The Metro Times' Curt Guyette looks at some of products known as
"Detroit" products... and finds out how "Detroit" they really are.
Excerpt of one of the products:
Faygo soda The iconic Detroit soda is still bottled here, but in
terms of ownership, the company hasn't been a local one for a long
time. Founded in 1907 by the Feigenson brothers — Russian immigrants
trained as bakers — Faygo was sold to TreeSweet in 1986. A year later
it was bought by Florida-based National Beverage Corp., which also
includes another formerly homegrown favorite, EverFresh juices, among
its labels. By the way, before it became part of a conglomerate, one of
the owners of EverFresh was mobster Vito "Billy Jack" Giacalone.
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