VIMTO since 19O8

[Who2]

It was a few years ago I rediscovered Vimto in Omars supermarket. I happily bought a new bottle in Ragab & Sons.
It started me thinking: wiki:
In the Arabian Peninsula, Vimto has enjoyed over 80 years of dominance as the beverage of choice for the iftar or sunset feast during the Islamic holy fasting month of Ramadan. An article in The Times on-line mentioned some 15 million bottles were sold during the one month season in 2007.[9]
In Saudi Arabia Vimto is manufactured under license by the Aujan Industrial Company and enjoys a 90% market share in the cordial concentrated drinks market.[10] Every year, the company launches aggressive marketing campaigns on Arab satellite TV channels that in recent years have become very popular, and achieved cult status with viral marketing videos exchanged on the Internet.

So another British invention goes viral discounting the ever popular internet of course and Branstons Pickle...
So, back to my tree surgery..

[Dusak]

Love it made with hot water, especially in winter, glad to see you found it again cos it disappeared for a couple of years, will go and get some.

[Chocolate Eclair]

Is that the cordial or the fizzy Vimto, like we used to buy from the off license?

[Teddyboy]

I wouldn't care to imagine fizzy Vimto with hot water added!!!!

[Who2]

You'll be asking why jubbly's were a funny shape next, cordial...

[Dusak]

And speaking of those Who2, I got them in a shop in Karnak three years age, orange and pineapple, then I found them on the main street on the West Bank once you turn left after getting off the ferry past the geezer that hires out the bikes on the corner coffee shop, don't know if he's still there. The little supermarket on the same side about two hundred meters up. Not on sale anymore on this side, more the pity as it seems that if it don't taste of mango, they don't sell it.

[Chocolate Eclair]

Obviously the Fizzy ones were not for use with hot water, but i remember as a child sitting outside my uncles pub in Martin, near Lincoln drinking bottle after bottle of Vimto while my parents were inside drinking pints of two's and Pony's "the little drink with a big kick" Yuk!! or of course Babycham, or a "Pigs Ear" A pint of Stewart And Pattinson in them days was 11p old pence.. How times have changed, its a good job vehicles do not use beer to run on you would need to be a millionaire to afford to run a mini.

[Who2]

And Jubbly's were only 4 pence and I'm still owed by a mate, whom I always remind, when we meet...

[Chocolate Eclair]

Can anyone remember Corona? The pop man always delivered every Tuesday to us, and the ealier Coronas had the flip type cork similar to the first Grolsh bottles that came to the UK, the pop man also sold Vimto, along with some of the old favourite flavours like Dandelion and Burdock, ours also had a freezer and would bring Mivvi's around he also solod packets of 5 woodbine, complete with the matches to lite them.

[Bombay]

Vimto is also in the 'crazyman"( I use this name as I can never remember the proper one) supermarket also on TV Street.
The thing I hate about Branston pickle is Nestle took over Crosse & Blackwell and killed of the much better Pan Yan Pickle to boost BP sales.

R

[Bombay]

I remember Corona often, as a small kid I tripped and fell on a broken Corona bottle just missed my eye and still have a scar on my face to this day. Iirc there was a threepence deposit on the bottles (unbroken) .
R

[Who2]

Can anyone remember Corona? The pop man always delivered every Tuesday to us, and the ealier Coronas had the flip type cork similar to the first Grolsh bottles that came to the UK,

'I can remember the days when it came in amphorae along with the wine.
Just created a strawberry, lemon cake and vimto trifle for tomorrows film 4 lions...so there!...

[Dusak]

Who2, at times you can be a right b******, its a good job the clinic warned me off all sweet and sugar things or was it just a warn off

[Zaydine]

Aaaaah, Lance, the corona delivery boy.... My first (imaginary) boyfriend - I wonder where he is now.....

[LivinginLuxor]

My view of Branston Pickle was changed forever when I lived within 200 yards of the factory that made it! The smell permeated the atmosphere for about a mile around!

(Plus the fact that they now provide a squeezy version of their bottle of course!)

[Who2]

Branstons' squeezy bottle ? how to the lumpy bits get through the nozzle ?.......

[Bombay]

Smaller chunks like Pan Yan used to be.

[Dusak]

I have two varieties of the new squeeze bottles, the other is onion, not recommended, they are just a thick mush, taste is not bad, but nothing to compere with the original, nothing to get your teeth in.

[shebs1964]

Oooo really like the sound of that vimto trifle

[Who2]

Yeh! so did the guests, this time of night what takes my fancy ? big bowl of trifle ex sherry avec stella.. and a film Dirty Harry 77..
PS: chefs top tip, I added cream and crushed walnuts as an afterthought....