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Problably one for people in Northern / Southern Ireland this one.. anyone remeber Yellow Pack food from stewarts / super crazy prices?

We were not rich when I was young and we lived mainly on this stuff. Think of a Tesco Value version of a Tesco Value Brand times 4.

The only proper food we would get was Heinz Beans and Kellogs Cerials!

nidave wrote:Problably one for people in Northern / Southern Ireland this one.. anyone remeber Yellow Pack food from stewarts / super crazy prices?

We were not rich when I was young and we lived mainly on this stuff. Think of a Tesco Value version of a Tesco Value Brand times 4.

The only proper food we would get was Heinz Beans and Kellogs Cerials!

I do remember Yellow Pack food from Stewarts/Crazy Prices. If that's all you ate it explains a lot to me.



http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yellow_Pack

marksi wrote:

nidave wrote:Problably one for people in Northern / Southern Ireland this one.. anyone remeber Yellow Pack food from stewarts / super crazy prices?

We were not rich when I was young and we lived mainly on this stuff. Think of a Tesco Value version of a Tesco Value Brand times 4.

The only proper food we would get was Heinz Beans and Kellogs Cerials!

I do remember Yellow Pack food from Stewarts/Crazy Prices. If that's all you ate it explains a lot to me.



http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yellow_Pack

hehehe - have to say that Wikipedia entry is wrong - Yellow Pack was part of Stewarts group who owned Stuarts, Crazy prices and Quinn

Older people may remember the budget 'Yellow Label' range from Fine Fare stores in the 70s. Plain yellow packaging with black army-stencil style lettering if memory serves me right.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fine_Fare

Yup, same packaging. Sounds like that's where Jim Megaw got the idea.

"Don't you miss it".

Ah yes, I used to like Yellow Pack Brown Lemonade and Yellow Pack Red Lemonade... sometimes in the same glass, ha, I thought it was a cocktail!

It was always better when Yellow Pack products came with the product name in the Template Caps (aka The A Team) font, they changed it to Futura in the early 1990s.

Then Stewarts gradually axed the Yellow Pack range with their own brand called Premium Choice, months before Tesco bought them out and wiped Stewarts/Crazy Prices/West Side Stores into pre-Ceasefire Norn Irn supermarkets folklore

EDIT: Just reading that Wikipedia article, I remember Superquinn's Thrift! range Down South, with black Cooper text on a white background. I think their yogurts cost something like 9p in 1987. Don't ask me why I remember that.

Brown or red Lemonade Never heard of it, does it taste the same as normal Lemonade?

Yeah, same taste as ordinary lemonade but with probably more E numbers and definitely more artificial colours...

Another Irish thing - "lemonade" to an Irishman is a clear beverage, rather than the cloudy beverage familiar to most English people.

Have we not had the brown lemonade discussion before?

Brown lemonade contains caramel (or a chemical representation of caramel).

The selection of colours of lemonade result in the Northern Ireland pub-going public asking for such drinks as "vodka and white" much to the confusion of outsiders.

That said, I have never seen brown lemonade served in any pub.

On the subject of unique NI drinkables, it seems this is the only place you can buy Kali Water. It's only made by C&C and is very fizzy water which is rather horrible in taste due to the amount of potassium in it. It is only really drunk for it's medicinal qualities when you have an upset stomach. And it really does work for that. Of course it's not advertised as having medicinal qualities, nor are there any claims anywhere for this as presumably it'd have to undergo a lot of testing and scrutiny.