Originally posted by EternalOptimist
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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
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
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