It still exists! (Britvic 7 Up)

Member Name: leetemplar

Product:	Britvic 7 Up
Date:	07/04/09 (63 review reads)
Rating:

Advantages: A refreshing drink

Disadvantages: Nothing to write home about!

I've just had a can of 7Up for the first time in a while, and I thought I would share the experience with the good People of DooYoo...

PepsiCo's 7Up is a lemon and lime soft drink that I'm sure many of us forget exists. It seems to be eclipsed by its rival Sprite (made by Coca Cola), and always seems a bit 80s retro. I have clear memories of a child of the animated 'Cool Spot' and 'Fido Dido' characters, which in my mind consigns it to the past, along with Mountain Dew and Tab Clear.

It's a very old drink indeed, first formulated with the snappy name "Bib-Label Lithiated Lemon-Lime Soda" in the 1920s. Many myths exist as to why it's called 7Up, but the drink's Wikipedia page gives most credence to the answer that the '7' was the atomic mass of Lithium (one of its early ingredients, believe it or not), and the 'Up' from the fact that this ingredient was seen as a hangover cure at the time.

Taste-wise, 7Up is a refreshing citrussy blend of lemon and lime, which I'm not wholly convinced would pass a blindfolded taste-test with Sprite - they're very much similar drinks and I can only believe Coke v Pepsi brand loyalty would make consumers pick a firm favourite out of the two. It is a nice drink to drink chilled on a warm day, but perhaps not one you could ever imagine anyone going really wild for.

So Fido Dido and Cool Spot may be consigned to the bin of 80s nostalgia, but the drink still survives!

Summary: A refreshing drink, but little more