Lost Fizzy Drinks You Wish They Would Bring Back - Lost Soda

How many of these lost fizzy drink brands do you remember? Join me on a nostalgic journey to the corner shops and tuck shops of the past to revisit some long-lost favourites such as Cresta and Top Deck Shandy.
It's certainly true that they don't make 'em like they used to! Let me know in the comments what your favourite soft drinks/sodas from the past are.
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[@anjkovo2138]

Hey come on. How many of you remember Corona? As a kid we used to take the empty bottles back to the shops and get some money for them in the 70s. We used to climb over the shops back gate and steal some of the empty bottles from crates and get back the deposits from that shop...lol. I'm sure some of you did that too as a kid

[@johneeeemarry34]

Workmen’s huts on building sites got hit all the time.. obsolete pre war signal boxes that were some times used by navies , so they got hit too. Empty bottles of Glebe red cola , Barr’s iron bru and Henry’s limeade would be sitting about waiting to be turned into beer money, alas enterprising children would intercept the bottles , get the deposit and purchase ten cigarettes for their …dad.

[@samanthahardy9903]

My brothers used to do the same thing with the Corona bottles. 😂

[@dawnfinch2836]

Yes I remember did it myself 😘

[@sue-boo]

Me and my friend did the same!

[@hudldevice1092]

Corona cherryade was the best cherryade ever!

[@mogznwaz]

Corona. So many great flavours, and a bottle return deposit meaning kids would actively search for them thereby cleaning the environment. Me and my siblings used to do that and it would get us extra sweets at the Off-licence which was such a treat!! I miss those days so much it makes me want to cry.

[@bogusmogus9551]

Yeah, that was great. I remember me and my mate bin diving to get the bottles for the deposit. I think it was 5p just before it was discontinued. Tasted real good too, especially the orange.

[@rw8733]

Dandelion and Burdock. Still my favourite 😊.

[@Toastrackman]

The great brands that brought back fond memories. Parents weren't bothered about sugary drinks back in the day. We were simply encouraged to go outside and play to burn the calories off.

[@stuviewtv]

Very true!

[@dawnfinch2836]

You are so correct we didn't rather were not allowed to sit in front of the TV nowadays it's computers so many overweight children now

[@Demun1649]

And parents didn't care about juvenile diabetes either, and neither did Coca-Cola and Pepsi-Cola, and even these days neither of the two Yenghi massively greedy companies care about the spread of juvenile diabetes around the world.

[@mogznwaz]

No fat people in the 70s!

[@paultapner2769]

I drink four cans of coke a day and have done so for decades. I eat what I want. But I walk pretty much everywhere and get out and about whenever I can. I'm thin and amazingly healthy. Obesity isn't down to diet. It's down to lack of exercise. I'm living proof of such.

[@quietstormvalley9010]

I drank Shandy Bass right in to my young adult years. Corona was awesome and the Alpine trucks was an amazing sight. Children actually wanted to be ill to have Lucozade, the squeak of the orange cellophane when it was unwrapped had so many other usage too. It was sold in a glass bottle with a yellow/orange cellophane wrap until 1983, when it was re-branded as an energy drink to remove the brand's associations with illness. The slogan "Lucozade aids recovery" was replaced by "Lucozade replaces lost energy". Sadly Lucozade taste nothing like it did in the 1960s-70s-80s. Today food, music, entertainment etc, etc,.....is accessible 24/7 with almost a infinite volume of options and variety. We don`t have that shared experience our communities had when the Ice cream van came. I miss those simply days and life.

[@stuviewtv]

They were great days for sure.

[@dianerogers8805]

Alpine was different to corona. They were rivals.

[@frankcarter6427]

I remember looking thru the orange plastic when ill with tonsilitis in the 60s

[@lillianflorence6056]

And orignal ribener

[@marian6593]

Lucozade had a rival (possibly only in Scotland?) called Ferguzade 😄 Creamola Foam was a 60's/70's favourite too.

[@MacStoker]

top deck cider shandy was superb... and cider lollies were even better

[@stephencamps1555]

Top deck was a proper drink.

[@thesunreport]

The lollies were called Cider Barrel I think. :)

[@StraightWhiteGuy.]

Cider lollies today suck 👎 sad times ahah

[@thesunreport]

@@StraightWhiteGuy. In some better news, the bubble gum ball that would come in the bottom of a Screwball icecream tastes very similar to Extra Bubblemint flavoured chewing gum which you can get everywhere, so there's that. :)

[@yoptastic8463]

I to not only remember the Top Deck lot and was a big fan enough to mention them to my close ones over the years about the injustice of they're discontinuation along with the cider ice lollies! Bass Shandy also and Tizer, happy day. 👍😊🦡

[@stacy7672]

Tizer , Corona , Panda Pop .. Alpine … Cresta…. the pop man …. money back … glass bottles - Quatro was a fave - A time when life was better ( and the adverts too )

[@stuviewtv]

Great days indeed!

[@HuSiaCat]

Quatro !! I asked for one in pub once and got refused, they thought I'd said Cointreau 😂

[@SirTed-c7g]

Tizer is still around.

[@JohnJohnson-tw8qk]

Totally agree with you there 👏

[@RefinedRouge]

Chippy tea on a Friday with a bottle of tizer

[@AmyDaisy69]

I remember my late Grandad getting crates of pop delivered for us to drink. I loved the cream soda.

[@iandawe948]

Cream soda still a top drink in this house espec in this heat lol

[@smartchip]

Your grandfather was a good en,Godbless,

[@carlbeaumont5167]

I remember running home from the shop with my bottle of Cresta,opened the bottle and whoosh,the ceiling was covered in Strawberry Cresta.After years of numerous coats of paint,30 years later the pink Cresta stain was still there.

[@stuviewtv]

Oh, the joys of a volatile bottle of Cresta!

[@sickoftheleftwingscum]

You need some stain block mate ! 😄👍

[@OohTarquin]

It's frothy man !

[@bogusmogus9551]

I'd lick it off the ceiling

[@lucius4556]

Used to love cresta.. My greedy sister used to drink all the Corona, then later Alpine, so I used to spend my pocket money on Cresta and drink it in peace lol.

[@dogwalker666]

Back in the days when you could buy soft drinks without the horrible artificial sweeteners.

[@simong9067]

They had the horrible artificial colours and flavours to make up for it though. Heaven and ICI only knew what they put in Cream Soda. And Cresta - I liked that stuff but it was profoundly unnatural.

[@gui18bif]

Every drink had a different taste back then. Now it all tastes the same.

[@Aeronaut1975]

Pepsi has now changed the recipe of "regular" in Europe. Now with 57% less sugar, and topped up with Acesulfame K and Sucralose. I can't drink it anymore.

[@dogwalker666]

@@Aeronaut1975 Agreed 👍🏻

[@dogwalker666]

@@simong9067 I loved cream soda with a scoop of ice cream in yumm.

[@simonwilson1237]

i miss the 70s😢

[@stuviewtv]

Oh yes, me too!

[@snowysnowyriver]

Me too. I was a young married woman in the 1970s and the world was our oyster!

[@mrlesta]

best decade to be a kid

[@PsychicLord]

Back in the 70's/80's these drinks tasted fantastic..... unlike in recent years where new recipes destroyed the taste by adding artificial sweeteners and other chemicals.

[@seandelaney1423]

And I thought it was only me that thinks that . Bang on mate , but the companies only care about EU and Greeny agendas , not the distinguished palate of their patrons . Go woke - Go broke .

[@frankcarter6427]

no - they tasted so great because we had child's tastebuds

[@bigbabatunde1218]

​@@frankcarter6427 Only to a certain extent. Younger people can eat the same things today as older people, even supermarket tomatoes and agree that there's no real taste to get excited about. So where does the juicy tomato flavour products come from then? Same with Blueberries.

[@LoriCiani]

I remember being a Barrs fan girl as a child. But, recently I spotted and bought a bottle of Barrs Cream Soda and I thought oh, sweeteners wouldn’t of changed the taste that much. When I had a drink of it I was disgusted, it tasted horrible. I have tasted a couple of other varieties of Barrs but the awful taste of the sweeteners just put me off. My eldest son who has no nostalgia to ruin hated the taste at first sip. I know it must be cheaper to throw in those chemicals than face the slings and arrows of the sugar tax. But, as more people hear of the terrible health impacts of sweeteners, the drinks companies may find they’ve backed the wrong horse.

[@bigbabatunde1218]

@@LoriCiani All it takes is for some hipster artisan to come up with a full on sugar cream soda, even if it's a fiver a bottle, and it will sell. People are and should rightfully be getting fed up with all this 'everything is bad for your health' nonsense. Artificial sweeteners getting concocted, trademarked and forced upon the public are showing the likelihood of becoming tomorrow's scientific community scandal.

[@jokerincgaming2730]

I remember in the mid 90s walking around with bass shandy pretending to be drunk 😂 I was 7 🤣🤦‍♂️

[@paddy4799]

I was a corona door to door delivery man. Fifty years ago and the drinks tasted great. Great memories.

[@stuviewtv]

That's great that you were a pop man!

[@marian6593]

A welcome man to so many people then. It was like having regular visits from Santa😊

[@nickgov66]

When I was growing up in the 1950s and 1960s in the small town of Bromsgrove in Worcestershire, there were not one but two small factories producing fizzy drinks, "Spencers of Bromsgrove" and "Cowburns" both now long defunct.

[@williamspencer2899]

I worked on the delivery lorries as drivers mate in the early 70s for corona,delivering to shops . The front and the rear of the bed was loaded with drinks to be delivered and the centre of the lorry was kept clear for the empties to be loaded.on one occasion I remember we were returning after our deliveries and fully loaded with empty bottles when had to negotiate a corner at the bottom of hill as we rounded the corner every bottle on the lorry came off you can imagine what we’re faced with.

[@The.Last.Guitar.Hero.]

corona and cresta is the reason i went to the dentist so much as a kid

[@kumachan9311]

That's why all my back teeth are filled, too

[@2760ade]

@thecentralscrutinizer1758 You are right. My parents only allowed me the bare minimum of sweets and fizzy drinks, yet most of my back teeth were filled when I was younger (in the 70's). I went to a dentist as an adult, and he said that none of my teeth should have been filled. There were definitely some dodgy practices then!.Some things in the 70's and 80's WEREN'T so good!!?

[@gailhickman743]

You forgot Hubbly Bubbly! The glass bottles had round indents in them, that looked like bubbles. We used to have a pop man, just when my first son was born and hes now 42! Loved this video. ❤

[@susanbinks8868]

I grew up in the 1960's & remember hubbly bubbly you could by bottles of this from a local fish shop at the time.

[@heidikersey7280]

I am from Canada and here we had a place called "The pop shoppe". It was the same thing as the place you guys have in the UK. I remember when pop was only in home only on special occasions for most homes and we would all would get a bottle of pop once in awhile for dinner etc. I never remember people drinking that much pop like they do now.

[@smartchip]

Which part are you from? Vancouver bc is imo the best,

[@stuartleckie]

I actually saw a brand new Pop Shoppe yesterday here in Calgary. Guess the brand is back?

[@ThePsiclone]

same, birthdays, Christmas and Easter otherwise orange or lemon squash (dont know what you call that, concentrated stuff you make with tap water).

[@Nobby76]

Shandy Bass was a little odd. It contained 1.1% alcohol and kids could buy it. But a can on Tenants LA beer contained 0.4% alcohol and couldnt be sold to kids as it was classed as beer. Also Quatro.. I have found a drink that tastes exactly the same. Rubicon (the purple can) i think its passion fruit flavour, either way, its the purple can.. First time i tried it, i took a sip and straight away said "That tastes just like quatro" it was amazing how just one sip took me back to a memory nearly 40 years old.

[@SirReginaldBlomfield1234]

Thanks for that I'll look out for Rubicon purple can, I was hooked on quattro back in the day.

[@trevorbrown6654]

I remember drinking a van of Barbican alcohol free beer at school and thinking I looked the mutts nuts rather than the pratt I probably was.

[@Juliukas101]

They still had Quatro in Argentina a couple of years ago when I was there.

[@JelMain]

Rubicon was developed by Schweppes, but they had no place in the brand range for it, so the developer struck out on his own. Here's to you, Naresh!

[@bigkeithloveseggs7704]

Shandy Bass was without a doubt my favourite. That can strikes pure nostalgia in my heart.

[@Craig-xr1bw]

Barrs shandy is good

[@danielsellers8707]

I used to like it as well!

[@dans8158]

Used to use my pocket money at the weekend for a bag of chips and a can of Quatro. Sit on the wall outside the chippy. Great memory. Cheers for the video.

[@stuviewtv]

A bag of chips and a can of Quatro - awesome! Thanks for watching.

[@druid59]

In the 70s and 80s we'd all be waiting for certain sounds and smells: the Corona pop man - my favourite was dandelion and burdock or Lucozade wrapped in orange plastic; the chip van which came once or twice a week; the ice cream van coming round on Sunday afternoons...heavenly memories ❤

[@frglee]

Dandelion and burdoch was not dissimilar to, and a worthy adversary to Coca Cola back in the 60s and of the two, I preferred it. My actual favourite fizzy pop was 'Bing' made by 'Silver Spring' in Folkestone, Kent and only sold in that area. A bit like a cross between Tizer and Irn Bru, but not so sweet. I'm not sure if it's still made.

[@olsencarl]

FYI Morrisons do a really nice D&B

[@handsoffmycactus2958]

@@frglee why are you referring to dandelion and burdock in the past tense

[@seandelaney1423]

🇬🇧🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Anyone who savours the taste or even the smell of "Dandelion & Burdock" , should be taken out at dawn .

[@WELLBRAN]

Chip van after school....bag of chips I think ....4d

[@colindavid2078]

Sad that Bass shandy no longer around! As your video states, I felt like a grown up when given one as a child. Actually, very enjoyable and refreshing as an adult too if you were the driver!

[@puddleduck279]

Tesco and morrisons have it in the cans too!! It's still around!

[@spudspuddy]

yes it is, tesco stock shandy bass, exactly same as always

[@colindavid2078]

@@puddleduck279 Really? Happy Days, thanks for sharing!

[@anthonyjames4247]

Bass shandy was discontinued in 2018. It definitely does not exist unless you're willing to drink it out of date from Someone who has any.

[@spudspuddy]

@@anthonyjames4247 obviously not cos tesco still stock it, obviously someone bought out the brand

[@JoeyXSmith]

I'm surprised you didn't mention Virgin Cola. It was very popular in the late 90s in the UK. I liked it more than Pepsi and Coke. I loved the cartoon advert that they produced. Which was done by Tank Girl/Gorillaz artist Jamie Hewlett.

[@handsoffmycactus2958]

I loved Virgin coke!!!! So nice

[@alexinterconnects]

Had a limited edition glass bottle called Pammy which was a curvy bottle modelled on Pamela Anderson

[@davidparker4652]

I can remember the Corona man coming mid week and then the Alpine man came dinner time on Saturdays, my favourite one was the Dandelion an Burdock as i always go the bottle to myself as no one else liked it, oh those were the days. Thanks for this video Stu

[@stuviewtv]

Thanks David! I always quite liked dandelion and burdock too.

[@augustseptember3503]

I remember in the 1950s as a little kid the Corona pop man coming round on a Friday early evening. Our favourites included Dandelion & Burdock! We'd hand the empty bottles back for £0.02p per bottle. They were made from thick glass so worth recycling back then. I also remember the Spanish onion man making his rounds with onions ringed on string around his neck and his bike as he peddled along! One day, it dawned on my eight year old mind why he'd sell his onions here, to then return to Spain for more, a long way to travel back for more onions!🤣🤣 I also remember the rag & bone man with his horse & cart shouting, 'Rag & bone...rag & bone....he performed a good service, a sort of recycling centre even back then!

[@lucius4556]

Apparently my old grandad used to follow the horse with a spade and bucket, it was for the manure for the garden (wartime) 🤢🤣

[@marian6593]

Yep, I'm with your happy memories. Also remembering Pineappleade

[@paulthurston2883]

And remember the knife, scissor sharpening man that went round on his bicycle, tools mounted to the bike ?

[@LestWeForget-LestWeForget]

When my mum needed a new donkey stone to clean the step, she would look out for the rag and bone man and take clothes out to him.

[@2760ade]

I loved Shandy Bass as a child, but am gobsmacked to now realise that it contained 1.1% alcohol! Theoretically if you drank enough tins of it you could become inebriated? Yet it was marketed as a kids' drink! Would probably explain my rather enthusiastic penchant for lager as an adult!🤣🤣

[@TheKingOfBeans]

Anything less than 1% is classed as ‘alcohol free’ so I doubt 1.1% would have much effect 😂

[@B-Dubya1]

No. Shandy Bass has 0.5% alcohol. It was right there on the tin.

[@sensimania]

I can't stand beer/lager, but u used to love shandy bass growing up

[@mattylamb9194]

Didn;t know Bass shandy was no more. Must have only been a couple or so years ago I last bought a can

[@TheMovieLoft]

U couldn’t drink it fast enough to get tipsy

[@peteri8924]

Ben Shaws was our pop man and was also sold in newsagents. Unfortunately all these comoanies clised or were sold to massive companies. They were so much more environmentally friendly than loads of plastic bottles.

[@nikmachen6561]

Ben Shaws is available in Home Bargains, I think.

[@thomashunter9786]

Sainsbury's still sell Ben Shaw's shandy and root beer.

[@smartchip]

@@thomashunter9786 ROOT BEER? really?

[@ThePsiclone]

thank you for this comment, I have been trying to remember "Ben Shaws" for bloody ages. Worked on a large building project back in the '90s, where Ben Shaws cream soda was sold (subsidised, think it was 10p can). Being summer it was the thing to knock a dusty thirst on the head...ice cold. (alternatives were tea, coffee, warm coke or slightly cold shandy). Nobody wanted cream soda so it sat in the fridge ages so got proper cold. Mentioned it to the Mrs who wanted to get me some but I couldnt for the life of me remember who's it was.

[@deandavey9293]

AA pop

[@HomerSparkle]

I'm old enough to remember usherettes in cinemas, with trays filled with Lyons Maid ice lollies, and those weird squash drinks in sealed plastic cups that you pierced with a sharpened straw. I hated them TBH, but it was all they sold. IIRC the colouring agent was extremely sus and probably radioactive, as it literally glowed in the dark. We didn't have Corona in Scotland, or at least I never saw any. Our fizzy drinks companies were BARR (still around), and Hays, Sangs and Bon-Accord (all now long gone). My biggest problem with modern soda is that it's nearly all poisoned with aspartame, which makes me violently ill. There's literally only 3 sodas left that I can still drink: Coke original, Pepsi original, and Irn Bru 1901. And the only squash/cordial I can drink is Belvoir. I suppose eventually I'll be relegated to drinking just tea and water, unless they're planning to pump aspartame into the water supply, in which case just order my coffin now, because I'm done.

[@lillianflorence6056]

My mom was usherette

[@MrAronRobinson]

The flourescent orange drink was Kia-Ora wasn’t it? As it was in the 70’s, before they bottled it and came up with the blackbird commercial in the 80’s.

[@kennethmacgregor-Gregorach]

I remember those! The ice cream had a little wooden tongue depresser, that was horrible.😂. Aye I never remember Corona in Scotland, the alpine man however..

[@theymademedoit6814]

​@@MrAronRobinsonit was ki ora 👍

[@helvete983]

I remember those little plastic cups with a straw, we used to freeze them in the summer and eat them as an ice pop.

[@hydorah]

I remember that Shandy Bass. Actually tasted like beer. Much more than alcohol free beers do!

[@Juliukas101]

We used to drink that at school and nobody cared, LOL! I bet the PC / H&S brigade with be in outcry these days at anything like that!

[@guidelineuk4876]

Real talk lol

[@melvert33]

​@Juliukas101 to be fair if all the kids these days were drinking an alcoholic beverage (albeit a low abv content) I'd be a bit worried about anyone who didn't have a problem with 8 year olds boozing at school. I can remember loving the Top Deck shandies as a kid but it was a different time and it's mad to give kids alcohol.

[@jensablefur155]

Kids at our school discos were legitimately buzzing on Panda Pops. It was that point where a sugar rush goes over the edge to become a genuine high. I remember whole tables being emptied in moments, kids drinking bottles of the stuff well into the double figures. Not to mention this was supplemented by refreshers bars, skittles etc as well. 90s was awesome but also, in hindsight, a literal health hazard.

[@chappy2121]

We used to pour those mini sherbet sticks orange, green and yellow if I remember, into panda pops. I dread to think of the amount of sugar in them. Then again, I don't think we had monster or redbull that kids seem to drink these days.

[@LordStimpy]

@@chappy2121 All the kids at my school did the same, funny how we all come to the same great ideas

[@thesunreport]

It might have been the colourings that sent you funny.

[@handsoffmycactus2958]

I’m sure you were fine.

[@IIJOSEPHXII]

Quatro is one of my abiding memories of my first part time job as a glass collector in a very trendy pub when I was just 16 and still in high school. I started there in March 1985 and I can remember it well because of all the chart hits on the juke box. The pub was called The Little B in Sale, Trafford but I was from the wrong side of the tracks being from Benchill, Wythenshawe. It was like walking into a brat pack movie four nights a week in a pub full of Rob Lowes and Molly Ringwalds lol. We used to sell quite a lot of Quatro because it went with Bacardi, vodka and gin and like you say it screamed the 80s. Thanks for the memories.

[@stuviewtv]

Must have been great working in a real life brat pack movie! Many thanks for watching.

[@williamevans9426]

Ah yes - Corona, with a 'pimply' bottle neck and, if I recall correctly, a deposit on the glass empties. Didn't Cresta have a strangely mousse-like head when poured? Our milkman also delivered a watery-looking orange squash in milk bottles!

[@Toastrackman]

We used to have the Rainbow Pop Man call around once a week, and we'd get money back on our empties 😊

[@laurencewainwright]

I think it was actually orange juice, but I never tried it.

[@garygrimmett7945]

Corona raspberry ade..unbeatable...pop man used to deliver on every other Friday..to my mom and dads...yeah alpine was nice but think corona had ege👍gazzz

[@me38443]

@@garygrimmett7945 Sorry, had to be Cherry

[@stuartstretton6894]

​@@Toastrackman I remember waiting for the "popman",lol.Usually around tea time,on a payday (Thursday) back then.Exciting times lol! 💯👍♥️

[@woffus]

I remember when the first supermarket opened in my town in the 70s. I was amazed by all the soft drinks on sale, but the one I always remember which I’d never seen before was chocolate milk in a can.

[@colinblackburn9282]

I bought Bass shandy the other day, it never went away its a stalwart in the off license and the best shandy you can get. 😎👍

[@alastairward2774]

Good to hear, though the shops that stock it seem to be thin on the ground in Belfast.

[@bigjoeangel]

The Quattro advertising did it's job on my chlidhood brain in the 80s, and by the time I got my hands on an ice cold can of the stuff I thought wow this is amazing, I'm living in the future! Given the fact that drinking canned fizzy drinks was quite a treat and not something I was allowed very often, it really was quite memorable (I was at a scout rally at the time and it was a hot summers day, perfect for a cold drink. I think I even wiped the cold can on my forehead to cool down.

[@groznier]

I'm in N. Ireland. We didn't have Corona or Alpine, we had the Maine soft drinks company. They were still driving lorries of pop around in 2009 - I don't know if they still are. You can still find their products in shops.

[@krisdeltoro]

I live in Newcastle…I get Maine sarsaparilla and orangeade delivered by my milkman on a Saturday. It’s lush

[@craigdalton58]

The maine man still is out and about 😊

[@joshuaedwards4536]

I remember how the corona van man used come around every friday evening, around 5.30pm to 6.00pm, and the empty bottles from the week before would be exchanged for the new ones, cherryade, limeade etc, such nostalgic memories, that was the early 80s for you.....

[@martindunstan8043]

Brilliant 👏👏👍That was a wonderful trip into the past for me, I vividly remember waiting for the Corona truck to come chinking down our road in the late 70s, my brother and I would race to get first dibs on the first glass of limeade and then putting the empties back in the crate(making sure the 10p return cap was on it) thank you for this superb video👍

[@stuviewtv]

Thanks so much Martin for your kind words! So glad you enjoyed the memories! The pop man coming every week really was a highlight wasn't it? Such great times.

[@martindunstan8043]

@@stuviewtv you're more than welcome, I can't believe I even remembered the words from that Corona ad from around 79/80? I was only 8 then(or was that ad a bit later than that?) either way it just shows the influence of advertising on kids I suppose 🤣✌️

[@stuviewtv]

@@martindunstan8043 Oh yes, you always remember the classic slogans!

[@woffus]

I loved all the flavours of Corona but especially the limeade and Cherryade. Heaven in bottles. We used to climb over the back wall of the off-licence, grab a handful and take them around the front for the deposits. Happy days!

[@ellenthorne8222]

There were 4 fizzy drinks Mum would regularly Corona cherryade and cream soda for me, R White's lemonade (Mun) and Tizer for Dad. Easter and Christmas Cydrex and Peardrex in brown bottles with stoppers with 6d on the returns, I think Coronna was 3d. While I was recovering meningitis Mum and Dad would bring a bottle of Corona cherryade or cream soda when visited me, still love these flavours but the same as Corona ❤

[@handsoffmycactus2958]

R Whites lemonade is truly the worst lemonade in history. Every time I want some as a mixer when I go out, I have to check if it’s R Whites which it often is. Grim stuff tastes like wet dog. Drinks in town just remind me of wet dog cos most of the drinks I order are with lemonade!!!

[@Simeon-the-Magnificent]

I remember going to tescos with my dad and always bought a can of shandy bass. I'd have been about 8 years old, good memories

[@edwardsp1916]

I can still recall the sound of the Corona lorry as it was idling. Ive never been a pop drinker but loved the different colours of the liquids in the bottles on the lorry.

[@Rr0gu3_5uture]

Growing up in the West Coast of Scotland, my favourite regional soft drink brand was Krystal Klear lemonade made by Struthers of Lochwinnoch. When they closed in 2006, after being in business for 100 years, I was really gutted. I don't know if it was the qaulity of the local water, or the recipe they used but their lemonade, red cola and cream soda was ludicrously clean and refreshing tasting.

[@marian6593]

Yes, we used to get Struthers drinks too. Pineappleade and, I think they also made Tangerineade. Barrs Strike Cola was amazingly good too.😊

[@realsuperdoctor5260]

Their Iron Brew was the stuff!

[@hughgrection5674]

“Every bubbles passed its physical” still one of the greatest product taglines ever 😂❤

[@scottandrewbrass]

Fizzical.

[@triviabuff5682]

And a fair impression of Phil Silvers as Sergeant Bilko too!

[@mickyblue9658]

I lived a couple of minutes away from the Bass Shandy factory in Sheffield as a kid, if you went when the right people were working you could get them to give you some damaged cans for free. Great times, it's a real shame it's gone because I'd still be drinking it.

[@susanbinks8868]

I grew up in the 1960's & lowcocks & their soft drinks were very popular. My favourites were cream soda & dandelion & burdock, this video was a nostalgic trip down memory lane.

[@stuviewtv]

Glad you enjoyed the memories. Many thanks!

[@rossco171]

Loved Top Deck as a kid, also remember cider flavour ice lollies. My favourite soft drink of the early 80’s was called Solo, tasted like a cross between Lilt and Lemon Fanta.

[@abuubaydullah1]

Born late 50s i remember most of them thank you for the video Stuview TV.

[@snowysnowyriver]

When I think back to being at school in the late 1950s and 1960s, I cannot remember even one obese child. We had sweet things that had no sweeteners (including pop and squash), full fat milk, butter, things fried in lard, pastry, steamed puddings, meat, sausages, bacon, etc. Everything that today they say is bad to consume. But we of the boomer generation and our parents of the war generation have been the longest living in British history. Life expectancy in actually going down now, apparently, for the generations coming along behind us. So what happened? I think three things happened. Firstly, lack of exercise. As children we were on the go from sun-up to sun-down, especially in decent weather. We had PE twice a week at school, and everyone (old and young) mostly walked everywhere. Secondly, portion sizes! I see side-plates now that are bigger than my mum's dinner plates. Portions are double or triple what they used to be. And thirdly, additives. So much is pumped full of preservatives, sweeteners, artificial this and that. I don't believe that the scientists can really truly know the long-term damage. In many ways, I feel sorry for children today. They will never know the freedom we had back then.

[@Rose-jz6ix]

They know & don't care $$$$$talks. I liked Tab when a teenager,only because I couldn't drink it fast, so it lasted longer than other drinks. Those were the days when two potato cakes/scallops/fritters filled me up from breakfast until night time.❤

[@stuviewtv]

Some great points there. Very well said!

[@trevorbrown6654]

The only 'junk' food around back then was Fish & Chips, and that was usually just a once or twice a week treat. There was no Mcdonalds or KFC or Pizza Hut and because of rationing during and after the war people were still getting used to sweets and chocolate being readily available . Add in that car ownership was far less prevalent than now meaning that kids had to make their own way about be it by walking, bus, train or bike rather than getting lifts and that people were just generally more active as there were no home video games and that there were only two or three tv channels back then to be glued to. I think part of the reason you've noticed such a change is because of these changes to our culture.

[@garyowens1517]

Totally agree with everything you've said. We have a generation of kids that spend their time on games consoles and phones.

[@adjjackson9331]

True they sit being sociable on screens 4000+ friends that they dont know and never will meet, while eating food full of artificial sweeteners that the body can’t deal with

[@johnharvey848]

I can remember Cremola Foam from years ago. Although not actually a fizzy drink it came in powder form and when water was added it surely did fizz.

[@bobdown1268]

Cremola foam is back but is absolute garbage

[@specialse]

@@bobdown1268 thats true ....i was looking forward to it but was disappointed and them some ☹

[@dunc71]

It's called Krakatoa foam now....

[@bobdown1268]

@@dunc71 there is a new creamola foam available online, but it is very disappointing

[@seandelaney1423]

@@bobdown1268 Gutted , I was hoping to find some original . That stuff was magical .

[@the_urbanphantom]

Tab Clear, my all time favourite, I've been holding out hope that it will return one day.

[@TheKingOfBeans]

I managed to get some tab clear when I went to Canada but it didn’t taste like I remembered 😢

[@Curlyperm59]

Loved limeade by CORONA and top deck, shandy bass which I wish they would bring back.

[@Polysixchick]

Fizzy Ribena in cans were my favourite treat back in the 80s, the diet one was in the white can and the normal one in a purple can. We had a Corona man, use to get lemonade and cherryade and we use to buy panda pops from the corner shop, the blue one was full of e numbers and made kids hyper!

[@alastairward2774]

Fizzy Ribena in cans is still about though at least.

[@peakyblinder777]

Great ! Anyone remember Dayla pop . In glass screw top bottles back in the 80's ? Cola, cherryade, lemonade, and my fav was their pineapple & grapefruit . It was usually delivered by the dayla pop man on saturday afternoons whilst watching world of sport . 😊 great days when life was simple .

[@TheSealOfTheRose]

They've stopped making Shandy Bass?! This is an outrage, I feel a petition coming on.

[@thealbagalavanter9986]

Wasn't it made by Barrs?

[@TheSealOfTheRose]

@@thealbagalavanter9986 Barr's shany still exists and is disgusting

[@thealbagalavanter9986]

@@TheSealOfTheRose I've not seen it for ages

[@Juliukas101]

I'd sign it!

[@ddraigmafon4725]

Growing up in South Wales in the 79s, I remember a little milk float type truck that used to come round and deliver Corona pop, collecting the empties and refunding 2p for each one. The limeade was my favourite. Also loved the grapefruit flavour Fresca in cans.

[@johnkeane1419]

This channel deserves more fame and glory.

[@stuviewtv]

Thanks!

[@ssrmy1782]

I do miss Lilt. Fond memories of summer as a kid, playing football all day, then a cold can of Lilt together with a wrap of battered Sausage & Chips -- covered with salt, and onion vinegar

[@stuviewtv]

Great days.

[@RetroReminiscing]

This reminds me of us having the 'Alpine' man that would come round with neon coloured fizzy drinks where the empty bottles wuld be collected a week later an get money back...That was in 81/82..... i wonder what happened to the alpine man ...I used to love dandelion and burdock and cherry ade....Love this upload, thanks for the memories on all your videos ..🙏🤗

[@stuviewtv]

Those two flavours were my favourites too! So glad you enjoy all the nostalgic memories. Thanks as always!

[@geoffaustin9385]

Being 59 and born and bred Medway Towns it was Mr Bacon who came round our streets with the fizzy drinks. Those were the days. And who can remember the cake van who came round every Sunday afternoon

[@stuviewtv]

Great days indeed.

[@SeymourClevage]

You used to get 10p back for returning a Corona bottle. As kids we would scour the neighbourhood for bottles, return them and buy sweets with the money.

[@stuviewtv]

Those were the days!

[@LestWeForget-LestWeForget]

Loved it when the Corona lorry came round. My favourites were Cream Soda and Dandelion and Burdock. As an aside, we also used to get a Sharrock's bakery van and they sold the most delicious cream buns I have ever tasted.

[@pravinshingadia7337]

Ice cold glass of Corona Lemonade on a hot summer day - amazing. It was really lemony.

[@philtowle4683]

I remember having suncharm fizzy pop as a kid, they were in small glass bottles and cans. They did a green cream soda. There was an issue with panda pops where even though it was the cheapest pop you could get someone was creating a counterfit version out of a lock up somewhere.

[@scottw.3258]

Where i grew up in Scotland the big brands were 'Solripe', 'Barrs'(obviously), 'Bon Accord', and 'Struthers'. We used to get the 'Bon Accord Man' come round once a week. Their American Cream Soda was immense, as was their Limeade. 'Solripe' was a main competitor of 'Barrs' for a while but died out. 'Barrs' Irn Bru, Tizer, Limeade, Strike Cola and Red Cola were the best you could get. We barely went near 'Coca-Cola' products.

[@davidhird3382]

My local social club had a competion every week for the kids. Drink a bottle of hubbly bubbly and eat a packet of chips in the fastest time .highlight of the week for the kids

[@aliorr9356]

The issue some of the smaller “soda” companies had was during the 80’s and 90’s was credit. A lot of corner shops were taken over by a particular demographic of whom were not very good at, or not very keen on paying their monthly bills.

[@glennmorris371]

Corona Tropicalade. So green, I loved it.

[@jofisher9692]

My favourite used to be Alpine pineapple. Loved Shandy Bass and Top Deck too. This is taking me right back to my childhood. I remember the Hoyes pop man too.

[@OofusTwillip]

When I lived in England, in 1991, I loved M&S Caribbean Crush, in slender, white cans, with an illustration of the fruit flavours in it: pineapple, and citrus fruits. And my flat, in Golder's Green, was scented with M&S Peach room freshener.

[@seanstanbridge7702]

Panda pops small bottles used to be made of glass, before they became plastic. They were very very fizzy, to the point where one time I was walking home with the bottle from the shop and had accidentally dropped it but without it breaking, (whew ! I thought, still got the fizzy pop to drink), after 2 mins I'd gotten home to open it. Went to twist the cap... Bang ! It blew the twist cap off at such a speed it was like opening a bottle of champagne (which as a boy of 9 years, was a frightening shock but also a pure delight)

[@Chriscuit]

Instantly thought of Cream Soda, Dandelion and Burdock and Cherryade....and then you said them. Another great video from my childhood. Lilt will be missed RIP.

[@stuviewtv]

Glad you enjoyed the video! Many thanks.

[@uknavynige]

I remember walking round a supermarket as a child, rounding a corner to see the giant walking polar bear. I ran back to my mum overjoyed shouting I've just seen Mr frothy man. I always wondered if I dreamt it! Thanks for the memory confirmation 😂

[@willhemmings]

This post has reminded me of some very bad habits involving school mates, a village shop and bottles of Corona in the mid 70's. On the plus side, it's reminded me of the one soft drink I expect to be available in heaven - Cresta. I really can recall the flavour and velvet smooth texture that was lovely but probably seriously dodgy. Here's another one, Irn Bru, made in Scotland from garrrh daahhs

[@BoaFilmsPlc]

Panda Pops were made by Hall & Woodhouse (Badger beers) based at Blandford St Mary in Dorset. The building where they were canned has now become the main brewery. The original brewery building is now only open for tours

[@sarran1955]

What was it we used to say about H&W.... brewers since 1777..and havn't got it right yet.. Cordialement,

[@Louisejames23]

I loved Cresta, it had a unique taste I remember 50 years later 😊. And drank gallons of Top deck limeade & lager 🍺 !

[@Leoviliti1]

Some of these names bring a warm tear to my eyes .. we can all relate to some better times when connecting just the odd nostalgic item to many fond memories ..and that's what keeps us humbly grateful people.

[@stuviewtv]

Very true

[@batch6792]

The Alpine man always came on a friday. 20p a bottle, & 5p back on empties. Once in my teens the screw top bottles became a favorite for finishing off brewing Boots lager & bitter home brew kits. I remember all the ads you showed. Im so old i can even remember when Um-Bongo was drunk up thee congo.

[@trevorbrown6654]

Before Diet Coke there was something called 1 Cal (or maybe One Cal), which was a diet cola. Tasted absolutely horrible as I remember but did OK as there was little competition until Diet Coke came along. I remember Victoria Wood used to advertise it on TV circa 1980. And I remember Panda Pops being sold by the Ice cream van. I'm afraid you've also missed a Lilt clone called 'Cariba' made by a competitor and there was also Cydrax and Peardrax. Peardrax tasted great and was a favourite of mine as a kid and although long discontinued, Kopparberg alcohol free Pear Cider (which you can find in larger Sainsburys) does taste pretty similar. There was also a regional brand of fizzy drinks called 'Maid Marian' that the corner shop sold when I was a kid. But Corona Dandelion & Burdock was the best surely.

[@MacStoker]

i remember the advert, they put 250 cans next to 1 can of normal pop to say the same calories...

[@trevorbrown6654]

All I remember is her playing a piano on a sunny beach but I remember absolutely nothing else about it. I assume it's the same advert.

[@MacStoker]

@@trevorbrown6654 ive tried to find them,, got nothing lol,,, i found the victoria wood ads... maybe im thinking of another 1 calorie pop? but im sure its 1 cal.... ill keep looking lol

[@trevorbrown6654]

@@MacStoker tried to find the kopparberg you mean?

[@guitarzanbikes1862]

I worked for RHM foods in the early 80's, they made one-cal, or at least had it made for them by Coca Cola ola in Birmingham if memory serves me right. Was sold as a "health food" type drink, they did energen foods as well, i worked in national distribution and seem to remember one cal being sold off cheap (by the multiple truck load) to discounters etc and it disappeared shortly after I'd moved on (anyone remember Mcdougles Saucy sponge and cracottes?)

[@TofferJ-UK]

This brought back some memories! I live in Nottinghamshire just up the road from an old company called Mandora who used to make fizzy drinks part of the group who made drinks including Irn Bru years ago. My mum worked there for a few years. Nostalgic memories ❤️🇬🇧

[@nicoladavison3777]

You must live near Mansfield as I can remember the factory which is now linleys

[@joannesaltfleet2071]

Mandora drinks were a northern thing as we had them in Withernsea!

[@alantaylor353]

I still haven't gotten over the Marathon to Mars crisis & here you are provoking my PTSD with more bitter memories.!

[@Wayne-Jones]

Nothing today tastes like Corona pop, it was the best, and I remember thinking that theres no pop that tastes as nice.

[@colincraig5608]

Oooh, Dandelion and Burdock and Sarsaparilla from the Alpine pop man every Saturday morning in North Shields in the 70s!!!! And Cresta bitter lemon, that strange eggshell blue colour. Really smooth bubbles. And Quatro!!!!

[@alisonjordan]

Hello Stu🙋‍♀️ My Father was a Market Gardener, and we had a small shop. He used to sell Corona Pop 🥤I can still remember the flavours: orangeade, Lemonade, Limeade, cherryade, and dandelion and burdock...!! One thing you forgot to mention, there was a returns on the bottles: 1/2p or 1p for any bottles returned to the shop. I loved “Lilt” with its totally tropical 🌴 taste. For some reason, I don’t remember “Cresta” at all... Thanks for another interesting video 📹

[@stuviewtv]

Thanks Alison. Those Corona flavours were all so good! I think my favourites were cherryade and dandelion and burdock.

[@alisonjordan]

@@stuviewtv Hello Stu again. Do you remember the advertising slogan for Unigate Milk🥛 watch out! watch out! There’s a Humphrey about ?! With its long red and white straws?....

[@stuviewtv]

@@alisonjordan Oh yes, remember that well! There were a few Humphrey TV ads featuring various celebrities of the day such as Sid James and Benny Hill. I think there might have even been one with Muhammad Ali too.

[@alisonjordan]

@@stuviewtv YES 👍 Muhammad Ali was certainly in those Adverts!!😃

[@tonyburton5706]

I remember our sweet shop used to sell us a 1d shot of fizzy drink, you had to drink it straight away and then hand back the tiny plastic cup.

[@richardspandley6387]

We had Virgin Cola in the 90s during the cola wars. Not technically a soft drink but there was also Milk Can in the 80s which was basically milk sold in a blue can. Also, I haven’t seen Sunkist in years, not sure if they still make it?

[@stuviewtv]

Oh yes, Virgin Cola! I'd forgotten about that one. I remember the milk in a can too! I think they do still make Sunkist but it's not as widely available as it used to be.

[@beavis4763]

I remember Virgin Cola, we got them at Virgin Cinema and they where sold in 3 liter bottles in the shop.

[@JD-wn3cc]

Remember the 'pammy' bottle they did?

[@edwinreid8355]

Yes I remember Sunkist.

[@SengirIndustries]

Sunkist is available from my local Londis

[@susancoulthard4414]

Yes we had corona, in the 60s and 70s.we took the bottles back to the shop and got money back. That was recycling then ,no cans chucked on the streets .x

[@Spookychris01]

Loved Tab clear, always had a 2 litre bottle in the cupboard if we was lucky. As for Corona, the 10p bottle return brought us loads of 1/2p sweets.

[@WhiskeyGulf71]

Corona bottles used to have a 10p bottle return so as a kid we used to climb in the back yard behind the corner shop & get the empty bottles, then walk in the front door & get 10p a bottle 😄

[@stuviewtv]

Nice!

[@magentaangel5531]

Corona cream soda was my very favourite and I absolutely loved the Cresta drinks, I wish they would bring them back.

[@philcollinson328]

My goodness...Haven't heard the Lilt ad in decades...Instantly came back to me and sang along with every word of the lyrics...Same as does Shake n vac, Kia-Ora's ad ect...Strange what sticks in one's mind.

[@oddnuts5764]

I was gutted when quatro was discountinued - my favourite drink of the 80s

[@nosmallo]

Kid of the eighties here, in the early nineties we had a soft drinks vending machine at our school which had rola cola, lemonade, orangeade, cherryade and top deck shandy. The cadbury's vending machine was always dodgy and soon figured out that if you pressed the star and hash key after you punched in the code for your desired chocolate, it would always spit out a free cadbury's caramel.

[@stuviewtv]

What a great drinks selection in that vending machine!

[@shypop7735]

I remember as a kid visiting my grandparents, they used to have the Corona lorry drive around delivering to houses, dandelion and burdock was my favourite.

[@jacquelineb4375]

Yes I think I used to drink & enjoy the Corona & Cresta drinks as a kid, & especially on a Friday night at the local disco. Didn't know Lilt has been discontinued.

[@Tidybitz]

Yes, I used to love Corona pop as a kid in the 60s. The pop man used to come every week or two to collect old bottles and we'd have new one's. Cherryade was my favourite. I also recall Cresta, but I never really liked it. Lots of stuff came round in vans or lorries in those days, anything from pop, hardware items like bleach, wash powder etc, even a library van, and not forgetting the milkman ... all gone now, which is really sad.

[@Tidybitz]

@checkCanopy ... Glad to hear it.

[@pazthakrar9270]

Another fantastic trip to my youth thank you for upload mt favorite was Pineappleade, but cannot remember if it was Alpine or Corona - mmm dam want one now...

[@gavinjohnson8951]

Great video, brought back memories of the Pop man delivering 2 bottles of Corona pop to our door each week in the 80s. Vaguely remember Cresta, but would imagine my memory would be more distinctive if I'd had it. A frothy drink sounds very unusual. I'd love to try that one now.

[@stuviewtv]

Those were great days when the pop man used to come around.

[@annoldham3018]

Every Corona man in our area looked like Elvis in a navy overall. 😂

[@jonrose2332]

Really good to think back...I remember them all and sampled them all