very minute.

I had no idea Cheerwine was a regional thing.

<a href="http://www.cheerwine.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=About.Territory">Here</a> is the region where Cheerwine is most common.

Krispy Kreme has found its way northward; the local Acme carries their donuts, and there's a standalone store in north Wilmington.

Bojangles... I remember them from when I was in college, and not altogether fondly.

I don't like Bojangles either, except for their dirty rice. I don't like chicken (or any meat, for that matter) with bones, so maybe that's the main reason. Also their Boberry biscuits, as others have mentioned, are pretty damned tasty too.

MMMM...... T - 9 days till we drive down to NC.... Bojangles.... Hardee's Breakfast Biscuits.... If I have to take up a collection to buy new clothes when I get back y'all will understand!!!

Isn't Hardee's the same as Carl's Jr.? Do they not have breakfast? Or do they have neither in Philly?

Even during the brief tenure of Hardee's in the Philadelphia area (there was one in the second floor of my college cafeteria building) I don't recall them having breakfasts.

You should try the cajun filet - no bones! I hate boney meat too! Also a boberry biscuit - that is heaven!!!

Hardee's breakfast biscuits are good, but BoJangles is so much better!

We used to stop at Delaware Hardee's restaurants on the way to Rehoboth when I was younger, and I remember getting beefsteak biscuits there for breakfast on more than one occasion.

It's also the Girly Soda

Hey! I went to college in Greensboring.. err... Greensboro. It's a nice place. (And you can buy Cheerwine. Girly or not.)

I had my first Cheerwine experience here in Raleigh last week.

Um. What's the fascination? In the immortal words of my 13 year old niece...eees grooosssssh

I dunno, maybe you have to be exposed at an impressionable age. But then I like Jagermeister too. ;)

Oh, i'm VERY impressionable....just needs the right....impressor ;)

Anybody who grew up in North Carolina misses the BARBEQUE more than anything else. Nowhere in the country do they make it as fantastic as back in NC :yum:

Though the Texans, out of regional pride if nothing else, would fight NC to a draw on barbeque -- that, and chili as we know it, these are the national dishes. And since somebody's gotta eat all that BBQ a barbeque war had generated, well... yum. Followed by yum-oh-jeez-I-can't-move.

Krispy Kreme has made it to Southern California in the grand manner -- we've got one of their midget doughnut factories (Homer Price flashbacks!) across town in Oxnard, and they're determinedly marketing their doughnuts all over the place. The local Anglo grocery places are all selling them. We have about three kinds of grocery places around here: Anglo chains like Ralphs (no apostrophe anywhere, it's a thing of theirs) and Albertson's, a few Oriental grocers, one Japanese and two Philipino, and a spectrum of Mexican markets from little mama y papá places through oldfashioned butcher shops specializing mainly in their meat counter, to Mexican style supermarkets featuring Mexi-luncheonettes with such appurtenances as big ol' tortilla making machines -- and the butchers' meat case on the other side of the store, and a bakery that's a copy of every other Mexican stand-alone bakery I've ever seen, right down to the trays and tongs for picking out your own panes dulces, self-serve, from the case.

hey yall i've been searching for cheerwine in Misourri --it's come a long way from the carolinas! my wife is from there and everytime we go back we grab some 12 packs. But i have found it in a couple small towns in the east side of the show me state (finally!) now i'm just hoping it hits south west MO.

Good luck finding it, and welcome to The Cellar! For my money, you couldn't have picked a better subject for your first post.