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Top Deck (drink)

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Top Deck was a range of low alcohol shandy drinks marketed to children[disputeddiscuss] in the United Kingdom from the 1960s to the 1980s.[1] The product was introduced by Idris & Co., who were later acquired by the Beecham Group. In 1986 the brand was sold, along with the more popular Tango and the UK franchises for Pepsi and 7-Up,[2] to Britvic.

All three Top Deck flavours were sold in silver cans, with the initial can design based on Idris’s own Shandy product. Each flavour had a signature colour (seen as a boxout background on the first can design, later the text of that flavour).

The three flavours were:

  • Limeade & Lager (Green)
  • Lemonade Shandy (Yellow)
  • Lemonade & Cider (Orange)

References

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  1. ^ BBC News Vanished UK drink is toast of Caribbean, April 2007
  2. ^ www.competition-commission.org.uk[usurped] Carbonated drinks: a report on the supply by manufacturers of carbonated drinks in the United Kingdom, Chapter 8 para 8.51 Approved Food (archived)