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Behold Brooklyn's $5 Soda
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Jen Carlson
Published Mar 21, 2008
Modified Mar 22, 2008
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Published Mar 21, 2008
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We've seen expensive pancakes, hams and who can forget the $25,000 frozen haute chocolate? But now overpriced sodas are hitting the scene, and there aren't even gold flakes floating in them. Or refills!
The Brooklyn Paper reports on Myrtle Avenue restaurant Five Spot, an establishment that is now charging $5 per pop (a huge change from their old price of $1)! To put it in perspective, meals there cost about 8 bucks (as do their vodka tonics and Brooklyn Lagers), so parents loading their kids up with soda are in serious sticker shock once the bill comes around.
When the owner, Malik Armstead, was asked about the hefty pricetag on a Pepsi, he said, “Our drinks are, like, 25 ounces. But most places give people only an eight-, 12-, or 16-ounce glass.” Fun fact: a 20-oz soda at the bodega will run you about $1.50 (and 6 12-oz cans for $2.19). As for the 25-oz steins the sodas are poured into, customers report they are mostly filled with ice and contain "false bottoms."
Photo via onesmallflicker's flickr.
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Jen Carlson is a former WNYC and Gothamist editor.
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