to want tobuy cheap minerals WITH sugar from Sainsburys

[tarantula]

I don't drive. They are round the corner and I am broke so not into spending 3 times as much on stuff I rarely get anyway.
We are having friends (wiht kids) round tomorrow so thought we'd get some fizzy minerals as a treat like fizzy orange and stuff.
What the bloody hell is wrong with SUGAR, MR SAINSBURY???????!!!!!!!!
Unlike crappy sugar substitues

We ended up getting cloudy lemonade as it was that or gingerbeer. (and oj and fizzy water)

I think the sugar substitutes are cheaper simply because they don't contain sugar. The sweetener is cheaper. Could be wrong though!

Fizzy minerals?

Are they fizzy mineral water?

WTF are "fizzy minerals"?

Lol, we used to call fizzy drinks 'minerals' when we were young - in NI. Don't know why.

"fizzy pop"!!

Trying to buy fizzy drinks or even squash without Aspartame in is almost impossible these days

I think minerals is what Irish people call pop (as we called it in Cumbria - god knows what southerners call it)

YANBU - drives me nuts too.

I cannot abide aspartame in drinks for me or the dc. Its nigh on impossible to buy tonic water without it, either. Sometimes I feel really angry about this .

& without sweetner they are the expensive brands - coke, pepsi, orangina, 7up & sprite

(not that I've studied you understand)

I'm from the north west and remember pop being described as 'minerals' on posh cafe menus but that was probably about 30 years ago.

this thread takes me back. i love calling fizzy drinks minerals!

YANBU. I would rather pay a bit more for the sugar versions as I don't like the DC having sweeteners. But I don't have that option, even in my big Sainsbury's, with some drinks such as lemonade.

Even some of the ones with sugar sometimes have some sweetener slipped in too. Which makes it taste disgusting. They probably think we can't tell.

Just wanted to say - and I promise I don't work for Sainsburys - that their own-brand lemonade with the blue label is just sugar and is really cheap, 44p for a big bottle. I used to spend hours looking at the labels and putting stuff back with a sigh so I was really happy when they brought this out.

Bottle of cheap soda water and a bottle of robinsons will do you - the full sugar variety - my kids think that is fizzy pop!

My grandma used to say minerals, not heard it for years. Her father was Irish.

Haven't heard minerals for a while either. Takes me back... (to Ireland)