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My Mum worked in a wallpaper factory which had a canteen that sold all the Corona soft drinks, they poured the drinks from those big bottles with the long cone-shaped necks with little bumps on. Outside the the back of the canteen they stacked dozens and dozens of crates for exchange with the delivery lorry each week. On a Saturday, when the crate stack was enormous, I'd sneak round with my mates each of us taking a duffel bag. We'd stuff 4 or 5 bottles in our bag and then a couple we'd hold under our jumpers. We'd choose a different grocers/newsagents each so they'd not suspect anything was up, then cash-in big stylee, spending it all on (obviously) sweets.

After like 2 years the factory canteen finally cottoned-on and built a massive steel cage to store the empties in. Bastads.

They empty Corona bottles were, of course, effectively currency !

Barr's limeade.


Think there was a limited edition tangerine-ade once. Or did I imagine it? I also love root beer but you don't really get it here much.


PS if anyone knows how to post pics to the forum but not as a link, could you please remind me how to do it? Ta.

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