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Title: Cream Soda
Post by: oldspice on September 17, 2005, 06:46:32 pm

Does anyone still drink cream soda? I used to love it as a kid but of course, it was only an occasional treat then. It was very popular back then but does anyone still sell/buy it?


Has anyone had cream soda or lemonade with ice cream in it? It used to be called a floater.

Title: Cream Soda
Post by: minty on September 17, 2005, 06:52:52 pm
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Title: Cream Soda
Post by: loulou on September 17, 2005, 07:00:25 pm
Asda sell cream soda and they do their own in little cans. it's lovely with vanilla ice cream in.
Title: Cream Soda
Post by: Hello Sweetie on September 17, 2005, 07:06:42 pm
I used to drink Coca Cola Floaters when I was a
young lass, I prefer to cover my ice cream with
melted Mars Bars nowadays.  
Title: Cream Soda
Post by: goldencup on September 17, 2005, 10:20:34 pm
I still have the occasional Coke Float, as we call them.  My husband still likes cream soda and waxes lyrical about how they used to have a van come round every week in the Midlands delivering 'pop' - cream sodas etc, which you returned the next time.  This was back in the 60's and it certainly didn't happen where I lived.
Title: Cream Soda
Post by: loulou on September 17, 2005, 11:26:27 pm
Yes we had Sykes and Alpine vans came every Saturday morning delivering cream soda, cherryade, sarsasparilla(spelt wrong), cola, every fizzy drink going. Then the following week you gave them the bottles back and got more.
Title: Cream Soda
Post by: Forth Bridges on September 18, 2005, 01:49:49 am

teh BEST CREAM SODE is BARR cream soda (people who make irn brw)


its much better then tesco/asda any other brands


 

Title: Cream Soda
Post by: smurfboy on September 18, 2005, 04:29:58 pm

Quote from: goldencup
I still have the occasional Coke Float, as we call them.  My husband still likes cream soda and waxes lyrical about how they used to have a van come round every week in the Midlands delivering 'pop' - cream sodas etc, which you returned the next time.  This was back in the 60's and it certainly didn't happen where I lived.


Oh yes, my nan always used to get drinks from the Alpine pop man. They went bankrupt in 1988 and it was a very sad day in Chelmsley Wood!


I used to go through phases of loving cream soda as a child; I'd drink nothing else for weeks, then get bored and not have it for yonks.

Title: Cream Soda
Post by: Hello Sweetie on September 18, 2005, 10:22:56 pm
The Alpine pop man used to deliver to my
Grandma's too. Their Dandelion & Burdock was the
best.
Title: Cream Soda
Post by: oldspice on September 18, 2005, 10:26:04 pm

I remember bottles of Carona Cream Soda and R WHites Cream Soda. The shops sold big bottles and small, individual bottles. You took the bottles back and got money back on them. An early type of re-cycling. We used to go round the streets looking for pop and beer bottles to redeem to get the money back.


Remember Tizer? It tasted wonderful in the 60s. Now it's just over-sweet fizz that makes you burp!

Title: Cream Soda
Post by: loulou on September 18, 2005, 10:29:37 pm
I can remember taking the beer and pop bottles back to the shop to get pennies for sweets. Those were the days when 10p got you a huge bag of sweets and not just one.
Title: Cream Soda
Post by: oldspice on September 18, 2005, 10:38:49 pm
Yes, I was really shocked yeasterday to be charged 45p for a small bar of Galaxy Promises Crunchy Caramel. I don't always notice individual prices because I often buy chocolate with the weekly shop but as I was handing over 50p I was thinking "this is 9 shillings I'm paying for a small bar of chocolate!"  9 shillings! It would have bought a ton of chocolate 30 years ago!
Title: Cream Soda
Post by: loulou on September 18, 2005, 10:43:22 pm
It's like that with crisps and cans of pop too. I never notice how expensive they have become until I buy maybe only one  at the garage or corner shop. Last week I bought a can of coke from a garage and round the top it said multipack not for individual sale.
Title: Cream Soda
Post by: Forth Bridges on September 18, 2005, 11:45:28 pm
i remember when sweet cost only 30P - 7 yeasr ago
Title: Cream Soda
Post by: goldencup on September 19, 2005, 08:45:46 am
Oldspice I'm glad you said that about Tizer - I've always said the same thing.  It used to be THE thing at birthday parties and had a real taste to it.  Now it's just sugary fizz.
Title: Cream Soda
Post by: Cherry_Ripe on September 19, 2005, 09:27:34 am

Quote from: goldencup
My husband still likes cream soda and waxes lyrical about how they used to have a van come round every week in the Midlands delivering 'pop' - cream sodas etc, which you returned the next time.  This was back in the 60's and it certainly didn't happen where I lived.


The Corona van visited my town (I live in Cornwall) in the 70s and possibly the early 80s. Cherryade was my favourite.


In Malta last year we drank Coke Floats. You can also get ice-cream put in your Kinnie (a bitter, orangey type of drink you only seem to be able to get in Malta) which is very refreshing.