Charleston...Chuckston to his friends

The Cheerwatch Investigative Reporting Team is in Charleston, South Carolina, for the weekend. Upon arriving Thursday afternoon, Sam and I wasted no time loading our coolers and hitting the downtown streets in search of more proud Cheerwine fans who would join in the fight to protect your right to drink it. After a few rounds of recruiting on Charleston's main strip, King Street, we thought everything was in place for a weekend of relaxed Cheerwine enjoyment. We were wrong, though. Nothing could have prepared us for the monsoon that was Friday.


As you can see here, this was not the day to find Cheerwine drinkers out on Folly Beach. It is the belief of this investigative reporter that the Yankee Cheerwine hoarders are behind this unsuspected turn of "nature."

Sam and I improvised, however. We made our way to the Tanger Outlet Center just outside of Charleston and continued our search for Cheerwine supporters. After fighting off some feisty northerners, we made promising contact with a kind mid-westerner named Jeff.


"We don't have this stuff out in Indiana," Jeff said.
Upon tasting the drink for the first time, Jeff told us that he was going to buy a few cases before returning back home. However, he promised to share with local friends as opposed to keeping it all to himself. We believed him, due in large part to his obvious respect for Cheerwine. Just check out the color of his shirt as proof.

Well, Sam and I have two more busy days ahead of us. Be on the lookout for us tomorrow at Folly Beach. And who knows? If it's another rainy one, we just might be coming to find you.

From the trenches,
Matt

North Myrtle and Southport

The team moved north after two days in Myrtle Beach to a town with a similar name and similar desire for Cheerwine. On the drive up we began to wonder. Does Cheerwine get watered down? Only an official experiment by the investigative unit in North Myrtle Beach would due for us to find out.

We lined up some cans of Cheerwine and asked passersby to attempt to water them down with some standard issue Cheer-watch Water Pistols. After the cans sustained the impact from the pressured streams, we opened them and tried the sweet goodness inside.




The verdict: Although the cans were in fact "downed" by using water, the drink did not become "watered down." If they could take such a beating as that, it must be true that Cheerwine can never become watered down in taste--ever.


Today was spent at North Myrtle and Southport, N.C. attempting to discover the effect Cheerwine has on our animal friends.



In Southport we came across some fishermen who weren't having the best of luck. We gave them some cans of cold Cheerwine to hopefully lure the gilled guys (or gals) towards the Southport City Pier. I'm not sure if did the trick because the fishermen seemed to enjoy drinking the stuff themselves rather than using it as bait.




On the ferry from Southport to Wilmington we spotted some gulls circling the back of the boat. As the pictures shows, they weren't looking for ANYTHING other than Cheerwine. Promise.





From the trenches,

Sam