Food of the Seventies, Drink A Toast

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Drink A Toast was kind of like flat Coke/Pepsi - but with a distinct taste - I remember my mom buying it as a concentrated syrup and mixing it up at home - I can still remember the taste - almost rootbeer/almost cola -
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Hauntedheadful - June 08, 2012 - Report this comment
This is among one of my first memories!I was bornin 1968 and my grandparents visited us on New Years Eve of the same year.I actually remember my grandmother making this drink with a seltzer bottle and letting me try just a tiny sip.I remember being baffled by the bubbles.about a year after that,my brother and I tried Fizzies for the first time and thinking it was the same product ,but my mother told me about Drink A Toast.I haven't seen it since the mid 80's.A girl I was dating at the time claimed her family (from Virginia)invented the drink and called it "Tegaboost".anyone ever hear of "Tegaboost?) -Just curious
Jersey Devil - November 25, 2012 - Report this comment
You are talking about what is now called Boost! In the 1970s it was known as Drink a Toast. Back in the 1930s the original name was Tak a Boost. It is from South Jersey and is still available. See http://www.takaboost.com/history.html for more info.
Lynn Carmichael - August 04, 2014 - Report this comment
Born and lived in Delanco/Riverside 20 years. I now live 1 mile from the Canadian border in Maine. Boost remains in my house for my brother and kids. Nothing compares to its unique flavor.Teg a Boost Drink a Toast. When I travel through to Virginia, I always stop in Riverside for some,
RMB-T - February 07, 2015 - Report this comment
My siblings & I sang in a ditty in a radio commercial around 1968-70 for Drink a Toast. It went. 🎶Going on a pic a nic , a pic a nic , a pic a nic so bring some Drink a Toast
billy g - May 07, 2015 - Report this comment
I grew up in south Jersey to. Brings back alot of memories
LBJ - July 21, 2015 - Report this comment
That stuff was horrible! Drink A-Toast was nasty, fake soda.
Brenda Faunce - January 02, 2016 - Report this comment
The inventor was Benjamin Faunce, my great grandfather, and I don't recall any siblings or cousins living in Virginia. If they in fact did they would know the real spelling of the drink no matter what era :). Tak-A-Boost,Drink-A-Toast, Boost. Here is the link to the home page of the company owned by my family. http://www.takaboost.com .
Cheryl - May 20, 2017 - Report this comment
I grew up in Presidential Lakes, N.J., in Burlington County, in the 60's and 70's. When my brother and I got sick, which was pretty rare maybe 3 times, we learned to dread one word, "Drink A Toast." Our parents gave it to us whenever we had the flu and were vomiting. If they even said, Drink A Toast" we would get very quiet and just start wishing they'd forget. But, no. They made us drink that stuff. It tasted horrible. And, it didn't stop us from vomiting. It only made us vomit even more. I don't know what's in it but I left that behind in my childhood.
Susan Fort - September 09, 2017 - Report this comment
I have an original Drink A Roast crook. Don't know what to do with it, now that we live in SC.
GrammyLovesherBoost - June 17, 2020 - Report this comment
I was born in Burlington city. 1965 My mother would always have this made. Now at my grandmom house over in sylvain lakes. We made it by the glassful. I'm almost 55 and I drink this everyday. In fact without it..I'm a very grumpy person. Now my children.and 6 grandchildren enjoy it also. Why did they stop making pints and gallons?? Can't say this stuff is bad for you like soda and sugary drinks. This is what keeps me tickin
CAROLE WILLIAMS - December 14, 2020 - Report this comment
We lived in Fairview, sub. of Camden.I remember driving to Riverside with my parents and my brother and my Dad buying gallons of Tak-a-boost. We parked facing the curb on a slant because the road was wide. We sat at the counter and ordered a glass which came with a straw holding 2 pretzels. I became addicted to it and drank it as an adult with crushed ice. I later found out it had caffeine. I drank it even when it became Drink-a-toast. Made from 7 fruits.

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