You meet the nicest people at “Faygo Book” presentations. I know. I have given more than 100 in 10 months, having taken off from mid-June through mid-August.
One of the treats is people who bring in some of their Faygo treasures, like this huge advertising sign displayed by owner Jeff Wight. He brought it to the Aug. 27, 2019, talk at the Lincoln Park Library. It was a nice way for me to get back on the Faygo tour.
Wight and his sign made the whole evening more special.
Pure Detroit, a store with all things Detroit, has added to its line of Faygo merch.
Classic shirts with throwback Faygo logos are the new additions. The store offers purchasers a Faygo pop as an effervescent incentive.
We’ve heard that Pure Detroit also carries The Faygo Book.
The Detroit Free Press is telling the tale of how people are burning up social media to lobby for their favorite Faygo flavor.
As I declared in “The Faygo Book,” the mysteriolicious Rock & Rye is my BFF by far. This is probably my favorite Rock & Rye story from the book:
“Even late into his career, founder Perry Feigenson mixed (Rock & Rye). In a 1969 Detroit News Magazine article (Harvey) Lipsky recalled, ‘One day when he was in his 80s and having a tough time climbing the stairs to the lab, he called me aside and said he figured it was time to learn the secret. I watched the mumbo-jumbo, which included waving a towel over the bottle, and I took notes. I analyzed the process and, being a chemist, figured I could duplicate the blend by modern methods. I worked on it several months, using the latest scientific steps. It smelled the same, it looked the same, but it wasn’t the same. I now make it his way – even waving a towel over the bottle. I never have figured out what that did to the blend.’”
Photo credit: Anne Marlowe Belanger, Presque Isle District Library
We had a great time reminiscing about Faygo, Detroit and its people in a “Faygo Book” program hosted by Central Michigan University’s Clarke Historical Library on June 12. Fifty people came out.
A big thanks to Clarke Library Director Frank Boles and Rachael Yadlowsky of CMLife who wrote a nice story and took this photo.
CMLife, by the way, will celebrate its 100th anniversary as CMU’s nwwspaper on Nov 16.
I will be back in Mount Pleasant for more fun and Faygo at 6 p.m. June 20 at Art Reach’s Morey Family Gallery, 111 E. Broadway Street.
They look and sound great.
She uses Faygo creme soda and rum in her Pontoon Summer and tells Graham “I think of it as a Creamsicle® daiquiri.”
Her Rock & Rye & Rye blends Faygo Rock & Rye with rye whiskey, combining the hard and the soft, the old and the new.
