To be really missing ribena and lucazade

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I used to love these occasionally on a hot day when dehydrated, now both taste like shit and give me a headache. Why?! I'm in great shape and not overweight I just want a drink a couple of times a month!

Buy a Soda Stream and make it at home. I agree artificial sweeteners are gross

Are soda screams all that good? I talked about buying one to several people who wrinkle their nose at the idea

I wouldn't buy a sodastream, thats just supporting the illegal settlements in Palestine!

And anyway, fizzy ribena is an abomination..

Just about to google cola syrup maybe get a blackcurrant tree/plant freeze them and make your own syrup

Once I've opened a bottle of cordial I freeze it in ice cube trays, because we don't finish it within 3 weeks. Home made isn't too difficult and doesn't taste bad either.

God the sugar tax can just fuck right off. I'm allergic to aspartame so I'm down to just being able to drink Coke/Pepsi. And then some bastard places won't even stock those!

If I ask if they do have anything I can drink, I get offered a stupidly overpriced bottle of plain water - sort of defeats the point of buying myself a treat.

It's currently blackcurrant season - I've made my own Ribena, tastes bloody fantastic and is full of sugar!

Sainsbury's now have their own range hi juice with no sweeteners. You can get blackcurrant apple and mango and orange. They are all nice and just have sugar in.

I miss Ribena. I'd only rarely drink it but I hate the fact that the option has been taken away from me. I'm happy to pay more. I just would like something other than water (and wine) to drink occasionally.

Petition: www.change.org/p/lucozade-ribena-suntory-ltd-bring-back-the-old-full-sugar-ribena

I miss Ribena and san Pelegrino. I was at a friends house the other day and she had one from before they filled it with sweeteners and it was so much nicer than they are now.

I only remember getting Lucozade when ill as a child in the 1950s. It was definitely not an every day drink.

Boycott these companies and hit them where it hurts, in their profits. Same as palm oil. The increase in products containing this inedible shit is horrendous.

I don't think I would be allowed to say here what I would like to do to that fucktwat Oliver

Fucking cuntworth Jamie Oliver.
Bought a a six pack of lucozade a few weeks ago as I do endurance road cycling and really fancied a bottle of fizzy occasionally after all the isotonic flat drinks I get through. One sip of the lovely chilled bottle and I thought oh ffs, I've mistakenly bought the diet one, no, it was lucozade original but with sweeteners. Nothing fucking original about that! Took it back to the supermarket and got a refund despite one being didn't object.

Whole earth do some really nice lemonade and elderflower cans, with sugar no crap in.
I so miss lucozade, I suffer from a series of health issues and lucozade used to be one of the things my dr recommended I drink occasionally but it's no use to me now

@Crwban
There is no such thing as Vimto made with just sugar any more, they made the change a few years ago.

The following is on the ingredients list for Vimto, all versions, squash and fizzy including the supposedly full sugar ones.

Sweeteners (Sucralose, Acesulfame K)

I got that from Sainsbury's web site just now but I already knew it because I used to drink it myself and can't any more because of the sucralose (A.K.A Splenda).

Sucralose causes me oral pain, burns my mouth and throat, making them dry out and crack. Sometimes there's bleeding too. If I accidentally drink or eat sucralose, I know immediately. Upon checking the label it's always in there.

That shit is in fucking everything.

Chlorinated sugar...mmm...mmm ...chlorocarbons...fucking yummy.

It seems to be the most popular replacement for sugar these days, especially in the drinks effected by this stupid fucking sugar tax.

Yes, I'm really angry.
I wish Jamie Fucking Oliver would stick his big ugly fat bottom lip over his big head and swallow himself...the self important arrogant interfering bastard.

Artificial sweeteners give me migraines and trigger my ibs quite badly. I used to drink hot Ribena when I had a cold or flu. I have two bottles of the original Ribena at home but won't allow myself to drink it.

Lucozade was my go-to drink for stomach bugs and migraines. When I last drank it for a migraine, it tasted horrible.

I've found that Rocks squash good to drink occasionally and recently tried Fentimans lemonade and cherry cola, which are lovely. I also love belvoir elderflower presse, which has now become my Sunday tipple. I also found Teissiere lemon syrup in Waitrose and have really enjoyed drinking it with sparkling water during this heat.

I just wish companies had done the same as Coke. I hate the fact that consumer choice has been taken away.

I wish Jamie Oliver had kept his big fat gob shut.

Me too. He's fucking ruined everything. There are now no sugary drinks in our local co op. Not one. Just shelf upon shelf of shite tasting sweetener crap.

I like purdeys - it's got glucose in it.

Miss lucozade, can't understand why they don't bring it back

We get original lucozade at Sainsbury.

Pretty sure rubicon has changed recipes too

Rubicon are owned by Barr's so probably. They also own Rockstar so my guilty pleasure (a massive can of mango and passion fruit energy drink) tastes like utter garbage.

My favourite post orienteering drink was a pint of bitter shandy. Not any more- pub lemonade is revolting.

Sorry I didn't realise about Rubicon. Boo.

@Gottagetmoving You've missed the point! It now contains sucralose and aspartame instead of sugar!

You've missed the point! It now contains sucralose and aspartame instead of sugar!

Sorry, I thought the sugar reduction of lucozade energy drink, which was the same as the original lucozade was by just 8% ?