Serenity
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CoronaDoes anyone know if Corona is still going? Was chatting at tea and Paul said he'd applied for a job when he was about 12 helping the Corona man deliver his bottles of pop in the Corona van. I'd forgotten all about that! I can't remember if they would daily or weekly come round the street selling their array of different flavoured pops in glass bottles, but I remember my nan always used to buy them.........then you could return the empty bottles and get money back for doing so.
It's something you don't see nowadays, so did Corona go out of business? Was it something that was just in our town?
I can remember too, collecting Coke bottles and taking back a pushchair full to the local pub up our street, and getting paid quite a tidy amount, for a kid lol........
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Amber
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we used to have a corona plant down here but they went a few years ago , i think they were brought out, i used to love there cream soda, no on elses comes close to taste of corona.
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Skippy X
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not certain, but i'm sure my grandpops was still getting Corona a few years ago!! i could be wrong?? i know the guy used to come round weekly.
...didn't we get something like 5p back for empty returned bottles?
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Thumper
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I think it was 5p Skips, the price used to be printed on the bottle top me thinks.
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Serenity
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That's it Skips, you could make a fortune collecting them up lol
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daxxxx
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We had a Maine lemonade man ...sounds like the same thing, it's still going i used to get it delivered every wed till i came here tho it was 45p a bottle. I love the american cream soda they made as well n the cloudy lime was great to get rid of the thirt i'd get after a night out!
I've seen a lemonade lorry delivering to houses when i've been about here but there's no name on the lorry.
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Memph1s
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isnt that a beer?
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knewlove
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| Memph1s wrote: | | isnt that a beer? |
that's what I thought too!  ?? Cheers! 
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Skippy X
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| knewlove wrote: | | Memph1s wrote: | | isnt that a beer? |
that's what I thought too! ?? Cheers! |
haha!
i knew i knew the name from some place else, yep, Corona is beer, but i remember it as soft drinks when i was a mere kiddie. i been searching for an image/commercial to prove we're not mental - but i'm having no joy  but found this quote on another site:
"Corona deposit bottles. Deposit bottles have all but disappeared from the UK (but still are available here in Germany), even by the early 1980s virtually everything you drank was in plastic. The exception was Corona lemonade, orangeade, limeade (fluorescent green) and some weird concoction called 'dandelion and burdock,' which sounded like something developed at Porton Down in the 1950s to stop invading Soviet troops and tasted much like it too. The joy with Corona lay in taking the bottles back to the shops AND GETTING SOME MONEY BACK. Ten pence per bottle was, in 1982, serious money for a nine-year kid, and I used to earn about a pound a week from collecting bottles from neighbours and taking them down the shops. Then I’d blow it on comics and sweets. The other great things about Corona were the Corona cartoon bubbles, who would have to pass a 'fizzical' to get into a bottle. A little cartoon of bubbles working out in a gym was simply charming . . ."
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Serenity
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I'd forgotten all about that Skips, so had to go on the hunt!!! Andyeuuuch at Dandelion and Burdock....my nan said it brought up her wind lol...Here you go 
 
Not only had I forgotten this, I'd also forgotten about Cresta pop too ! That was the one with the Polar bear in the ad.
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Skippy X
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Cresta?
i remember selling that in Gateway (1994ish); used to get 2 litres for about 20p! bargain, but used to go flat fast
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judyteen
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dandelion and burduck yummy ....they still sell that in sainsburys and they also sell root beer which i love ,you used to be able to get that in mc donalds but they stopped selling it grr
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Thumper
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Dandelion and Burdock, I saw that in Tesco's yesterday, I used to love it when I was little, don't think I'd like to try it now though 
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Dreama
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oooo i love dandelion and burdock mmmmmmmmmmm
just on the subject of the 10p bottles. my mum drank allons of coke, and used to get 10p back of them, like you were saying earlier. i lost my tooth one night, put it under my pillow, next morning there was a flippin coke bottle at the side of my bed
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Thumper
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That's so funny Shell, times must've been hard back then 
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Serenity
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lmfaooo classic!!
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Majortom
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There used to be a Carona depot in Bolton , i used to deliver to canteen there , am pretty sure in the mid 80's they changed their name to Britvic corona
And of course Britvics still going lol with brands like J2O and R Whites Lemonade , Tango, 7up, and Robinsons Squash's
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judyteen
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are you a secrettttttt lemonade drinker bernie lol?
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Serenity
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lmao I remember those adverts!!! Funny how we can still all remember the catch phrase for it too !
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Majortom
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A secret Stella drinker Judy lol
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judyteen
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nooooooooooo thats well known ...not a secret lol 
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