My ire has been tickled. You lucky readers, two blog postings in one day.
Being a warm Irish summer day (18 °C), I decided to purchase a bottle of fancy lemonade to quench my thirst. I paid the €1.99 price tag, poured a good quarter of a pint down my dusty thrapple. Suddenely I was struck by a glaring absence of the taste of any kind of lemon whatsoever. A quick check of the stated ingredients confirmed the closet thing to lemon was citric acid, which it seems does not taste one bit lemony. I wouldn't care if they made the citric acid in a vat from petrol and tar if it tasted anything like lemons.
The drink in question if called "Bellot Lemon". Don't buy it. I've also raced back to the shop and tried a drink called "Lorina sparkling Lemonade Lemon" which you can get in a bottle with fancy re-corking stopper just like old timey lemonade. Don't buy it either. Lorina lists as one of its ingredients "Natural Lemon Aroma". What the fuck does that mean? Lorina also lists critic acid as one of the drinks "natural preservatives" which suggest to me it's used due to its absence of taste.
One more trip to the shop to browse the labels of rival products. It seems Fentimans is the only one that contains the juice of lemons (and pears as it happens) be it from concentrate and only 12 % its still ahead of the pack by a country mile. However it's guaranteed no more that 0.5 % alcohol (phew).
A bit of research on the web explains the entire misunderstanding. Lorina and Bellot are French names and of course are subject to wishy washy vagueness and retreat in times of battle to the bosoms of their tanned revolutionary women. Fentimans is a good British brand, and lets face it with name like Fentiman you know their cola is kosher. Plus it's got a picture of a faithful German shepherd dog on the label.
Good dog, that's a good good dog.
Being a warm Irish summer day (18 °C), I decided to purchase a bottle of fancy lemonade to quench my thirst. I paid the €1.99 price tag, poured a good quarter of a pint down my dusty thrapple. Suddenely I was struck by a glaring absence of the taste of any kind of lemon whatsoever. A quick check of the stated ingredients confirmed the closet thing to lemon was citric acid, which it seems does not taste one bit lemony. I wouldn't care if they made the citric acid in a vat from petrol and tar if it tasted anything like lemons.
The drink in question if called "Bellot Lemon". Don't buy it. I've also raced back to the shop and tried a drink called "Lorina sparkling Lemonade Lemon" which you can get in a bottle with fancy re-corking stopper just like old timey lemonade. Don't buy it either. Lorina lists as one of its ingredients "Natural Lemon Aroma". What the fuck does that mean? Lorina also lists critic acid as one of the drinks "natural preservatives" which suggest to me it's used due to its absence of taste.
One more trip to the shop to browse the labels of rival products. It seems Fentimans is the only one that contains the juice of lemons (and pears as it happens) be it from concentrate and only 12 % its still ahead of the pack by a country mile. However it's guaranteed no more that 0.5 % alcohol (phew).
A bit of research on the web explains the entire misunderstanding. Lorina and Bellot are French names and of course are subject to wishy washy vagueness and retreat in times of battle to the bosoms of their tanned revolutionary women. Fentimans is a good British brand, and lets face it with name like Fentiman you know their cola is kosher. Plus it's got a picture of a faithful German shepherd dog on the label.
Good dog, that's a good good dog.
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