"Every bubble's passed its FIZZical!" yelped the Ernie Bilko-voiced Head Bubble in the cartoon ads for this knobbly-bottled orangeade. Very popular in the '70s. The idea of devouring an entire army of bubbles and then belching out their remains appealed to the juvenile mind.
Do You Remember Corona soft drinks?
Do You Remember Corona soft drinks?
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tonyjcant
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Can anybody tell me where we get Corona Pop now. I have been told Spar and Londis in South wales. Is This True?
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Pookie
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My Mum worked for the company that invented Corona Pop. She used to have to reconcile all the ingredients for each of the Corona varieties made and add costs for the losses made on each of the products. It was first produced by a company called Thomas & Evans in a little place called Porth in the Rhondda Valley in South Wales. I have recently finished working for Bacardi Martini in Southampton doing a very similar job as that's where the Bacardi Breezers were produced so even though we were doing similar jobs roughly 60 years apart she still understood the process that had to take place.
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mellyd
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My Dad was a Corona Pop Man! so I was weaned on the stuff. He worked for them for 30 years until the 90's. He used to let us go into the warehouse during the school holidays and drink as much pop as we liked. Funny but we could only usually manage around a 10th of a bottle. We always went thinking we were going to drink bottles of the stuff. I have very fond memories of the company.
Melanie, Nottingham
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andx
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I work for a law firm and just found an old empty can of Corona Beer Shandy (empty) in the attic of the firm. The expiry date was a month after I was born! exp: Aug 1987!
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peterdee
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i worked for corona soft drinks from 1954 until 1970 istarted as adriver salesman ,then supervisor,branch manager, then finally salesmanager [north london ,in charge of the first telesales operation .as a branch manager the hours were long as a lot of the selling to houses was in the evening .i enjoyed my time with the company,beecham group were a very good company to work ,but today nobody would work the hours that we did then .
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Ken Bartels
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I worked for Corona at the Wakefield depot on Flanshaw Lane back in the 80,s after it moved from Little horton lane Bradford. I started off as a drivers mate and moved on to become a driver, then transport supervisor. I made some good freinds who I still keep in touch with. Corona was taken over by Britvic Soft drinks and the best drink in my view was Tango orange in bottles.
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Paulo
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I worked at the Bradford depot and moved to Flanshaw for about a year.
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lynne
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I remember a corona lorry delivering corona on crates laid sideways on a lorry in the 1960's. My sister and I were allowed to choose what 6 flavours we wanted. I liked ciderapple and dandelion and burdock flavours. My sister liked cherryade. I remember having to return the bottles so that we could get the money back on them. Wouldnt it be a good idea if that was done now. They do it in some European contries
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terrie69
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I remember Corona Fizzy Pop every bubble has passed it's fizzical. There was a factory just up the road from where I lived in Grunisen Road Stamshaw Portsmouth. When you returned the bottles they would give you 2 shillings (10p). I loved it and Texan Chew Bars with the Cowboy waliking a long saying texan sure is a mighty chew.
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Anonymous
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as a kid my grandad was senior superviser for corona in the plymouth branch. I loved it sometimes driving with him in his big lorry on his dinner break. At christmas we would have the tiny bottles of tomato,pineapple and orange juice. but my favourite was cherryade and lemonade. I still have corona pop men soft toys. Good memories.
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Anonymous
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Back in 1983, as a 21-year old student, I worked for 9 weeks at the Corona factory at Totton, near Southampton. I had been brought in to replace a guy who'd been sacked for persistently arriving late and it was his last day. He asked me to guard the door and then he climbed to the top of a large tank containing a freshly-made batch of lemonade, before dropping his trousers and urinating into the depths. Later, we took down a sample of this customised concoction to the Quality Control Officer. He took a big swig from the sample glass, swilled it round his mouth and then swallowed before handing the glass back. "Well done lads - excellent!" he said. after that, we sent the entire lot downstairs to be bottled....and no-body was any the wiser!
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