Tesco American Ginger Ale

Throughout my childhood my mother had force fed me Enid Blyton bedtime stories, most noteably the Famous Five. Famous five board games, Famous Five books. Famous Five role plays in the garden (with the sadly perma-imagined Timmy as mum and dad wouldn't allow a real life Timmy to enter my life.) As a result of this, walking down the tesco drink isle and seeing bottles of ginger ale threw me instantly into horrific, nightmareish enid blyton memoried flashbacks. "Aunt Fanny gave George, Julian and Timmy a picnic of cheese sandwiches, fruit cake and lashings of ginger beer to take on their adventure into the old derelict anne summers factory." Well, maybe ...  Read the complete review

I am not Cola or Pepsi fan and find many of the bottled or canned soft drinks so carbonated that I am left burping (very lady-like, in company, of course) after consuming those bubbles that have not escaped up into my nostrils. I was looking for a flavoursome, thirst quenching soft drink that didn't contain artificial sweeteners, unnatural colourants, or was too fizzy. Ginger is one of my favourite flavours, so I have been investigating all the ginger flavoured drinks. Schweppes produce a lovely ginger beer, albeit still a tad bubbly and (at 98p/litre, ) expensive, but otherwise it ticked all the right boxes for me. Last week, I spied ...  Read the complete review