Big Red

Big Red Cream soda is a soft drink that was created by Grover C. Thomsen and R.H. Roark in Waco, Texas (1937). Originally, it was known as "Sun Tang Red Cream Soda." It is generally considered to be one of many American varieties of cream soda, and is the original "red cream soda". The name was changed to "Big Red" in the late 1950s by Harold Jansing, then president of the San Antonio bottling plant after hearing a golf caddy refer to the soda by that name. Until the late ’70s, it was marketed exclusively in Central and South Texas and around Louisville, Kentucky. The drink is highly popular in the Southern United States and is well known for its unique taste and red color. Its unique taste, though often thought to be bubble gum, is created by mixing orange and lemon oils with the traditional vanilla used in other cream sodas.