I NEVER got the chance to taste the Ulster beverage that was Cavan Cola, but apparently it was a cult classic Irish product, like Tayto crisps (north or south), before being withdrawn. Now, fans of the drink are running a grassroots online campaign to get the cola back on the shelves.
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So that’s what they did with the red dye …..
Do they still have the puce nectar that is Football Special up in Donegal? Now there’s a product that should go global.
Cavan Cola Abú!
And i’m with you on that one Billy, McDaid’s Football Special – unique stuff!
Used to love that stuff as a kid. If anyone has ever tried that coke, jolt, then imagine the same caffine buzz magnified by 100! I think it may have been the EU and its damned safty regulations which spelled the end to this fantastic product!
It reminds me of the PHD about relationships between levels of caffeine in Punjana tea and the peoples appetite for trouble, as in “I’ll just have a cup to settle my nerves” – to one cup of bellefast brew later “where did i put my bin lid, a good racket is whats required”.
I wish Tayto would export their crisps (chips) over here.
When I visit the two things I want most are cheese and onion and Ginger cake.
JC – they do:
http://www.tayto.com/shop/index.php
Disclaimer: You would have to pay more for delivery than the crisps themselves. £12 for the crisps and £16 delivery.
Oh I’m sooo tempted beano. And my 60th birthday is only 3 weeks away!
Don’t mind him, joe, they’re the inferior northern unionist yellow pack tayto – the 26 county version is much nicer.
TS that’s as maybe, but for those of us only able to get the NI priduct, it’s as close as we’ll get to heaven.
JC
If you can get them in your area try Old Dutch Potato Chips
far superior to those american style imports available in most places in Canada
TS- I think you’ll find it’s the southern tayto are the unionist snack – all that red white and blue packaging and what not.
Are the smugglers diversifying now? Mmmmmm that oily aftertaste
Yes Shawn. I do buy them and other kettle cooked brands. As you say, far superior. I’ve never seen them in N.I. You could become the Irish supplier. You’d make a fortune.
Is all this “Och shure Tayto make the best crisps” for real?
I never liked them, Golden Wonder always made the best crisps, well until Walkers came along and produced Salt ‘n’ Lineker that is. Tayto were always greasy and damp by comparison.
Euugh! Golden Wonder, the pale imitation. Not so much a crisp as a halfway house between the mighty Tayto (or it’s Pub Crisp offshoot) and KP, the nadir of potato-based snack foods. Have a soft spot for Perri as well, though. Walkers I find too bland.
I wonder if Ketchup flavoured crisps would catch on in Ireland?
Of course you can get “Tayto” crisps all across the UK as they make a lot of Tesco’s own label crisps now – just yesterday I was enjoying some Vintage Cheddar and Camerelised Onion flavour, with a picture of the castle on the back of the packet! As for the great north/south crisp debate, there’s only one that tastes great and it’s the one in the yellow packet. I miss “Bikers”, I used to down those tangy wheels by the box! Club Orange, there is no close imitation over here… (*sniff*) I wanna go home!
Is Cavan Cola a bit like McDaid’s Football Special from Donegal?
Agree about Club Orange.
Is all this “Och shure Tayto make the best crisps†for real?
Hit and miss really, like a good pint of stout. When its good its good, but when its bad…well bin it.
Cant beat walkers for the Salt and Vinegar though
theres always one !
Cavan Cola I used to love it – I remember it was very sweet. It made me as hyper! Used to pretend it was guinness and I was only 5!
Tayto crisps have declined in quality since they were bought out by the american company. They’re just not the same. I loved tayto. I even used to travel 50 miles in england to go to a shop to buy tayto. It’s a shame what they did to a fantastic product.
The secret ingredient in “Cavan cola”?
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/northern_ireland/7119073.stm