I need help with a soft drink from the 80's

[Private Hudson]

Yeah you get it in ice tea flavours and regular juice flavours. I still remember the stereotypical jamaican dreadlocked fella in the ads

Now that we're drinking tea cool. What are we going to do with our tea cosies?

 

[Illinois Nazi]

Now that we're drinking tea cool. What are we going to do with our tea cosies?

 

[Smeg Head]

$2 at Mt Pleasant IGA. Cha-ching.

Yeah went in and found them on special at Myaree IGA and loaded up.

 

[middletonlane]

Used to rip from the local Loy's truck in Bundora Pde, Mentone. Ain't it funny how you develop a conscience as you age? I couldn't have given two flying flannelettes at the time, but my how the guilt now weighs...

 

[Paul Kersey]

Remember seeing the aftermath of a Slade's truck taking a corner too fast in East Burwood. Poor bloke lost half the load and was out with a broom cleaning the road. No doubt some families missed their weekly delivery, I wonder how they coped with that.

 

[Paul Kersey]

Slades >>> Loys

Loys was the rival right? Both used to sell 750ml glass bottles and you could buy by the crate at servos (or get home delivery). Reckon the last time I bought Slades (used to buy a bottle at the local milk bar) was circa 95. Just googled Slades and saw they now sell their product in plastic bottles, wouldn't taste the same imo.

 

[Paul Kersey]

Actually wasn't Loys - it was Gold Medal.

 

[chunkylover]

On my hols in melbourne i noticed an old faded oasis sign above a deli on the 96 tram route in St Kilda a week after seeing this thread, and 12 or so years after i last saw anything about the oasis beverage. Spooky

 

[the_interloper]

Loys was the rival right? Both used to sell 750ml glass bottles and you could buy by the crate at servos (or get home delivery). Reckon the last time I bought Slades (used to buy a bottle at the local milk bar) was circa 95. Just googled Slades and saw they now sell their product in plastic bottles, wouldn't taste the same imo.

Yeah Loys were the rival, was like Ford and Holden back in the day, remember having arguments with blokes at school about it

 

[RelaxMax]

dad would always order a sarsaparilla for us at the pub

we hated it

used to call it fly spray

 

[JUBJUB]

Can any South Aussies tell us what Kirks Sno-Drop is ?
Apparently it's one you can get in South Australia.I'd never heard of it but was in IGA in Grovedale in Geelong yesterday and saw it,so got a bottle to try [haven't yet].

I've googled it and some people have suggested it's Kirks Kole Beer [love that] but with a different name in SA.

 

[Catfish Alley]

Wouldn't it be easier just to try it??

 

[JUBJUB]

Wouldn't it be easier just to try it??

I'll get around to it in a day or so

 

[Big Tee]

Please i need your help. I've been trying to think of the name of a soft drink forever. Ok.. it's from the late 70s/ early 80s. Im from Gold Coast. It was in a SILVER CAN with black running writing on it and like an orange and yellow sun. The can had a matte finish. Orange/ yellow coloured liquid from memory.

 

[perthblue]

Still waiting on this.

Bruh

 

[I Dont Care]

Best lemonade ever

 

[rocker_oz33]

TAB, mellow yellow I guess those have been already said.

 

[I Dont Care]

I remember years back driving through Victoria and bought a bottle of Tarax Black Diamond I think it was called. It was a great little drop of lemonade

 

[MatthewB]

does any one remember Torquay soft drink, i think it was a lemon/lime flavoured, used to drink it all the time but never knew what happened to it

 

[I Dont Care]

does any one remember Torquay soft drink, i think it was a lemon/lime flavoured, used to drink it all the time but never knew what happened to it

I remember a brewed lemon drink, was that it?

 

[MatthewB]

I remember a brewed lemon drink, was that it?

i cant remember, i think the can was black and green

 

[I Dont Care]

i cant remember, i think the can was black and green

I can't remember the colour, but it came from Melbourne and I only ever saw it in some corner shop in Regency Road in Radelaide

 

[MatthewB]

I can't remember the colour, but it came from Melbourne and I only ever saw it in some corner shop in Regency Road in Radelaide

my baseball club used to have it and they was sponsored by Woodroofe's, this was the late 80's

 

[I Dont Care]

my baseball club used to have it and they was sponsored by Woodroofe's, this was the late 80's

There is/was a Torquay mineral water

 

[MatthewB]

There is/was a Torquay mineral water

i do recall it being a mineral water with lemon/lime flavour now