Soda Stories

Dispatches from the World's Only (Part-Time) Soda Reporter

My grandmother and grandfather, Rebecca and Odin Simonson, working their A&W root beer stand in Fond du Lac, Wisconsin.

From my perspective as a member of the press, soda people seem to come in two varieties. There are the little guys who have no idea why a reporter would want to talk to them about their product. These people are charming, because they …