The surprising link behind Green River soda and Chicago's St. Patrick's day tradition of dying its river green (Via EaterChicago)
Clemente Renteria/Flickrpop is back in stores and the city last weekend dyed the Chicago River green for St. Patrick’s Day. Here, Eater Chicago explores the connection, one that was established 40 years after the soda was invented, a link that stretches beyond the creeping Irishness of mid-March.Green River was invented in Davenport, Iowa, around 1916 by Richard C. Jones, owner of a candy store with a soda fountain.
For a brief period, the drink was nameless. But after a local high school student, struck by its color, asked for a “green river,” the name stuck.In 1919, facing impending Prohibition, Schoenhofen Edelweiss, a Chicago brewer, began looking around for alternatives to beer.
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