Food of the Seventies, Red Rock

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A strawberry soda. Still available in South Carolina. My 87 year old grandmother still drinks them. I think they're only available in 2-liter bottles now.
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k - April 21, 2009 - Report this comment
It's the best Strawberry Soda I've ever tasted. I remember them from childhood trips to the south for the summer. I recently went to visit SC and found them in 20oz bottle.
Diamond - October 07, 2009 - Report this comment
Red Rock is still available in the Pee Dee and Grand Strand areas of South Carolina. They sell them in the 20 oz bottles as well as the 2 liters. That is indeed the best strawberry soda ever made. Every time I go home to Hemingway I have to pick up some Red Rock to take back with me to Columbia.
SEM - November 04, 2009 - Report this comment
I'm trying to get a hold of some bottles of this soda! How could I go about doing that, because I live very far away from SC??
andy - May 10, 2010 - Report this comment
Grew up in Florence, SC and loved it as a kid. Can't get it in Chicago!
Dede DeCosta - April 25, 2011 - Report this comment
I grew up in Florence, SC too. And LOVE, LOVE Red Rock Strawberry Soda. We used to get it every time we went to visit my Granny. I'd love to find it again. It's not in Atlanta!
Clinton Herndon - June 04, 2011 - Report this comment
My grandfather sold it in his convenience store in Bennettsville, S.C. during the 70's and into the early 90's. He always made sure it was ice-cold and in a GLASS bottle. Can I still find it in a glass bottle?
justin - June 11, 2011 - Report this comment
We live in Camden, SC and every time we make a trip to Florence (usually for the awesome restaurants)we buy a dozen or so of the 20oz to bring home. They sell it only in that area because the distributor is privately owned or something, however its bottled under the authority of Red Rock Corp. out of Indianapolis, IN... Which gives me hope it can be found elsewhere!
EZ Beverage Company of Wilmington - July 12, 2012 - Report this comment
We sell 20oz. Red Rock Strawberry Soda to retail accounts in S.E. North Carolina and Horry County, S.C. Please feel free to let your local retailer know about us. 910-762-8300.
Ashley - July 31, 2012 - Report this comment
I grew up in Dillon, SC and was raised on Red Rock soda. Living in Tennessee, they are not available, but luckily, my parents still live there. I always stock up when visiting, and my parents bring them to TN. My wife, a TN native, even enjoys them. I guess that makes her a Carolina girl.
Mel - January 25, 2013 - Report this comment
Where can I purchase Red Rock Strawberry retail in NE South Carolina / SE North Carolina. Trying to find as gift for a friend. Have checked IGA, BiLo, and several c-stores in N Myrtle Beach & Calabash. No luck. Help appreciated.
eddie - September 07, 2013 - Report this comment
my grandmother is from South Carolina I'm from Florida but I used to drink red rocks so to all the time when I was a kid when we go up to she's no longer with us and I've been up there in a while and I'm trying to find a store or place right order it and have it delivered to me
kristy - September 10, 2013 - Report this comment
I guess they can be found in coastal north Carolina but not sure exactly where. My husband grabbed the label from a bottle of one of the nc loggers that was drinking some and they were saying it is around that area pretty good.
Vic - September 17, 2013 - Report this comment
I remember my first Red Rock my grandfather bought me in the early 70's at a little store in Floydale, SC. Really good soda. I remember buying some in a little store in Lamar, SC in the mid 80's. I'll have to keep a look out for it when I get back around Dillon. Don't see it in the Columbia area.
Meaghan - April 16, 2014 - Report this comment
My momma takes me down to lake city to visit family every summer, and while down there she introduced me to the best drink I've ever tasted. Now every time we go we search everywhere till we get a red rock but just recently we can't find any! HELP PLEASE! I need a red rock!!!!
Darryll - June 09, 2014 - Report this comment
I have been searching for 4 years no luck but I am still searching.
donna - November 04, 2015 - Report this comment
South of the border mobile convenience store and porky truck stop
Ben Page - June 03, 2019 - Report this comment
I grew up in Sellers between Florence and Dillon, SC in the 80's, and my uncle used to get me a Red Rock during most visits in Latta. That and a pack of Lance Nekot cookies (which I'm eating as I type this). I miss that drink from a seemingly simpler time. I found it at http://antiqology.com, but as of today it is sold out. I'm signing up and putting it on my wishlist just in case by some miracle they make more. I'm still hoping Josta gets brought back too...
Eric McKenzie - April 07, 2021 - Report this comment
I would like to purchase several cases of this soda to brig back to NJ. A lot of family and friends love this soda and it can only be found in the South Carolina area. I purchased 12 bottles from the Markette store on 52 in Lake City, SC
Rob Lambert - April 07, 2021 - Report this comment
The creation of the Red Rock Beverage Co. preceded Coca-Cola by one year (1885) in Atlanta (also Coke HQ). While most soda companies sold their product in 6oz. or 10oz. bottles, Red Rock pioneered the 12oz. bottle. While Red Rock flourished in the 1920s and '30s, it was crippled by sugar rationing and shortages of seltzer water during World War 2. The company recovered after the war. Red Rock used Coca Cola's business engine of maintaining hundreds of small bottling plants in smaller towns. At one point, Red Rock was available in 45 states. By the late 1950s, popularity of Coke and Pepsi ate away at Red Rock's. The main company was history by 1964, but some of the bottling plants in North and South Carolina remained open as independents. A plant in the Dominican Republica is still around.
Jon Que - February 26, 2023 - Report this comment
I’ve never heard of them until a week ago. Found them in the can vending machine at a rest stop off 77. Just drove 50 minutes to the rest stop to see if they had more. I bought the last 5. Reminds me of drinking Big Red in TX as a kid

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