{"id":866052,"date":"2026-08-21T09:52:22","date_gmt":"2026-08-21T09:52:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/866052\/"},"modified":"2026-08-21T09:52:22","modified_gmt":"2026-08-21T09:52:22","slug":"montreal-deli-schwartzs-says-farewell-to-staple-cherry-soda","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/866052\/","title":{"rendered":"Montreal deli Schwartz\u2019s says farewell to staple cherry soda"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Frank Silva, the general manager of Schwartz\u2019s, says some customers don\u2019t come to the deli for its iconic smoked meat sandwich. As a matter of fact, they don\u2019t come for food at all.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Instead they scoop up cans of Cott\u2019s Black Cherry soda \u2014 its mix of sweetness and fizz making it the perfect pairing for the deli\u2019s moreish, peppery smoked meat \u2014 and then go on their way.<\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1800\" height=\"1199\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/cotts_304784897.jpg\" alt=\"Pictures of smoked meat and cans of soda.\" class=\"wp-image-100267890\"  \/>Pictures of smoked meat and cans of Cott\u2019s Black Cherry are seen in the background on Schwartz\u2019s Facebook account. The Montreal deli can no longer source a supply of the popular soda.  Via Schwartzsdelimtl\/Facebook<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThey always bought it here because they couldn\u2019t get it anywhere else,\u201d Silva said. \u201cAnd we could always get it \u2014 we have the buying power.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Frank Silva, the general manager of Schwartz\u2019s, says some customers don\u2019t come to the deli for its iconic&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":866053,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194292],"tags":[49,48,2338,205041,92296],"class_list":["post-866052","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-montreal","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-montreal","tag-montreal-restaurants","tag-news-videos"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/866052","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=866052"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/866052\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/866053"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=866052"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=866052"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=866052"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}