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Cresta (soft drink)

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Bear: Do you know what all the bears up at the North Pole drink when they're thirsty? It's the sea man β€” the Arctic Ocean! Now me, I'm really into this frothy Cresta β€” like this strawberry flavour. The day they start making the Arctic Ocean in strawberry is the only day this young bear's going to
67:(also called Cresta) sporting sunglasses whose attempts at looking suavely cool would be overwhelmed by bouts of uncontrolled enthusiasm when drinking Cresta. The bear's widely quoted catch phrase "It's frothy, man!" summed up the difference between Cresta and more traditionally fizzy 185:
several bears are mentioned including a big bear waving something around and saying "It's frothy man" according to the singer, a thinly veiled reference to the Cresta bear mascot.
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An over 40 year old bottle of Cresta (notably possessing an odour and taste of "medicine and sewage") was reviewed by YouTuber
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from the early 1970s through to the early 1990's. It originally came in four different flavours:
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Advertisement at the time of the introduction of the blackcurrant version (YouTube video)
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Cresta is mentioned, several times, in the song "The Unfortunate Gwatkin" by the band
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Cresta is widely remembered for its 1970s advertising campaign led by a cartoon
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Oxford Dictionary of National Biography 2005-2008: John Brighton Webster
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advertisements featuring robotic aliens and the Honey Monster in
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campaigns. Most of the commercials were animated at the
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Index

drink
United Kingdom
Schweppes
strawberry
lemon & lime
pineapple
orange
blackcurrant
Cream Soda
polar bear
soft drinks
Boase Massimi Pollitt
Smash instant potato
Sugar Puffs
Richard Williams
The Thief and the Cobbler

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