Found My Ribena Fix

I'm in the middle of washing up don't judge my cup choice!

Growing up Ribena was my drink of choice.

Then like a hot summers day in England it switched up on me and became a grey winter’s day. The extended (up until that point) summer fling was over!

Gone was the rich satisfying gloop of purple sugary liquid that you could almost never get the water to ‘bena ratio right but when you did it was like liquid gold. Sweet smooth and refreshing. They changed the formula took out most of the sugar and replaced it with crud. Don't ask me what google is free and at your liberty

Basically it turned to 💩 and no matter how I tried to love the new version I just hated it!

I’ve seen these syrups forever and I’ve had the strawberry before which I enjoyed but left it at that! I make my own syrups (well actually cheong 청 look it up much fun) but who has the fridge space or variety offered in the shops.

So yeah I was buying my beloved grated gherkins (pickled cucumber puree to be precise) in my local Polish shop when I decided to have a butchers at the syrups which I noticed said no fructose 🤔 my interest was piqued!

I mean there’s next to no fruit in it but I can buy fruit and eat it anytime. I don’t but I can!

I’m a sparkling water girlie but sometimes I need my lil fix and I’m as pleased as punch to say that me and my minimal fruit syrup are more than a summer thing we are locked in. Well until my offspring discovers it…he only drinks water at home until there’s juice then he’ll finish the juice and go back to his water!

I've actually got a blueberry cheong brewing at the moment, but it's taking forever to do its thing. I'll let you know how it is once it's done!

Where possible I like my ingredients lists to be simple so loved when I turned the bottle over and realised I couldn't read Polish then found the label in english as follows.

Ingredients: sugar, water, concentrated blackcurrant juice 0.25%, concentrated chokeberry juice, acidity regulator: citric acid, concentrated black carrot juice, antioxidant ascorbic acid,

flavoring.

Have you tried these? Definitely visit your local Polish shop; loads of goodies to be found!