Traditionally lucozade was brought from the chemist in a glass bottle with orange wrap around it and parents gave it as a pick me up when you were ill. Over time the company made flavoured drinks in cans and bottles. Elderflower Fent can be drink on it's own or use as a mixer with vodka or gin. A shandy traditionally is beer and lemonade mixed, you can also get lager shandy. The cans you buy in the shops are for kids and have no alcohol so not to be confused with one from the pub that's alcoholic lol.
I love Fentimans Elderflower. I don't really drink much alcohol (I know! I'm a disgrace to British drinking culture 😀), so drink it in place of wine with meals. I'm in the south so don't know about it's availability everywhere but it seems to be most easily found in gastro type pubs and restaurants rather than general pubs. As others have said, Lucozade was marketed as a health drink/tonic. It was in a glass bottle with an orange cellophane wrapper, bought in chemist shops.
I'm in Cornwall, and there is a lovely local Cyder farm (Healey's) which also sells several varieties of wine made from assorted fruits/flowers, and I used to love a bottle of their Elderflower Wine, which was fairly low alcohol (around 4%) but very similar taste wise to a sparkling Elderflower Presse. They also produce various whiskey's and some wonderful Apple Brandy and make some lovely Vintage Ciders (Hard Cider for the US folks, as we don't really have "Soft Cider" over here, just apple juice) which are aged in Jack Daniels barrels, Whiskey barrels, Brandy barrels etc (different barrels for different varieties, they were an accidental success from using Cider to "clean" the Jack Daniels barrels before using them to age the Appe Brandy). I think Elderflower is a bit of an acquired taste, but I love it. I have a bottle of Elderflower Syrup in the fridge which I mix with sparkling water (Soda Stream) to make my own version of the Fentimans drink. At it's simplest, Elderflower Syrup is made from simply Water, Sugar, and the Flowers themselves (which are the flowers from Elder shrubs/trees, which later become Elderberries if fertilised)
Yeah, original Lucozade had a flavour all of it's own - certainly nowt to do with oranges - but a taste that, even though you were no longer poorly, you really liked.
Lucozade originally had one flavour and it was marketed as a pick-me-up and often given to children with the common cold. The fruit flavours and sports drinks are modern variants. The slogan was "Lucozade Aids Recovery", nowadays the adverts concentrate on, the positive helping with training etc., rather than the negative illness tonic.
When I was a child… a loooong tiiiime ago …. 😉😳🥺 Lucozade was v v expensive and was considered as a “liquid medicine” and I was only given it if I was really reallly, like REALLY ill! The bottle cap was covered in a bright orange film and stuck to the bottle and part of the recognition of me being “really ill” was the slow ceremony of removing the orange film and u screwing the cap, I was never given a WHOLE glass of the drink, as it had to last because it was expensive compared to other bottles of fizzy pop. The advertising literature claimed That Lucozade was gentle on upset stomachs and would help someone suffering from nausea!
@@FinnLovesFood oh Lucozade cured all known ills - ….’(winks’ ) allegedly… as we say over here! I think the glucose and sugar content helped regain energy levels lost through being under the weather and being nauseous - and no artificial anythings meant that there wouldn’t be any allergic reactions to additives, so could be given without the risk of causing another problem. A true “comfort and tonic” when yiu were feeling dog rough! 😁
Lucozade original is the only one I will drink, it came out in the 60s as a drink for people who are not feeling too well. I love the original and it goes well with vodka too.
Fun fact which i only found out the other day: Lilt is now a flavour of Fanta rather than its own thing like it used to be. I seen it in the shop the other day as "Fanta Lilt"
its illegal in the usa, as burdock is actually poisonous in large amounts. its very restricted in the uk too, i think fentons is the only company allowed to use real burdock
Lucozade is more like Gatorade than Redbull, they do sports drinks rather than energy drinks, there are a few flavours available. Fentimans is a more upmarket adult aimed brand, they are more famous for alcohol mixers and their soft drinks are normally in with tonic water at the supermarkets
The original Lucazade flavour ıs dificult to describe. Like other people on here I was given it when I was young to help recover from illness. Loved the flavour and didn't mind having a cold because I knew I was going to get Lucazade! For the time 50s/60s, it was expensive.
@@FinnLovesFood No idea. I think the taste of the original ıs still the same, but whether people stıll gıve ıt to their kids, your guess is as good as mine! More likely to gıve them Red Bull than Lucazade.
We tried fizzy Vimto in our other video. I wish we could find the cordial, because I would have liked to adjust the flavor just a bit stronger. That's what I started doing with Ribena.
fentemans is available, it's just a bit posh. so not many people will buy it because it costs more and isn't in the most obvious places. it's usually in posh pubs/bars from what i've seen
Ribena, Walkers ready salted crisps and paracetamol used to be my go to hangover cure, still would be but I have learned not to get such a state now that I am in my late 40s!!! I also make my own Shandy with most lagers or beers and mix with something like Sprite or 7UP, you can mix to your desired taste, again good on a sunny day served icy cold.
Shandy from a pub would be 50-50 beer-lemonade - usually the canned versions are only 2% beer. If you can get it, worth checking out Ben Shaw's Cream Soda
To make your own shandy mix equal parts lemonade and beer. I think it works better with English Ales and bitters but you can use lagers and pioneers too.
Make your own shandy 50/50 beer to fizzy lemonade. Lemonade first then poor over your beer, must all be cold great thirst quencher. In the north of England we call fizzy drinks pop and we would have the pop man bringing them to your door lots of flavours, this was until they became commercial like Vimto ( anagram vomit)
A shandy is half beer half lemonade/ lemon soda. Just make your own. It's what people would give kids to help them learn to drink and respect alcohol. Lucozade was only sold in chemists originally. You only got that if you were ill. Look out for tango dark berry it does come in zero sugar as well.
Crabbies make ginger beer since it was taken over by Halewood but it's probably better known for their green ginger wine which is perfect as a mixer with whisky.
Lucazade is more a glucose energy drink than a tourine drink like red bull, we have a fanta like fizzy drink called Tango (strange old commercials if you wanna google it), if you can get it Shweppes make some mixers, for Ribena (who also do a fizzy version in a can) cordial type drinks anything by Robinsons (who up until a couple of years ago were a main sponsor of Wimbledon tennis), san pelligrino for fruit fizzy drink with a slightly higher fruir content. Back to Lucozade, in the 60s, 70s, and 80s if you had to go to the hospital or the doctors for anything worse than a checkup, you'd almost certainly get a glass bottle of the original Lucazode to 'help' your recovery. Also bear in mind with all the drink they'll generally have no or few artificial colours or flavours.
We do get Schweppes and San Pellegrino. I've been enjoying Ribena with sparkling water - that's my favorite way to drink it! Interesting about Lucozade!
Some people when they go to the pub ..instead of getting drunk will drink shandy....beer shandy larger shandy cider shandy....half pint of either then lemonade to make up a pint....
Bitter shandy in cans can be sold to children in the uk. When they say lemonade in the uk it is what you would call sprite. Your type of fresh lemonade we call traditional lemonade.
Our supermarkets are empty of a lot of foods at the minute due to covid, a lack of lorry drivers and brexit so we are struggling to buy food things at the moment such as crisps, bread and meat so you are lucky if you get our food and drink in stores over there.
We found these a few months ago, but the store seemed to be a bit down on stock. We are experiencing similar things with ships waiting to get in ports and not enough truck drivers. It seems some people are already starting to panic buy like at the start of the pandemic.
Oh stop with the woes. I went shopping tonight to my regular supermarket ( London outskirts) and it was full to bursting, as it has been all along. Stop with the political point scoring and moaning. We had a few days in the UK where the media told everyone ( as usual) that bad times were coming, and silly people went out and hoarded fuel and a few essentials. Had they all not listened to the hype, there would have been no shortages. As it is, some silly people now have enough loo roll and Turkey to have a really bizzare Christmas ... !
@@RajBlake7 have the agree, I’ve seen some veg short on a Sunday, and for about a week one time out Morrison’s only had about 20 brands of bottled water available instead of 25, funny enough it was the Scottish ones that were missing. Never any shortage of meat or anything else. I’ve never been to any supermarket and not been able to buy something I wanted
It was good. How about yours? We ended up putting out a candy bowl and refilling it every so often. It was noisy out so I think there were a lot of trick or treaters! I googled Squirt and I guess it is still around. Just haven't noticed it in the store for quite a while.
The ginger beer probably has 0.5% alcohol as it’s traditionally carbonated, instead of infusing it, it’ll be a bit of yeast and sugar, and ferment in the bottle.
This one had 4% alcohol. We did try another ginger beer from Fentiman's in our other video. I bet it had the 0.5% alcohol content. It also had a stronger ginger flavor.
@@FinnLovesFood, I make my own ginger beer in old plastic pop bottles - I don't know how alcoholic it is, but you can get a bit squiffy on it if you drink a lot of it. Mine is very gingery because I put a lot of ground ginger in it. Ginger beer was originally always alcoholic, but now it's more often non-alcoholic and just sold in big bottles like other pop. I've never tried any Fentiman's because it's very expensive for what it is - usually what you get in upmarket cafes and restaurants.
Fentimans are great. I cant stand Vimto but love Irn Bru and Ribena. Shandy is great in summer and Lucozade we use as a hangover cure like you guys use Gatorade. When it comes to Lilt i prefer (oddly enough) the zero sugar option. And to me Elderflower is too floral, im not a fan of it.
PS: on the subject of Lemonade, i LOVE the Minute Maid Lemonade whenever i am in the states. I also LOVE Lemon Fanta but i have never seen that on your side of the pond.
Some of these drinks I've never heard of, I prefer Ales and Beers, by the way, Vimpto was first made in my home City of Manchester, I'm sorry 🤣🤣🤣 I've not had a squirt for so long, that means something different in England 🤣🤣🤣🍺
Lucozade original and orange are the standard 2 flavours you'll find in most shops, then some shops do other flavours like Cherry, Apple, Lemon, during the summer there's a strawberry and watermelon flavour, there are also still versions called Lucozade Sport which are good if you're doing exercise or running, the standard 2 flavours are orange and raspberry, then there's other flavours that appear now and again
Sorry....just fact checked myself, It used to contain BVO (a flame retardant),it was removed in 2020. I also love soda (fizzy ribena my favourite) but rather than cut back I dilute it 50/50 with fizzy water.the original now tastes too sweet. Give my regards to Ross,enjoying your reactions, hope you make it over to the UK soon.
@@panchomcsporran2083 we haven't seen fizzy Ribena here, but we do like to mix the cordial with sparkling water. We do hope to make it to the UK someday!
Used to love the original lucozade in its orange cellophane wrapping - almost worth getting sick for! Not so sure about the orange flavoured one though?
Traditionally lucozade was brought from the chemist in a glass bottle with orange wrap around it and parents gave it as a pick me up when you were ill. Over time the company made flavoured drinks in cans and bottles. Elderflower Fent can be drink on it's own or use as a mixer with vodka or gin. A shandy traditionally is beer and lemonade mixed, you can also get lager shandy. The cans you buy in the shops are for kids and have no alcohol so not to be confused with one from the pub that's alcoholic lol.
6:46 his face says it all 🤣
I love Fentimans Elderflower. I don't really drink much alcohol (I know! I'm a disgrace to British drinking culture 😀), so drink it in place of wine with meals. I'm in the south so don't know about it's availability everywhere but it seems to be most easily found in gastro type pubs and restaurants rather than general pubs.
As others have said, Lucozade was marketed as a health drink/tonic. It was in a glass bottle with an orange cellophane wrapper, bought in chemist shops.
We've really enjoyed trying all the different flavors from Fentimans.
I'm in Cornwall, and there is a lovely local Cyder farm (Healey's) which also sells several varieties of wine made from assorted fruits/flowers, and I used to love a bottle of their Elderflower Wine, which was fairly low alcohol (around 4%) but very similar taste wise to a sparkling Elderflower Presse. They also produce various whiskey's and some wonderful Apple Brandy and make some lovely Vintage Ciders (Hard Cider for the US folks, as we don't really have "Soft Cider" over here, just apple juice) which are aged in Jack Daniels barrels, Whiskey barrels, Brandy barrels etc (different barrels for different varieties, they were an accidental success from using Cider to "clean" the Jack Daniels barrels before using them to age the Appe Brandy).
I think Elderflower is a bit of an acquired taste, but I love it. I have a bottle of Elderflower Syrup in the fridge which I mix with sparkling water (Soda Stream) to make my own version of the Fentimans drink. At it's simplest, Elderflower Syrup is made from simply Water, Sugar, and the Flowers themselves (which are the flowers from Elder shrubs/trees, which later become Elderberries if fertilised)
@@jennetscarborough5145 that's interesting about the wine made from flowers. I've seen wine made from a variety of fruits, but not flowers.
@@FinnLovesFood Some flower based wines always seem to crop up with the "home brew" crowd.
@@colinmoore7460 it would be interesting to try.
"Original" Lucozade was what you were given if you were in hospital as a child.
Yeah, original Lucozade had a flavour all of it's own - certainly nowt to do with oranges - but a taste that, even though you were no longer poorly, you really liked.
Lucozade was originally given when recovering from an illness.
Shandy is what you used to get if you went to the pub with your parents & it was made with half bitter and half lemonade. Ah! those were the days.
Yep, when you were a young kid, you’d get a pint of shandy so you felt like you were fitting in with the adults. I assume you can’t do that anymore
Lucozade originally had one flavour and it was marketed as a pick-me-up and often given to children with the common cold.
The fruit flavours and sports drinks are modern variants.
The slogan was "Lucozade Aids Recovery", nowadays the adverts concentrate on, the positive helping with training etc., rather than the negative illness tonic.
Elderflower soft drink is definitely refreshing and nice tasting it's a plant
When I was a child… a loooong tiiiime ago …. 😉😳🥺 Lucozade was v v expensive and was considered as a “liquid medicine” and I was only given it if I was really reallly, like REALLY ill! The bottle cap was covered in a bright orange film and stuck to the bottle and part of the recognition of me being “really ill” was the slow ceremony of removing the orange film and u screwing the cap, I was never given a WHOLE glass of the drink, as it had to last because it was expensive compared to other bottles of fizzy pop. The advertising literature claimed
That Lucozade was gentle on upset stomachs and would help someone suffering from nausea!
Was it primarily given for upset stomach or was it used for other illnesses too?
@@FinnLovesFood oh Lucozade cured all known ills - ….’(winks’ ) allegedly… as we say over here! I think the glucose and sugar content helped regain energy levels lost through being under the weather and being nauseous - and no artificial anythings meant that there wouldn’t be any allergic reactions to additives, so could be given without the risk of causing another problem. A true “comfort and tonic” when yiu were feeling dog rough! 😁
I love elderflower, I am sat watching you drinking a glass of elderflower cordial.
Lucozade original is the only one I will drink, it came out in the 60s as a drink for people who are not feeling too well. I love the original and it goes well with vodka too.
Lucozade was originally called Glucozade and started in 1927. I was given some as a young child in the 50s at the recommendation of my family doctor.
Fun fact which i only found out the other day: Lilt is now a flavour of Fanta rather than its own thing like it used to be. I seen it in the shop the other day as "Fanta Lilt"
Fentimans dandelion and burdock is really good. It's one of the only brands remaining that use ACTUAL dandelion and burdock root in the recipe.
I keep hoping to find it here. I liked Ben Shaw's so really want to try Fentiman's.
its illegal in the usa, as burdock is actually poisonous in large amounts. its very restricted in the uk too, i think fentons is the only company allowed to use real burdock
@@cyberash3000 I couldn't find where burdock is illegal here, but I do see that it's an invasive plant!
Pre covid I used to meet up with a friend on market day in a nearby town, he would drink Fentimans D&B.
@@grahvis hoping I can track it down some day.
The lucozade comes in a pink flavour to, but the orange one is an energy drink, my mum would of give it to me when I was sick as she said a cure lol
Apple and Elderflower is nice and comes as a cordial.
Lucozade is more like Gatorade than Redbull, they do sports drinks rather than energy drinks, there are a few flavours available. Fentimans is a more upmarket adult aimed brand, they are more famous for alcohol mixers and their soft drinks are normally in with tonic water at the supermarkets
Ahh, okay. Lucozade tastes much better than Gatorade too!
My grandma used to mix Ribena and milk.
A shandy is a mix of lager 🍺 and then filled half with lemonade
The original Lucazade flavour ıs dificult to describe. Like other people on here I was given it when I was young to help recover from illness. Loved the flavour and didn't mind having a cold because I knew I was going to get Lucazade! For the time 50s/60s, it was expensive.
So has Lucozade changed over the years? Is it the same formula and do people still give it to children when they aren't feeling well?
@@FinnLovesFood No idea. I think the taste of the original ıs still the same, but whether people stıll gıve ıt to their kids, your guess is as good as mine! More likely to gıve them Red Bull than Lucazade.
Well i can tell you as a child growing up in the 90's i was given it to cure cold and any other illness but for kids in todays world who knows
Nicely done !😁
The Rose Lemonade with a plain (good quality) gin is lovely!
Try and find vimto , cordial or fizzy ,it's lovely stuff. Good vid again , looking forward to the next
We tried fizzy Vimto in our other video. I wish we could find the cordial, because I would have liked to adjust the flavor just a bit stronger. That's what I started doing with Ribena.
Love Lilt! Been drinking it since I was a kid.
The elderflower drinks more for mixing with gin
"I havent had a squirt in so long", im sorry but i couldnt help my dirty mind. Lol
fentemans is available, it's just a bit posh. so not many people will buy it because it costs more and isn't in the most obvious places. it's usually in posh pubs/bars from what i've seen
Lucozade was a drink my mother forced me to drink as a kid when I was sick. I hated it, but it wasn't orange flavoured back then.
Shandy is beer and fizzy lemonade.
Fentamans Rose Lemonade is amazing with Gin and ice on a sunny day!
Ribena, Walkers ready salted crisps and paracetamol used to be my go to hangover cure, still would be but I have learned not to get such a state now that I am in my late 40s!!! I also make my own Shandy with most lagers or beers and mix with something like Sprite or 7UP, you can mix to your desired taste, again good on a sunny day served icy cold.
@@nicolaclement6993 you are giving us lots of great ideas for summertime drinks!
Shandy from a pub would be 50-50 beer-lemonade - usually the canned versions are only 2% beer. If you can get it, worth checking out Ben Shaw's Cream Soda
I have seen Fentimans first in cafes before I saw it in supermarkets.
To make your own shandy mix equal parts lemonade and beer. I think it works better with English Ales and bitters but you can use lagers and pioneers too.
Pilsners
Also a british shandy uses carbonated lemonade, and not uncommonly lemon and lime drinks like sprite, opposed to a still lemonade.
@@teadrinkingturret2088 good point. I forget the US is big on still lemonade
Elderflower wine is much better. Elderflower sparkling wine is better still! Elderberry wine (red) is also well worth the wait.
not seen it for years, but lilt used do a mango and mandarin, best flavour ever
Oh that does sound good.
Make your own shandy 50/50 beer to fizzy lemonade. Lemonade first then poor over your beer, must all be cold great thirst quencher. In the north of England we call fizzy drinks pop and we would have the pop man bringing them to your door lots of flavours, this was until they became commercial like Vimto ( anagram vomit)
Certain parts of the US call it pop too. We call it soda where we’re from.
A shandy is half beer half lemonade/ lemon soda. Just make your own. It's what people would give kids to help them learn to drink and respect alcohol. Lucozade was only sold in chemists originally. You only got that if you were ill. Look out for tango dark berry it does come in zero sugar as well.
I love berry flavors - that sounds good!
We have a brand of alcoholic Ginger Beer in the UK called Crabbies. Worth a try if you can find any
It sounds familiar. We'll keep our eye out for it.
Crabbies make ginger beer since it was taken over by Halewood but it's probably better known for their green ginger wine which is perfect as a mixer with whisky.
definitely d ok but like any Lucozade except for Original Lucozade I hope this makes sense because I can barely see to type.
Lucazade is more a glucose energy drink than a tourine drink like red bull, we have a fanta like fizzy drink called Tango (strange old commercials if you wanna google it), if you can get it Shweppes make some mixers, for Ribena (who also do a fizzy version in a can) cordial type drinks anything by Robinsons (who up until a couple of years ago were a main sponsor of Wimbledon tennis), san pelligrino for fruit fizzy drink with a slightly higher fruir content. Back to Lucozade, in the 60s, 70s, and 80s if you had to go to the hospital or the doctors for anything worse than a checkup, you'd almost certainly get a glass bottle of the original Lucazode to 'help' your recovery. Also bear in mind with all the drink they'll generally have no or few artificial colours or flavours.
We do get Schweppes and San Pellegrino. I've been enjoying Ribena with sparkling water - that's my favorite way to drink it! Interesting about Lucozade!
I do like a good ginger beer.
“I haven’t had a squirt in so long” 😂 🤭😂. In the UK this means having a pee.
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If you can find an elderflower cordial they are great diluted with lemonade!
Our World Market store might have it. I think I might enjoy it more mixed with lemonade.
@@FinnLovesFoodWhat we call lemonade in the UK is like 7up and is clear. It's a lot different from US lemonade
@@jillhobson6128 ah, yes, that is much different from our lemonade.
Some people when they go to the pub ..instead of getting drunk will drink shandy....beer shandy larger shandy cider shandy....half pint of either then lemonade to make up a pint....
It's a surprisingly good combination.
@@FinnLovesFood on a hot summer day ice cold it is " gert lush " ( bloody gorgeous )
Bitter shandy in cans can be sold to children in the uk. When they say lemonade in the uk it is what you would call sprite. Your type of fresh lemonade we call traditional lemonade.
Thank you for the clarification!
You can get Fentaman's in Spain, but it's €4 per bottle.
That alcoholic Fentiman's ginger beer was pricey here too. The non-alcoholic ones are cheaper, but still about $2 a bottle.
@@FinnLovesFood You can get a good quality ginger cordial and mix it with any beer to get a ginger beer. It works ok.
Our supermarkets are empty of a lot of foods at the minute due to covid, a lack of lorry drivers and brexit so we are struggling to buy food things at the moment such as crisps, bread and meat so you are lucky if you get our food and drink in stores over there.
Empty? Massive exaggeration there 😂😂
We found these a few months ago, but the store seemed to be a bit down on stock. We are experiencing similar things with ships waiting to get in ports and not enough truck drivers. It seems some people are already starting to panic buy like at the start of the pandemic.
@@thomasferguson5478 no fresh veg, hardly any meat and 2 loaves of bread (out of date tomorrow), no walkers crisps. Etc
Oh stop with the woes. I went shopping tonight to my regular supermarket ( London outskirts) and it was full to bursting, as it has been all along. Stop with the political point scoring and moaning. We had a few days in the UK where the media told everyone ( as usual) that bad times were coming, and silly people went out and hoarded fuel and a few essentials. Had they all not listened to the hype, there would have been no shortages. As it is, some silly people now have enough loo roll and Turkey to have a really bizzare Christmas ... !
@@RajBlake7 have the agree, I’ve seen some veg short on a Sunday, and for about a week one time out Morrison’s only had about 20 brands of bottled water available instead of 25, funny enough it was the Scottish ones that were missing. Never any shortage of meat or anything else. I’ve never been to any supermarket and not been able to buy something I wanted
children can buy and drink shandy. the canned stuff not the pub stuff
Lemonade inthe Uk is more like Sprite, clear and fizzy.
Definitely different from our lemonade.
as a child I used to put ribena into coca-cola. If you hit the right balance it was really nice.
I can see that working! We already have cherry and raspberry coke, why not black currant?
hard cider + lager + ribena = old school Goth favourite
Very popular among university students, we called it snakey b (snakebite and black) or diesel.
Hiys guys how was your Halloween? We used to get Squirt over here too not seen it for years so presumably discontinued both sides of the pond??? J
It was good. How about yours? We ended up putting out a candy bowl and refilling it every so often. It was noisy out so I think there were a lot of trick or treaters! I googled Squirt and I guess it is still around. Just haven't noticed it in the store for quite a while.
i like ginger ale hate ginger beer lol
I'm not sure if ginger ale tastes any different over there, but it's much milder than ginger beer here!
Rose lemonade is nice mixed with gin.
With gin, huh? Girl after my own ❤
The ginger beer probably has 0.5% alcohol as it’s traditionally carbonated, instead of infusing it, it’ll be a bit of yeast and sugar, and ferment in the bottle.
This one had 4% alcohol. We did try another ginger beer from Fentiman's in our other video. I bet it had the 0.5% alcohol content. It also had a stronger ginger flavor.
@@FinnLovesFood, I make my own ginger beer in old plastic pop bottles - I don't know how alcoholic it is, but you can get a bit squiffy on it if you drink a lot of it.
Mine is very gingery because I put a lot of ground ginger in it.
Ginger beer was originally always alcoholic, but now it's more often non-alcoholic and just sold in big bottles like other pop.
I've never tried any Fentiman's because it's very expensive for what it is - usually what you get in upmarket cafes and restaurants.
Fentimans are great. I cant stand Vimto but love Irn Bru and Ribena. Shandy is great in summer and Lucozade we use as a hangover cure like you guys use Gatorade. When it comes to Lilt i prefer (oddly enough) the zero sugar option. And to me Elderflower is too floral, im not a fan of it.
PS: on the subject of Lemonade, i LOVE the Minute Maid Lemonade whenever i am in the states. I also LOVE Lemon Fanta but i have never seen that on your side of the pond.
@@danandrews8102 we have a variety of Fanta flavors, but I'm not sure about lemon. It seems orange is the flavor you see the most.
Some of these drinks I've never heard of, I prefer Ales and Beers, by the way, Vimpto was first made in my home City of Manchester, I'm sorry 🤣🤣🤣 I've not had a squirt for so long, that means something different in England 🤣🤣🤣🍺
Ya, Ross was laughing at me. And I innocently meant Squirt soda! :)
Lucozade original and orange are the standard 2 flavours you'll find in most shops, then some shops do other flavours like Cherry, Apple, Lemon, during the summer there's a strawberry and watermelon flavour, there are also still versions called Lucozade Sport which are good if you're doing exercise or running, the standard 2 flavours are orange and raspberry, then there's other flavours that appear now and again
The other flavors sound good. I think our store only carries the orange.
I'm not a fan of elderflower but I love a pink gin with the rose lemonade 🥂
try Barr
I don't think we've seen Barr here.
@@FinnLovesFood it is very popular in England
@@FinnLovesFood It's a brand name, they make several fizzy drinks.
American recipe mountain dew in banned in the EU, as it contains carcinogens,!
I just told Ross - he is cutting back on his favorite drink!
Sorry....just fact checked myself, It used to contain BVO (a flame retardant),it was removed in 2020.
I also love soda (fizzy ribena my favourite) but rather than cut back I dilute it 50/50 with fizzy water.the original now tastes too sweet.
Give my regards to Ross,enjoying your reactions, hope you make it over to the UK soon.
@@panchomcsporran2083 we haven't seen fizzy Ribena here, but we do like to mix the cordial with sparkling water. We do hope to make it to the UK someday!
definitely d ok but like any Lucozade except for Original Lucozade I hope this makes sense because I can barely see to type.
Used to love the original lucozade in its orange cellophane wrapping - almost worth getting sick for! Not so sure about the orange flavoured one though?