"There is an ongoing debate between boosters in Dallas and Santa Fe, New Mexico, as to which city was the original home of the Frito pie. No doubt about the fact that Fritos were first made in Texas, by Elmer Doolin, who got the idea from a streetcorner vender selling fried tortilla strips. History aside, this soda fountain version simply is a bowl of stout chili garnished with Frito chips and cheese. Chopped onions are optional."
Michael Stern
"Chocolate soda is just one among many soda fountain concoctions available: ades of orange, lemon and lime; shakes; malts; phosphates; coolers; freezes; floats; sodas; sundaes; and one curious item I need to try next visit: ''chocolate milk with cream.''"
Michael Stern
"Until 2010, when the drug store side of the business ceased operations, it was possible to sit down for a grilled pimiento cheese sandwich and an ice cream soda while the pharmacist in back filled your prescription."
Michael Stern
"Now known as the Highland Park Soda Fountain, this blast-from-the-past is an oasis of culinary ingenuousness surrounded by razzle-dazzle retailers and aspiring restaurants."
Michael Stern
The Highland Park Soda Fountain, circa. 1912, is an anomaly. Whereas this Dallas neighborhood is rich and swanky (the TV show Dallas did location shooting here), the luncheonette, which until 2010 shared space with an actual, working drug store, endures as a relic of humbler times. The menu includes a panoply of soda fountain concoctions that would have made Archie and Veronica happy. Cherry Coke, anyone? A from-scratch cherry Coke, mind you.
