Big Shot sodas

[HungryC]

Can anyone out there enlighten me about the history of Big Shot sodas? I've figured out that they're distributed by Winnsboro Beverage Packers, a wholly owned subsidiary of National Beverage (which also distributes LaCroix, Faygo, etc). Would that be Winnsboro as in Louisiana? Currently, Winnsboro Packers seems to be located in Plantation, FL. TIA.

[Mayhaw Man]

Can anyone out there enlighten me about the history of Big Shot sodas?  I've figured out that they're distributed by Winnsboro Beverage Packers, a wholly owned subsidiary of National Beverage (which also distributes LaCroix, Faygo, etc).  Would that be Winnsboro as in Louisiana?  Currently, Winnsboro Packers seems to be located in Plantation, FL.  TIA.

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I know that, at least several years ago, they were still being made in Winnsboro. I will check on it for you today.

I learned this little tidbit in a desperate, and ultimately successful, search for a couple of handsome Big Shot t-shirts.

What's interesting about it to me is if Zulu gets any royalties out of the deal. After all, the Big Shot depicted is, essentially, swiped right off of a float.

And, just in case you were wondering, Pineapple Big Shot is a fine mixer with a decent rum and a hunk of lime. Really.

B

[HungryC]

Thanks, 'Haw, I knew I could count on you. Pineapple is my favorite flavor; it is the perfect complement to a ham-n-cheese poboy, I think. I eagerly await your findings...

[MikeHartnett]

What is Big Shot? I've never heard of it...

[HungryC]

Big Shot is a brand of regionally distributed (in Louisiana) carbonated beverages--it comes in flavors like pineapple, strawberry, creme soda, etc. (Seems to me that Big Shot is made in "snowball" flavors!) The package illustration is a caricature of the "big shot"--a fat-headed man with a fedora, big cigar, in a suit....the exaggerated image of the "big shot" character/position as seen in the Zulu social aid & pleasure club's annual mardi gras parade. It's nearly the cheapest canned stuff you can buy, and you'll occasionally see a Big Shot soda machine outside a convenience store.

[MikeHartnett]

So can I get it at WinnDixie or Rouse's?

[HungryC]

My Winn Dixie carries it, and I'm sure you can find it at Rouse's as well.

[HungryC]

Bumping up my Big Shot query from last year: my Louisiana studies students will be tasting Big Shot next week, so I'm contemplating the 'shots. Has anyone seen a Big Shot vending machine around town? Used to be a common site; post-Katrina, not so common. I saw one outside Gator's in Central City, but all the others seem to have disappeared. If you see one, PM please!

[TAPrice]

Bumping up my Big Shot query from last year:  my Louisiana studies students will be tasting Big Shot next week, so I'm contemplating the 'shots.  Has anyone seen a Big Shot vending machine around town?  Used to be a common site; post-Katrina, not so common.  I saw one outside Gator's in Central City, but all the others seem to have disappeared.  If you see one, PM please!

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There used to be one outside the little Zara's in the Lower Garden District.

[MikeHartnett]

Haven't seen a vending machine, but that little grocery next Cochon Butcher on Andrew Higgins has a Big Shot sign...