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The 1910
W. H. Hutchinson and Son
Bottlers’ Supplies catalog offered the following sage advice
concerning flavors:
During an experience of fifty-eight years in the
bottling and supplying of Flavors, manufactured by ourselves, we have
accumulated many valuable formulas.
Much attention has been devoted to this branch of the business
and no expense spared; the result is one of the finest equipped
laboratories in the world devoted to the manufacture of Soluble Flavors
for the exclusive use of the bottler, and the popularity of our goods is
well known in all localities.
Our aim has always been quality rather than price – to make the
best goods, to get the
right flavor, and then to make our Flavors as strong as
possible, retaining the aroma and solubility so necessary to production
of beverages of the highest class.
Recognizing that the reputation of the bottler’s goods is largely
dependent upon the quality of the Flavors used, we have never sacrificed
quality for strength, believing that a few cents saved by the bottler on
his Flavors will not compensate him for the loss of many dollars worth
of trade that will inevitably result from the manufacture of any but the
best, clearest and most sparkling beverages…
Taking into consideration that one gallon of one-ounce
Flavor will flavor syrup for 16,384 bottles of soda water, and one
gallon of two ounce Flavor will flavor syrup for 8,184 bottles, and that
the Flavor is the vital component upon which the taste and aroma of the
soda depends, it is evident that the question of cost should be
subservient to that of quality.
Take our advice: Buy only the best.