When did you let your DC have fizzy juice?

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I'm just wondering when roughly people let their kids have fizzy juice. I don't mean every day but when it's their birthday/friends are over etc?

Prob from about age 6-7. My oldest (9) likes Coke but is only allowed it when out at a restaurant or something and only at lunchtime to avoid the caffeine interfering with sleep. He can have lemonade or Fanta or whatever if we are out in the evening. My 6 year old has never liked fizzy drinks until lockdown and he has now discovered he likes lemonade. So he’s only ever had fruit juice in pubs but next time we go out for a meal, whenever that might be, I’m sure he will want lemonade!

"Whats fizzy juice?"

Love people doing the whole faux confused thing when its perfectly obvious what it is, just to try and look smug.

The irony of them looking an utter tool at their own hands is utter hilarity to me!

I'm near Glasgow.
There's fizzy juice, diluting juice and juice, oh, and council juice

@PyongyangKipperbang
Utter tool
Naw, pure fanny

Do you mean say orange juice with sparkling water? Or pop? My kids had sparkling water with their fruit juice first aged about 7&9. Unfortunately the oldest has discovered coke at age 12 and he does have that sometimes for a treat. I always make them brush their teeth straight after sweet or fizzy drinks though.

Maybe it's regional, we call fruit juice 'juice' and squash 'squash' but I do know someone who calls squash 'juice'.

@PyongyangKipperbang

"Whats fizzy juice?"

Love people doing the whole faux confused thing when its perfectly obvious what it is, just to try and look smug.

The irony of them looking an utter tool at their own hands is utter hilarity to me!

It's obvious if you know what it is, how can it be obvious if you don't - the two words are contradictory, what a bizzare notion that anyone looks a tool simply for not knowing what words mean.

I hope you aren't a teacher.

I assume you are Scottish, do you also think your countrymen who don't know about Sunday trading laws in England are being faux confused the numerous times that comes up or do you, rightly, assume that they don't know everything about countries they don't live in?

@XiCi

Juice is just as sugary and acidic as fizzy drinks, so I find it bizarre people object to those but happily give their DC neat apple juice or orange juice! Bizarre? Really? Freshly squeezed fruit juice contains significant levels of vitamin A, folate, vitamin C, calcium, fibre, magnesium and potassium. Do you really think you get this from a can of coke or iron bru?

Of course not! But people don't drink juice for the vitamins, do they?! It's a bit of a rubbish way of getting them due to all the sugar and acid. I just drink it because it tastes nice :o

@IHaveBrilloHair enlighten me as to what cooncil juice is please! Never heard of it where I am!

Water!

As in tap water

Yep, council juice=tap water.
If the kids, (weans), ask for juice, then direct them to the tap for council juice

I'm lucky that mine don't really like it. Dd will have the very odd can of diet coke but we spent 3 years under orthodontics and it was very taboo with braces so she still isn't arsed.

Ds at 6 doesn't like it.

Generally we drink water. Dilute with meals for the dc. Ds has milk with breakfast and sometimes with lunch or dinner but water between meals.

Except for me and dh who drink wine and beer 🍺

It's obvious if you know what it is, how can it be obvious if you don't - the two words are contradictory, what a bizzare notion that anyone looks a tool simply for not knowing what words mean.

Its very obvious from the context what it means.

I hope you aren't a teacher.

Nope

I assume you are Scottish, do you also think your countrymen who don't know about Sunday trading laws in England are being faux confused the numerous times that comes up or do you, rightly, assume that they don't know everything about countries they don't live in?

Which is why assumptions are not a good idea.
Midlands, born and bred. Feel free to AS previous posts of mine that will confirm this.

Today.
From McDonalds.

Hope that helps

My 18 year old still won't drink fizzy drinks. She won't even try them. She drinks water. Or coffee. And recently WINE! But won't touch juice, squash or fizzy drinks 😂

Its very obvious from the context what it means

There is no context at all in the OP and as far as I can see all of the posts asking what the OP meant were in the 30 minutes between her first and second posts (the new feature has come in handy already ). Once she'd explained no one has been confused, I don't know who your commemt was aimed at

Only if they went to a party or McDonald's or something. We didn't have fizzy stuff in the house. They only started drinking it when they were in their Teens and brought it when out. X

I'm just outside Glasgow and we call it ginger, just to confuse things more. Miss the days we used to save up the gingy bottles (Barrs glass bottles) to trade in for sweeties at the corner shop.

My eldest was 6, youngest was 4 - two years difference and can't give to one without the other.

They might get it on special occasions or we sometimes get a bottle of coke or something as a treat if we get a takeaway.

It's not the fizziness but the sugar content that we restrict. I'm not a fan of aspartame so tend not to buy the sugar free stuff.