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To say Capri sun is not a adult drink?

103 replies

Emboo19 · 03/09/2017 22:25

So my lovely dad was going to the shops earlier and asked if I wanted anything. I said a non alcoholic drink of some kind (had a bit too much alcohol over the weekend). Couldn't think what I meant and he was rushing, but I said not a fresh juice but I had something at there's before that was a raspberry/summer fruits sparking drink, something like that.

Went to get a drink a bit ago and asked him if he'd got anything. He proudly hands me a box of summer fruits Capri suns.

I said why have you got them, they're kids drinks. He's adamant that they're not, lots of adults apparently drink them. They have a straw!!
I'm not unreasonable to say they're kids drinks am I?

He's actually sat drinking one now to prove me wrong 😂

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Emboo19 · 03/09/2017 23:05

Well he's drinking a tropical one now. I hope he's up all night from a sugar high!

Enjoy your Capri suns everyone.

To give him credit he got the snacks and chocolate right, despite me saying not to get me anything.

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Argeles · 03/09/2017 23:05

Urrgh Capri Sun, yuk. I didn't even like them when I was a child, never mind now. They do seem to be a 'children's' drink though, and I've never seen an adult drink one.

scrabbler3 · 03/09/2017 23:06

Haven't had one for years.

Monster Munch, though.....

missmollyhadadolly · 03/09/2017 23:09

Ocean Spray Cranberry juice little cartons have straws. They're deffo not for kids.

missmollyhadadolly · 03/09/2017 23:10

Emboo Senior sounds like a top man.

CatsPurr · 03/09/2017 23:11

I am 40 and like them lots, really refreshing. My Dad like them, he is 72. They are also our go to drink for my diabetic boy to bring him out of a hypo. Yes, they are the same sugar as a Coca Cola but in my family sugar is our friend and since they sucked it all out of Lucozade some of us need sugary drinks.

I was really pleased to find boxes of 20 in Morrisons Grin

InvisibleCities · 03/09/2017 23:11

They go mouldy. No-one should drink them Sad

CatsPurr · 03/09/2017 23:14

I have been drinking them for years and years, never had a mouldy one ever.

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Emboo19 · 03/09/2017 23:15

Lol! At emboo senior, he'd be mortified missmolly he tends to try passing himself off as my older brother. Probs why he's drinking Capri sun, wants to be down with the kids.

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treaclesoda · 03/09/2017 23:17

I'd be more suspicious of something that doesn't go mouldy...

Flypaperforarseholes · 03/09/2017 23:18

Ice cold - with two paracetamol and two ibuprofen - they are the world's best hangover cure.

Anecdoche · 03/09/2017 23:19

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CockacidalManiac · 03/09/2017 23:19

The best Capri Sun is a frozen one. I remember the lemon and lime ones you could get in the 80s, now sadly discontinued. Plus the cherry ones that I scout European shops for, and then bring back to this country.
Freeze them, hit them with a rolling pin, and you get a lovely slush.

gluteustothemaximus · 03/09/2017 23:30

We always go to home bargains to get our box of Capri suns. Tesco only do the sweetener version. We take them out and whenever in need of a drink DH and I both drink them.

Blackcurrent one is good. Almost Ribena and cheaper.

Lweji · 03/09/2017 23:42

I didn't know drinks had ages.

PodgeBod · 03/09/2017 23:57

I love orange Capri sun but it seems to go so quickly! Why don't they put it in big cartons like ribena? I would buy that.
Fruit shoots on the other hand are vile. Whenever I've been desperate and had a bit of DD's I've regretted it. When I was a kid Sunny D was the Queen of the sugary orange juices. I never see that around now.

FeelingAggrieved · 04/09/2017 00:09

YABU and snobby

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Emboo19 · 04/09/2017 07:09

I may have to try them frozen or add some alcohol, seen as we've got two boxes of them.

Hmm, I think alchold does Lweji

No not snobby FeelingAggrieved as I said it was lighthearted. I thought it was funny, I asked for an alternative to wine for dinner (although I ended up with wine anyway) and he bought Capri suns.

Despite mumsnet's love of them. I'm arrived they will always be the cheap kids drink you get with a sandwich box meal, at theme parks and the like to me.

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BertrandRussell · 04/09/2017 07:23

Not only do I think Capri Suns are no drink for an adult, I think anything in a little carton with a straw is no drink for an adult. They look utterly ridiculous.

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Emboo19 · 04/09/2017 07:27

Exactly Bert he did look ridiculous drinking it!

And I meant afraid not arrived! Should really look at what I actually type and what my phone decides to put.

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pieceofpurplesky · 04/09/2017 07:31

Google Capri sun worm.

RedBlackberries · 04/09/2017 07:32

YANBU if I wanted a nice grown up alternative to alcohol I'd want a San pelligrino limoncello. Not something from my kids pack lunch box.

I'll happily have one as a drink anytime but it sounds like you wanted a grown up drink because you weren't drinking.

NicolasFlamel · 04/09/2017 07:48

Bananas also go mouldy. You've been warned.

Lweji · 04/09/2017 08:16

Hmm, I think alchold does Lweji

There you have your answer. Wink

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Emboo19 · 04/09/2017 09:37

Ha, that's what I'm going to try Lweji not on a Monday morning though I'll wait until at least lunch time.

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