Faygo
Our Take
Detroit’s hometown pop, fizzing away on Gratiot Avenue since 1907. Brothers Ben and Perry Feigenson, Russian immigrants trained as bakers, started out using their frosting recipes to flavor soda — which is how Detroit ended up with flavors no one else has, like the cream-soda-meets-cherry Rock & Rye, the unapologetically red Redpop, and the grape-and-pineapple Moon Mist.
Faygo is so woven into the city that Michiganders get genuinely homesick for it out of state, and it’s the unofficial sponsor of every backyard barbecue and birthday in the metro. The brick plant at 3579 Gratiot still bottles it — no public tours, it’s a working factory — just up the road from Better Made, making this stretch of Gratiot a kind of accidental snack-history mile. Grab a Rock & Rye and taste a flavor you can’t get anywhere else.