Retro soft drinks

Sgt Hartman · 08-09-2010 1:35pm #1

Anyone remember drinks such as Dwans orange? Or my personal favourite, Club shandy. I used to love Club shandy. I'd drink two cans of it during school lunch time (no wonder I was a fat bugger). Shame it's not produced anymore.
I used to love Lockwoods Cola as well as it was only 20p a can and it tasted gorgeous.

Can anyone here remember any other retro soft drinks?

Rubik. · 08-09-2010 2:53pm

I miss Cherry Coca Cola and Supercans. I remember the ad for Cadet Cola, but I don't think I ever tried it.

D1976 · 08-09-2010 2:59pm

I remember 3 litres of Panda Cola

And the Holy Grail of them all

The SodaStream maker

Get Busy with the Fizzy

08-09-2010 3:00pm

Rubik. wrote: »

Supercans.

blast from the past

mikemac · 08-09-2010 3:03pm

I remember some lad from Ballygowan on the Late Late Show telling us about his product

"Fooking fool" said I
Irish people will never pay for water

How wrong I was

I remember club shandy.
It has a minuscule amount of beer and I thought I was great buying it. Stuff was rank!

Pepsi and Coca Cola were pricy enough so Dunnes Stores had a vending machine in their stores for Dunnes Cola. Even at 25p it wasn't worth it.
What happened to Virgin Cola?
I read Richard Branson book and he said it was mega profits so I never did find out what happened to it

Princess Peach · 08-09-2010 3:08pm

Remember the Virgin Cola ad on tv? Tastes like chicken. Brilliant

WindSock · 08-09-2010 3:31pm

Cherry Coke is still around

had some yesterday actually.

I saw an ad campaign for Soda Stream recently too.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wXTx1fVk9hU

Ruu_Old · 08-09-2010 3:34pm

Cavan Cola.

Rubik. · 08-09-2010 3:36pm

WindSock wrote: »

Cherry Coke is still around had some yesterday actually.

Really??? I must look out for it.

LadyW · 08-09-2010 4:18pm

Ah yes, get busy with the fizzy... Used to love Sodastream !

I also remember an apple drink (Apla ??) It came out before Cidona and I used to love it

Welease · 08-09-2010 4:21pm

Used to love a fizzy grapefruit drink in a can.. a blue can i think..

Fresco?

chughes · 08-09-2010 4:23pm

Miranda Orange. If memory serves me right, I think Horslips were involved for a TV ad for it.

mikemac · 08-09-2010 4:24pm

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YV8zGNe7Ebg

Do they still sell this?

Now there are many versions, I do remember this ad but may have been a different voiceover for Ireland, I don't remember
It's not even a good or funny ad, I just remember it. Proof I suppose that the ad worked

Love the youtube comment, most girls these days are this orange with fake tan

lord lucan · 08-09-2010 6:45pm

Rubik. wrote: »

Really??? I must look out for it.

Boots carry a lot of flavours that we don't normally get over here,Cherry Coke,Cherry 7up etc,Tango etc.

kfallon · 09-09-2010 10:50am

Anyone remember Smak Pineapple cans?

Pittybitty · 09-09-2010 11:26am

Anyone remember bubble-up? It was kind off like sprite

I never got it in Dublin, always seemed to be in Wexford for some reason. Club Shandy is a blast from the past - we used to think we were great drinking it!! Cherry coke is back out as well - I've seen it in Super Valu and Dunnes

Aglomerado · 09-09-2010 11:54am

What about Shannon Minerals' Raspberryade and American cream soda - used to get them in Clare in the 1980s, yummy they were.

Club Shandy was great with its 1.6% beer, made me feel grown up buying it and I'm sure I had a can in front of me for most of my Leaving Cert exams.

l love cherry coke too, must get some!

Sids Not · 09-09-2010 4:50pm

chughes wrote: »

Miranda Orange. If memory serves me right, I think Horslips were involved for a TV ad for it.

It was Mirinda and yes it was Horslips..good call...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oX-_yDOi19E

...and while yer there son, get me a pac.................:eek:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7vUmAWOth7E&feature=related

tk123 · 09-09-2010 5:10pm

kfallon wrote: »

Anyone remember Smak Pineapple cans?

Yep! AND smak cola

John C · 09-09-2010 8:51pm

There was Carbery fizzy orange juice sold in West Cork.

Another drink was miwadi.

Excerpt from http://www.beveragecouncilofireland.ie/downloads/history06.12.06.doc

Dr Thomas Cantrell opened a shop in Belfast in 1852 where his business included the manufacture of aerated waters and sweet beverages. In 1868, he went into partnership with Alderman Cochrane (later Sir Henry and Lord Mayor of Dublin), and they opened their Dublin factory in the following year. Cantrell & Cochrane are best known for perfecting the manufacture of ginger ale and their “Club” range of products which was originally commissioned for the Kildare Street Club in Dublin.

In 1967 Thwaites, Cantrell & Cochrane, Taylor Keith and several other old established mineral water companies amalgamated to form Mineral Water Distributors Ltd. The initial letters of the company title were used for the “Mi-Wadi” range of fruit squashes.

Bearhunter · 09-09-2010 9:13pm

Pittybitty wrote: »

Anyone remember bubble-up? It was kind off like sprite I never got it in Dublin, always seemed to be in Wexford for some reason. Club Shandy is a blast from the past - we used to think we were great drinking it!! Cherry coke is back out as well - I've seen it in Super Valu and Dunnes

Bubble Up was made by Donohoe's in Enniscorthy and was effectively a 7UP-style affair. Donohoe's also made the Big Brother 640ml orange bottles and the 33oml Little Sister version, which were great. Their cola was ****e, however.

littlecat · 09-09-2010 10:20pm

Pineapple Crush - luminous yellow radioactive stuff in a little green bottle - doubt it ever got a sniff of a pineapple but I loved it!

jonas7 · 09-09-2010 11:45pm

I remember drinking small bottles of orange called Score. It was cheap and nasty but still drank it.

Sgt Hartman · 10-09-2010 9:19am

Aglomerado wrote: »

What about Shannon Minerals' Raspberryade and American cream soda - used to get them in Clare in the 1980s, yummy they were.

Club Shandy was great with its 1.6% beer, made me feel grown up buying it and I'm sure I had a can in front of me for most of my Leaving Cert exams.

l love cherry coke too, must get some!

Shannon minerals is still going strong. Their Lime juice and soda drink is gorgeous. You can't beat green colouring, artificial lime flavouring agent, sugar and soda water to quench your thirst on a hot day.

Anyone here remember Cadet cola in the 250ml bottles? A nasty toxic "drink" if there was ever one:P

Pittybitty · 10-09-2010 12:01pm

Remember that stuff that used to come in soft plastic containers? Really odd shapes with bendy tubes? It was violently coloured i.e. turquoise, red, luminous green etc. Sometimes the bottles were shaped like bears or space ships! Tasted FOUL but I still bought them

Aglomerado · 10-09-2010 12:39pm

Sgt Hartman wrote: »

Shannon minerals is still going strong. Their Lime juice and soda drink is gorgeous. You can't beat green colouring, artificial lime flavouring agent, sugar and soda water to quench your thirst on a hot day.

Oh wow that was another one I'd forgotten! Haven't seen them anywhere in years.

event · 10-09-2010 12:51pm

you can get Cherry Coke in most Boots afair

gipi · 10-09-2010 4:28pm

Friend of mine from Donegal remembers "football special" drinks - a locally made cola (like Cavan Cola, I guess). Think we spotted a bottle of it during a day out a couple of years ago!

I remember the Taylor Keith minerals (they weren't known as soft drinks back then!) every Xmas, which was the only time we had minerals in the house! - red & white lemonade, American cream soda, and ciderette!

There was TAB, in the pink tin, which preceded Diet Coke/Coke Zero!

AnnyHallsal · 10-09-2010 4:44pm

feelingstressed wrote: »

I remember club shandy.
It has a minuscule amount of beer and I thought I was great buying it.

There was no alcohol in it, ya mad yoke. Twas called a shandy cos it was a mixture of two things orange and ...lemon, I think.

I used to love Canada Dry and Cidona cos I thought they were mildly alcoholic too. :pac:

I Love Tea · 10-09-2010 6:52pm

AnnyHallsal wrote: »

There was no alcohol in it, ya mad yoke. Twas called a shandy cos it was a mixture of two things orange and ...lemon, I think.

I used to love Canada Dry and Cidona cos I thought they were mildly alcoholic too. :pac:

Club produced 2 types of shandy I remember the beer one well, I used to think I was all grown up with a can of that stuff in my hand even though it probably only contained .03% alcohol

AnnyHallsal · 10-09-2010 7:04pm

I Love Tea wrote: »

Club produced 2 types of shandy I remember the beer one well, I used to think I was all grown up with a can of that stuff in my hand even though it probably only contained .03% alcohol

That sounds ace (in a terrible, terrible way

).

anewme · 10-09-2010 7:31pm

Pittybitty wrote: »

Remember that stuff that used to come in soft plastic containers? Really odd shapes with bendy tubes? It was violently coloured i.e. turquoise, red, luminous green etc. Sometimes the bottles were shaped like bears or space ships! Tasted FOUL but I still bought them

I remember them. There was ones shaped like space ships and I always remember horses head shaped ones. Vile evil stuff.

Anyone remember tip top drinks, kind of the same stuff that was in the horse head yokes only not quite as bad, there was strawberry, orange and cola.

AnnyHallsal · 10-09-2010 7:34pm

Remember clear cola? Mental.. Tasted really cheap.

JONJO THE MISER · 11-09-2010 12:23am

jonas7 wrote: »

I remember drinking small bottles of orange called Score. It was cheap and nasty but still drank it.

Yeah i remember that used to buy it all the time, think it was 20p or something really realy fizzy.

bdr529 · 12-09-2010 9:44am

the club orange and lemon drink was called 'Rock Shandy' - same as what you would get in the pub.
the other club shandy was beer based and had a token amount of alcohol.
the granny used to have a can ready for me when I came home for lunch every friday, in the last year in school she started buying me a bottle of Kaliber for friday lunchtime, used to think I was the dogs rocks going back into school after a beer lunch......I miss my granny.

anyone remember a pyramid shaped carton of orange that came with a straw ?

gipi · 12-09-2010 2:06pm

I remember the pyramid shaped drink cartons - although as they didn't have a square base, the shape was called a tetrahedron. Can't remember the name of the orange drink though! Didn't they sell milk in these shaped cartons as well?

Here's a UK version - jubbly orange....where the phrase "lovely jubbly" came from apparently!

The company Tetra Pak got their name from the original tetrahedron cartons they used to make! (isn't wiki wonderful!!)

AnnyHallsal · 12-09-2010 2:50pm

Anyone remember Dawn's strawberry milk drink from the 90s? It had a bunny on the carton. I remember people in third class getting it as their school milk.

bdr529 · 13-09-2010 4:10pm

gipi wrote: »

I remember the pyramid shaped drink cartons - although as they didn't have a square base, the shape was called a tetrahedron. Can't remember the name of the orange drink though! Didn't they sell milk in these shaped cartons as well?

Here's a UK version - jubbly orange....where the phrase "lovely jubbly" came from apparently!

The company Tetra Pak got their name from the original tetrahedron cartons they used to make! (isn't wiki wonderful!!)

I can't spell tetrahedron.....

desolate sun · 13-09-2010 4:54pm

bdr529 wrote: »

I can't spell tetrahedron.....

I think you managed it there

Anyone remember cans with white plastic "teeth"-shaped bottoms? Only ever got them once and have no idea who makes them.

L1011 · 13-09-2010 11:36pm

gipi wrote: »

Friend of mine from Donegal remembers "football special" drinks - a locally made cola (like Cavan Cola, I guess). Think we spotted a bottle of it during a day out a couple of years ago!

Still made, along with a violently chemical "Bananade" - http://mcdaids.ie/

But Football Special isn't a cola - it just looks like one in the bottle. And looks like a pint of Smithwicks when poured! Tastes nothing like a cola.

I've a habit of coming back from a trip home with a bootful of it - and I've got a carvan... used to do the same with Irn Bru until it became more widely available in the past few years.

Aglomerado · 14-09-2010 8:55am

AnnyHallsal wrote: »

There was no alcohol in it, ya mad yoke. Twas called a shandy cos it was a mixture of two things orange and ...lemon, I think.

Ah, Rock shandy! That was a different product entirely! It was nice as well...

Sgt Hartman · 28-09-2010 9:43am

AnnyHallsal wrote: »

Remember clear cola? Mental.. Tasted really cheap.

I remember that. Tab Clear it was called. It had a rather daft ad campaign on tv. I used to love the stuff:)

Ann22 · 28-09-2010 7:08pm

kfallon wrote: »

Anyone remember Smak Pineapple cans?

I do:), from back in 1988, they did cola as well. I'm not sure about Lemon and Lime or Orange.

bdr529 wrote: »

anyone remember a pyramid shaped carton of orange that came with a straw ?

I don't know if I'm remembering the same drink as you. The one I remember would be back in the late 70s.

Anyone remember Tip Tops? The little squarish plastic cartons with a lid you pushed a straw through. The drinks were flat...the flavours were orange and cola, maybe others.

Jordan 199 · 28-09-2010 9:20pm

Jennings Cordial. Robinsons had a cola flavoured drink that I remember from the early 90's. It had an orangey/redish colour.

Misticles · 05-10-2010 10:37am

Don't know if it's been mentioned - those little plastic packs of juice??

They were yum but thinking back, kinda tasted like plastic ha

stevveyg · 05-10-2010 10:44am

any one remember liptonice, think i was the only kid around my area to actually like it, needless to say it didnt last too long around here!

Dublin_Gunner · 05-10-2010 11:23am

Though its still around, Lilt is most definitely retro!

Also, Cherry Coke can not be called Cherry coke, unless you an save the ring pulls to send away for a Cherry Coke Can Transformer.

That Transformer was the only reason I drank the stuff.

rubadub · 06-10-2010 9:32am

gipi wrote: »

Friend of mine from Donegal remembers "football special" drinks - a locally made cola (like Cavan Cola, I guess).

I have a 2L of it in the fridge! got up north.

MYOB wrote: »

But Football Special isn't a cola - it just looks like one in the bottle. And looks like a pint of Smithwicks when poured! Tastes nothing like a cola.

It is like cream soda with a dash of blackcurrant and something else. It does have a head and I heard people drank in pubs it as kids as it looked like a proper pint. The funny blurb on the label says the "football" as since it was started out as a drink to be poured into a football trophy cup and drank out of, as an non-alcoholic alternative.

found it.
http://mcdaids.ie/football-special/

Football Special is one of our oldest and most distinguished products winning two awards for excellence in ’84 and ’89 from the London Beverage Society. James McDaid Jnr., along with his role as CEO of the company was also on the founding board of Swilly Rovers FC, one of the most decorated junior football clubs in Ireland, he wanted to celebrate winning trophies by filling the cup with an exciting but non-alcoholic beverage. They created a drink and named it “Football Cup”. Later this was changed to Football Special. It is too strong for my liking, I put a drop into 7up and it is lovely though.

At McDaids we are proud of its legacy with the most common question being what’s in a bottle of Football Special? Well simply it’s a blend of 7 different flavours – which we won’t name here!!- which is then mixed with water from our own private water source. Following the addition of the secret ingredient a bottle is born. Football Special has since branched out to include a Reduced Sugar flavour and an isotonic sport drink FS Sport. FS Sport allows you to enjoy the flavour of Football Special while getting the benefits of glucose fast into your blood stream, making it the perfect training partner

gipi wrote: »

There was TAB, in the pink tin, which preceded Diet Coke/Coke Zero!

How they came up with the name tab is funny.

Tab was introduced as a diet drink in 1963. Coca-Cola's marketing research department used its IBM 1401 computer to generate a list of over 250,000 four-letter words with one vowel, adding names suggested by the company's own staff; the list was stripped of any words deemed unpronounceable or too similar to existing trademarks. From a final list of about twenty names, "Tabb" was chosen, influenced by the possible play on words, and shortened to "Tab" during development, and designer Sid Dickens gave the name the capitalisation pattern ("TaB") used in the logo

AnnyHallsal wrote: »

There was no alcohol in it, ya mad yoke. Twas called a shandy cos it was a mixture of two things orange and ...lemon, I think

2 types as said. I remember being refused club shandy on 2-3 occasions as the checkout girls said she could not serve me alcohol!

I remember hybrid cans of something, it was about 250ml the tops & bottoms were aluminium with a ring pull, but the side was plastic, I think it had a spaceship and stars on it.

Remember milk mate? the strawberry milkshake syrup. We used to not drink milk on purpose and let it build up, knowing the mother would have to buy milk mate to get us to finish it off before it went off! sneaky beggars...

Capri sun is still about too but was more popular years ago. Its still in a chipper I go to.

SomeFool · 07-10-2010 3:11pm

Anyone else remember schweppes schizan? I was addicted to the stuff

Or Sunkist?

Skerries · 08-10-2010 3:25pm

none of your namby pamby soft drinks
remember Tennents with the ladies on the side?

djimi · 13-10-2010 6:22pm

SomeFool wrote: »

Anyone else remember schweppes schizan? I was addicted to the stuff

I was actually going to post this! Used to love it when I was a kid. Cant even remember what it tastes like now tbh!

My favorite was always Canada Dry tho. Gutted when they stopped selling it. Got knows how many gallons of the stuff I drank on holidays in Canada a few years ago! The Schweppes rebranded ginger ale just isnt the same...

Retro soft drinks

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