Panda Pops

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In my childhood, never was there a church fete that passed without me consuming a significant percentage of my own body weight in Panda Pops. These small bottles of fizzy drink (think of a plastic bottle slightly smaller than a 330ml coke can) with the fizzy drink inside - they were the poor man's coke. They never tasted quite the same as the real stuff, in fact I don't think I ever had even a chilled one, and they were sweet and sticky as it was possible for something to be. The only way to consume them was warm, off a crepe covered trestle table for 5p, or to win them as the worst available tombola prize. They also featured quite heavily on family outings. Again the warm tiny mock Fanta was consumed with white bread and marmite sandwiches beside an unfamiliar playground. They came in a number of flavours. Cherry was my favourite. For a time I took to freezing them, and trying to make an kind of "Panda slush" which was really quite enjoyable. In fact I think I might go off and make on eof those now!

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[Richard1978]

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I remember the cans of Panda Pops were a regular find in shop fridges, those ones with plastic flaps instead of a door.

About 20 years ago almost every branch of Superdug had one.

[sf1378]

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Eee by by gum. I remember the Panda Pop....I remember they used to come in small glass bottles with soft metal screw top lids. And i remember the plastic flap fridges...I think Co op Dairies used to collect the bottles for a couple pence.

[darren]

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these where real nice i remember.
i used to freeze mine.
loved the slushiness of them when frozen.

the colder the better.
as the poor mans coke id not expect it to taste like coke it still was real nice.

[nuttytigger]

My mum used to buy a bottle of panda lemonade in Blackpool, empty it and fill it with vodka to take into the tower lol.

I never liked it.

[Sly]

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The good old Panda Pop. I remember going to the local WMC with my dad and getting these, a bag of cheap crisps (golden wonder?) and a few 10p's so I could play Space Invaders or Pacman. Good times.

[goldenone]

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I loved the cherry ones!!

Also remember the cans of Panda Shandy which had on the can 'Made with real Badger beer'. What the hell was Badger beer?? Did anyone ever see this anywhere other than a trace inside a can of Panda shandy??