Yeah, Jay... where are all our Brit Buddies... give us Amuricans some idea what you're talking about... what the stuff looked like, tasted like...

For us folks over here, how about sodee pop? Did they have Birely's where you grew up... just came in orange and grape... squat little bottles with a wide mouth... ahead of their time...   Another favorite of mine, which has finally made it east, and doesn't take anything like it did as a kid was Squirt, which had the odd promotional one liner, "In the public eye." Never took it literally..
Squirt was a grapefruit lemon mix... when I was a kid, it had little bit of pulp in it, even. Now, it comes to you through the miracle of modern chemisty.

Jerry