FIZZ-NIK: THE AMERICAN CREAM

 

I was fascinated by this Fizz Nik.

At first I thought it was a space toy but no, its a straw!

You fill it with ice cream or ice, slot it in your fave pop bottle and away you go!

ha ha!

Love it!

Being a lover of 'floats' myself [I invented my own 'Disco Disaster' - the coke float] this Fizz Nik gets my vote for best straw ever made, easily the winner of Straw Wars!

But did it float your coke readers?

Did it catch on?

IT'S ABOUT LIME!

Nothing can bring back the salty, sandy, sunny feel of my Sixties childhood holidays at the seaside like the taste of ...... lime milkshake!

Yes, lime milkshake was the very essence of a great time on our classic British staycations back in the swinging decade. You could get milkshakes everywhere. Beach cafes, high street cafes, corner cafes and even milk bars dedicated to ... milk.

I know chocolate milkshake was pretty damn fine and banana rocked but lime, lime was just special. The green colour was pale enough to make it look good - an acceptable green, a palatable green - and the taste, my word. Citrusy, a slight tang, the only word for it would be lime. Lime connoisseurs might detect hot orchards, billowing Tuareg tents and the breath of the Nile but I get sand, sea and sunshine in Burnham on Sea!

The good news, no, great news, is that lime milkshake is back!

Crusha, that wonderful milky company, have kindly re-issued it and my daughter got me a bottle for Fathers Day. I've been gurgling the stuff ever since! I've even tried it with ice but haven't yet topped it off with vanilla ice cream as I want the unadulterated taste of limes for now. Garnish comes later.

Lime isn't univerally popular though. I tried a straw poll and gave a friend some this week ... with a straw. Nope, the faced curled up as if she'd eaten a raw lemon and the drink went largely unfinished. It was difficult for me pouring a tall glass of green milk down the drain I can tell you!

But for me lime is King and Queen of milkshakes, the one to ask for whichever cafe you end up in and the one that brings back the memories of marvellous childhood seaside places I've never been back to: Clevelelys, Heysham Head, Great Yarmouth, Ilfracombe, Abersoch and Burnham on Sea.

The sun is out so I think I'll have a glass-full now!

Do you like lime milkshake? Do you have a nostalgic drink?

nesquik milk shake powder: heaven in a tub

There were probably loads of milk shake powders in the Sixties.

My fave was Nesquik.

I liked the chocolate and banana flavours best.

There was nothing quite like coming in from School, grabbing a tall glass, spooning in tons of the chocolaty powder and giving it a big stir.

Guzzling it was the best though! It was almost impossible to stop!

The tastiest bit was always at the end where some of the sugary mix was still undissolved. Talk about tasty!

For an extra cold drink I'd add a couple of ice cubes in summer and for that super creamy experience a scoop of vanilla ice cream would do the trick!

For some reason I never needed a straw at home but always expected one with my milk shakes in cafes and at the seaside. A tall vase-like glass, a straw and a frothy head!

Straw drinking is completely different to guzzling but still as hard to stop doing once youv'e started! You know you'd finished though when that loud bubbling slurping noise started.

The final delicious act was hoovering up every last drop with that straw and making as much noise as possible! ha ha.

I was ready for some serious playing out after that and then some kids TV like Daktari or Catweazle! Yay!

Were you a milk shaker readers? Are you still shaking?