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Minerals - soda

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  • 27-03-2012 8:13pm
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    muineachan
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    I heard someone call fizzy drinks Minerals for the first time in ages, my question is if you are only having one drink would they call it Mineral, ie "i want a mineral"?

    Go raibh maith agaibh


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    Mystified
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    Yes indeed. I heard people refer to a mineral (in the singular) - about 50 years ago!


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    slowburner
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    Mystified wrote: »
    Yes indeed. I heard people refer to a mineral (in the singular) - about 50 years ago!
    More recently than that, surely?


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    nuac
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    At dances in the 60's after dancing with a young lady the next level was to enquire if she would like a mineral. If offer accepted you were down about a shilling, but endless possibilities beckoned.


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    _blank_
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    usually pronounced "minnerdle"


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    deirdremf
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    I assume that the idea is that it was (originally) a mineral water with juice/flavour added.


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    Leslie91
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    muineachan wrote: »
    I heard someone call fizzy drinks Minerals for the first time in ages, my question is if you are only having one drink would they call it Mineral, ie "i want a mineral"?

    Go raibh maith agaibh

    Yep all the time... in the US it'd be a soda.


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