Club Shandy

swingking

Does anyone remember the drink Club Shandy *not rock shandy*

I think it had 0.1% alcohol, but you felt like the cheese in front of your friends;) .
I wonder where it went

Any thoughts........

killswitch

ah club shandy....pity they took it off the market

petes

swingking wrote:

0.1% alcohol

Get you locked!

super_furry

Remember drinking it after football practice as a kid as thinking I was Fonzie at the North Poll.

Ruu_Old

Brown can wasnt it? It was tasty, had it a few times.

Zaph

Yeah, it was a brown can. Incredibly sweet, if I remember correctly.

Royale with Cheese

I remember idiots trying to tell me I was only drinking rock shandy because it had 0.1% alcohol and I wanted to look cool. God damn idiots.

I loved the stuff, nothing like a Club Shandy after your 5p bag of crisps

Kolodny

Was quite fond of this too, well, the Schweppes version though as I grew up in the UK. Me and my school mates would swear we could feel the effects of the alcohol in it after a couple of cans - of course we couldn't, and we weren't nearly as hardcore as we thought when we started drinking real shandy

Kermitt

Holy alcoholic soft drinks Batman, Haven't seen this in years. I remember a few of us in school daring each other to buy it because it had alcohol in it - Double hard when you're 13!!! Cheers for the memory.

dlofnep

I rememeber it. I thought it was like 0.5% alcohol.

gonker

aw yeah I remember that. We used to think we were so cool drinking it. I remember my mam being really worried about us drinking it.

bspoke

dlofnep wrote:

I rememeber it. I thought it was like 0.5% alcohol.

I think it was Bass shandy that was 0.5% it came in a blue can

fabcat

I looooooved that, how cool was it? My brother gave me it when I was small at a party, and I thought I was so grown up, drinking 'beer' with him and his friends.:D

MR DAZ

Ahhh yess club shandy.....


You could also get it for the soda streams (word of warning dont put in the mix before the gas )

weemcd

can you still buy shandy anywhere? before my time im afraid. Im sure they probably got legislated up to their eyeballs. How did they get away with selling (albeit tiny) ammounts of alcohol to children?

DublinWriter

weemcd wrote:

can you still buy shandy anywhere? before my time im afraid. Im sure they probably got legislated up to their eyeballs. How did they get away with selling (albeit tiny) ammounts of alcohol to children?

Because it was the 70's and everyone was off their t*ts anyways.

Anyone remember candy cigarettes? Nothing like them to train you in for the real thing later in life.

Lead paint on cots? Never effected me m'lud *twitch*

Bicycle helmets? Naaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah.

Having your teacher whack your hand repeatedly with a block of hardwood knicknamed 'Yorkie' for getting a few sums wrong? Everyday occurance.

FillSpectre

DublinWriter wrote:

Because it was the 70's and everyone was off their t*ts anyways. etc...

None of that was created in the 70s and even then people were calling for change. Lead paint really really really old.

I think the Bass one was 0.5% and so was the Club one but at some point Club changed it to 0.1%. Bass was still about in Dublin from dodgy shops that bought goods up north and avoided paying tax. This was the 80s if you weren't corrupt you were a fool.

r3nu4l

Oh wow, haven't thought of Club Shandy in Years!

Now I do miss that, I want one now!! I can understand that in todays climate selling any drink with alcohol in it to kids would not be a good idea

I do also remember candy cigarettes, tiny skinny little white things with the end painted red :rolleyes:

I remember me, my brother and my mate hanging out on the corner near BigJ and Quinnsworth in Lucan, drinking our club shandy and letting the "cigarettes" hang off our lips, looking hard!. I bet we were really intimidating at all of seven, ten and nine years old:rolleyes:

meldrew

Ah a can of Club Shandy and a packet of mock fags , thats what we used to get in the shops and they wonder we turned out the way we did !

popebenny16

Loved club shandy. I was in Temple Street Hospital in 83, my mother used to bring it into me. The ward sister, who was a nun, took it all out of the press "I'm not having alcoholic beveraiges in my ward" she said. Great gas altogether.

Dermington

DublinWriter wrote:

Because it was the 70's and everyone was off their t*ts anyways.

Anyone remember candy cigarettes?

I'm 20 (b. 1985) and I clearly remember Club Shandy in 1994/1995.

You can still buy chocolate cigarettes in most shops...

lazygit

i was about 7 drinking Bass shandy with the lads one really hot summer day in the 80's .. my mother walked around the corner and thought i was on the beer! lol.. she boxed the ears off me!

Degsy

Didnt cidona have alcohol in it at one stage too?Or did it just taste like it did..

Sync

Holy thread revival batman, but I came across this yesterday in the shops, 0.5% alcohol.

http://i50.tinypic.com/1116kia.jpg

http://i48.tinypic.com/jp7a4p.jpg

Tails142

It turns out there is a small bit of alcohol in most soft drinks, it was in the media last month.

So club shandy or not, you were always dead hard!

http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/4398687/Booze-in-Coke-and-Pepsi-but-13000-cans-to-break-limit.html

http://www.thescore.ie/coca-cola-soft-drinks-trace-amount-alcohol-504040-Jun2012/

L1011

Shandy Bass is still available in suitably rural areas. Last saw it in a service station in Lettermacaward in Donegal.

rubadub

Degsy wrote: »

Didnt cidona have alcohol in it at one stage too?Or did it just taste like it did..

Just tasted like it I think. I heard it was supposedly meant to be a nonalcoholic version of bulmers, both made by C&C back in the day, the name sounds like cider too. I used to love cidona, then moved onto bulmers when I first started drinking, then grew to hate bulmers and hate cidona now too!

Tails142 wrote: »

It turns out there is a small bit of alcohol in most soft drinks, it was in the media last month.

There will be in many fruits too.

I remember being refused being sold club shandy by a few checkout girls when I was a kid.

EDIT: found this!
http://www.alcoholfree.co.uk/product_info.php?products_id=318

Cidona sparkling apple juice is an Irish classic and a delicious alternative to cider. Produced by the owners of Bulmers.

The fermented juice comes from a cider extract from which the alcohol has been virtually eliminated giving it a real cider taste without the concerns over alcohol.

23 calories per 100ml

Contains less than 0.5% alcohol by volume.

I never remember seeing that on cans/bottles, you would think it would be more well known (if true) just like the shandy was well known to have low alcohol levels. Although you could say water also has less than 0.5% alcohol!

davet82

I drank a six pack with the aim of getting drunk when i was eight, it didnt work though

p38

Good old days nothing like a can of club shandy and that multi-coloured popcorn I think there was a totem pole on the packet the food colouring on that popcorn must have been lethal for your health?