In Britain (and perhaps elsewhere) there used to be a soft drink called 'Zing' which I was very fond of. This was in the late '60s and early '70s ('though I'm unsure of exactly when it started or finished), and it came in a variety of flavours. It seems to have disappeared in the '70s and I never saw it again - until, that is, the mid-'80s, when I saw it in the cafeteria of a motorway service station on my way down to London. It was served at the counter from a dispensing pump, not bottles as it had once been, but only in orange flavour. I'd love to know if it still exists.
...where, besides buying baseball cards and candy and popsicles, we would collect all the bottlecaps in the bin below the bottle-opener oon the side of the cooler.
I can remember getting all kinds: Wink, Like, Tab, Hires, Booth's, Frank's, 7-Up, Yoo-Hoo, Coke caps with NY World's Fair scenes under the cork, etc, etc.
In Britain (and perhaps elsewhere) there used to be a soft drink called 'Zing' which I was very fond of. This was in the late '60s and early '70s ('though I'm unsure of exactly when it started or finished), and it came in a variety of flavours. It seems to have disappeared in the '70s and I never saw it again - until, that is, the mid-'80s, when I saw it in the cafeteria of a motorway service station on my way down to London. It was served at the counter from a dispensing pump, not bottles as it had once been, but only in orange flavour. I'd love to know if it still exists.
ReplyDeleteI don't think I ever drank Wink, but back in the day, there was a Mom & Pop store down on our corner, which I mentioned here:
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...where, besides buying baseball cards and candy and popsicles, we would collect all the bottlecaps in the bin below the bottle-opener oon the side of the cooler.
I can remember getting all kinds: Wink, Like, Tab, Hires, Booth's, Frank's, 7-Up, Yoo-Hoo, Coke caps with NY World's Fair scenes under the cork, etc, etc.