Anyone know of orange squash that tastes as good as the stuff 50 years ago when sugar and maybe loads of nasty additives were allowed e numbers for colour etc
The only thing I can drink is no added sugar ribena but occasionally want an orange drink like the machine that constantly tumbled,mixed and chilled at the till end of the school canteen servery
Anyone that suggests sunny delight can go and stand in the corner for an hour
Robinsons fruit creations is what you seek.
Orange and mango is the best one IMO.
Or peach and raspberry.
The rest are a bit minging.
Is Sunquick still a thing?
The only thing I can drink is no added sugar ribena but occasionally want an orange drink like the machine that constantly tumbled,mixed and chilled at the till end of the school canteen servery
Were you at Eton or Harrow?
No help to you but.....
Do you remember Kellogg's orange Rise and Shine powder. Not sure it had much to do with actual oranges but by god it packed a chemically induced taste and sugar punch. It'd melt through armour plating I suspect.
Rocks orange, actually tastes like an orange. other flavours available.
Eton or Harrow ????
I went to Buckhind High in Fife a huge comprehensive no longer with us with over 2100 pupils when I was there, loads of temporary huts were used to accommodate classes of over 30
Ruth Davidson ex Scottish Tory leader probably most famous pupil as Jack Hogan/Vetriano was older and went to the rival school down the road
See if Tesco do a quadruple strength orange, 1.5l for £1.70, currently part way through apple&strawberry and it's been just as good as summer fruits and blackcurrant&apple.
My English girlfriend refused to understand if I say “dilutin juice” and perish the thought I go as far as “fizzy juice” - im a long time out of east of Scotland so I’m glad it’s not just me
DJ (Dyelootin Jooice*) aw tha way.
Only the Famous Five brigade would call it Squash 😉 🤣
* East coast Jockland
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Robinson’s double strength real orange. Best orange juice I’ve found by far. I occasionally drop a fizzy vitamin C and zinc tablet into a glass, gives it a nice fizz.
Find yourself some ration packs and collect the screech not a natural chemical involved in it's orangey madness.
- While on the subject how come Blackcurrant squash from Sainsbury's seems to taste stronger the more you dilute it or is it just me ? 🤔🙄
or dennertime is between 12.30 and 1pm whereas teatime is 5pmMy partner rolls her eyes every single time i refer to our evening meal as teatime. Or midday meal as "dinner".
Apparently i'm completely wrong and every english speaker she knows (except me) has lunch in the middle of the day and dinner in the evening. Probably doesn't help that ~80% of them aren't actually English.
Erm.....the ladies who dish out the school meal in the middle of the day are called......dinner ladies, not lunch ladies.
Me : I’ll just make the kids some juice
her : that’s clearly not juice
me: how?
I for one have never heard of squash being referred to as "dilutin juice" and can't think of any suitable chemical infusion that would meet your requirements but if you want a proper "cordial" then Belvoir Farms ginger cordial is the one for you - available from Waitrose don't you know...
Erm.....the ladies who dish out the school meal in the middle of the day are called......dinner ladies, not lunch ladies.Not where i'm from.
I'm from Ayr it's diluting juice, Mrs Gordimhor from Aberdeenshire agrees
Make some Elderflower cordial. Best time is now and you will have to be quick.
1.5 litres of water.
30 large Elderflower heads.
1 kg of sugar.
Couple of lemons.
50 grams of citric acid.
Dissolve sugar into boiling water. Allow to cool.
Mix in flowers, acid, lemon rind, then the rest of the lemon.
Leave in the fridge for 48hours with a tea towel over the top.
Strain into a vessel through sonne muslin.
Drink:-) only needs a dash.
.....Straight from the heart ❤️
pS. Squirty lemon seems to work. I went for 6 generous squirts.
PPS trying a sugar free version. That's in the fridge. Report back in 24 hours.
Erm.....the ladies who dish out the school meal in the middle of the day are called......dinner ladies, not lunch ladies.
Winner, winner! Chicken mid-day meal! 🤣
- While on the subject how come Blackcurrant squash from Sainsbury's seems to taste stronger the more you dilute it or is it just me ? 🤔🙄
what’s your views on homeopathy?
My Aberdonian GF calls it squash, but I'll slip "diluting juice" in the convo and see if she reacts.
Orange barley for me anyway, I like the Lidl one.
Roses Lime Cordial still seems to taste much the same as it did ~50 years ago. Pretentious, la-di-da name obviously, and doesn't help much if you're wanting orange squash, but there you go.
Elderflower cordial
Cordial? Someone had to go and gentrify the thread. 😀
Does sound tasty though.
Was always 'squash' in my neck of the woods. Robinson's barley was the go-to.
It was juice in my corner of Scotland. Actual squashed fruit type juice apparently so rare that we specifically called it fruit juice.
I did once get asked by a boy from Birmingham if we had orange juice in Scotland. Both being exotic far away type things to a kid from Birmingham.
I did once get asked by a boy from Birmingham if we had orange juice in Scotland
...hope you told him that's where the band was from... 🙂
And did anyone make a jubely freezing it up in a mug , bending a teaspoon and getting brain freeze eating it too quick
It was juice in my corner of Scotland. Actual squashed fruit type juice apparently so rare that we specifically called it fruit juice.
I did once get asked by a boy from Birmingham if we had orange juice in Scotland. Both being exotic far away type things to a kid from Birmingham.
when I first moved to London for my grad job I was working in an office that had a contact centre with a couple of proper “innit tho” girls that had never been north of Cockfosters - they were doing that annoying thing of being really excited about my accent and asking if Scotland had the internet. Anyway one of them had a banana on her desk so I said woah WTF is that? Had them absolutely convinced there was no fruit in Scotland
A guy I used to work with from Barnsley called it 'Let Down Pop'
So accurate on so many levels that it's a phrase I have now adopted.
Erm.....the ladies who dish out the school meal in the middle of the day are called......dinner ladies, not lunch ladies.
Not these days…. Lunchtime Supervisor is what they are called now. Or catering staff if on the tills etc.
Diluting juice for me. (and if it was fizzy stuff my Gran called it ginger?)
Robinsons orange barley is my go to as it does not taste of artificial stuff and is nice and smooth, maybe not what you want though.
Working my way through the Robinson's range (who call is squash), to dilute some supplements, peach and raspberry a winner so far & I'm not keen on the barley one or orange and pineapple. Will be looking for the double strength one. Also not impressed by the latest version of ribena
Erm.....the ladies who dish out the school meal in the middle of the day are called......dinner ladies, not lunch ladies.
Lunchlady Doris would disagree...
I call it squash, but i'm english. wife calls it dilutin juice, she's a native scot. You have to ask for fresh orange in the pub here or you'll get squash.
fizzy drinks are ginger.
it's weird.
I call it squash too, I remember as as kid visiting a relative in Glasgow and being offered dilitinjus. I remember saying pardon 3 times before just smiling and nodding.
dinner ladies, not lunch ladies.
A dinner lady can also be a lady who lunches on her days off.
Diluting juice for me. (and if it was fizzy stuff my Gran called it ginger?)
I think that 'Ginger' ,is more a West Jockland thing 😉
True story : A workmate in London invited a lot of his pals from Glasgow down for a weekender.
The next morning,somewhere in deepest Tottenham ,three of the (very worse for wear) lads* wandered in to a newsagents and asked
"Huv yi got any Ginger?"
The confused look from shop keeper only made them try harder.
" HAVE ....YOU ....GOT.... ANY ....GINGER?"
They gave up and went back to ask my workmate where else they could try. 🤣 🤣
*First time south of East Kilbride
Being English I call it either squash or cordial. I have reffered to it as dillute before to differentiate from fruit juice. My nana from Leicester calls it mineral, well "min'ral", but she also say pep'mint....
Ginger is definitely a Glasgow or West of Scotland description whereas here on the east it was always Lemonade whether it was lemon flavour or not
They are a bit different West by, they have a Boabby but we have a Willy
Cordial only come out at the new year, kept dentists flat out with work due to this home made delicacy laced with tons of refined sugar
dinner ladies, not lunch ladies.
A dinner lady can also be a lady who lunches on her days off.
"... a lady what lunches on her days off"
FTFY
Who dilutes orange juice? Are we talking about cordials, right?
Cordially speaking being polite and friendly on this forum is getting rarer it may be cordial down sowf but up in unhealthy Scotland where winters are tough and long it's known as dylootin jooce according to fasthaggis
You can adjust the taste with a careful turn of the cold tap
Nah it ay cordial where I'm from. It's pop. And if it's carbonated. It's fizzy pop. And oim considerably more southern than yow.
Dilutinjuice is one word btw - bronze medal in the drinks-to-offer-weans category.
My go-to dilutinjuice is Sainsbury’s pink grapefruit one.
Fruit juice takes the silver medal - too expensive to be giving weans free access to it.
Fizzy juice takes the gold obvs. Vimto from the world food supermarket is the real deal - in your face, sugar tax!
Cordial lurks alongside the only-at-Christmas/brought-back-from-Greece dusty bottles of dubious alcohol.
Just call it juice here.
We confused some new friends one time when we invited them round for tea. They were expecting a cuppy and some cake, and were a bit taken back that we'd made a big pot of chilli.
if you want a proper "cordial" then Belvoir Farms ginger cordial is the one for you - available from Waitrose don't you know...
This. And often on sale at Sainsbury's.
When I was a lad I thought it odd that the squash bottle said "dilute to taste", when you could taste it anyway?
Robinsons double strength for me, definitely ticks the childhood Robinsons Special R box ie tastes sort of a bit like an orange but also quite a lot like some sort of industrial waste.
We just called it juice.
Aldi 50% fruit orange squash is excellent. Not just for boring old still water but great with the Sodastream too!
In fact I may be having some with dinner tonight 😉
No help to you but.....
Do you remember Kellogg's orange Rise and Shine powder. Not sure it had much to do with actual oranges but by god it packed a chemically induced taste and sugar punch. It'd melt through armour plating I suspect.
I mourn its passing as I used to take it camping
Diluting juice for me. (and if it was fizzy stuff my Gran called it ginger?)
Ginger on the west coast, just "juice" for fizzy pop in Edinburgh
So round here diluting juice for cordial, Juice for fizzy pop, fruit juice if its actually fruit juice