History of soda water in the USSR Bashny.Net

I propose to return to the USSR, and plunge into a cool drink at the time.




Street vending soft drinks in the USSR has not changed for decades. Actually, there were two formats - manual and automatic. In the mid-70s established parity between the two forms, and each has its pros and cons.

Interestingly, a glass of "pure" and the seller in the same machine worth - a penny, but a glass of water with the syrup from the seller was on the whole a penny more expensive - as much as many as four pennies. Truth and syrup poured a little more. In addition to 7 cents could drink a delicious drink "sdvoynymsiropom." Another advantage of the manual mode was no problem with the exchange and delivery.



Automatic with gazvodoy had its obvious advantages. The most important of these was the possibility to use instead of a round coin "vyshtampovki" similar to "treshka 'size and weight. It was possible to cheat the machine down to the coin acceptor "three-ruble note" on a thread, threaded with specially drilled for this opening. In addition, if hit the machine in a certain place, sometimes the machine could "return" the wrong coin, which was a big success ...



However, it was not a game with only one goal. Often the machine "ate" the money in return for not issuing a single drop of life-giving water. Sometimes the machine ended syrup, and then to a penny he poured vile "pure" water.



Another important advantage of the machine was the presence of street faceted glasses, a century which was short-lived - they stole drinkers.





Notch gazvody with syrup. I was lemonade. Citro, "Duchess", "Pinocchio" ... These drinks are all the children liked, and had at its core an apple-pear flavor. Above soda pop could be just natural juice sold by the glass in a special glass cones



Juice cost 10-12 cents, and could be a tomato, apple, grape, or birch. Tomato - is the most popular and probably the most delicious.

Above all listed were exotic deficient in the province of beverages "Baikal" and "Tarragon". Well, at the very top of the pyramid he was, of course, Her Majesty, Pepsi-Cola.



The drink of the gods held a very special place, it was something more than than just a drink. It was a taste of the forbidden fruit, his bourgeois could not hide even the labels in Russian.

And yet, and yet ...

The real breakthrough, truly a knockout blow to the hemp limoonadu, was the emergence of 80-year orange drink - Fanta! Perhaps already it was worth spending the Olympic Games in Moscow.



In regard to the sports Olympics it turned out, of course, flawed, but the Finnish sausage and salami in outlandish vacuum-packed, and most importantly - Fanta, were the most coveted Olympic medals to all residents and guests. Of course, it has played its role and the fact that Orange has always been exotic in the USSR. Not that terrible deficit, from time to time you could buy a delicious orange balls, but orange juice was not widespread, and soft drinks based on orange juice, too. Therefore, the explosive taste of Fanta orange instantly make you forget about all the drinks, hitherto considered quite tasty Statement)





Even excellent Pepsi-Cola had to give Olympus Fante gorgeous!))





Of course, this would have been unthinkable, for example, in the US, where Coca-Cola and Pepsi have competed for 100 years, and became something like national heritage, particle mentality. Fanta much younger, she appeared only in 1940 in Germany .... The reason for that was to cease deliveries to German factories for the production of components for Coca-Cola. The Germans simply had to come up with something of their own ...



With that, the basis of the drink was not an orange and apple. It is later, in Italy, has acquired a habitual Fanta orange flavor. It was only in 1960 Fanta prodigal daughter returned home - under the wing of the parent - Coca-Cola. And yet 20 years later, the hurricane broke into the Soviet market.













Today, it's all history now. For a long time no one gasps, absorbing orange drink, and even become de rigueur curled at the mention of Coke and Fanta. It is desirable to set aside mannered little finger, sipping orange juice through a straw. And even became fashionable nostalgia for the Soviet past, including the longing for the birch juice and tomato why it bypasses the favorite when the phantom. It's not fair. Fanta has earned that would remember her kind words.))

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