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any idea where we can buy any?? We live near to Edmonton............any ideas?? really miss it! can't stand crystal light/cool aid stuff!!
Thanks :)

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Mmmm. You've given me a craving for Lemon Barley. Can't say I've ever seen Robinson's for sale here in Edmo, but someone else might know. You can get Fentiman's in lots of places; I like their ginger beer, but it's a bit pricey.

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Try:

http://www.kraftbrands.com/mio/
http://nationalimporters.com/item.as...temNbr=2136091

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Walmart, obviously.

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Dont tease people with faint hope:frown:

Sadly a lack of robinsons is the price paid for otherwise living in paradise.

At least my local "global food, we can import anything" type store cant get it....

One of my local supermarkets used to sell the Granthams squash, but they stopped stocking it:(

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OK, I suppose I'll now have to admit that I've no clue as to what Robinson's Squash actually is. Apart obviously from a non alcoholic drink, a category in which I have little interest.

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Thanks everyone I will keep looking! :) Only thing we miss really so can't complain :)

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MRP77,
we buy robinsons squash here in saskatchewan at brit foods.
tony has just opened a shop in edmonton. 8116,gateway b/vard,
780-438-0049, he has a good selection of uk food we pay about 5 bucks for a
1 litre bottle.
all the best mate.

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I'm amazed. You did grow up in Britain in the 50's and 60's? Maybe this will refresh your memory: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0DBYU...yer_detailpage

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WOW!! Thanks so much!! :)

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I bought Roses Lime Cordial in Sobeys today. I like an occasional Lemon and Barley Water and could never get it in France, so my husband used to leave me for six weeks work in Tanzania and bring back a couple of bottles from there. It would now appear that he will shunt a bottle or two to Canada....whatever are the airmiles on this little transaction could one suppose?

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The Brit store in West Ed sells it along with pork pies and stuff - at a premium of course.

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Dynamite Dollars, (Yeh i know cheezy name, and people say not enuf cheese in Canada) 5 minutes walk from my hse, he he. Lotsa flavors too. :p

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This lot will deliver "non-perishibles" Nation-wide. What you're looking for is under 'Drinks & Beverages'

http://www.clarenceandcripps.com/

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Get some minute maid out of the freezer and make juice up, it's not robinsons but it's about as good as you are going to get without paying a silly price...:)

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5 bucks for a litre isn't exactly extortionate!

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I presume that was on ITV?

We never watched it in our house.

As kids we only drank Ginger Beer and Sasparilla delivered weekly in stone bottles by The Man.

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Ditto here with Sobeys who used to sell "British style" back bacon - probably Danish :lol:- and Superstore who sold Homepride cook-in sauces but don't now.

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have found a few brit shops sell it here in toronto but always have a coupl eof bottles brought over for me whenever people come to visit.

managed to get hold of a bottle of wimbledon special (strawberries and cream) earlier in the summer. perfect thirst quencher :D

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dont think they do...i never saw it there..there is a brit shop in st Albert that im sure sells the stuff

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No Dandelion and Burdock, Tizer ("The Appetizer"), or IrnBru? You had a deprived childhood.

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I'll plead guilty to Dandelion & Burdock, Tizer was a special treat when we were sick.

I thought IrnBru was Scottish beer?

BTW, are we of an age?

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If you remember buying Marathon Bars, then yes :o

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Oh heavens the words Tizer and Dandelion & Burdock have just bought back a shed full of memories....the Corona man used to come once a week with all sorts of those goodies.

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When we lived on the US/Canada border I would pop over to Canada and buy squash from Zehrs supermarket. Don't know if you have them in Alberta though. Their own brand could, for some reason, be found with the drink mixers as if they should be mixed with alcohol. :thumbsup:

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I don't suppose you remember Maxade? A powder/crystal sort of mix. Came in 'envelopes' and it could be mixed with water to drink or make flavoured ice.

Or just poured in your mouth, but a bit sweet for that. Not unlike space dust I suppose.

All I can find on the net is a reference to a sports/energy drink.

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The Lipton crystals are pretty good, sometimes hard to track down. They have them at Pricesmart though and I think there are Pricesmarts in Edmonton. They taste almost identical to squash to me:
http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5270/...53042687b2.jpg

I used to make pitchers of that stuff all the time.

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Well, I got the impression we are of an age, more or less.

I did not experience Irn Bru as a kid, but later in life, as a result of a Geordie boyfriend; it was an essential part of his culture. It's a pop drunk by northern kids and their comic book hero Oor Wullie, a kind of northern version of Dennis the Menace. Oor Wullie speaks in a kind of Geordie/Lowland Scots dialect, so he has never travelled south, but IrnBru is to him what spinach is to Popeye.

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Oh I thought I saw it in there, i'm talking probably 6 years ago though. Sometimes our local IDA sells it, then they run out then they get more and it's a really good price. The Brit shop in the Eau Claire Calgary sells squash, last time we were there it was Sainsbury's Hi Juice for nearly $8, I left that on the shelf, Robinsons in town is only $2.99 when I can get it.

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**** me, no wonder so many British people have ****ed up teeth :nod:

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Yes... I remember it well! No wonder El Richo blames our history for our teeth...it makes one shudder I suppose, but not more than watching some of these great fat kids waddling around with a big meaty fist full of the sugar filled pap in gallon containers that they seem to be imbibing...what are these fat waddling parents thinking of?

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Cheapest I have seen is $7 and I'm not tight but I ain't paying that for a bottle of Robinsons! When in Rome and all that...

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No wonder kids aren't kids for long enough, with all those E Numbers floating around in their system giving ADHD like symptoms :thumbdown:

This is as bad as the gravy threads.

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It's the one thing from my childhood that I can find no reference for on the net.

You've reassured me I'm not losing my mind. Unless you lost yours too. :rofl:

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Now you're just taking the piss, aren't you?

Oor Wullie was a comic strip in the Sunday Post, published by D.C. Thompson in Dundee. Based on your posting record it's hard to imagine you having had a Geordie boyfriend who was thick enough to think the cartoon was from Northern England. And Irn Bru is Scottish too.

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Quite. Oor Wullie and the Broons are 100% Scottish. I was reading that stuff decades ago. I recall no references to the Tyne or Brown Ale.

I am also known to sit on an upturned bucket in my garage.

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You had a garage? Bliss!

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Still do. My beer is there and it's where I go to smoke. My little heaven.

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It's just occurred to me that if you read Oor Wullie back then in Brighton, Editha's assertion that the cartoon never made it South is a bit wobbly.

Perhaps she's from Jersey?

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My mother is a Scot. The annuals were Xmas pressies from rellies.

The Brighton version would probably be: "Oooh-er; Willy!". Or somesuch.