Pops and Pawns

The regularly scheduled post will be up tomorrow but I wanted to make a tiny post to share one of my favorite things about moving back to the north oklahoma city area. Pops.

Pops is a gas station/soda shop/diner/route 66 landmark. It's located in a town called Arcadia. Awesome town name, for one, and an even more awesome giant soda bottle shaped neon sign out front. I've never eaten at the diner, though it is usually busy when we go. This most recent trip it was busier than most, due to some sort of motorcycle show occuring out front.

The big attraction to me is the wide selection of different "pops" they carry in the soda shop portion. Pops carries everything from bizarre novelty flavors like bacon and candy cane, to the slightly out of the ordinary strawberry, grape, peach, and other fruits, to the more standard cola, root beer, and cream soda. There are generally several different brands of each variety to try, and it's hard for me to leave with only one 6-pack of bottles.

The one i'm most excited about is the Leninade.

It's definitely worth making the trip at least once if you live anywhere close. If you are anything like me with regards to trying new and interesting sodas you'll be back multiple times.

-R