We’ve lost it!
Unbelievable ... but wikipedia confirms it … It’s now made by coca-cola!
What is it?
L&P of course! L&P stands for Lemon & Paeroa. L&P is to New Zealand what Irn-Bru is to Scotland. Big difference though ….Irn-Bru is still Barr’s Irn-Bru … just as it’s always been.
L&P gets its name from the ingredients: lemon juice combined with carbonated mineral water from the town of Paeroa. Paeroa still has the BIG bottle. I know I saw it there a few months ago but I didn’t know then that we had lost it!
Don’t you just hate it when local stuff goes mulinational? Sigh!
What is it?
L&P of course! L&P stands for Lemon & Paeroa. L&P is to New Zealand what Irn-Bru is to Scotland. Big difference though ….Irn-Bru is still Barr’s Irn-Bru … just as it’s always been.
L&P gets its name from the ingredients: lemon juice combined with carbonated mineral water from the town of Paeroa. Paeroa still has the BIG bottle. I know I saw it there a few months ago but I didn’t know then that we had lost it!
Don’t you just hate it when local stuff goes mulinational? Sigh!
posted by Omykiss at 3:01 pm
9 Comments:
Yes. For some reason, it almost always loses some of its quality in the transition to a corporate product. I have never had this beverage before...I will be looking forward to trying it but would have enjoyed it just as much if I had been told about it and had it shipped.
As a Paeroa local, all I can say is... thats pretty sad, but maybe now we can get rid of the other big bottle, the ugly plastic one down the other end of town :)
hi bluest ... I don't think L&P has been much of a success outside New Zeland .... not like Irn-Bru which you can get loads of places ...
Hello cin77 and welcome .. and here was me thinking you locals were so proud of your big brown bottle!!!
I have a picture of my two oldest posing by the bottle. I honestly thought it had been bought out by Coca Cola a long time ago.
hey wendywings ... you're probably right .. but I only came to know recently .. the joys of innocence and all that!!! :(
Oh Yes! I hate that, to...! It is getting to be that there are just about 5 businesses in the whole world---This is not right!
It must be a very profitable drink if Coca Cola has bought it up! I call this INTERNATIONAL GREED!
Here from Michele's this A.M.!
hello oldoldlady ... it is THE most popular drink in New Zealand. I don't think it has hit the international scene yet .... who knows what coca-cola plans.
I'm hoping that something happens that makes small local businesses florish ... carbon footprints and all that!!!!
Oh no; for real?
sadly, chiefbiscuit ... sadly ....
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