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A drink made with fermented pears used to be called a 'perry' when I was a kid!!

Amazing what a bit of marketing does.....I'll have a 'Babycham'...:tongue:


I learned this on Giada De Laurentiis's Everyday Italian show on the FOOD Network that 1/2 sparkling apple cider and 1/2 lager is called a shandy. I don't drink beer. But I think that I would drink it more as a shandy than drinking beer as it is. (I never liked the taste of beer as it is.)
 

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I learned this on Giada De Laurentiis's Everyday Italian show on the FOOD Network that 1/2 sparkling apple cider and 1/2 lager is called a shandy. I don't drink beer. But I think that I would drink it more as a shandy than drinking beer as it is. (I never liked the taste of beer as it is.)

A shandy in England is half of lemonade: half of beer (either bitter, mild or lager.):rolleyes:
 

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The drink is a perry. But perry and particularly babycham - the best known perry - are looked upon as the drink of old ladies, which might not be a big market to target. Cider by contrast is something a bloke can drink. I suppose by calling this perry a pear cider they are trying to get away from the old lady image and position it as a man's drink. The bulge in the opening seconds is surely no accident - they are trying to suggest that virile men drink their product.

Have you ever tasted babycham? Hard to believe anyone ever wants to drink perry. Yuk!
 

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The drink is a perry. But perry and particularly babycham - the best known perry - are looked upon as the drink of old ladies, which might not be a big market to target.

Cider by contrast is something a bloke can drink. I suppose by calling this perry a pear cider they are trying to get away from the old lady image and position it as a man's drink. The bulge in the opening seconds is surely no accident - they are trying to suggest that virile men drink their product.

Have you ever tasted babycham? Hard to believe anyone ever wants to drink perry. Yuk!

I like pears. The pears here in America are delicious. That is why I figured that Magner's Pear Cider would be. Maybe pears in the UK aren't good.

Anyway, I never had a BABYCHAM or MAGNER'S. But they sound delicious. It is too bad "blokes" will turn away a drink associated by older women. Sometimes, men drink some really bad stuff though for the sake of manhood. WHAT-ever on that. If the drink is delicious and palatable...I will drink it.