Then information appeared, in the menu of the KFC network against the background of the departure of PepsiCo, soda from Chernogolovka was supplied. And immediately a wave went - but how is it, but how to live now, but this soda tastes like garbage water from the station cafe in Mukho... gadsk, in short.
In general, separate individuals seized their hearts.
Although I like Chernogolovka. And lemonades, those that are made according to GOSTs. I don’t consider them better or worse than Pepsi and Cola products, they are just different drinks, and arguing about which is better, which is worse, which is more harmful is just a stupid holivar.
Why am I writing all this?
I just decided to remember the "cafe" drinks of my childhood. Well, tell me how I personally suffered until the great carriers of civilization, Pepsi and Cola tasteful, did not come to our market as a beacon of drinking democracy.
If they tell you that before them there was nothing to drink in the country, believe it. That's my word, believe me.
We had to suffer and choke on natural juices. In each cafeteria there were decanters with them in a row.
Remember those?
Juice was poured into them from three-liter cans. The assortment was extremely poor - tomato and birch - this is a classic, plum with pulp, apple - with pulp and clarified, peach (also with pulp), grape... Optionally, there could be cherry or juice mixtures, apple-pear, I remember, I really liked it in the absence of fish.
You know, now you can hardly find such juice on sale anywhere, and if it is, it costs some absolutely crazy money. Because natural. With very little sugar, by the way. Imagine how hard it was for us. that we were forced to drink such juice?
But seriously, it’s worth remembering about him (such juice), as screams are immediately heard - fuuuu, lover of the scoop! And I can’t understand why it’s possible to suffer for the care of Pepsi, for example (which will simply be renamed), but not to be nostalgic for affordable, natural and therefore really useful juices.
Oh yeah, every cafeteria attached to the store had…soda.
Remember the car with flasks from which fizz was poured? Syrups were added to the fizz - made from natural sugar. Yes, both “chemistry” and natural raw materials could be used as flavors. But in modern lemonades (the same "Kolakh") - clearly not "organic without chemistry."
But in cafeterias at cinemas, in buffets at theaters, in cafes, lemon and cranberry drinks were served. Essentially, morses. They were made only from natural raw materials - no concentrates. They were tasty, infections ...
In cafes and cafeterias, by the way, there were coffee makers. And drinking coffee-glass was not at all a novelty for a Soviet schoolboy. A high misted glass, in which a ball of ice cream floated like an iceberg, and a straw sticking out of it are an invariable attribute of going to the cinema. Eighteen kopecks, I remember, was worth coffee-glass.
About a few types of plebeian bottled lemonade, perhaps I should also keep silent? After all, they were so ordinary, so... Soviet, that it was already driving teeth - all sorts of "Pinocchio", "Sayans", "Baikals" ...
No, I am not calling for the fact that Cola, Pepsi and their products should be expelled from the market. What for? Let them be. Taste variety is always good.
I write that the range of drinks (non-alcoholic) was quite wide and rich. And it would be nice to revive the production of the same juices. Because at the moment a huge part of the juices in tetra-packs is a badyaga of an incomprehensible composition from flavored powder and water. Take a look at Ali or Tao Bao, estimate how much China sells "juice concentrates" - you will be stunned.
Yes, and carbonated drinks prepared according to old recipes are also delicious.
Let there be everything!
Do you agree?