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theres still a `ginger` delivery around drumoyne the lads kick aboud in a second hand post office van but as far as im aware if you want them you need to be quick enough to catch them during a delivery or you have no chance

^ Sound like the same one that goes roon Dalmarnock, naee wonder they go at some toot.

A promotional single recorded by oor verra ain Glasgow beat combo The Poets extolling the virtues of strike cola, released 1969-ish. Curiously this was towards the end of their career...

More poets here



Wonder if you can still get suits like those at Slaters?

growing up in Milton of Campsie it was Garvies and Alpine vans that did the round, one of my neighbours was a delivery driver for Garvies, used to park a big flat bed truck overnight at his house. If you were up early enough you could get a lift down Campsie Road to where the school bus picked you up.

Round that way if you were seen carry bag fulls of empties to the shops you had to suffer the cruel taunts of " ya bottle merchant"

Nothing better than raiding the road workies sites at the weekend looking for bottles to return.

Boys drink while the girls look on.

We used to have the "Alpine" man and a guy selling Bon Accord ginger round our way. Alpine ginger was always tasted diluted but I remember Bon Accord Pineappleade was really tasty. Full of E numbers probably.

anyone remember ginger actually called "SKOOSH"? i'm sure it was in a two litre bottle and possibly bought from d.cooks a parkhead cross.

I remember many shops on the south side sold Struthers, they were based at Lochwinnoch, and like Garvies (who were in Milngavie) outside pretenters to the crown of Barrs and Barries.....

crazygray23 wrote:we had the `solripe man` round our way `drumoyne` but im talking mid 80s then when i returned to drumoyne 8 years ago we had stuff delivered from `dunns` as i remember the fizzy orange was magic and mixed with ice cream it made a fantastic drink

Solripe and Alpine i mind them well, one of them used to sell big bottles of vimto if i remember correctly cannae remember which one though.

An old barrs ginger crate in my shed, best tool box/footstool known to mankind

Evening Times

Barr’s pop back to the future with new brew

GLASGOW-BASED drinks firm AG Barr is to put the fizz back into nostalgic brews.
The Irn-Bru maker is launching a range of traditional sparkling soft drinks.
Four flavours: dandelion and burdock; traditional lemonade; ginger beer and cream soda with a hint of raspberry are being introduced.
Bosses hope it will help them win the battle against Coca-Cola's new Schweppes Classic brand.
Adrian Troy, head of marketing for Barr Soft Drinks said the new range would be in shops within weeks.
He added: "They have an authentic taste unlike any other soft drink."
The firm's commercial director Jonathan Kemp insisted the authentic flavour would differentiate their products from the company's rivals.
The value of the adult drinks market has grown to more than £100million but sales are said to have slowed in

Curries used to be made in Auchenleck but there is a Tesco there now.

Was actually talking about this at work today and was suprised to hear that Curries was still on the go - hope to get a fix of Red Kola that has been sadly absent in my life for too long!!!

curries and whites Red Kola is the real stuff, barrs is shite.

wont even stain your mug

The mug stain is the badge of red kola authenticity.