"Kate Connally" > wrote in message
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>I have often made something like this in the past.
> I buy some sort of canned fruit for whatever use at
> the moment. I only need the fruit so I save the juice
> and I put some in my ginger ale. It is delicious. I
> usually do this with canned pineapple juice or mandarin
> orange juice, but it would be good with just about any
> fruit juice left over from canned fruits. Preferably
> the ones canned in their own juice, not the ones canned
> in syrup.
>
> So, the other day I needed pineapple and saved the juice to
> mixed with my ginger ale. It was so good I thought why don't
> I do this all the time. But since I rarely buy canned fruit
> I'll just buy pineapple juice.
>
> I found some Dole in the refrigerator section with the
> orange juice, etc. I got a half gallon carton. I've been
> drinking this combo all week. It is SO good!!!!
>
> I use about 6 oz. pineapple to 12 oz. ginger ale, but I don't
> really measure, I just eyeball it. I like Seagram's the best
> of the regular ginger ales. But I also tried it with Vernor's.
> It was good but the pineapple taste was lost in the strong
> Vernor's. Anyway, you need a nice fizzy ginger ale like
> Seagram's or Schweppes. Canada dry tends to be too flat
> to work well.
>
> Kate
>

Nice - My # 1 refresher is 50-50 mix of OJ & club soda.

Dimitri