Irn-Bru ad.

[McClef]

Yes it is a little reminiscent of Lucozade Hamish. Many diet drinks don't taste the same as the sugared varieties - Coke doesn't either.

I guess if you are not used to "pop" that many such drinks will not be to your palate.

Glass bottled "pop" seems to have gone the way of the dinosaur alas. I remember that every bottle was sold with a deposit of about 3d (that's the old real money) which was refunded when you took the empty bottle back. That encouraged enterprise and recycling instead of the casual throwaway culture we now have with anti social people throwing the plastic ones away in the street.

But I really am surprised that such a big Tesco carried such a poor choice!

[Hamish]

Yes it is a little reminiscent of Lucozade Hamish. Many diet drinks don't taste the same as the sugared varieties - Coke doesn't either.

I guess if you are not used to "pop" that many such drinks will not be to your palate.

Yes, I guess you are right. Trefor. I enjoyed home-made (by my mother) lemonade as a child, but I have never gone for fizzy, brightly coloured, artificially flavoured, chemical ridden soft drinks. When I am really thirsty and need to quoff, I'll opt for sparkling mineral water with a dash of Robinson's Lime Juice Cordial.

Glass bottled "pop" seems to have gone the way of the dinosaur alas. I remember that every bottle was sold with a deposit of about 3d (that's the old real money) which was refunded when you took the empty bottle back. That encouraged enterprise and recycling instead of the casual throwaway culture we now have with anti social people throwing the plastic ones away in the street.

Oh, I remember those days well enough. The deposit was on beer bottles too but, strangely, not on milk bottles as I recall. The 'deposit' system should be brought back - it might help solve many problems including the one you highlight.

But I really am surprised that such a big Tesco carried such a poor choice!

I imagine it is all down to demand, Trefor. They carry masses of other soft drinks - too many in my opinion. Who needs such a choice? It was the same thing with 'Woolite' washing powder! I have never been able to find it down here, but I gather it is available in other parts of the country.

[auld argonian]

Shelf space for soft drinks is a big business and a study in the psychology of marketing here in the states. It has not been unheard of for the companies to either discreetly pay off store managers for prime placement or threaten to withdraw their complete product line if prime space is not given. We jokingly refer to "The Cola Wars" hereabouts much as Obi-Wan refered to the "Clone Wars" in the first (or fourth, depending on how you look at it) Star Wars.

There's a particular type of very strongly flavored Ginger Ale that I like named Vernor's...it's not all that popular so it appears and disappears and mysteriously shifts around from shelf to shelf depending on what else is on sale that week.

And FYI, Hamish, Woolite is actually a concentrated liquid. To further complicate the matter, there are two versions of Woolite: the regular and one that's formulated for dark fabric (claims to help keep "darks dark"). The parent company of Woolite is Reckitt Benckiser of Wayne, New Jersey. Don't know if that helps or if, in the end, Woolite is any more effective for washing kilts than any other product.

Best

AA

ps: http://woolite.com/

...and you'll all love the little changing captions on this page that give you interesting information about women and their relationship to doing laundry.

Did you know, for example, that "...30% of women spend more time doing laundry than they do making love..."? or that "...women do an average of five loads of laundry a week..."?

No comment on the first one but that second woman obviously doesn't live here...it's more like five loads a DAY. I sometimes think that there's another whole family that lives here when we're out and that I'm cleaning up after them as well.

AA

[Mike1]

Since we're now some 60+ posts away from the comment about the way the Irn Bru ad was appearing and we're now talking about Woolite rather than Irn Bru, neither of which have much to do with any forum issues , this one has been moved from Comments and Suggestions to Off Topic.

[Vafuth]

St. Andrews in NYC has both Irn-bru and Diet Irn-bru.

I love it...order it 8 cases at a time.

there is also an Irn-Bru tartan!!! Which I am hopeful to be able to get permission to have a kilt made with it.