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  • 13-12-2006 4:50pm
    #1
    Degsy
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    Does anybody remember this drink from the 1970's?I seem to remember it came in miniscule green bottles that werent kept in the fridge.Does anybody know what it tasted like?
    Also "snowball"..what was that?


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  • #2
    FatherTed
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    I remember it too. It was a fizzy drink, was it alcohol? I thought it tasted like Champagne, not that I ever had drank any.


  • #3
    Kolodny
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,634 ✭✭✭Kolodny


    Degsy wrote:
    Also "snowball"..what was that?

    If it's the snowball I'm thinking of, then it's a Christmas drink made with Advocaat and lemonade, usually served with a maraschino cherry. My mum and I traditionally have one of these every Christmas day before lunch (we like to start early).


  • #4
    chillywilly
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    was it not an almond non alcoholic drink?! remember i had it afew years back


  • #5
    Nevyn
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    Babysham ?

    http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/archive/index.php/t-255157.html


  • #6
    tk123
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    Ah snowball :D My grandad used to 'make a bar' - ie two little stools and and crate and give me and my brother a little drop of snowball when we were little - we thought we were cool :D I bought some a few years back but it was out of date and tasted horrible!


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  • #7
    looksee
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    Snowball - the height of sophistication when girls wore miniskirts the first time round. The barman would put a measure of advocaat into a round wineglass then shake up a small bottle of lemonade with his thumb over the top (!) then jet the lemonade into the advocaat to make the fluffy white(ish) drink. Add a maraschino cherry - the almond flavour - and a straw. Even smarter than Babycham!


  • #8
    _blank_
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    What about this stuff.

    MD2020

    Is it still available?


  • #9
    smashey
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,676 ✭✭✭✭smashey


    Degsy wrote:
    Does anybody remember this drink from the 1970's?I seem to remember it came in miniscule green bottles that werent kept in the fridge.Does anybody know what it tasted like?
    Also "snowball"..what was that?

    Madison is correct. It came in small green bottles and was an non-alcoholic apple drink. I remember it from the mid-eighties.


  • #10
    Gaspode
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,044 ✭✭✭Gaspode


    I remember it all right. Tasted sweet more than anything else. Slight Pear or apple sort of flavour and fizzy.


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