![]() What nightmares are made of.” BRITVIC 55 (1960s – ) Basically sophisto-orangeade, enjoyed as part of a screwdriver by seventies laydeez in saloon bars, before they were allowed to partake of the “large drinks” of manhood. My mum always made me pay for it, and I used to hate it, as I always got the lad with the feather cut, and the knotted Sunderland scarf round his neck, who would give me the fingers as they sped off up the road. ![]() It was always delivered by hard kids, who used to hang off the van, and leg it round in huge oxford bags, and mashed up two- tone big heeled shoes. Rob Dixon – “It came in loads of different sugar laden flavours My favourite was pineapple. Hanging in there by its fingernails, still slightly more famous than a documentary about children of the same name.ĪLPINE POP (1960s/70s ) Sunderland-based fizzies delivered, memorably, to outlying towns via the Alpin lorry. Covered Jorden Fomula 1 cars in their logs. Image change in the late eighties with the “Fido Dido” character proved to be a load of wank (apart from Italian exchange students, who sport baseball caps and T-shirts with it on to this day) and sales still dropped. Early bottles had the phrase “you like it, it likes you” embossed on it, which can’t have been more than half right in most cases. Watch and learn, and see those nose-invading bubbles come out to haunt you once more.ħ UP (1940s – ) Coca-Cola’s “refreshing” alternative to Coke, basically lemonade with an entirely irrelevant and unexplained name. There are also a few independents such as Barr’s (Irn Bru) and Panda pops. Then the 7 Up company which actually made Pepsi before it found its own feet, and other smaller players like Schweppes and Canada Dry also had their share of success. Firstly there was the super giant Coke organisation, with more connections than the Mafia, who made Coke, Sprite, Lilt and Fanta. Most of the following examples fall into families. Whilst the world was changing, the balance of power swapping from East to West, international terrorism running rife, and the popular music world going mad over the likes of Kajagoogoo and Modern Romance, there was one unifying factor, which connected any person in any country in sensation and kinship to their fellow man – fizzy drinks. ![]() Lived on tv. for 11 years before they finally took it off last year, luckily I still have the original and some choice comments I got on facebook. Another archive – possibly the best bit of writing i’ve ever done.
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