another drink from a few years ago

Woden

ok does anyone one remember this drink from schweppes that would have been out about 6-8 years ago. it was called schweppes schizan (sp?) just came in a can you could buy beside coke or what ever i loved the stuff but can't recall the taste too well

anywho i want it somehow

data

Explosive_Cornflake

or wagon wheels, i want them.
i've heard of the drink, but not tasted it.

ixoy

Originally posted by Explsv_Cornflk
or wagon wheels, i want them.

You can still get them. I ate them a few month ago. Rollin' rollin' rollin'....

robo

Remember Baby Shams...dunno if I spelt it right but it was out in the 80's!!! Never had it just remembered it when I saw the title of the thread.

Lainey

i went through a mad phase of cherry coke..

pete

Originally posted by robo
Remember Baby Shams...dunno if I spelt it right but it was out in the 80's!!! Never had it just remembered it when I saw the title of the thread.

babycham

Chinafoot

god i remember a little shop near my nana's house that used to sell shandy and me and my cousin werent allowed to buy it because there was like 0.00000005% alcohol in it! of course we wanted it even more then and we waited outside to ask people to buy them for us!!! we were only about 10.

guess we started early eh?

Woden

i remember we used to go to panto's in the gaiety around xmas time, the nana used to take the grand children iirc and there wasn't that many of us at that time.

anyway i got shandy and blueberry hubba bubba at what is now bus stop opposite St. Stephens Green shopping centre (it could have also been bus stop then)

anywho it was a fairly sickening combination i don't think i was the mae west after it.

data

Chinafoot

yea i cant even smell strawberry hubba bubba without wretching!!
good old school trip to some farm or other and i up-chucked on the bus there. god i was so popular on those trips. :rolleyes:

Woden

aye i used to get travel sick when i was younger twas viscious once on school tour crossing from dover to calais loads where sick.

strawberry hubba bubba i could handle though and the atomic apple but it was the blueberry shandy cominbation

Chinafoot

LOVE the apple one!! do u remember rubble gum?? that was so cool! i loved the picture of the guy on the front with the hard hat. i nearly choked on it a few times but it never really put me off it for some reason

Adeptus Titanicus

Originally posted by Dataisgod
ok does anyone one remember this drink from schweppes that would have been out about 6-8 years ago. it was called schweppes schizan

You can get somehere Data. As long as you can read Swedish that is!

Woden

Originally posted by Adeptus Titanicus


You can get somehere Data. As long as you can read Swedish that is!

there is a swedish student on erasmus in college

once again adeptus you satisfy my nostalgia

Chinafoot

awww can ya feel the love?? can ya??

Adeptus Titanicus

Originally posted by Dataisgod
there is a swedish student on erasmus in college

once again adeptus you satisfy my nostalgia

I aim to please!

Apparently it's very popular with Swedish gamers. I thought it was full of caffeine, but apparently not. If your interested in how it stacks up against caffeine-laden drinks, there's a comparison here at diet-coaching. About as close as I'll ever get to a diet...

Paddy20

Babycham from Schweppes was very popular in the late great 60's. As was my first real Alcohol drink.

It was called "Light & Bitter" and we all drank it because it was cheap. It was a mixture where the barman would put about half a pint of 'Bitter' into a pint glass and give you a bottle of Light Ale with it, which you poured in yourself. The great thing was as this was before automatic measuring pumps you usually got about 3/4 of a pint of Bitter which combined with the 1/2 Pint bottle of Light Ale meant you were getting more than just a pint.

Those were the days

Adeptus Titanicus

Sounds interesting! Not unlike a Black and Tan (Guinness and Smithwicks or other "Ale"). Don't see many people getting them these days. Popular in some "Irish Bars" in the States.

Sandi

Schizan was lovely. Anyone remember Tanora? I think you can still get it in a few places.

billy the squid

Two drinks i havent seen in a while

Umbongo
canada dry

I assume that canada dry can stil be got i just havent seen it anywhere

Sundy

Originally posted by fcddunne
Two drinks i havent seen in a while

Umbongo

i presume the monkeys and stuff in the congo still have a good supply!

weemcd

yeah u can still get canada dry, i think its usually sold in small cans in a multipack of about 12 its different to most drinks i like it occasionaly

aidan_dunne

I've seen Tanora recently in the Tesco in Portlaoise. That was the tangerine flavoured drink, wasn't it? I've never actually drank it so I don't know what it tastes like but people tell me it's really nice. I might have to buy a bottle of it sometime to see for myself.

As I recall, the ads for Canada Dry simply went "Drink Canada Dry", didn't they?

My uncle once saw one of those ads years ago on the telly. The ad finished with the logo coming up on screen and this voiceover guy simply saying, "Drink Canada Dry".

Next morning he was on the first plane out there!







I know, I know. It's a very old Brendan Grace joke. I just simply couldn't resist!

df001i6876

Originally posted by Lainey
i went through a mad phase of cherry coke..

I used too make cherrybrandy love the stuff. wow me taste buds were on fire.

littleninja

There's a drink that was out a while ago from the Coca Cola company called TAB - I think it was supposed to be a clear version of coke, had a bit of a fad drinking that, but haven't seen it around for ages now

ChipZilla

Originally posted by Explosive_Cornflake
or wagon wheels, i want them.

You can get them in Aldi.

Explosive_Cornflake

Oh, i found wagon wheels, its just tesco don't stock them. Got them in supervalue somewhere.

Paddy20

I used to love bottles of stout, usually Guinness that was bottled by the Publican himself in the cellar, and then when it reached maturity it would appear on the shelves in the bar.

It was always at it's best. The Publican used to make about a half-penny extra profit this way, but for some strange reason Guinness stopped Publicans from being able to offer their customers - Hand bottled Stout, what a pity.

PBC_1966

Babycham dates back to the 1950s. The commercial that always sticks in my mind was from the 70s, song that went something like "Oo.. Love a... Oo love a... Oo love a Babycham."

It was a pity when they decided to change their distinctive identity after so many years, because the marketing execs decided it was too "old fashioned."

Still like Cherry Coke, and in fact anything cherry flavored. How about Dr. Pepper, folks? Seems like people either love it or hate it. I'm the former.

ChipZilla

Gaaah, Dr Pepper - evil stuff...

I remember TAB as well - it was supposed to be some kind of clear diet coke, wasn;t it?

billy the squid

I have seen Cherry Coke in the UK but unfortunately not here

The caption for Canada Dry was "cola it aint"

There was also around 1995 Cola flavoured 7UP in a blue can

Tap clear never tasted it.

There was also an isotonic drink called Pocari which was in a blue can and was disgusting.

Most memories of soft drinks I would have as a child were the small Shannon Lemonade drinks which you can still get only problem I have with them now is that they are in plastic bottles now before you could get them in glass bottles
The Cream Soda is Yelo there is Lime which is green and Rasberyade which is Red

ChipZilla

Originally posted by billy the squid
There was also an isotonic drink called Pocari which was in a blue can and was disgusting.

I was in Japan back before Christmas last year and came across it. It's called 'Pocari Sweat' out there. God knows why. :rolleyes:

Hecate

I remember Schizan alright, it had a yellow label and came in cans or bottles. You can still buy somthing like it, its called Ame and its ridiculously expensive.

Woden

Originally posted by Hecate
I remember Schizan alright, it had a yellow label and came in cans or bottles. You can still buy somthing like it, its called Ame and its ridiculously expensive.

any idea where we get this ridiculous expensive stuff

Hecate

Spar, tesco, superquinn....its not exactly hard to find, usually lumped in with the juices and soft drinks.

lyonsy

man, i'd kill everyone in this room right now for a waggon wheel....
But anyway when i was 12 or 13 we used steal from a drinks warehouse and among the stuff we got were babychams, but also Woodies Alcoholic Lemonade and Grog, that was orange woodies came in a variety of flavous, they were the original alcopops i believe.
Also a drink that dissappeared as quickly as it appeared was Liptonice, an ice tea sold in a can endorsed by John Macenroe.

Imposter

Originally posted by lyonsy
Also a drink that dissappeared as quickly as it appeared was Liptonice, an ice tea sold in a can endorsed by John Macenroe.

Ice-teas of varying types are still to be got (at least in Austria). Peach flavoured ice-tea being the one that I really don't like the thoughts of.

lyonsy

ya but im pretty sure the liptonice thing was a first for ireland, at least until aldi and lidl came along

Tom Dunne

Anybody remember snowball?

It was lemonade and advocat (I think) and it was sold in small, babycham like green bottles in a six pack.

I used to love them. Desperately sweet, with a bitter aftertaste. Yum.

Paddy20

Anyone remember 'Tizer' ; It was a real fizzy thirst quencher, available in large bottles at a very reasonable price. With the choice of a number of flavours ?..

tom dunne,

Snowballs have always been available in licensed premises. Any real barman knows how to make it in an instant. My Mother loved Snowballs, thats how I know about the drink, and I am sure you can still have one made for you - upon request.

df001i6876

Originally posted by Paddy20
Anyone remember 'Tizer' ; It was a real fizzy thirst quencher, available in large bottles at a very reasonable price. With the choice of a number of flavours ?..

tom dunne,

Snowballs have always been available in licensed premises. Any real barman knows how to make it in an instant. My Mother loved Snowballs, thats how I know about the drink, and I am sure you can still have one made for you - upon request.

i think they still sell it in liverpool very good drink. better than coke. tizer never seen it in a plastic bottle.

Healio

ah schizan, i thought i was theonly one who drank it, i used to buy the little cans by the dozen, i was in spain last year and came across it.
Canada Dry, the best ginger ale ever made, i could only stomach about half a litre of it though, it used to make my teeth feel funny.

thejuggler

Tanora is alive and well and drunk in large quantities here in Cork. Beautiful drink - I remember a national tv campaign back in the early 90's - I guess it never took off.

I remember the Canada Dry adds - i thought "Discovered in 87 countries" or words to that effect was one of their slogans.

Agent Smith

tizer can be bought in the newsagent's in killiney shopping center in co dublin,
evilly nice drink that,
also iced tea is being sold on the contenient, well in berlin it's being sold in the hostel i'm in anyway

moggie

Can't believe I'm the first to mention this but Smirnoff Mule kicked gingerale and vodka drink ass!
mad easy to get into ya
a bottle gone in one thirsty slug
made my 21st
and 20th now that I come to think of it:rolleyes:

the bottle has/had a weird metalllic salmon colour wrapping