Favorite drinks from your youth

Creamola Foam.

80's in our bar..

blastaway...1 bottle of castaway mixed with a bottle of cider.

" Mickey" choclate flavoured milk delivered by your Milkman 60s/70s.

Corona cherryade     

... Don't forget the refund on the bottle Hayden.

Flagon of GL

I do keep meaning to take the empties back Glasgow.

A pint of Bear Grylls though it was a bit warm and smelled of nuts

20/20

We used to have a "pop" lorry come down our street once a week
(as well as the coalman, bread man etc)

Dandelion and burdock always seemed like drinking something exotic

Brown mixed  with mild .

Breaker & Merrydown Cider a brutal combination. A few years later Diamond White

yeah reg same her in bermondsey   as a nipper a sweet shop near rotherhithe station old style ,the counter was quite long and to us nippers it resembled a bar and  we sat on upturned wooden lemonade crates you could buy 1 -2 or 3 penny drinks of whatever you wanted limeade cherryade tizer etc the shopkeeper would pour drinks from the bottles into different sized glasses according to how much you paid ,to us kids it was like being in a pub but without the alchohol.

reg do you remember the sarsaparilla shop in Walworth road I think it was ...................

I hated flat Lucozade, but it was too expensive to waste.

you must have all been posh buying corona,up narrth we could only afford ALPINE, 6 different colours/flavours,but most tasted the same,if you were posh you drank LOWCOCKS lemonade,refund on bottle no refunds on ALPINE .just give it back to the van when it stopped in your street a week later on its next delivery,THE HORSE LIKED A CARROT

Whisky Mac. While still under drinking age me and my mates would pretend to be older by wearing

suit and tie and not drinking pints of Watneys Brown Ale. I'm sure the Landlords weren't fooled for

a moment but they knew we would behave ourselves.

I do remember the sarsparilla shop, can't remember where it was exactly

At Xmas, about 14,Nan giving you a snowball( not a euphemism)

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Tizer from Barr pop
Lilt (now been discontinued)
Lucozade when it came wrapped in orange cellophane
Baby Cham
Soda Stream (make your own)

Cresta was the best pop in the seventys (its frothy man) The pop delivery company up here in Gateshead was Alpine .

cresta was a nice drink back in the day frothy and kinda creamy

Cardinal, lucozade was expensive back in the 60s and 70s
You took it into your nan in hospital as a treat

Tango

Lovely Jubbly. No not Del boy's expression. A wonderfully refreshing orange drink in a triangular shaped pack. Always after footie.

Slicer
\we called that a Jubilee up here .was good though .

Surprised anyone else is old enough to remember it! Bought at the local tuck shop for old pence! Also Tonibell ice cream & collecting the free gonks that came with it.

Slicer
You can still get variations of them now ,but wont be as good as the ones we remember obviously .

NOTHING is as good as I remember

Our school tuck shop sold "jubblies" as we called them
Difficult to eat/drink without getting all orange juice over your blazer

Remember those triangular shaped orange drinks slicer , think they were called Calypso and could get them in liquid or frozen ?

R whites lemonade. I was a secret lemonade drinker.

Grolsch was popular in the day and bottles of Holsten Pils with the foil on the top of the bottle. Also Elephant lager, brewed by Carlsberg.

I vaguely recall asking some Doris, circa 1985,  what she wanted to drink and she said a large brandy & Babycham. She didn't last very long.

R whites song was sung by Elvis Costello . you can still get it as well as ice lollies .

Tame. R Whites Lemonade. I blame my bad teeth as a teen on that. Drank at least five bottles a week!

newsagents used to freeze JUBILEE,s in the fridge during the summer,giant ice pops,
my workmate said in 70,s they used to buy the ladies cherry B and Pernod and it was known as KNICKERDROPPER and some of the older women behind the bar used to call you a DIRTY BARSTEWARD for ordering the ladies one

Stat- it was Elvis Costello's dad, Ross,  who sang the song. Elvis did backing vocals. I also remember putting Five Boys in my mouth! No- never was a member of the pink brigade, it was a chocolate bar!

Bollinger

Mid to late 80s,a local pub was doing Long Life on draught
Was always sold in cans but rarely on draught
Was a great pint, a cross between a lager and bitter in taste

Sarsasparilla from Brick Lane market and R Whites Cream Soda.

Forgot Tizer.

Do you know why 'Lola' (the Kinks) was banned by the BBC?

It's close between Quatro (named like a motor oil, vibrant green in colour, tasted a bit like Lilt) and three-quarters of a bottle of Malibu (which subsequently decorated my parents' front path).

Jan 5, 2025 -- 1:20PM, i_agree_with_nick wrote:

Do you know why 'Lola' (the Kinks) was banned by the BBC?

Because Coca Cola was a brand name so deemed to be advertising, right? Hence they changed it to 'cherry'?

I must also make mention of Virgin Cola that was in my memory very satisfactory.

Correct.  I think they flew back from the USA to re-record it.

Ha! They'd have had a fit over the Fast Food Rockers back then...

Slicer - Re Jubblys - a few years ago I put in one of my trivia quizzes.  Q - Precisely what shape was a Jubbly?  Answer = Tetrahedron

T1ttie milk.

Used to go to corner shop to get a Jubbly and a Jubilee Bag ,not relevant I know but used to get the Tattoos in the bag and also some sort of toy ie Plastic Diver to put in a bottle and add a bit of Baking Soda to watch it dive and come back up again.

Mr Blackbarn My 3 best subjects at school were maths & mental arithmetic so I always thought a tetrahedron was an extinct dinosaur!

I remember some Jubilee bags contained sherbet. Do you remember sherbet dabs?

Sherbet fountains.

There was a brief time when the country went mad for Sunny Delight.
Um Bungo, Um Bungo, they dink it in the congo.

Sunny Delight, tasted like it was full of chemicals. Couldn't show the Um Bongo ad these days for fear of accusations of animalphobia!

shows how peoples expectations in life have changed, I,m 65 and we weren't poor in poverty my dad was ashift engineer in the steelworks, but I can remember looking longingly at the bottles of swcheppes at Wimbledon and a ton of quality street at Xmas was a big treat
I didn't like sunny delight but was just mentioning to the wife the other day,that orange juice in powder form that came in a green/yellowy packet and you added water to taste I preferred that to diluted orange squash

First Coca Cola's Dasani bottled water lost its spunk and then the product was completely pulled from the UK market.

Last week, we reported on Coca Cola's Swiresque online advertisement for Dasani water. A Flash animation brought up the phrase "Can't live without spunk" - something that might appeal to US audiences but surely raises questions in the minds of Brits. Since our story appeared, however, the spunk has been punked and gone missing.

Shockingly, it turns out that Dasani did contain some unwanted molecules. Tests showed the water had high levels of bromate, which is sometimes linked to increased cancer risk. Coca Cola has since recalled the product in the UK. The British press already had a field day with Dasani after learning the product was purified tap water instead of spring water.

Apparently, only the British market received the spunky versions of Dasani. Coca Cola adds a bromide derivative into water products to meet UK health laws.

Early 80's and those ghastly German wines.

Liebfraumilch, Niersteiner and if you were feeling a bit flash it was Blue Nun time.

I ran a BWS dept at one point, so well familiar. Liebfraumilch also came in a 1.5L bottle. It used to shift as well. Most popular was Hardys Stamp and Wolf Blass Yellow Label. We shifted gallons of beaujolais nouveau when it was released, and mulled wine. Completely different era, they could get enough poinsettia out, or panettone at the time of the year just gone.

Turbo Shandy, half a Stella and a bottle of Smirnoff ice

Very drinkable

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KMNk87NbelM

1st pint in club after Sunday morning football was always a lager shandy,I always blamed that and not the 3 lagers that followed for my lamentable performances in Sunday afternoon football ,but I showed a few moves on the Sunday even ing dance floor, great days 

Sirrus was my fav tipple for a good while, it came out when every man and his dog was drinking Magners on ice.

Chianti in bulb shaped bottles encased in raffia and made excellent candle holders once emptied.

Remember being in Lanzarote and having a nice glass of White ( Mateus Blanc ) dont think you can buy it here.

Robinsons barley water? Borg, Mcenroe tennis era.
Snakebite black was called Diesel in Northampton. Got well undone with that when my mate was getting mine with diamond white and special brew.
Mad dog 20/20 flavoured wine in a hipflask shape bottle.
Hooch was probably the first alcopop think.
Red Stripe and Holsten Pils had there day late 80s, same time as trebles for a quid.

bber drinkers back in the day after newcy brown,double maxim used to swear by bottles of nutty brown sold in Samuel Smith's pubs,the same pub chain that sold the ingerbrow lager which was known as wife beater locally

most ofthe "wife beater" lagers ie,stella etc
are now "wifebeATERLESS" AS they have reduced
alcohol strenght n now just same pish as likes
of CBL, n the likes carlsberg n ****

How have Samuel Smith pubs survived I will never know.
Awful places selling low grade vile drinks.

buying valuable properties

https://www.theguardian.com/news/2024/dec/19/humphreys-world-how-the-samuel-smith-beer-baron-built-britains-strangest-pub-chain

Pernod was all the rage for a wee while in the 80s in aberdeen.

... Yep, I used to like a drop myself in the 70s/80s, vanished now.!