7 Up in Singapore

[aviwil]

Maybe some of the ancient elders around here could help on this :
In December '69 , I had an overnight stay in Singapore , on my way from Australia to Hong Kong .
I seem to recall having the classic 7 Up in the small green bottle , and being very impressed , as 7 Up was not available then in Oz . I have been told that I must be mistaken , because it wasn't available then , in Singapore ( or Hong Kong either ) .
By the way , stay was at the then new Singapura , which was really wow - it was on the incoming airline's account in those times .
Anyway , can anyone shed some light on this ?
Thanks .

[CarbonMan]

Wow. I have not seen a 7-Up in a bottle for a very long time. They're all in cans and PP bottles nowadays. As to whether 7-Up was around back in '69, I can't say for sure as I'm not that ancient. If it was, chances are that it would've been bottled locally by a company called Fraser & Neave, then, but this is not the case these days.

I don't have any connections in F&N but someone who does may be able to point you to an ancient there who may know for sure.

[SQflyergirl]

7up was indeed available in a bottle in both Malaysia and Singapore. I know this because the company i work for now, at one stage in the ancient past, owned the brand, and their office was co shared with ours.

[kapitan]

I won't answer the question asked fearing of being labelled ancient elder......

[aviwil]

Wow , thanks for them replies people .
CarbonMan , I may try to look up F&N with Google .
SQflyergirl - alright ! Can you say if this would have been so , then in '69 .
kapitan- it's OK , you can answer , this will be strictly confidential .

[SQflyergirl]

Wow , thanks for them replies people .
CarbonMan , I may try to look up F&N with Google .
SQflyergirl - alright ! Can you say if this would have been so , then in '69 .
kapitan- it's OK , you can answer , this will be strictly confidential .

can't say about 69' - i'm not that ancient - we're talking mid 80's here (no, i'm not that ancient either)

[aviwil]

OK - thanks SQflyergirl .
Looks like ancients like me are a rarity .

[jammed]

Just for yr sake, I MIGHT have been a little boy in the 1970s and if I had, I most certainly remember drinking one of those green bottles of 7-Up, a grand sum of 30c per bottle which was my whole day's of pocket allowance.

On that note, another green bottle I missed frm that era is Kickapoo; there was also RC, the cheaper alt to Coke, and Sinaco - on my, memory lane

[Kyo]

Kickapoo still exists! It's funky

[aviwil]

jammed - thanks . Just , I'm not quite clear what you're saying :
1. That you remember drinking one of the green bottles then .
2. That you don't remember drinking one of the green bottles then , and that this is something which you surely would remember , if you did .

[jammed]

Ha ha, alright I'll own up to my age. I hereby solemnly declare that I have indeed in the 1970s as a little boy drank many green bottles (too many for my own good I'm sure my mum will say) of 7-Up. I distinctly remember the 7-Up bottles were a tad smaller than Coke and other regular fizzies. But iirc all were abt SGD0.30 at that time (1970s). For the shallow pockets, drink stalls have options of a swig of the bottle into a cupful of ice at SGD0.10

You doing some research or trying to acquire some collectors?

kyo yes, there are but, somehow when you are no longer a little boy, the Joy juice just doesn't taste the same does it

[SQflyergirl]

Oh now we're talking here.

There was also another brand of orange called Green Spot - which was also another favourite. Green Spot tried to make a comeback about 2 years ago or so. Failed miserably. Apparently the ancients had moved on.... I bought a bottle just to relive the past, but somehow, just somehow, it didn't taste the same.....

[GLAM82]

Wasn't there a drink called Green Spot around that time, it was also also sold in green glass bottles.

[aviwil]

Thanks jammed . I'm not doing any research/collecting - just trying to verify if my ancient elders memory is still on course .As for drinking , still enjoy it .

[ozdude]

7 up sure has been around for awhile. My first trip overseas was 1985, and on Continental I asked for Sprite, they had no idea what it was. When my mum explained to them it was lemonade, they then gave my 7 up. I think I had to wait until the early 90s to try it again once it was introduced into the Australian market. Still my favourite lemonade (as we call it in Oz) beverage.