Where's the hot press?

[MaisieDotes]

So we've been given Craicnet!

Should we ask to change to the Hot Press or just roll with this?

Anyway- we have our own spot!

Wait, has anybody heard the Deaths?

We were staying in a Premier Inn in Folkstone a few weeks ago and DH asked for a rock shandy. He had not anticipated the level of confusion that would create. The whole bar staff were fascinated!

Isn't there a version of red le I add availabe only in cork too?

Hang on, are we not the Hot Press?

They changed Tanora here in Cork, twas fucking mank. They then rejigged the recipie and said sorry about that.

You can still get a bottle of TK red lemonade.

Ill drink Country spring at a pinch.

I thought TK still do a red lemonade? Although that may be due to the extremely good SV I go to in Cork (next to the very naice farmer's market that Darina oversees!) and the other extremely good SV next to us in Dublin.....

Has anyone got any fruit salads or black jacks?

Ah ya, they have them in the corner shop here still.

Wilton Mint Crisp and Macaroon bars too

There's no rock shandy in the UK???

God I'd have died during my last pregnancy - I practically had myself hooked up to it by IV. Amazing stuff.

Macaroon bars are in the ice cram van on the pier too.

They are tiny now. You'd need two at least.

It was Club orange for me elspeth

I used to fantasise about it all day. I think it was the reason that DS2 was 9lbs 9oz.

I used to have to bring out bottles of Club orange when visiting colleagues in Geneva, for their DCs (and a box of Barrys for the parents!). Those were the days before the liquids restrictions (and you also got away with carrying a SQ wine bag, full of 6 full sized bottles of wine, on the plane from the supermarket in Brussels when out there for meetings!).

They sell tk red lemonade in Tesco, assume it's not just in cork! Love the stuff with Tia Maria

TheOnlyPink

Have it with a Captain Morgans, its massive

I saw TK in SV inform recently. Now I'm a blow in jackeen, only been in Cork a year but I've never seen it on sale in Dublin!

It was Appletiser for me on my first pregnancy (notions....). Can't stand it now!

Lokis - I may be mistaken, but Twomeys in Deansgrange constantly surprises us and I had thought I saw it there. But it may only have been Cork.

Macaroon bar?

My mum craved mi-wadi when she was pregnant with me. I loathe orange squash of any description.

All this talk of red lemonade and sunshine is making me think of sitting in my granny's garden in Dublin in a washing up bowl as she didn't have a paddling in the sunshine drinking the stuff. I can smell the dust and the flowers.

She died 21 years ago last Saturday. May heaven be her bed.

My sister brings me over club orange, golden crisp and buffalo flavour hunky dorys. I'm salivating just thinking about it!

I can't believe no-one has mentioned Kimberly, Mikado, or Coconut Cream biscuits. King used to make gorgeous s&v flavour crisps (blue packet) which were delicious!

I remember the Kings salt and vinegar. Chocolate Kimberley - now you're talking!

Elspeth, the Deaths are crucial to the daily happiness of my parents. Since my dad retired and bought a PC, their homepage is the local paper's Deaths column, which they scan every morning after breakfast to see whether anyone interesting is dead.

They were supposed to come over to see us a few months back and cancelled because they thought an elderly cousin was going to die and didn't want to miss the funeral - the fecker is still going strong.

Thank you to whoever has given me an earworm of

KIMBERLY, MIKADO AND COCONUT CREAMS
SOMEONE YOU LOVE WOULD LOVE SOME, MUM!

I mean, the tune is annoying, coconut creams are pretty disgusting, and even when I was about seven in the seventies, I failed to see why the mammies of Ireland should run around buying biscuits because someone they loved wanted them.

On the other hand, I now want some red Taylor Keith lemonade...

Helena - macaroon bars! Can you still get them???

Oh, the Deaths! DPs do check, but DFIL (God rest him) was religious about checking the paper in the mornings, and loved being able to check during the day when he adopted a tablet.

There's a olde time bar (Bridies) attached to Langton's hotel in Kilkenny that was selling Macaroons, mint crisps, Kalipso and Time Out bars at the weekend. There's also an olde sweet shop in the basement of the old Dun Laoghaire shopping centre that can have these, and sherbet fountains and dip dabs on occasion!! I think I've seen them in the olde sweet shop in Lahinch as well (but I may be mistaken about that one...).

For those wanting (or not!! ) another earworm:

Remember
One look for a safe place
Two don't hurry stop and wait
Three look all around before you cross the road remember
Four let all the traffic past you
Five then walking straight across you
Six keep watching
That's the safe cross code

I am not impressed with the modern cartoon version

Yes. I bought a shed load in Donegal last year for the Limerick sister in laws. They had mint ones too. The most rubbishy chocolate but oh so good!