In the 100-year-old Detroit home Anthony Tanksley was raised in he discovered a bottle of Vernors ginger ale. It happens to be his favorite drink.

She then explained how she got into making ginger ale for her husband Dustin. (Yes, it’s that Hoffman.) “It’s his favorite soft drink,” she confided.

Some ginger sodas do have real ginger in the ingredient list. Reed’s sells a ginger ale with 2 grams of ginger in a 12 oz bottle and ginger beer that contains 17 grams of ginger per bottle.

But by 1967, the company trademarked that name for a ginger ale ice cream bar. By the 1970s, Boston Cooler was the common name for a ginger ale, vanilla ice cream float.