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Why have soft drinks gone up in price?
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4 * 2L Irn Bru £3.79
I find that the co-op ones seem to taste quite nice. Have you tried them?
The soft frinks market ?
The sugar tax is next year isnt it ?
Soft Drink /Sugar tax due in April 2018
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-38212608
According to this site -
http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=FRINKS&defid=599018
frink has several meanings - among which
1) A mythical ancient Greece creature, with the head of a goose and the legs of a chicken
2) A girl who has sex after consuming a large amount of alcohol.
3) To Consume A Liquid Substance
4)A person who has sexual relations with flowers and lemurs
so maybe the post is refering to the 3rd version ( or maybe the 4th
Somebody said try the 4ldi version, in bottles. Tried that, didn't get on with it.
Then I had to buy some drinks with zero notice and grabbed L1dl's cloudy lemonade and a bottle of fiery ginger beer. Lemonade was "so so", but I like the GB and am now having that. 45p/2 litres; 23p/litre. P/Max in tins was typically about 66p/litre.
Madness.
Somebody didn't have their brain fully charged when they suggested this, came up with it, evolved it and made it law.
Or RATION it. Bring back rationing books for everything that's "not good for us"
Because the sugary drinks have no nutritional benefit.
I think you'll find that they'll add the cost of of the tax to the product to which it applies. In the same way as they add VAT to food products where that applies.
Which is apart from the fact that manufacturing a soft drink and sticking it in a can or bottle, is quite different from baking a cake. You normally have a facility on some industrial estate that does one or the other. But not both.:)