Bring back Creamola Foam !!!

[enigma]

AB Editor - Why have you deleted my thread about Creamola Foam from the most popular threads but left the others ? There is currently a HUGE campaign to bring back Scotland's beloved foaming sherbety drink which was sold to Nestle and then passed to Leeds based company Brands Partnership , who in their infinite wisdom , decided to rob us of this wonderful drink by discontinuing it. This campaign has been running as a big story in the Daily Record newspaper and has a huge following on-line. Many people have answered my post (Over 115 at last count) and have stumbled upon Answerbank through a google search. Please don't take this post away if you are not going to update the others also. It may seem a bit petty but it is important to me in the fight to save Creamola Foam. Thank you.

[enigma]

PS Just checked out the online petition and it's up to 1917 signatures ! Creamola Foam is sorely missed everywhere - not just in Scotland. It's devoted fans need all the help they can get in helping to bring back a drink which for so many of us was such a big part of our childhood. Please support us in this AB Editor. I stumbled across Answerbank through trying to drum up support for it and have stayed here ever since. So many others have undoubtedly discovered AB this way as it has been mentioned in their answers. Pretty please AB Ed ???

[Jike]

Enigma, where can i find the petition i loved creamola we need it back. i feel so sorry for my three children who are to young to have tasted it!

[AB Editor]

enigma - your thread is back in the box of 'preferred questions' at the top of the homepage. As soon as you can muster up more traffic to it, I'll be happy to return it to the 'Most popular threads' list too. Over to you...!

[Sludge]

God bless you, AB Editor.

[bernardo]

I've never heard of Creamola Foam, I am not aware of any name change or discontinuation thereof, nor of any campaign to keep or restore it or whatever.

[FP]

Creamola Foam sounds like shaving soap. I can't say I have ever heard of it. Wa it on sale down south as well?

[enigma]

Bernardo , it's a sherbety kind of drink which came in a tiny little tin. The idea is that you mix up the crystals with water and it fizzes and foams up in your glass. You have to keep stirring it and it came in three fantastic flavours : Orange , lemon and raspberry. It had a HUGE following , mainly in Scotland where it was originally produced way back in the fifties but has proven to be very popular with the English , Irish and welsh alike. It was a firm favourite which spanned generation after generation until it was sold to Nestle who in turn sold the rights to the Leeds based company Brands Partnership who allegedly acquired the rights to the brand but in their haste to get their hands on the product which they mainly wanted , Creamola custard , they did not acquire the recipe for Creamola Foam.

[enigma]

The Daily Record newspaper ran a huge feature on it as did the Scotland on Sunday newspaper to try to track down that all elusive tin of Creamola Foam to send to BP in the hope that they could analyse it and hopefully reproduce it. A tin with the mixture was found and I am still trying to generate as much suppoort for it as I can so that BP will realise how sorely missed it is. When the feature ran in the Daily Record , their switchboards were jammed with people desperate to know when it would be returning to our supermarket shelves and I was invited to the Radio Scotland studio to discuss it on the Fred Macauley show (he was featured in the Daily Record backing it too , as well as celebrity backing from comedian Phil Kaye). Once again their lines were jammed with callers. Production was ceased in 1998 but you could still buy it until around 2000. The gripe which a lot of people have is that this drink is widely associated with Scottish childhood and is important to so many people - particularly in Scotland. If the Leeds based company do not wish to produce it , then why not give it back to Scottish manufacturers who would gladly seize this window of opportunity and relaunch it ? The beauty of it is , it is such a versatile drink. It was enjoyed by kids who loved mixing up their own drink , a bit like you're first recipe , by vodka drinkers who used it as a mixer and afterwards for a hangover cure and for old grannies everywhere who swore by it as a remedy for heartburn - most probably due to it's content of bicarbonate of soda. All this info can be found by a key search on Creamola (or sometimes Cremola) Foam or by checking the Daily Record and Scotland on Sunday archives if you really want to.

[enigma]

Not sure exactly how it became so popular with so many people in the rest of the UK Fakeplastic , perhaps it was after a trip north of the border that a lot of English people sampled this little delight but if you've never tried it , oh my god how you've been missing out all this time. Ask anyone who's ever tried it what it was like and I guarantee you that for most , they will instantly have pangs for it. You can't really describe the taste of it other than to say it was a super sweet sherbety like drink which just kept frothing and fizzing in your glass. It's meant to be a real blast with vodka but I wouldn't know about that because I was only a wee girl when I used to drink it mainly. When it was no longer available in shops - in 2000 - I was 25 and if I had known about the use of it as a mixer I would have certainly tried it. Never really thought about it before but I could kick myself now ..... especially for not stocking up on tins of it ! Isn't hindsight a wonderful thing ? It's not just the drink itself which I miss , it's the memories. For me it's steeped in so many wonderful memories and I would love to pass that on to my kids. So i'm not going to stop hounding Brands Partnership until they DO bring it back lol !

[enigma]

That and the fact that I am pregnant and craving it soooooooooo badly ! Nothing else will do.

[FP]

Thanks for that enigma. I can understand how you must feel about it. We were talking about old fashioned sweets at work a month or two back and we suddently all started craving sherbert dabs and sherbert fountains. Ever since we have been bringing them into work on a regular basis. Unfortunately, the sherbert gets everywhere, including into the keyboards!

[enigma]

Funny you should say that Fakeplastic , my hubby and I were talking about sherbet dib dabs and sherbet dips not so long ago. We both loved them and another favourite of ours was double dips , you know the ones , made by swizzell and was half raspberry sherbet , half orange sherbet and had a lovely yellow powdery tasting lolly which you used to dip into it. This set me off thinking - again - about Creamola Foam and I wondered if I could create a similar drink by adding water to it. My hopes were raised when it began to froth and fizz but sadly it was only for a few seconds and it turned into an awful sludge in the bottom of my glass. Yuk ! The celebrity chef John Quigley was also invited to the Radio Scotland studio when I was there to see if he could recreate it but sadly , despite his best efforts , he ended up with , by his own admission , liquid bubblegum.

[enigma]

AB Editor - Where are my manners ? I just realised that I forgot to thank you for putting my thread in the preferred questions box. Your help is greatly appreciated x

[enigma]

Hi Jike. I know what you mean. It's not a taste which you can really describe to your kids is it ? The petition is at : http://www.petitiononline.com/cremola/petition.html Fingers crossed eh ?

[gumbumper123]

save cremola foam!!!!! please?!?! :-D

[ferryden]

send me the website. i miss creamola foam so much. i live in usa and everytime i have visitors come over they say what can i bring and i say creamola foam and off course they tell me how they do not make it any more. please bring it back it was yummy.

[Roddyn]

Creamola Foam is back!

A Scottish campany have started to produce a product called 'Krakatoa'.

It comes in three flavours : Orange, Lemon'n'Lime & Raspberry in 80g & 160g tubs.

It has the fizz, foam and the fruit !

They also make Coulters Candy as well

www.allyballybees.co.uk