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Post by nutsberryfarm 🏜 on Apr 12, 2020 18:51:51 GMT
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Post by staggerstag on Apr 13, 2020 11:40:31 GMT
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Post by nutsberryfarm 🏜 on Apr 14, 2020 18:05:36 GMT
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Post by staggerstag on Apr 14, 2020 18:29:39 GMT
Never heard of it but I like their story. The Prohibition dried up the whisky selling so they start selling soft. They don't sell it here and I can't remember trying it in the US, but it looks a proper thirst-quencher. I read that in the 90s they put out a TV ad where a thirsty polar bear chucks a can of Coca-Cola in a 'Keep The Artic Pure' recycling bin, then reaches into the ocean and pulls out a bottle of Polar and drinks it down! 1994, I think. Coke sued and had the ad banned, damn them. That whole 'I'd Like To Teach The World To Sing' campaign should have been banned from the off. Let the citizens of the whole world unite and fall in love with each other after taking a sip of carbonated water and phosphoric acid. Bah.
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Post by nutsberryfarm 🏜 on Apr 14, 2020 23:16:11 GMT
Never heard of it but I like their story. The Prohibition dried up the whisky selling so they start selling soft. They don't sell it here and I can't remember trying it in the US, but it looks a proper thirst-quencher. I read that in the 90s they put out a TV ad where a thirsty polar bear chucks a can of Coca-Cola in a 'Keep The Artic Pure' recycling bin, then reaches into the ocean and pulls out a bottle of Polar and drinks it down! 1994, I think. Coke sued and had the ad banned, damn them. That whole 'I'd Like To Teach The World To Sing' campaign should have been banned from the off. Let the citizens of the whole world unite and fall in love with each other after taking a sip of carbonated water and phosphoric acid. Bah. wow. had no idea. yeah, that coke thing is a little wacky. the polar folk's ginger ale & seltzers are tasty too.
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Post by staggerstag on Apr 14, 2020 23:44:55 GMT
wow. had no idea. yeah, that coke thing is a little wacky. the polar folk's ginger ale & seltzers are tasty too. As it happens, it was the 'seltzer' variety that the polar bear pulled out of the ocean!
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Post by deembastille on Apr 15, 2020 12:23:45 GMT
Is that like orangina??
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Post by nutsberryfarm 🏜 on Apr 16, 2020 2:12:35 GMT
it is! but much cheaper. usually around $1.30 for a 2 liter.
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Post by nutsberryfarm 🏜 on Apr 17, 2020 14:54:17 GMT
staggerstag if you are cream soda fan---just got some of theirs. very refreshing! 
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Post by staggerstag on Apr 17, 2020 18:36:52 GMT
staggerstag if you are cream soda fan---just got some of theirs. very refreshing! Hey, cream soda was the drink for me as a kid, yes sir. As I recall, the main brands were R. Whites and Corona, and a large bottle of Corona Cream Soda was about as exciting as it got. I remember it tasting so, well, creamy, sparkling yet leaving a real smooth taste on the tongue - wonderful stuff. "How do they make it so good, mum?" It was the top dog of drinks for me. Me and other kids in our gang used to occasionally have enough coins to pool together and buy one of these bottles and share it out between ourselves - it was like a luxury, especially on a warm day during the school summer holidays. Our parents rarely had the money in those days to waste on a big bottle of the stuff for their kids, so we had to do jobs (delivering business cards from local taxi firms was one job, I remember - we'd have bundles of small business cards which had to be delivered to all the neighbourhood letter boxes. We each earned about 50p for about four or five hours 'work'. You wouldn't see it now, the firms would get done for child labour or something, but to us it was an easy way to get funds enough to buy stuff from the sweet shop, including cream soda) Corona was first about in the 19th century in Wales and took advantage of the temperance movement of the time to push its soft drinks onto the market. It was sadly bought out by Britvic much later on and the Corona soft drink brand was soon discontinued. I sincerely hope you are enjoying that Polar Cream Soda. PS, it's a damn shame that the brand, and people's fond memories of it, can't help but be associated these days to a killer virus. Same as Corona beer. Most unfortunate.   When you were a kid and you spotted this sign in a sweet shop window, you knew you were in for a fine time...  TV ad... 
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Post by nutsberryfarm 🏜 on Apr 18, 2020 16:33:52 GMT
staggerstag if you are cream soda fan---just got some of theirs. very refreshing! Hey, cream soda was the drink for me as a kid, yes sir. As I recall, the main brands were R. Whites and Corona, and a large bottle of Corona Cream Soda was about as exciting as it got. I remember it tasting so, well, creamy, sparkling yet leaving a real smooth taste on the tongue - wonderful stuff. "How do they make it so good, mum?" It was the top dog of drinks for me. Me and other kids in our gang used to occasionally have enough coins to pool together and buy one of these bottles and share it out between ourselves - it was like a luxury, especially on a warm day during the school summer holidays. Our parents rarely had the money in those days to waste on a big bottle of the stuff for their kids, so we had to do jobs (delivering business cards from local taxi firms was one job, I remember - we'd have bundles of small business cards which had to be delivered to all the neighbourhood letter boxes. We each earned about 50p for about four or five hours 'work'. You wouldn't see it now, the firms would get done for child labour or something, but to us it was an easy way to get funds enough to buy stuff from the sweet shop, including cream soda) Corona was first about in the 19th century in Wales and took advantage of the temperance movement of the time to push its soft drinks onto the market. It was sadly bought out by Britvic much later on and the Corona soft drink brand was soon discontinued. I sincerely hope you are enjoying that Polar Cream Soda. PS, it's a damn shame that the brand, and people's fond memories of it, can't help but be associated these days to a killer virus. Same as Corona beer. Most unfortunate. When you were a kid and you spotted this sign in a sweet shop window, you knew you were in for a fine time... TV ad... sounds tasty! they don't make it anymore?!!
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