Connecticut
Connecticut staple celebrates 100th anniversary
EAST HAVEN, Conn. (WTNH) — Take into consideration the good tandems in life. Bonnie had Clyde, salt has pepper and peanut butter has jelly. What would New Haven fashion pizza be with out Foxon Park soda?
“I like all of the flavors really… It’s simply… supporting your native enterprise of Foxon Park. And pizza and beer go nice collectively,” stated Dan Onofrio, who Information 8 caught up with having fun with a Cherry Foxon Park soda at John and Maria’s in East Haven.
The nice ones stand the check of time. Earlier this month, Foxon Park celebrated its 100th anniversary.
“My spouse’s nice grandfather, Matteo Naclerio, was an Italian immigrant,” stated Jay Brancati, Foxon Park’s COO. “Came visiting right here, purchased this land, it was all land on the time. And began spring water, in glass bottles, delivering to homes.”
Information 8’s Wealthy Coppola has been a buyer of Foxon Park for greater than half of its 100 years. He grew up two and a half miles from their manufacturing unit within the Foxon part of East Haven. Half a century in the past, it was type of their little secret.
The key has been out for fairly a while now.
“It was usually a pizza place. You go in, you’ve gotten pizza, you’ve gotten Foxon Park,” Brancati stated. “Over the past couple of years, its robe into supermarkets. I imply, they’re in Cease & Outlets, Large Ys, ShopRites. Many impartial, IGA’s.”
They’re in all places in Connecticut, however now their product can also be offered in New York, Massachusetts, Maryland and as distant as Florida.
Nonetheless, it’s going to at all times be linked with the entire nice pizza joints, from the holy trinity of New Haven pizza, and locations like Mangia Apizza in North Haven and John and Maria’s in East Haven.
“We spend loads of time right here making the soda and when individuals admire it, it simply makes it that rather more particular,” Brancati stated.