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

Here in the Netherlands siroop is the closest you’ll find but imo the red berry mix (bosvruchten) is the only palatable one since Kervan Certivan lemon went sugar free. I love a high juice but Robinsons is pure evil. I’ve resorted to making my own citrus cordials and infusing them with ginger and they aren’t half bad and remarkably easy to make.

Weird and unnecessary? That tickled me, you could say that about pretty much anything really.

@soupfiend I think the poster thought you were saying you don't get San Pellegrino there rather than they don't fill it with artificial sweeteners there.

Just because you mentioned or I understood tbh that only in Uk drinks are flavoured with sweetners. That drink with sweeetner is Italian. I don't mind erytrlrilrol or stevia but the rest is simply unhealthy

When we're in Spain and Italy, its fairly common for the drinks in bars (soft drinks) are the versions without sweetners. So the San Pellegrino, or liptons iced tea drinks are usually the ones without sweetners, I can usually rely on these. They are common in bars and cafes

Over here, although you can get the versions without sweetners, if you're out and about and need a soft drink, rarely do they have those brands anyway, usually just the bog standard coke/lemonade/fanta and low sugar versios of those or awful squash drinks which always, always always, have sweetners in them. Cartons of capri sun, ribena, fruit shoots, always have sweetners in them

They'll be the death of us I think

ohhh waldmeister tritop

flavour of the gods...

as pp say, plenty of 'diluting juice' available. just not branded stuff.
diluting fruit juice with fizzy water seems to be more popular though.

My favourite squash is Italian - cherry flavoured and Polish food shops seem to have plenty, so I'm sure it's a thing in some European countries.

Yes! What’s wrong with this^?
I just can’t genuinely understand why you need designated squash.

Try making your own

https://www.vegrecipesofindia.com/orange-squash-recipe/

A bit further down the thread we have already established that syrop is not the same as squash.

Yes this is the way and so much better. Or add fruit to water, equally as good and not full of crap to rot your teeth and insides.

Stevia is natural and grows even in my garden, many gardens. Erythritol is a sugar alcohol so not dangerousmn Ksylitol is on the border and good for those suffering with constipation.
Everything else : sucralose, aspartam are deadly. maltilol not healthy too

The new good ones are Monk fruit. Allulose is derived from sugar and is approved in US but no much research yet if it is ok when used long term

@Ygfrhj Is that what Waterdrop tastes like? We see it at the exit in Rossmanns all the time, and my DD used to beg me for it, but the bottles are 20-30 Euro, so I cannot justify it. I just assumed it tasted like flavoured water...

This is hilarious, You think you’ve seen it all and then you enter the world of cordial-based moral superiority. I’m fine with a glass of water, but I do tend to just sit and look at it rather than actually drinking it unless I’m parched. If I add a drop of squash (I prefer ice tea powder if I can get it) then for some reason, presumably related to my weakness of character, I’m much more likely to actually drink it. I see now though see that the road to hell, no teeth and morbid obesity is paved with Fruit and Barley.

I’d suggest taking a long hard look at yourself over a glass of tepid water, OP, and try to work out how you came to be so unsophisticated as to enjoy a glass of squash 😂

As you might expect of a squash drinker, my money and I are easily parted, but even I baulked at the price of Waterdrops. I have since discovered flavouring drops in a bottle. I get mine in Lakeland but there are loads of flavours online. You add a couple of drops to your water and you get flavour without the sweetness. Some of them taste very artificial, I’m not fond of the berry fruit ones, but the lemon, lime, mint type ones are pretty tasty

stevia tastes horrible

San Pellegrino Essenza has not artificial sugars (and i count stevia in that) and no sugar. Its just a flavoured mineral water and is lovely and refreshing

I kind of like stevia.

Poland has similar sugar laws to UK. The only difference, as I was told, is that Poland allows companies to use fruit juices instead of white sugar without paying extra increasing cost of products.
Also, Polish syrups definitely go to the bottom.m.

Germany is full of bizarre things though. I would take squash every time over club-mate.

If you ever come to Scotland remember to call it "diluting juice".

Not sure about relevance of it to the topic. What does it mean that the Polish syrups go to the bottom? The only people who know the linked alcoholic drink would be people who like it. Never heard of that before so it is not like a staple drink in Poland.

I don't drink....
But you were berating OP for looking for a particular thing, explaining to people that their experiences and preferences cannot be true. because syrups from Polish shop are not like syrups and are totally the same as squash.
Then we had a rant about lack of sugar in Uk's drinks.

My post is not less relevant than yours were.

What the fuck is wrong with frankfurters?

This is not about whose post has more relevancy. I just don't understand relevance of that sentence you put about the bottom and linked some alcoholic bevarage. Not sure how that alcohol has anything to do with squash and what does it mean " taking it to the bottom". It is not a drink that I would describe Pimms of Poland. Hardly known.

I must admit I don't recall berating OP for looking for squash. I just pointed to the other alternatives.
Squash or cordial is sugar and concentrated juice. And this is also what syrups consist of.

If you want to drink orange squash you are better off diluting orange juice. Anything available in Germany (to my knowledge) will not be the same as UK squash and will not be drunk as an “everyday drink”.

Like pp have said, it's not a thing. My friend only drank cordials that her mother bought from Turkish shops.