Barack O’Berry leads Cream de Mitt in POPS soda race

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October 31, 2012

Barack O’Berry leads Cream de Mitt in POPS soda race

James Coburn The Edmond Sun The Edmond Sun Wed Oct 31, 2012, 12:44 AM CDT

EDMOND — POPS 66 convenience story may be the one place where President Barack Obama and former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney are both considered good for small business.

Sales are swift for Barack O’Berry and Cream de Mitt soda pop, said Marty Doepke, POPS general manager.

The Arcadia store offers 650 distinct flavors of soda on the south side of historic U.S. 66.

Barack O’Berry is flavored with peaches and cream while the fizz of Creme de Mitt tastes like red raspberry. The 19-cent sodas are made by Connecticut-based Avery Beverages.

“We’ve done some things on Twitter and Facebook,” Doepke said. “We’ve had some people coming out there specifically for those.”

A 12-ounce glass bottle of Republican-red Cream de Mitt and Democrat-blue Barack O’Berry has the faces of Romney and Obama replacing those of an elephant and donkey, respectively.

Sales have been neck-and-neck, much like national polling results of the presidential race, Doepke said. But sales of Barack O’Berry soda have out-sold Cream de Mitt during the past two weeks.

POPS has carried limited edition Avery’s sodas before with a Barack O’Berry and John McCream during the past presidential election. Sales of Barack O’Berry also out-paced John McCream soda pop four years ago.

“We’re interested to see if we can put together a fund correlation with those after this election.

POPS provided plenty of Cream de Mitt at an Oklahoma City fundraiser last month with Ann Romney and former First Lady Laura Bush, he said.

TO SEE a photo of Barack O’Berry and Cream de Mitt soda, go to twitter.com/POPS_66/status/262962620108259328/photo/1.

jcoburn@edmondsun.com | 341-2121

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