Jubilee

[EternalOptimist]

When I was a lad, posh drinks hadn't been invented yet.
There was no irn brew, tropicana, pepsi was only in filums, sunny delight, power drinks, Tango, Boost, Dr Pepper.
There was lucozade, but you only had that when you were sick. It was a way of stopping kids claiming to be sick, I think.
There was lemonade (lemmo) in bottles, but the bottle was better than the lemmo, because you got a threepenny bit when you took it back to the shop. There was dandelion and burdock, which was fantastic, but only the rich kids had that. Nobody ever found out what a burdock was. What IS a burdock ?

Anyways, what we DID have, was the jubilee. Now a jubilee is an orange drink in a waxed paper carton, best enjoyed frozen on a hot summers day. You used to bite the corner off, squeeze the bottom and suck the little bit of frozen orange that popped out.

Jubilees were very special for three reasons. First was geometry. The jubilee carton had four sides.
The only container with less sides is a sphere, which has two, but rolls around just when you need it, a can, which has three, but the ring pull had yet to be invented.
Four sides. think about that. even a cube has six sides

The second reason they were so good, was that the name passed into common lingo. 'Loverly jubbly' as in Only fools and Horses

Third was physics. If you ever get a frozen drink and suck the corner, you are left with a bit of horrible ice, as all the good stuff dissappears. But not the jubilee. It was orangy from beginning to end, a true masterpiece of orange juice manufacture

[darmstadt]

When I was a lad, posh drinks hadn't been invented yet.
There was no irn brew, tropicana, pepsi was only in filums, sunny delight, power drinks, Tango, Boost, Dr Pepper.

You must be well old:

Irn-Bru was first produced in 1901

[Troll]

Third was physics. If you ever get a frozen drink and suck the corner, you are left with a bit of horrible ice, as all the good stuff disappears. But not the jubilee. It was orangy from beginning to end, a true masterpiece of orange juice manufacture

With you except for the last bit - my recollection was that you could suck all the orange out and indeed that was the preferred method of consumption leaving behind a triangular block of ice which made an effective weapon for lobbing at each other... think the days were hotter then

[Troll]

... and weren't there other flavours? Vimto?

[MicrosoftBob]

A burdock is a plant, can help with nettle stings I think

[Troll]

A burdock is a plant, can help with nettle stings I think

that's a blast from memory lane

[Ticktock]

And in case you weren't sure what a dandylion is...



HTH.

[darmstadt]

And in case you weren't sure what a dandylion is...



HTH.

Known as 'wee wee flowers' when I was young because if you rubbed some between the palms of your hands (*) it smelt like...wee wee...






(* and then rubbed someone's face with your hands so they smelt of piss....)

[Paddy]

I actually remember my first Pepsi, in a bottle at my aunt’s cafe in 1953! There were a lot of black American soldiers around in those days and I thought all black’s were American, which was very confusing as the movies and sergeant Bilko showed the soldiers as white.

My neighbour (in her 90s) used to buy Coke in the UK during WW2. Coke Cola was also sold to Germany until near the end of the war. When Germany ran out of the syrup, they invented Fana as a substitute.

[BoredBloke]

Commonly known as "piss a bed" because it contains a diuretic.

When I was in the infants i was asked to go out and pick dandilions for the school rabbit. I refused because I didn't want to wet the bed!