Lost Fizzy Drinks You Wish They Would Bring Back - Lost Soda 

Hey come on. How many of you remember Corona? As a kid we used to take the empty bottles back to the shops and get some money for them in the 70s. We used to climb over the shops back gate and steal some of the empty bottles from crates and get back the deposits from that shop...lol. I'm sure some of you did that too as a kid

The great brands that brought back fond memories. Parents weren't bothered about sugary drinks back in the day. We were simply encouraged to go outside and play to burn the calories off.

Corona. So many great flavours, and a bottle return deposit meaning kids would actively search for them thereby cleaning the environment. Me and my siblings used to do that and it would get us extra sweets at the Off-licence which was such a treat!! I miss those days so much it makes me want to cry.

I drank Shandy Bass right in to my young adult years. Corona was awesome and the Alpine trucks was an amazing sight. Children actually wanted to be ill to have Lucozade, the squeak of the orange cellophane when it was unwrapped had so many other usage too. It was sold in a glass bottle with a yellow/orange cellophane wrap until 1983, when it was re-branded as an energy drink to remove the brand's associations with illness. The slogan "Lucozade aids recovery" was replaced by "Lucozade replaces lost energy". Sadly Lucozade taste nothing like it did in the 1960s-70s-80s. Today food, music, entertainment etc, etc,.....is accessible 24/7 with almost a infinite volume of options and variety. We don`t have that shared experience our communities had when the Ice cream van came. I miss those simply days and life.

top deck cider shandy was superb... and cider lollies were even better

Tizer , Corona , Panda Pop .. Alpine … Cresta…. the pop man …. money back … glass bottles - Quatro was a fave - A time when life was better ( and the adverts too )

I remember my late Grandad getting crates of pop delivered for us to drink. I loved the cream soda.

I remember running home from the shop with my bottle of Cresta,opened the bottle and whoosh,the ceiling was covered in Strawberry Cresta.After years of numerous coats of paint,30 years later the pink Cresta stain was still there.

i miss the 70s😢

Shandy Bass was without a doubt my favourite. That can strikes pure nostalgia in my heart.

Back in the 70's/80's these drinks tasted fantastic..... unlike in recent years where new recipes destroyed the taste by adding artificial sweeteners and other chemicals.

Back in the days when you could buy soft drinks without the horrible artificial sweeteners.

I was a corona door to door delivery man. Fifty years ago and the drinks tasted great. Great memories.

I loved Shandy Bass as a child, but am gobsmacked to now realise that it contained 1.1% alcohol! Theoretically if you drank enough tins of it you could become inebriated? Yet it was marketed as a kids' drink! Would probably explain my rather enthusiastic penchant for lager as an adult!🤣🤣

I worked on the delivery lorries as drivers mate in the early 70s for corona,delivering to shops . The front and the rear of the bed was loaded with drinks to be delivered and the centre of the lorry was kept clear for the empties to be loaded.on one occasion I remember we were returning after our deliveries and fully loaded with empty bottles when had to negotiate a corner at the bottom of hill as we rounded the corner every bottle on the lorry came off you can imagine what we’re faced with.

In the 70s and 80s we'd all be waiting for certain sounds and smells: the Corona pop man - my favourite was dandelion and burdock or Lucozade wrapped in orange plastic; the chip van which came once or twice a week; the ice cream van coming round on Sunday afternoons...heavenly memories ❤

corona and cresta is the reason i went to the dentist so much as a kid

I am from Canada and here we had a place called "The pop shoppe". It was the same thing as the place you guys have in the UK. I remember when pop was only in home only on special occasions for most homes and we would all would get a bottle of pop once in awhile for dinner etc. I never remember people drinking that much pop like they do now.

Shandy Bass was a little odd. It contained 1.1% alcohol and kids could buy it. But a can on Tenants LA beer contained 0.4% alcohol and couldnt be sold to kids as it was classed as beer. Also Quatro.. I have found a drink that tastes exactly the same. Rubicon (the purple can) i think its passion fruit flavour, either way, its the purple can.. First time i tried it, i took a sip and straight away said "That tastes just like quatro" it was amazing how just one sip took me back to a memory nearly 40 years old.

Kids at our school discos were legitimately buzzing on Panda Pops. It was that point where a sugar rush goes over the edge to become a genuine high. I remember whole tables being emptied in moments, kids drinking bottles of the stuff well into the double figures. Not to mention this was supplemented by refreshers bars, skittles etc as well. 90s was awesome but also, in hindsight, a literal health hazard.

You forgot Hubbly Bubbly! The glass bottles had round indents in them, that looked like bubbles. We used to have a pop man, just when my first son was born and hes now 42! Loved this video. ❤

I remember that Shandy Bass. Actually tasted like beer. Much more than alcohol free beers do!

The Quattro advertising did it's job on my chlidhood brain in the 80s, and by the time I got my hands on an ice cold can of the stuff I thought wow this is amazing, I'm living in the future! Given the fact that drinking canned fizzy drinks was quite a treat and not something I was allowed very often, it really was quite memorable (I was at a scout rally at the time and it was a hot summers day, perfect for a cold drink. I think I even wiped the cold can on my forehead to cool down.

Ben Shaws was our pop man and was also sold in newsagents. Unfortunately all these comoanies clised or were sold to massive companies. They were so much more environmentally friendly than loads of plastic bottles.

I can remember the Corona man coming mid week and then the Alpine man came dinner time on Saturdays, my favourite one was the Dandelion an Burdock as i always go the bottle to myself as no one else liked it, oh those were the days. Thanks for this video Stu

Sad that Bass shandy no longer around! As your video states, I felt like a grown up when given one as a child. Actually, very enjoyable and refreshing as an adult too if you were the driver!

When I was growing up in the 1950s and 1960s in the small town of Bromsgrove in Worcestershire, there were not one but two small factories producing fizzy drinks, "Spencers of Bromsgrove" and "Cowburns" both now long defunct.

Used to use my pocket money at the weekend for a bag of chips and a can of Quatro. Sit on the wall outside the chippy. Great memory. Cheers for the video.

I bought Bass shandy the other day, it never went away its a stalwart in the off license and the best shandy you can get. 😎👍

I'm in N. Ireland. We didn't have Corona or Alpine, we had the Maine soft drinks company. They were still driving lorries of pop around in 2009 - I don't know if they still are. You can still find their products in shops.

I remember in the mid 90s walking around with bass shandy pretending to be drunk 😂 I was 7 🤣🤦‍♂️

Ah yes - Corona, with a 'pimply' bottle neck and, if I recall correctly, a deposit on the glass empties. Didn't Cresta have a strangely mousse-like head when poured? Our milkman also delivered a watery-looking orange squash in milk bottles!

Loved limeade by CORONA and top deck, shandy bass which I wish they would bring back.

I lived a couple of minutes away from the Bass Shandy factory in Sheffield as a kid, if you went when the right people were working you could get them to give you some damaged cans for free. Great times, it's a real shame it's gone because I'd still be drinking it.

I'm surprised you didn't mention Virgin Cola. It was very popular in the late 90s in the UK. I liked it more than Pepsi and Coke. I loved the cartoon advert that they produced. Which was done by Tank Girl/Gorillaz artist Jamie Hewlett.

I'm old enough to remember usherettes in cinemas, with trays filled with Lyons Maid ice lollies, and those weird squash drinks in sealed plastic cups that you pierced with a sharpened straw. I hated them TBH, but it was all they sold. IIRC the colouring agent was extremely sus and probably radioactive, as it literally glowed in the dark. We didn't have Corona in Scotland, or at least I never saw any. Our fizzy drinks companies were BARR (still around), and Hays, Sangs and Bon-Accord (all now long gone). My biggest problem with modern soda is that it's nearly all poisoned with aspartame, which makes me violently ill. There's literally only 3 sodas left that I can still drink: Coke original, Pepsi original, and Irn Bru 1901. And the only squash/cordial I can drink is Belvoir. I suppose eventually I'll be relegated to drinking just tea and water, unless they're planning to pump aspartame into the water supply, in which case just order my coffin now, because I'm done.

I remember in the 1950s as a little kid the Corona pop man coming round on a Friday early evening. Our favourites included Dandelion & Burdock! We'd hand the empty bottles back for £0.02p per bottle. They were made from thick glass so worth recycling back then. I also remember the Spanish onion man making his rounds with onions ringed on string around his neck and his bike as he peddled along! One day, it dawned on my eight year old mind why he'd sell his onions here, to then return to Spain for more, a long way to travel back for more onions!🤣🤣 I also remember the rag & bone man with his horse & cart shouting, 'Rag & bone...rag & bone....he performed a good service, a sort of recycling centre even back then!

I remember how the corona van man used come around every friday evening, around 5.30pm to 6.00pm, and the empty bottles from the week before would be exchanged for the new ones, cherryade, limeade etc, such nostalgic memories, that was the early 80s for you.....

Tab Clear, my all time favourite, I've been holding out hope that it will return one day.

Growing up in the West Coast of Scotland, my favourite regional soft drink brand was Krystal Klear lemonade made by Struthers of Lochwinnoch. When they closed in 2006, after being in business for 100 years, I was really gutted. I don't know if it was the qaulity of the local water, or the recipe they used but their lemonade, red cola and cream soda was ludicrously clean and refreshing tasting.

There were 4 fizzy drinks Mum would regularly Corona cherryade and cream soda for me, R White's lemonade (Mun) and Tizer for Dad. Easter and Christmas Cydrex and Peardrex in brown bottles with stoppers with 6d on the returns, I think Coronna was 3d. While I was recovering meningitis Mum and Dad would bring a bottle of Corona cherryade or cream soda when visited me, still love these flavours but the same as Corona ❤

1:59 We had the Maine man here in Northern Ireland. The days of the truck are long gone but still sell litre bottles in local shops. Can't beat a cold sarsparilla.

I loved all the flavours of Corona but especially the limeade and Cherryade. Heaven in bottles. We used to climb over the back wall of the off-licence, grab a handful and take them around the front for the deposits. Happy days!

This reminds me of us having the 'Alpine' man that would come round with neon coloured fizzy drinks where the empty bottles wuld be collected a week later an get money back...That was in 81/82..... i wonder what happened to the alpine man ...I used to love dandelion and burdock and cherry ade....Love this upload, thanks for the memories on all your videos ..🙏🤗

You used to get 10p back for returning a Corona bottle. As kids we would scour the neighbourhood for bottles, return them and buy sweets with the money.

Corona Tropicalade. So green, I loved it.

Loved Top Deck as a kid, also remember cider flavour ice lollies. My favourite soft drink of the early 80’s was called Solo, tasted like a cross between Lilt and Lemon Fanta.

Fizzy Ribena in cans were my favourite treat back in the 80s, the diet one was in the white can and the normal one in a purple can. We had a Corona man, use to get lemonade and cherryade and we use to buy panda pops from the corner shop, the blue one was full of e numbers and made kids hyper!

Quatro is one of my abiding memories of my first part time job as a glass collector in a very trendy pub when I was just 16 and still in high school. I started there in March 1985 and I can remember it well because of all the chart hits on the juke box. The pub was called The Little B in Sale, Trafford but I was from the wrong side of the tracks being from Benchill, Wythenshawe. It was like walking into a brat pack movie four nights a week in a pub full of Rob Lowes and Molly Ringwalds lol. We used to sell quite a lot of Quatro because it went with Bacardi, vodka and gin and like you say it screamed the 80s. Thanks for the memories.

Great ! Anyone remember Dayla pop . In glass screw top bottles back in the 80's ? Cola, cherryade, lemonade, and my fav was their pineapple & grapefruit . It was usually delivered by the dayla pop man on saturday afternoons whilst watching world of sport . 😊 great days when life was simple .

Panda pops small bottles used to be made of glass, before they became plastic. They were very very fizzy, to the point where one time I was walking home with the bottle from the shop and had accidentally dropped it but without it breaking, (whew ! I thought, still got the fizzy pop to drink), after 2 mins I'd gotten home to open it. Went to twist the cap... Bang ! It blew the twist cap off at such a speed it was like opening a bottle of champagne (which as a boy of 9 years, was a frightening shock but also a pure delight)

I remember when the first supermarket opened in my town in the 70s. I was amazed by all the soft drinks on sale, but the one I always remember which I’d never seen before was chocolate milk in a can.

Brilliant 👏👏👍That was a wonderful trip into the past for me, I vividly remember waiting for the Corona truck to come chinking down our road in the late 70s, my brother and I would race to get first dibs on the first glass of limeade and then putting the empties back in the crate(making sure the 10p return cap was on it) thank you for this superb video👍

Where i grew up in Scotland the big brands were 'Solripe', 'Barrs'(obviously), 'Bon Accord', and 'Struthers'. We used to get the 'Bon Accord Man' come round once a week. Their American Cream Soda was immense, as was their Limeade. 'Solripe' was a main competitor of 'Barrs' for a while but died out. 'Barrs' Irn Bru, Tizer, Limeade, Strike Cola and Red Cola were the best you could get. We barely went near 'Coca-Cola' products.

I can still recall the sound of the Corona lorry as it was idling. Ive never been a pop drinker but loved the different colours of the liquids in the bottles on the lorry.

I remember going to tescos with my dad and always bought a can of shandy bass. I'd have been about 8 years old, good memories

I can remember Cremola Foam from years ago. Although not actually a fizzy drink it came in powder form and when water was added it surely did fizz.

They've stopped making Shandy Bass?! This is an outrage, I feel a petition coming on.

Pop man's here 😂 fantastic memories

I remember walking round a supermarket as a child, rounding a corner to see the giant walking polar bear. I ran back to my mum overjoyed shouting I've just seen Mr frothy man. I always wondered if I dreamt it! Thanks for the memory confirmation 😂

Ice cold glass of Corona Lemonade on a hot summer day - amazing. It was really lemony.

Born late 50s i remember most of them thank you for the video Stuview TV.

I do miss Lilt. Fond memories of summer as a kid, playing football all day, then a cold can of Lilt together with a wrap of battered Sausage & Chips -- covered with salt, and onion vinegar

This channel deserves more fame and glory.

Yes another brilliant video, we remember ALL OF THESE...had them all in the shops....Especially TOM AND JERRY JOKERS...And TOP DECK........QUATRO was an 80s drink......gone by 1989/90...the supplyers were not giving us this anymore...... our shops were all adorned with CORONA advertising......we sold Every Flavour... yes.... happy simple times...........

I was gutted when quatro was discountinued - my favourite drink of the 80s

Being 59 and born and bred Medway Towns it was Mr Bacon who came round our streets with the fizzy drinks. Those were the days. And who can remember the cake van who came round every Sunday afternoon

When I lived in England, in 1991, I loved M&S Caribbean Crush, in slender, white cans, with an illustration of the fruit flavours in it: pineapple, and citrus fruits. And my flat, in Golder's Green, was scented with M&S Peach room freshener.

“Every bubbles passed its physical” still one of the greatest product taglines ever 😂❤

When I think back to being at school in the late 1950s and 1960s, I cannot remember even one obese child. We had sweet things that had no sweeteners (including pop and squash), full fat milk, butter, things fried in lard, pastry, steamed puddings, meat, sausages, bacon, etc. Everything that today they say is bad to consume. But we of the boomer generation and our parents of the war generation have been the longest living in British history. Life expectancy in actually going down now, apparently, for the generations coming along behind us. So what happened? I think three things happened. Firstly, lack of exercise. As children we were on the go from sun-up to sun-down, especially in decent weather. We had PE twice a week at school, and everyone (old and young) mostly walked everywhere. Secondly, portion sizes! I see side-plates now that are bigger than my mum's dinner plates. Portions are double or triple what they used to be. And thirdly, additives. So much is pumped full of preservatives, sweeteners, artificial this and that. I don't believe that the scientists can really truly know the long-term damage. In many ways, I feel sorry for children today. They will never know the freedom we had back then.

CRESTA pop was gorgeous & a big favourite of mine! 🤤😁

I had friends who lived across the road from me who had the ‘pop man’ visit them and when I asked my mother why we didn’t have him given that there were always lots of kids in our home (I’m the youngest of 7) she told me it was for ‘poor people’ and I grew up thinking I was better off than my friends.

Nothing today tastes like Corona pop, it was the best, and I remember thinking that theres no pop that tastes as nice.

Oooh, Dandelion and Burdock and Sarsaparilla from the Alpine pop man every Saturday morning in North Shields in the 70s!!!! And Cresta bitter lemon, that strange eggshell blue colour. Really smooth bubbles. And Quatro!!!!

I grew up in the 1960's & lowcocks & their soft drinks were very popular. My favourites were cream soda & dandelion & burdock, this video was a nostalgic trip down memory lane.

My favourite used to be Alpine pineapple. Loved Shandy Bass and Top Deck too. This is taking me right back to my childhood. I remember the Hoyes pop man too.

Yes, I used to love Corona pop as a kid in the 60s. The pop man used to come every week or two to collect old bottles and we'd have new one's. Cherryade was my favourite. I also recall Cresta, but I never really liked it. Lots of stuff came round in vans or lorries in those days, anything from pop, hardware items like bleach, wash powder etc, even a library van, and not forgetting the milkman ... all gone now, which is really sad.

Cherryade Corona... that brings back some memories! Happy days

Loved it when the Corona lorry came round. My favourites were Cream Soda and Dandelion and Burdock. As an aside, we also used to get a Sharrock's bakery van and they sold the most delicious cream buns I have ever tasted.

In the early 1990's I used to like this soft drink called Indigo. It was made by Coca-Cola and came in a slim purple bottle. It claimed it was made from various exotic fruit juices and the fruits it named on the bottle all had bizarre sounding names.

Corona cream soda was my very favourite and I absolutely loved the Cresta drinks, I wish they would bring them back.

My local social club had a competion every week for the kids. Drink a bottle of hubbly bubbly and eat a packet of chips in the fastest time .highlight of the week for the kids

My first taste of alcohol came in 1971 at the age of 12 when my friend Tina gave me a can of Top Deck Limeade and Lager. I've now graduated to Jack Daniel's!

Growing up in darkest Cornwall, the fizzy drink sold in the chip shop came from Jolly’s who I think are also no longer in business - but I recall having the strangely gloopy Corona as a treat every now and again - it probably dyed my innards.

Before Diet Coke there was something called 1 Cal (or maybe One Cal), which was a diet cola. Tasted absolutely horrible as I remember but did OK as there was little competition until Diet Coke came along. I remember Victoria Wood used to advertise it on TV circa 1980. And I remember Panda Pops being sold by the Ice cream van. I'm afraid you've also missed a Lilt clone called 'Cariba' made by a competitor and there was also Cydrax and Peardrax. Peardrax tasted great and was a favourite of mine as a kid and although long discontinued, Kopparberg alcohol free Pear Cider (which you can find in larger Sainsburys) does taste pretty similar. There was also a regional brand of fizzy drinks called 'Maid Marian' that the corner shop sold when I was a kid. But Corona Dandelion & Burdock was the best surely.

Corona bottles used to have a 10p bottle return so as a kid we used to climb in the back yard behind the corner shop & get the empty bottles, then walk in the front door & get 10p a bottle 😄

There was Fresca as well. The UK ad in the 70's had people's glasses icing up after taking a sip.

This brought back some memories! I live in Nottinghamshire just up the road from an old company called Mandora who used to make fizzy drinks part of the group who made drinks including Irn Bru years ago. My mum worked there for a few years. Nostalgic memories ❤️🇬🇧

I loved panda pops so much, I particularly remember the jelly and ice cream ones. Used to take them on school trips, and sometimes I had them at school instead of milk 😂 I hated milk so when they tried to force feed it us in reception, my mum wrote me a note to get out of it and supplemented it with a Panda pop!

I remember having suncharm fizzy pop as a kid, they were in small glass bottles and cans. They did a green cream soda. There was an issue with panda pops where even though it was the cheapest pop you could get someone was creating a counterfit version out of a lock up somewhere.

That Quatro advert was awesome.

Loved Tab clear, always had a 2 litre bottle in the cupboard if we was lucky. As for Corona, the 10p bottle return brought us loads of 1/2p sweets.

Panda Pops were made by Hall & Woodhouse (Badger beers) based at Blandford St Mary in Dorset. The building where they were canned has now become the main brewery. The original brewery building is now only open for tours

Instantly thought of Cream Soda, Dandelion and Burdock and Cherryade....and then you said them. Another great video from my childhood. Lilt will be missed RIP.

Kid of the eighties here, in the early nineties we had a soft drinks vending machine at our school which had rola cola, lemonade, orangeade, cherryade and top deck shandy. The cadbury's vending machine was always dodgy and soon figured out that if you pressed the star and hash key after you punched in the code for your desired chocolate, it would always spit out a free cadbury's caramel.

I remember Nan bless her buying in loads of corona cream soda!!!. I seem to remember the bottle’s used to get returned as well

We had a Corona lorry come round on Fridays. The driver was a filthy bloke who looked like David Essex after two weeks living in a field. My mate's mum fancied him and used to froth like Cream Soda when he knocked on the door.

I loved Cresta, it had a unique taste I remember 50 years later 😊. And drank gallons of Top deck limeade & lager 🍺 !

Hello Stu🙋‍♀️ My Father was a Market Gardener, and we had a small shop. He used to sell Corona Pop 🥤I can still remember the flavours: orangeade, Lemonade, Limeade, cherryade, and dandelion and burdock...!! One thing you forgot to mention, there was a returns on the bottles: 1/2p or 1p for any bottles returned to the shop. I loved “Lilt” with its totally tropical 🌴 taste. For some reason, I don’t remember “Cresta” at all... Thanks for another interesting video 📹

I remember as a kid visiting my grandparents, they used to have the Corona lorry drive around delivering to houses, dandelion and burdock was my favourite.