So to the orginally posted question. I LOVE vimto, but I live in California where it is only available from importers. I have found my guy and pay about $6 a bottle - about 5 quid at current exchange rates. I get the "new" version. You can still buy the old one from importers from the middle east. Its much stickier and still in the glass bottle and the metal cap, but also a lot more expensive.
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Iron brew or Lucozade don't taste the same as way back when
Sprouts still taste the same...you can't mess with sprouts
Would go more for Dandelion & Burdock meself - or the proper Sarsparilla from the stall in Blackburn market.
Someone once told me the flavours of lots of stuff changed after they started fluoridating the water but not sure if there's any truth in that.
Someone once told me the flavours of lots of stuff changed after they started fluoridating the water but not sure if there's any truth in that.
I think it might have more to do with removing the sugar and replacing it with nasty chemical sweeteners.
Jimmy Clitheroe;1234899 Someone once told me the flavours of lots of stuff changed after they started fluoridating the water but not sure if there's any truth in that.[/QUOTE said:
I am not sure about the water angle...though yes tea and maybe Beer do taste different in different places.
I never had and problems with cordials or soft drinks until they started chuffing around with the recipes to allow for the reduction in sugar content....in my opinion, that is when the tastes changed.
I will not buy drinks that have chemical sweeteners in them.
I find it increasingly difficult to buy good quality cordials that have not been adulterated with these chemicals(I consider them to be poison and they do not reduce the risk of obesity one jot)
M&S in Blackburn stock NO fruit cordial that is not sugar free....the Preston Branch only have two varieties that are unadulterated.
I never had and problems with cordials or soft drinks until they started chuffing around with the recipes to allow for the reduction in sugar content....in my opinion, that is when the tastes changed.
I will not buy drinks that have chemical sweeteners in them.
I find it increasingly difficult to buy good quality cordials that have not been adulterated with these chemicals(I consider them to be poison and they do not reduce the risk of obesity one jot)
M&S in Blackburn stock NO fruit cordial that is not sugar free....the Preston Branch only have two varieties that are unadulterated.
so again you and others are forced to change your lifestyle because of others. where will all this rubbish, for want of a better word, end.
Yes...I despise the nanny state.
I am still wearing trousers and jeans that I bought in 2000....so I can control my calorie consumption.
We have learned nothing.
Many years ago dairy produce was demonised and other ingredients were substituted for dairy...now they are saying that the healthy thing would have been to continue to eat such produce...but in moderation.
Some of the chemicals that are used to sweeten drinks are broken down into a formaldehyde like chemical....formaldehyde is what is used to embalm bodies...to preserve tissue.
It is also linked to cancers, but we think it is alright to give our children these drinks and foods?
It has been shown in studies that using sweeteners does not make much difference in weight control.
I am still wearing trousers and jeans that I bought in 2000....so I can control my calorie consumption.
We have learned nothing.
Many years ago dairy produce was demonised and other ingredients were substituted for dairy...now they are saying that the healthy thing would have been to continue to eat such produce...but in moderation.
Some of the chemicals that are used to sweeten drinks are broken down into a formaldehyde like chemical....formaldehyde is what is used to embalm bodies...to preserve tissue.
It is also linked to cancers, but we think it is alright to give our children these drinks and foods?
It has been shown in studies that using sweeteners does not make much difference in weight control.
Amusing article on the very topic...
https://www.spiked-online.com/2019/12/31/the-maddest-nanny-state-ideas-of-2019/
https://www.spiked-online.com/2019/12/31/the-maddest-nanny-state-ideas-of-2019/
Yes... I like that....it is written in a humorous way, but yet it is a deadly serious subject.
How we feed and nourish our children is of paramount importance, but if we give youngsters chemicals that are not without problems(however safe the manufacturers say they are...well, of course they would wouldn't they....they are not going to fund research that tells everyone their product is poison)
I have been a label reader for more years than I like to mention....and the number of times I have made my other half put back food and drink that contains stuff I do not want my daughter's children to be subjected to....and he has rolled his eyes and told me that 'l know too much....and think too much'.
I prefer to give the children limited amounts of sugar....and then encourage them to run, cycle or play off the calories they have consumed.....and I think therein lies the rub.
Our children do not play out anymore.....they do not play skipping games, they do not chase around playing tag, or hide and seek....they do not build dens, climb trees, go exploring.
Maybe addressing this would be a start on tackling what is seen as an obesity crisis.
How we feed and nourish our children is of paramount importance, but if we give youngsters chemicals that are not without problems(however safe the manufacturers say they are...well, of course they would wouldn't they....they are not going to fund research that tells everyone their product is poison)
I have been a label reader for more years than I like to mention....and the number of times I have made my other half put back food and drink that contains stuff I do not want my daughter's children to be subjected to....and he has rolled his eyes and told me that 'l know too much....and think too much'.
I prefer to give the children limited amounts of sugar....and then encourage them to run, cycle or play off the calories they have consumed.....and I think therein lies the rub.
Our children do not play out anymore.....they do not play skipping games, they do not chase around playing tag, or hide and seek....they do not build dens, climb trees, go exploring.
Maybe addressing this would be a start on tackling what is seen as an obesity crisis.
Margaret Pilkington; Our children do not play out anymore.....they do not play skipping games said:
If the local paedo was lurking in the park, our gang of footy playing lads just indulged in some accurate rock chucking practice, problem soon got sorted.
I think it is a mixture of things.
Parents run their children to school and this sets the tone.
They do not let their children experience life....they think they are 'looking after' their children, when in fact they are giving them a social handicap....risk avoidance....no it isn't even risk avoidance....it is not allowing children to determine what risks there are in everyday life.
They are raising children who do not know how to swim in the sea of everyday life
I think there have always been risks in society....some of them you mentioned.
By not exposing children to risks(even the minimal ones) means that they never formulate strategies to avoid/deal with risk of any description.
I walked all the way across town to school every day(both ways) in the fifties.
And you may say that there was less risk from traffic....but less risk is not NO risk.
I was taught road safety....I was taught not to speak to strangers.....i was taught to stay in a group of children.
I was not scared...I grew up in the best of times.
My childhood gave me the skills and the confidence to be who I am.