Powdered Drink Mix

Dave Barter · Post by **Dave Barter** » Mon Jul 27, 2020 4:09 pm

When I was a lad (yes I know we're talking a lot of decades) I am sure I used to buy a powder that you added to water and it made a fizzy raspberry drink. This was around about the time of 200AD issue 1 which I've still not forgiven Mum for throwing away.

I'm after something similar for bikepacking to take the edge off chlorine/filtered water. I do not want any of that ridiculously priced energy powder guff. Just some sachets of something to add a bit of flavour.

Any ideas?

PaulB2 · Post by **PaulB2** » Mon Jul 27, 2020 4:12 pm

Do you mean nesquik?

RIP · Post by **RIP** » Mon Jul 27, 2020 4:19 pm

Nah that was for milk!

quiz question: can you name ALL the Nesquik flavours that existed?

RIP · Post by **RIP** » Mon Jul 27, 2020 4:21 pm

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Tang-Orange-St ... B019CFDYYC

As you say they're all ridiculous 'energy' drinks and hyper expensive.

Then again the above one is: US made, amazon bought, apparently posted from S Africa! Where's my morals when I need a drink

.

Wonder what dehydrated ground up fruit would taste like when reconstituted?

Dave Barter · Post by **Dave Barter** » Mon Jul 27, 2020 4:21 pm

Strawberry, banana, chocolate and one utterly vile one I can't remember

Dave Barter · Post by **Dave Barter** » Mon Jul 27, 2020 4:22 pm

RIP wrote: ↑Mon Jul 27, 2020 4:21 pm https://www.amazon.co.uk/Tang-Orange-St ... B019CFDYYC

As you say they're all ridiculous 'energy' drinks and hyper expensive.

Then again the above one is: US made, amazon bought, apparently posted from S Africa! Where's my morals when I need a drink .

Nearly there but I'm after individual sachets

Scud · Post by **Scud** » Mon Jul 27, 2020 4:22 pm

I don't know quite what you mean, but it sounds a bit like the stuff you used to get in army rat pack? I'll see if i can get hold of some for you, if not, people often buy the ration packs for stuff and flog the sundries like the drink mix.

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/274420264648

Dave Barter · Post by **Dave Barter** » Mon Jul 27, 2020 4:22 pm

Dave Barter wrote: ↑Mon Jul 27, 2020 4:21 pm Strawberry, banana, chocolate and one utterly vile one I can't remember

Edit was it egg and milk?

Cheeky Monkey · Post by **Cheeky Monkey** » Mon Jul 27, 2020 4:26 pm

Half a High5 tab? I know it falls into your "ridiculous energy drinks category" but you can probably eke them out like junior aspirin doses ;-)

RIP · Post by **RIP** » Mon Jul 27, 2020 4:32 pm

Dave Barter wrote: ↑Mon Jul 27, 2020 4:22 pm
RIP wrote: ↑Mon Jul 27, 2020 4:21 pm https://www.amazon.co.uk/Tang-Orange-St ... B019CFDYYC

As you say they're all ridiculous 'energy' drinks and hyper expensive.

Then again the above one is: US made, amazon bought, apparently posted from S Africa! Where's my morals when I need a drink .
Nearly there but I'm after individual sachets

Er, decant into little pots?

Utterly vile one

Blackcurrant Nesquik wasn't nice at all.

"On April 1, 2013, the official Facebook page of Nesquik USA posted a photo on their page depicting a broccoli-flavored ready-to-drink flavour of Nesquik. However, upon closer inspection of the photo, there was a notice in the lower-left corner that it was not an actual Nestlé product. Nesquik USA announced later in the same day that it was an April Fool's joke".

ripio · Post by **ripio** » Mon Jul 27, 2020 4:38 pm

Creamola Foam?
Now available as Krakatoa Foam https://www.scottishretrosweets.com/swe ... mola-foam/

Not really any cheaper than some of the budget sports isotonic drink tablets though.
e.g. https://www.decathlon.co.uk/electrolyte ... 86782.html

PaulE · Post by **PaulE** » Mon Jul 27, 2020 4:42 pm

Robinsons squeezy squash? Ultra concentrated, think the bottles are 50ml and make loads...

RIP · Post by **RIP** » Mon Jul 27, 2020 4:46 pm

How about this Dave - twin-use, in the best BP spirit.....

https://www.your-pharmacy.co.uk/lemsi ... d-0148917

Er.... raspberry, mint choc chip, that nasty blackcurrant one... erm....

RIP · Post by **RIP** » Mon Jul 27, 2020 4:55 pm

You've got me going now. Fairly sure we had vanilla, and I'm pretty convinced there was orange for a very short time. I'm trying to bring the taste back to mind now. It must have been a bad as the blackcurrant. I mean, citrus in milk? Urk.

Rumours of pineapple once, but I never saw it.

Now... Cresta... Angel Delight....

'The 1970s Throwback Kid'

Dave Barter · Post by **Dave Barter** » Mon Jul 27, 2020 4:57 pm

PaulE wrote: ↑Mon Jul 27, 2020 4:42 pm Robinsons squeezy squash? Ultra concentrated, think the bottles are 50ml and make loads...

It's an option. I definitely remember these things added a little fizz.

ScotRoutes · Post by **ScotRoutes** » Mon Jul 27, 2020 5:02 pm

You're description seemed to me to be of Creamola Foam.

benp1 · Post by **benp1** » Mon Jul 27, 2020 5:03 pm

some options, though the fizzy aspect is limiting:
- diarrhoea (had to type that out a couple of times before it looked right

) relief sachets might work
- vitamin c effervescent tablets?
- squirty squash, as mentioned above
- high five or nuun tablets, on offer they're not bad value
- cold infuse fruit tea bags
- crystal light sachets

Dave Barter · Post by **Dave Barter** » Mon Jul 27, 2020 5:10 pm

It was Kool Aid!

Lazarus · Post by **Lazarus** » Mon Jul 27, 2020 5:16 pm

Another for Cremola Foam but dont think it was available in England - never saw it once I moved here

BigdummySteve · Post by **BigdummySteve** » Mon Jul 27, 2020 5:38 pm

You could use Dioralyte, pretty much the same as electrolyte drinks but not as expensive, flavours are subtle though. Dioralyte Is just salts to help with the dehydration rather than a cure so it’s no going to bung you up, well worth using when it’s really hot, the other option if it’s for a filter is an additional carbon filter, used to have a bottle with one built in, an additional bonus they can potentially remove some of the dissolved nasties which make it past the element.

Ooo look what I found, filter and carbon in one by MSR
https://www.exxpozed.eu/msr-thrulink-in ... nt=1345215

Bearbonesnorm · Post by **Bearbonesnorm** » Mon Jul 27, 2020 5:42 pm

I was reading one of Ben's as crystal meth ... that'd take the edge off.

Boab · Post by **Boab** » Mon Jul 27, 2020 5:58 pm

Ah Creamola Foam, happy days! People at school used to bet that you couldn't eat a teaspoon of it, drink some water and keep it all down. Oh, the hilarity...

ripio · Post by **ripio** » Mon Jul 27, 2020 6:00 pm

I see the Sanza online shop sells Raro which is a powdered juice drink from New Zealand, used to buy it when I lived out there.

https://www.sanza.co.uk/New_Zealand_Cordial.asp

PaulB2 · Post by **PaulB2** » Mon Jul 27, 2020 6:02 pm

Hmm butterscotch angel delight

BigdummySteve · Post by **BigdummySteve** » Mon Jul 27, 2020 6:04 pm

Dave, was it a different flavour of this?
https://www.google.com/search?q=rise+an ... bd2Lf4DQ57

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