Gothamist: Behold Brooklyn's $5 Soda

PBRK

Mon, 24 Mar 2008 14:09:20 -0500

Yes, the ghetto of Clinton Hill.

eager2

Mon, 24 Mar 2008 12:51:36 -0500

Forget the $5 coke, where does a bar in the ghetto get off charging $8 for an alcoholic beverage? Is it the only game in town? Are they cultivating a "classy" image with high prices? Pricing is such a silly psychological game. Ridiculous.

kcin122

Mon, 24 Mar 2008 08:47:23 -0500

i never buy sodas are restaurants. They always price them way to high and water and beer is better.

rarelement

Sat, 22 Mar 2008 13:52:55 -0500

I agree, it's more ghetto fab than hipster holdout. And when I was a commuter who went to Pratt, I didn't have daddy's card to pay for my beers at the Alibi or by chow mein at Kum Kau - I'm sure there are plenty there now who pay for their own sodas.

nonumentalart

Sat, 22 Mar 2008 13:23:23 -0500

actually hipsters don't go there..its pretty ghetto..

kearnj

Sat, 22 Mar 2008 10:02:10 -0500

Wait so you can buy a 20oz. bottle for $1.50 but a 25oz. cup costs $5? Interesting rationale.

eyekantspel

Fri, 21 Mar 2008 20:04:00 -0500

I'm in favor of high soda prices. Actually, they could implement a soda tax to pay for MTA "capital improvements" (i.e., legalized theft through project overruns). It's good for the environment, cause soda makes you belch, which warms the planet. If all soda was $10 a glass, we could stop global warming, prevent cavities, lose weight and all live happier, healthier lives.

paul

Fri, 21 Mar 2008 19:14:54 -0500

I'm baffled by these hipster comments.

designerjulia

Fri, 21 Mar 2008 18:35:31 -0500

Just another reason NOT to go to the 5 spot. The service there is terrible. Even when we have been the only table, the food, which is mediocre at best, still takes over an hour to arrive. I'm not sure why anyone would go there when it was cheap, let alone with such a price hike.

Brouhaha

Fri, 21 Mar 2008 18:31:09 -0500

Do you know that there are over 300 calories (and 83 carbs) in a 25 oz Coke? Plus the corn syrup they use now helps make you fatter quicker than cane sugar. Save your 5 bucks. http://www.caloriesindrinks.com/cid/compare.cfm

JacqueMehoff

Fri, 21 Mar 2008 17:59:50 -0500

does it come with free refills like you get at the Chinese buffet place?

Quenepa

Fri, 21 Mar 2008 17:51:03 -0500

Am I a troll I have been going to 5 spot since it opened many years ago. When they put up the awning that said ribs I was first in line - the place used to be a restaurant supply store selling pots and equipment. Hipsters (is that a bad word?) go to bars get the cheapest product and milk it - whether it's PBR or soda. Like it's a Starbucks. Hipsters don't come from Pratt either. I like hipsters - it's not a bad thing.

triggerzer0

Fri, 21 Mar 2008 17:41:18 -0500

Pratt Brats will go there and won't even know the difference when they pat with daddy's credit card. damn the five spot, they're soul food be good!

babyhitler

Fri, 21 Mar 2008 17:30:00 -0500

you must be kidding me? you couldn't get away with 5 dollar soda in manhattan unless you were Loewes Theaters much less Brooklyn? I mean Brooklyn?

snowman

Fri, 21 Mar 2008 17:22:35 -0500

Rocknrope.... Pulp Fiction allusion.. nice

Ph

Fri, 21 Mar 2008 17:17:05 -0500

Quenepa hit it on the head.

chris

Fri, 21 Mar 2008 17:10:22 -0500

I know it is by Pratt, but do hipsters go to Five Spot? Why does every other thread have to have a mention of hipsters. Are you a troll?

PBRK

Fri, 21 Mar 2008 17:03:44 -0500

You shouldn't be drinking soda anyway.

Quenepa

Fri, 21 Mar 2008 17:02:44 -0500

It's because hipsters don't drink anything when they go to bars. They go and sit there sipping a soda instead of getting a beer

Rocknrope

Fri, 21 Mar 2008 16:58:52 -0500

They don't put no bourbon in it or nothin'?

edEx

Fri, 21 Mar 2008 16:55:12 -0500

you're paying for ice.

nonumentalart

Fri, 21 Mar 2008 16:51:58 -0500

and remember...you're really paying for the service!