Suck It Up Soda Shop,<\/a> located at Calloway and Olive Drive in the Walmart parking lot, is introducing dirty soda to Bakersfield. Owners said the concept is popular around the country but still new to California.<\/p>\n\u201cIt\u2019s your favorite sodas, but elevated with syrups, purees, creamers, and fruit, sugar-free,\u201d one of the owners said. \u201cYou can go any way you want on these drinks.\u201d<\/p>\n
The shop\u2019s name came from a group brainstorming session among friends. \u201cThe name came from the group of us sat around several years ago, panting around ideas for the name. First, we started to say Suck It. We thought, well, let\u2019s just add the up little more conducive with what we\u2019re trying to do here, but really it was a collaboration of friends just coming up with it,\u201d an owner said.<\/p>\n
The shop describes a \u201cdirty\u201d soda as a drink made with additions like cream, fruit, syrups and purees. <\/p>\n
Customers can choose from several drink sizes: 44 ounces, 32 ounces, 24 ounces and 16 ounces.<\/p>\n
Along with the drinks, the shop sells cookies baked in-house, including flavors topped with candy bars and other sweets. Options include a Snickers-topped cookie, a chocolate chunk cookie with three types of chocolate, a Reese\u2019s peanut butter cup cookie and a s\u2019mores cookie.<\/p>\n
One staff member said, \u201cYeah, well, I love the Reese\u2019s cup because it\u2019s peanut butter and chocolate, you can\u2019t go wrong.\u201d Another added, \u201cThis s\u2019mores is so good because it has a little bit of graham cracker in it, and a marshmallow. It\u2019s my favorite.\u201d<\/p>\n
Suck It Up Soda Shop <\/a>is open 10 a.m. to 8 p.m. Monday through Thursday and 10 a.m. to 9 p.m. Fridays and Saturdays.<\/p>\n