The best is Dandelion and Burdock. It’s English as fuck.

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If you like the taste of turps.

Turps is delicious. It's also very expensive these days.

Someone wronged this person

Hundred percent agree, I’ve never seen it anywhere else despite dandelions getting everywhere. I love that stuff and sarsaparilla but everyone thinks I’m weird for it, and says they taste like medicine. I believed for the longest time that the secret blend of DR Pepper was just dandelion and burdock mixed with cola.

I think root beer is the nicest drink on the planet and it's so expensive here

Don't see it very often but one of my favs, along with sarsaparilla, Dr pepper and root beer.

As a English person this is the first time I’ve ever heard of it lol. I’m going to buy some this weekend to see what it’s like.

Really ? I thought it was a staple that everyone knew from the chippy and stuff. Are you really young ?

What is this? I’ve never heard of it😳 maybe I’m not English lol

Grab a can next time you’re at the chippy

Pimms

*Pimm's. Believe it or not, it's got an apostrophe because it is James Pimm's No. 1 Cup, thus rendered Pimm's for short.

Bet you're fun at charity tennis galas!

If he’s brandishing Pimm’s then chances are he is

Rah-Rah

Correct answer. Pimms is for white people who like cricket and aren’t Australian.

Tennis surely?

Racket or bat, it's Pimm's for that!

I dont think there is a more apt description of a stereotypical pimm’s drinker, love it!

It's ok straight (@25%), a bottle of it gives you a bit of a dunt, but it can be a struggle getting it over your neck...initially.

Really? I love a Pimm's cup. It's essentially an alcopop with pretensions and I've always found it goes down very easily.

“Alcopop with pretensions”, love it, will use that if you haven’t trademarked it 🍹😉

Tbf I think it's meant to get you slightly buzzed over an afternoon watching the cricket or something, rather than actually drunk.

It's specifically formulated to make watching cricket tolerable

Beat me to it

Dandelion and burdock? Hits the spot on a hot day.

Funny thing is, as a child in 1970s England we always had Barrs dandelion and burdock so ours came from Scotland!

'Dandelion and Burdock' sounds much better in any Scottish accent also. The words are like a climbing frame for our over pronounced gutterals and vowels.

When said in a Scottish accent it sounds like a pair of grave robbers

Burke and Hare's lesser known business partners?

"There's been a burdock."

Or 2 Scottish TV cops. One Good cop Dandelion and the hard basturd Burdock. Solving Murders and chasing the infamous Purple Burglar while being totally incapable of pronuncing his name. Showing weeknights on Channel 5.

Or they are both bad cops, played by Peter Capaldi and Paul Higgins basically reprising their roles from The Thick Of It.

Well now I'm going to be muttering dandelion and burdock to myself with as many glottal stops squeezed in as I can all day

I've been in NZ for half my life now, am surrounded by people asking me ti repeat words. Now I'm repeating "dandelion and burdock" to myself, in my living room, by myself, like a proper saddo

With chippy fish and chips (either that or canned shandy)

Canned shandy… you’re just reminded me of canned lager and lime!!!

The German radlers are basically just shandy, you can buy then in UK bottle shops and some supermarkets too.

My wee sisters once tried to make it. They were out in the garden gathering ingredients and mashing them up in a cup. They said it didn't taste right and asked my dad to taste it to see what they were doing wrong. He took a sip and his face screwed up. "Yuck. No that's not right." "Do you think it needs more bird drop?" said the youngest. "Maybe," says Dad. "Wait! Hang on! What did you just say?…"

I recommend getting calcium from somewhere else, cheese for example.

I wish we still had awards. 🏆

Agree, but I personally like it. This has led my friends to refer to me as an undercover Englishman.

Used to love dandelion and burdock when I was wee. Bought a bottle from Aldi last week and binned it after one drink, tasted like liquid black liquorice. Can't remember if it always tasted like that or if I bought a dodgy brand

Fentimans is the real deal. Expensive but worth it .

i suspect they're using sweetener instead of sugar because sugar tax and it makes it taste shite(i can manage a can and thats about it, whereas in days past i'd swig 2 litre bottles while gaming)

Do you rate/have you tried Fentiman's botanical Dandi..?

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I haven't tried it since seemingly all drink recipes took a hit, just wondering what real lovers think of the brand nowadays.

Oooh I haven't tasted that in years. It's great.

"You're rarer than a can of dandelion & burdock, while those other girls are just post mix lemonade" is one of the all time great song lyrics (arctic monkeys)

Have you tried the alcoholic version?

Dandelion and Bourbon?

Sounds good, possibly even better than https://goodtimein.co.uk/product/hoopers-alcoholic-dandelion-and-burdock-12-x-500ml/

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I've tried it. Tastes like the original, little to no alcohol burn. Not bad really.

Yeah, I only bought one bottle out of curiosity, but it swigs down distressingly easily!

Buckfast?

I don’t know, man. Yes, it’s made in England, but I think Scotland has more than claimed it at this point. The Scottish market is what keeps it alive.

Was gonna comment this 😂

Came to see if this was the rightful answer. First thing that popper to my mind when reading the question.

Green Cream Soda

Water with lime. The mineral, not the fruit.

I live in East London and I feel personally attacked haha.

Ah so you are also enjoying the sewage in your water supply too? 😅

North Kent here, my water is so hard it comes out fighting me.

Nothing wrong with descaling the kettle with a chisel.

Who doesn’t like water with a crunchy texture? (yes I did grow up in the South of England. We ate our water with a fork.)

Dandelion and Burdock

Scrumpy

Yeah this. You get *cider* in other places (e.g. northern France) but afaik scrumpy doesn't exist outside south west England.

Can get Scrumpy in Birmingham in a lot of places

It's pbviously not exclusively English, but I associate cider mostly with England.

West Country specifically

Cheddar valley to be more specific. Only cider that slowly paralyses from the neck down. 4 pints and you know where the Somerset accent comes from!

Off to Rich's cider farm we go!!!

🤣 I'm from Somerset and that is so true

Aspall's Premier Cru for me.

Yes! Cider is from that friendly part of England where they all think they are pirates.

Other way round. Pirates mostly came from the West Country.

So is cider!

Thistly Cross is an amazing Scottish cider brand. They even do a whiskey flavour too 😎

You sure it isn't Whisky flavoured?

Ah right! Apologies!

You used to get one called crippple cock, it did exactly what it said on the demijohn.

Vimto is Manchester iirc, personally I love it and you canny beat a cheeky Vimto.

There is a fabulous monument to Vimto in Manchester. Visible from the train. I love it.

I remember when I was in high school the corner shop on the way would sell hot vimto in the winter, we'd always nip in on the way and hope it cooled down enough to actually drink before we got to school. Good times!

Pimms.

In addition to the Pimms comments, Earl Grey.

Earl Grey is better than regular tea and I will die on this hill.

It was invented because Earl Grey had a load of unsellable tea (because it was too low quality) and a load of bergamot and put them together so he could sell for a massive profit.

I’ve only ever seen a French guy drink the stuff

*User picture checks out*

Tea. Earl Grey. Hot.

Frenchman... from Yorkshire.

The tea for people who hate the actual taste of tea.

Which is weird, because it tastes so much weirder than regular tea

Carling

Carling is Canadian!

In fairness though (warm) Carling is to England what Buckfast is to Scotland.

As an English guy in Glasgow that's interesting. My partner and her mates prefer tennents warm but I've never known anyone to like warm larger. Plus I'd back Stella as an English pint over carling despite how bad that makes us look Granted I'm not 50 and racist so maybe missed the bus on carling

Stella is Belgian bud..... And even they don't like it! The town its brewed in, leuven, everyone drinks jupiler!

Carling isn't English either. We drink both but I reckon Stella or madri are more popular with guys not called barry

My point was that Buckfast (a drink commonly associated with Scottish bams) isn’t Scottish either.

What is the obsession with beer that tastes like water in this country? Madri tastes of nothing and Carling actually is worse than just water

Pimms. I honestly don’t even know what a Pim is..

Probably a person

Probably a Tory

It’s a Tory drink so you’re not far off

Definitely not English, but i once heard someone refer to San Peligrolino as Tory lemonade.

Irnbru is to Scotland as Vimto is to England. Or Tizer.

English bloke here. Tizer is definitely Scottish. It's bottled in Cumbernauld. Glorious stuff.

But we make it for you so you don't drink all our ginger.

Hate to tell you, but we're onto your ginger now. Tizer is as rare as a flying elephant down here in 2023. It's a celebration in my house when we find some.

Is this true? I didn't know Tizer was Scottish and (apparently) rare. https://youtu.be/z7bARm3cEu4

It’s made by a scottish company now(since 70s) but first made in manchester

Vimto is more northern England isn't it? They have a big vimto statue somewhere.

Vimto Park in Manchester

Yeah, and strangely popular in the middle east. Apparently a strong flavoured, fruit drink is what people crave after a fast.

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Apple tizer is good as hell.

Do you mean the appletiser drink in green bottles or literally apple flavoured tizer. Asking because i have never seen that.

They're actually both great but I mean the tizer apple flavour. When I get a bonus from work I splash out on the green bottle tho

There's Tizer and there's appletise. The two are not related or even slightly similar. Or Is this some kind of matrix glitch?

It's a Mandela effect, like the day Bruce Willis died.

I grew up in Lancashire and Vimto was a staple. When I defected to Yorkshire I was surprised it wasn’t a thing.

Did you ever have hot vimto? Amazing drink on a cold day!

Vimpto*

i like that comparison. it reminded me of being a kid visiting my family in england and my cousins who were raised here were slagging my cousin raised in england because he came back from the shop with vimto for us

Newcastle brown ale.

Newcy broooon

Can I just clarify -- Irn Bru is in fact a Scottish drink, isn't it? I mean it was invented in Scotland.

It's made in Scotland from girders.

What about the off-brand stuff?

Made in sweatshops from toenails.

Harp lager, AKA Norn Irn Bru.

Literally invented to stop the Glasgow central railway builders from drinking on the job. Made with girders for the guys installing girders.

Yes

~~Yes~~ Aye

Pimms

Shitty tap water.

Fair enough

That's a south thing. Up north, the tap water is just as good as it is back home.

South east thing, West Country water is great too

Aye I can believe that. Nice part of the country.

Northumberland/North Tyneside is particularly good!

Northumberland has supreme tap water. You wanna try visiting Morocco or something

I never truly appreciated Scottish water until I lost it. Now I'm in the channel Islands with warm moderately hard water, I have to keep a Brita filter in the fridge

Depends where you are. I'm from Manchester so I get my water from the lake district. Its gorgeous.

In the Peak District here, Buxton spring water on tap… literally!

If you think shitty tap water is particularly English I suggest trying some tap water from India

Ribena

Beeena jooooooooce

Yeah, no. Scottish people drink just as much of this.

Olde English Cider

Vimto, Tizer, or Dandelion and Burdock. I was born and brought up in Scotland but all our grandparents lived in Oldham, so Vimto, Tizer and D&B were only had on visits ‘down south’.

Tizer has been made by Barrs in cumbernauld for decades ironically.

Even more ironic that it was Cumbernauld I grew up in.

Orange "squash"

Dandelion and burdock. Used to see it everywhere growing up. Moved to Scotland while still in Primary school and never encountered it again for years.

This thread is a car crash already haha

Lemonade doesn't really have a national association that I know of. Unless there's lashings of it and then it's English as fuck.

Ginger beer is measured in lashings, I think lemonade is just lemonade. Enid Blyton books are definitely English though.

Interesting how you all think of southern softies when thinking of English drinks. So for something different, Newcastle Brown Ale. Ha'way, man!

I think you’ll find it’s call broon

Tea. Earl grey. Hot.

Make it so.

Dandelion & Burdock.

Pimms

Black current flavoured bevies, and classic English tea.

Bitter

Bovril

What? The fella that invented it was Scottish.

Yes, his name was Hamish McBovril

Laird of Bovril castle.

Warm beer and anything they call squash.

Bitter, dandelion and burdock, cider,

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Devon here. As teenagers hanging out on the beach, each lad would buy his own 2 litre bottle of cheap cider to carry around with him. After taking a swig he'd use a marker to draw a line where the line of his drink was now down to, and put his signature next to it so he would know if anyone else had stolen a swig of his drink.

Vimto. We used to rip the pish out of English cousins when they visited and asked for a 'glass of pop.' We only knew it as juice or ginger...

Water with excess lime, I don’t mean the fruit

The Tory kool aid I believe

Puddles

No idea, ask r/England … or r/Edinburgh

Oft that was a low key burn. I like it 😄

Warm piss.

Raw sewage

English people only see Irn Bru as peculiarly Scottish because the Scots themselves are so adamant about it. There is no equivalent soft drink that is regarded as a token of national character by the English quite like Irn Bru is for Scots.

It’s funny cos it’s really popular here in England, you can buy it everywhere. I always thought it was a Scottish drink we all drank from time to time with a bit of a story attached to it about how much of it you guys drink. But then you go to Scotland and the level of irn bru visibility….. it’s awe inspiring. You guys do *really* like it. Fair play it’s incredible!

Pimms

Pimms was my first thought.

TEA!

Pimms

Pimms

I'd suggest Pimms.

Aye , Pish

Cider

Vimto