AIBU to want to buy orange squash in Germany?

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Is orange squash not a thing in Germany? Does anyone know what I should be buying? Or, a supermarket with a British section that has Robinsons? TIA

Yes you can get it, Mautner Markhof make it.

Called Fruchtsirup

DH is German and when we have visited we have found that they tend to mix actual fruit juice with fizzy water instead, I am not sure I have ever seen cordial there

It's not a thing at all. You can get syrup to mix with water but that's usually meant for alcoholic drinks. (Our local Edeka have loads of them.)
There's a huge range of flavoured water and fizzy drinks you can get, though. We quite like the Vio Bio Limonade. They've got cheaper versions of that at Aldi, too.

Go to a polish shop - they have loads of cordials.

https://www.amazon.de/MORE-echten-Fruchtextrakten-Bundle-Fertiggetr%C3%A4nk/dp/B0CFB57JXF/ref=asc_df_B0CFB57JXF/?tag=googshopde-21&linkCode=df0&hvadid=696221910420&hvpos=&hvnetw=g&hvrand=17300812496130013580&hvpone=&hvptwo=&hvqmt=&hvdev=m&hvdvcmdl=&hvlocint=&hvlocphy=1004054&hvtargid=pla-2273618461646&psc=1&mcid=b9e02d40881530868bc77c18a5e1fd42&th=1&psc=1&gad_source=1

You could also try these from Amazon. I think they sell them at DM and Rewe, too.

My German friends who live here find squash bizarre and don't understand why you wouldn't just drink water rather than the artificial taste of squash.

With fruit juice as a treat.

So I don't think it's common, I agree with them to be honest, squash is banned in my house cause I find it weird and unnecessary.

But I hope you find something you like!

dilute orange juice with fizzy water like the rest of us do, or apple juice.

Try these - https://www.british-shopping.eu/home

There is a British foods shop in most of the big German cities, so if you’re in one of those, have a Google.

I think you would be hard pressed to find it in Europe ( so much so that I thought you were talking about a vegetable when I read the title). We had a brief period of having squash in shops in the 90s and I remember my grandparents buying a couple of bottles but it never took off. It was pretty rank.
Orange juice and fizzy water.

Well yeah, but to me frankfurters are weird solid meat mousse and I cannot understand why anyone would eat them. Would be a dull world if we were all the same.

@Catza That's not true - in France sirops are basically squash and drunk widely in cafes l, restaurants and bars.

I had a bit of a dodgy tummy for a couple of days when we were away in France last month so was off alcohol and coffee. NHS advice was to drink flat squash to replace fluids and electrolytes and I found pretty much all bars and restaurants offered a range of different fruit sirops that were served mixed with water

When I lived in France, I used to get people to bring my squash from home or bring it back whenever I visited. I'm pretty sure I had the same problem in Italy, although I was only there a year so don't remember as well.

I'm sure people will be itching to tell me that cordial or sirop are exactly the same thing, but they're really not. Vile stuff.

Exactly! I've no idea why people get so superior about this sort of thing!

@LoquaciousPineapple ha ha! I saw no real difference tbh but I am not a regular squash drinker at home or abroad but a few glasses of sirop au citron or peche did the job for me and I didn't really see the difference.

Nevertheless the idea that our European cousins only drink water or natural fruit juice is hilarious given the French enthusiasm for brightly coloured sirops (the mint one is an alarming mouth wash green!)

I can only remember drinking apfelsaft in Germany as a child. Or spezi! (so?)

I used to take bottles of Robinson squash to my friends in the Netherlands every time I travelled there.

@theduchessofspork

Agree!

I always take those mini concentrated ones. I'm too stingy to pay airport prices for water so fill up with water from the drinking tap once through security and a squish of Robinson's (they're under 100ml). Not helpful I know but for the future!

We struggled a couple of months ago. Adult DS managed with a lovely range of fruit juices instead.

The trouble with buying fruit juice to mix with water, is tht the fruit juice will go off after a certain time. Squash has a longer shelf life if you dont drink it all the time (as I dont)

I haven't lived in Germany for years, but we used to buy this.

https://www.combi.de/tritoppsiruporange-mandarinee4504030368.html

Nonsense. Sirup in France, syrop in Poland. Plenty of it in any flavour

It's not even remotely the same as squash. I have a bottle of syrop sitting on my counter as we speak.

One-third apple juice, two-thirds mineral water of choice=apfelschorle