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  • thecat
    thecat Posts: 353
    Anyone remember Red Rock cider, lethal stuff. Think the advertising was, it's not red and there are no rocks in it!
  • charltonJ
    charltonJ Posts: 521
    Full sugar original lucazade. Since they changed it for the sugar tax a few years back it's rank.
  • Fumbluff
    Fumbluff Posts: 10,129
    thecat said:
    Anyone remember Red Rock cider, lethal stuff. Think the advertising was, it's not red and there are no rocks in it!
     Yeah, Lesley Nielsen did the ads
  • JiMMy 85
    JiMMy 85 Posts: 10,197
    25May98 said:
    What happened to ‘Tab’, the clear cola drink?
    Oh wow it’s my time to shine! I know the story behind this! 

    Pepsi launched Crystal Pepsi in the USA which was Pepsi but clear like lemonade. They cornered the market with this stuff. Coca Cola decided to follow, but rather than try to beat Pepsi, they went with a strategy to take Crystal Pepsi down - and it worked. 

    The plan was to launch their own clear cola, but they intentionally fudged the release. They made it totally unclear as to whether it was supposed to taste the same as Coke, and whether or not it was a diet drink (for 30+ years Tab was a diet version of Coke, but was largely replaced by Diet Coke in the early 80s). 
      
     This ‘kamikaze marketing’ plan made the whole clear cola landscape a confusing mess, and sales of Tab and Crystal Pepsi plummeted until both were withdrawn from the market!
  • ColinTat
    ColinTat Posts: 2,794
    Quatro!
  • i_b_b_o_r_g
    i_b_b_o_r_g Posts: 18,948
    ColinTat said:
    Quatro!
    Remember the advert
  • North Lower Neil
    North Lower Neil Posts: 22,962
    Crusty54 said:
    guinnessaddick said:
    i_b_b_o_r_g said:
    Carling Premier and Caffreys
    Caffreys used to love it when it first came out onto the market. Lost 3 bank cards in a cash machine one night after a gallon of it and needed some more cash, couldn’t remember my pin No. Think they made it weaker after a while.
    Drank far too many Caffreys one night in the Falcon at Clapham Junction. This was before it went on general sale in the weaker form. Very sore head in the morning.
    Went on a lad's holiday once about 7 hours ahead of my mates so I could leave 7 hours before a week later and get back for some big match we had, maybe Arsenal or Liverpool or something in the early Prem days.

    Anyway, early evening, thought I'd go next door to the hotel to find a burger and a pint, ended up being an Irish bar in full swing, ceilidh band, dancing and on the tables, the lot.  Got chatting to some Irish blokes and bought a Caffreys, and that was it, another Caffreys please.... My mates arrived at about 3am to find me absolutely plastered on the stuff, practically falling in front of their coach, spewing everywhere.

    Don't think I've ever drunk it since!
  • scidbox
    scidbox Posts: 535
    Texan.
  • cherryorchard
    cherryorchard Posts: 1,722
    charltonkeston said:
    Pan Yan Military pickle.
     If it’s been mentioned before it definitely deserves another mention.
    Reading your comment reminded me of the lady who used to wash the glassware in the lab at Guy's and always mispronounced the Greek name of one of the doctors and used to call him Dr Panyan.
  • jimmymelrose
    jimmymelrose Posts: 9,753
    edited April 2020
    ElfsborgAddick said:
    Coffee ice cream.
    Coffee ice cream is widely available, isn't it?

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  • ElfsborgAddick
    ElfsborgAddick Posts: 29,092
    jimmymelrose said:
    ElfsborgAddick said:
    Coffee ice cream.
    Coffee ice cream is widely available, isn't it?
    Unfortunately no, unless you go to an ice cream stall on the coast.

    If anybody can tell me of a supermarket selling it I'd be very grateful.
  • Garrymanilow
    Garrymanilow Posts: 13,176
    Spaghetti Sauce flavoured Monster Munch. Ben & Jerry's Vermonster.
    And Winner Tacos. They were amazing!
  • iaitch
    iaitch Posts: 10,234
    Oatibix Minis, apple flavour.
  • ElfsborgAddick
    ElfsborgAddick Posts: 29,092
    Mint flavoured Toffos, are they still around?
  • jimmymelrose
    jimmymelrose Posts: 9,753
    ElfsborgAddick said:
    jimmymelrose said:
    ElfsborgAddick said:
    Coffee ice cream.
    Coffee ice cream is widely available, isn't it?
    Unfortunately no, unless you go to an ice cream stall on the coast.

    If anybody can tell me of a supermarket selling it I'd be very grateful.
    I know that all the supermarkets in France sell it but I know that's no help. I'm surprised that it is not the same in England. Is Carte d'Or ice cream not available?
  • ElfsborgAddick
    ElfsborgAddick Posts: 29,092
    jimmymelrose said:
    ElfsborgAddick said:
    jimmymelrose said:
    ElfsborgAddick said:
    Coffee ice cream.
    Coffee ice cream is widely available, isn't it?
    Unfortunately no, unless you go to an ice cream stall on the coast.

    If anybody can tell me of a supermarket selling it I'd be very grateful.
    I know that all the supermarkets in France sell it but I know that's no help. I'm surprised that it is not the same in England. Is Carte d'Or ice cream not available?
    It is available but not in the elusive flavour.

    Next time in France maybe.
  • IdleHans
    IdleHans Posts: 10,972
    edited April 2020
    I'm pretty sure Waitrose sell it.
    Just checked, they do.
  • Return of the SE7
    Return of the SE7 Posts: 519
    Cremola Rice.
  • LargeAddick
    LargeAddick Posts: 32,594
    ElfsborgAddick said:
    jimmymelrose said:
    ElfsborgAddick said:
    Coffee ice cream.
    Coffee ice cream is widely available, isn't it?
    Unfortunately no, unless you go to an ice cream stall on the coast.

    If anybody can tell me of a supermarket selling it I'd be very grateful.

    ahem …. https://www.tesco.com/groceries/en-GB/products/303007731
  • ElfsborgAddick
    ElfsborgAddick Posts: 29,092
    LargeAddick said:
    ElfsborgAddick said:
    jimmymelrose said:
    ElfsborgAddick said:
    Coffee ice cream.
    Coffee ice cream is widely available, isn't it?
    Unfortunately no, unless you go to an ice cream stall on the coast.

    If anybody can tell me of a supermarket selling it I'd be very grateful.

    ahem …. https://www.tesco.com/groceries/en-GB/products/303007731
    I love you.

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  • MrWalker
    MrWalker Posts: 4,112
    Old English Spangles still available?
  • guinnessaddick
    guinnessaddick Posts: 28,662
    Wagon Wheels, you can still get them, but not sure about the, “this is bigger than both of us” bit.
  • Jints
    Jints Posts: 3,496
    ElfsborgAddick said:
    jimmymelrose said:
    ElfsborgAddick said:
    Coffee ice cream.
    Coffee ice cream is widely available, isn't it?
    Unfortunately no, unless you go to an ice cream stall on the coast.

    If anybody can tell me of a supermarket selling it I'd be very grateful.
    Not had it myself but  Magnum double mocchachino
  • NorwichRed
    NorwichRed Posts: 90
    Wimpy Burgers
    Jubblys
    Corona Cream Soda
  • Mortimerwasgod
    Mortimerwasgod Posts: 551
    Tab clear 
    Hubba bubba fizzy drink
    Trios
    Tomato ketchup walkers crisps
    Sara lee toffee strudel in frozen section
    Watermelon 20/20, what a drink!
    Caffreys? Or is that just where I live where its gone?

  • Stuart_the_Red
    Stuart_the_Red Posts: 1,854
    guinnessaddick said:


    Knew a girl who could do amazing things when she had this in her mouth.
    Space bars! Basically, a chewy bar with the ability to remove your fillings and studded with the above!
  • cafcdave123
    cafcdave123 Posts: 11,491
    NorwichRed said:
    Wimpy Burgers
    Jubblys
    Corona Cream Soda
    wimpy is still going, the bexleyheath one is brilliant
  • Karim_myBagheri
    Karim_myBagheri Posts: 12,731
    do they still do a wimpy grill? 
  • cafcdave123
    cafcdave123 Posts: 11,491
    Karim_myBagheri said:
    do they still do a wimpy grill? 
    yes they do mate.

    I REALLY want a wimpy now
  • MuttleyCAFC
    MuttleyCAFC Posts: 47,733
    NorwichRed said:
    Wimpy Burgers
    Jubblys
    Corona Cream Soda
    Those Wimpy frankfurter rings with a grilled tomato in the middle and an ice cream float to wash it down.

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