Arry 24,588 Posted April 16 Report Share Posted April 16 (edited) Bet there is a few on here that can remember being dragged along with mother to local hall to pick up Orange juice in medicine bottle with the measurements on the side of the bottle. Think it was a ration card thing. I remember also the Pop van selling Squash mainly Orange but Gran bought a new flavour Pineapple and Grapefruit I thought I was in heaven when I first tasted that. How things have changed from the days we had f**k all. Cheers Arry Edited April 16 by Arry 5 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Lenmcharristar 10,247 Posted April 16 Report Share Posted April 16 Over here we called them the lemonade man, we have maine, ross’s and C&C, who remembers quosh tropical diluted cordial? Was like hulk green Quote Link to post Share on other sites
TRUEBRIT66 2,060 Posted April 16 Report Share Posted April 16 Our Alpine driver was Polish his name was Dropa Bottleovpopov !!! Stuff must have been pure sugar couple that with the fruit polo's we had as a treat its amazing kids had any teeth left. 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
chartpolski 27,464 Posted April 16 Report Share Posted April 16 1 minute ago, TRUEBRIT66 said: Our Alpine driver was Polish his name was Dropa Bottleovpopov !!! Stuff must have been pure sugar couple that with the fruit polo's we had as a treat its amazing kids had any teeth left. But we were very active ! LOL ! Nowadays it’s called “ADHD” ! Cheers. 6 3 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
TRUEBRIT66 2,060 Posted April 16 Report Share Posted April 16 10 minutes ago, chartpolski said: But we were very active ! LOL ! Nowadays it’s called “ADHD” ! Cheers. Strange isnt it sugar was shovelled down our necks but almost every kid was as skinny as anything. You imagine a "sugar tax" being accepted back then! 5 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
TOMO 28,404 Posted April 16 Report Share Posted April 16 29 minutes ago, TRUEBRIT66 said: Strange isnt it sugar was shovelled down our necks but almost every kid was as skinny as anything. You imagine a "sugar tax" being accepted back then! Yep...despite our high sugar intake....our generation were never indoors...I think that's the difference... 5 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
TOMO 28,404 Posted April 16 Report Share Posted April 16 2 hours ago, mC HULL said: 60? lol You can go off some people real quick...lol 4 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
ands 573 Posted April 16 Report Share Posted April 16 Even the crates the pop bottles came in are still useful now. 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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mC HULL 15,579 Posted April 16 Report Share Posted April 16 18 hours ago, chartpolski said: Half a teaspoon of sugar added to the bottle would give second fermentation but I was wanting to avoid sediments. I use Turbo yeast and Turbo finings and get excellent results with a high alcohol content. Just fancied a bottle of sparkling now and again. Cheers. i’ll brew bits for crimbo chart i enjoy it to be fair ive seen the turbo yeast is it any good Quote Link to post Share on other sites
chartpolski 27,464 Posted April 16 Report Share Posted April 16 5 minutes ago, mC HULL said: i’ll brew bits for crimbo chart i enjoy it to be fair ive seen the turbo yeast is it any good Yes, it’s much faster than ordinary yeast, but you can still get good results with bakers yeast if you use Turbo Klar finings to clear the wine. If you’re not in a hurry , bakers yeast is much cheaper than Turbo yeast. Cheers. 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
mushroom 14,011 Posted April 16 Report Share Posted April 16 21 hours ago, dodger said: I remember a lass falling from the top and breaking her arm. The teacher told us all to carry on unsupervised while he carried her to a plastic seat outside to wait for her mum to take her to the hospital! We were around 6-7years old The pop man was ace. Pop, crisps etc and then the dodgy video van would turn up. Problem was our mums would not let us in the houses until teatime. We used to rotate the Saturday video evening between about 6kids houses, bring your own pop and munchies. This is after we’d been down on the golf course as soon as breakfast was done, rain or shine, grafting and selling golf balls. 4 for a pound of the good quality ones, 5 if not so good. Mid 80’s, 7 years old and we’d have 5pounds+ each to do with what we wanted. Just had to duck and dive the parkies and avoid the unscrupulous adults who tried to rob the balls. We soon cottoned on to the cnuts and would rob their balls after they teed off and sell them to the other golfers 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
pesky1972 5,634 Posted April 16 Report Share Posted April 16 Pop not really a word up here, was just the juice lorry. They certainly kept the dentists busy in the days before the word ‘diet’ might prefix your fizzy drink of choice. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Daniel cain 48,347 Posted April 16 Report Share Posted April 16 9 hours ago, TOMO said: you lot must have had silver spoons ...poor as church mice we were Same here,only silver spoons I ever saw growing up,was on a chain or for washing back crack 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
waltjnr 7,912 Posted April 16 Report Share Posted April 16 We used to ask the ice cream man for broken wafers ! Soda streams were for rich folk ,had a mate with one I liked to just drink the cola ,and shandy concentrate! Being sent down to the offy on side of pub ,to get mum fag's n peanuts ,I moved from a village to Walthamstow, I'd never seen a coloured, that soon changed ! 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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