Cavan Cola.
And readers of the Anglo-Celt newspaper.
A fizzy, syrupy, sticky alliance.
A campaign to ‘Bring Back Cavan Cola’ was launched in 2007 by Conor Lynch from connector.ie. It gained thousands of followers on social networking sites Facebook and Bebo at the time and gained wide media attention, local and national, including from the BBC. T-shirts were even printed.
Lynch was quoted at the time as saying: “Cavan has been robbed of its identity, its lifeblood and we want it back! Imagine Kerry with no butter!”
To date, the parent company Finches has resisted attempts to bring back Cavan Cola. Could they be persuaded otherwise?
Why won’t they do it?
Anyone?
Is It Time To Bring Back Cavan Cola (The Anglo-Celt)
Cavan Cola artowrk by wordbird.ie as featured on our ‘Old Masters post.
Cleopatra bathed in Cavan cola
ride
1 buy rights from finches
2 outsource production to asia
3 label and bottle in cavan under job bridge with the aid of a hefty enterprise ireland grant
4 yuk it up with paddy web summit dude at how easy it is to be an entrepreneur
5 add Love Irish Food logo
The costs of shipping what is effectively 95% water (something Cavan isn’t short of) means that it’s usually more economic to bottle locally too. Get the goop off a large manufacturer anywhere in the world and ship it in, water it down and bottle it in Cavan.
Bebo? Jaysus…
Might be time to re-do that survay.
Sometimes you just have to let go.
So Cavan folk believe Kerrygold is from Kerry?
Cavan Cola? Sure the bottle’d be only 3/4 full.
Finches drinks are watery cheap rubbish.
…a quarter empty you mean?
That was hardcore – bebo and t-shirts,
I remember stuff!
All non coke and Pepsi colas tasted like plop until the recipe was busted in the 90’s virgin was the first of the new brands…. How did Cavan cola compare?
Excellently. Cav col is da bomb. Contains actual coke. Mmmmad ouv i’
I saw a lad using it to clean hub caps
If that’s any help
Its no Tanora
My memory of it was of it being absolute filth. Outside of the border regions it usually appeared as Cadet, which I think was the same foul stuff. It was an ultra-cheap substitute for big-brand minerals and sold in little stubby bottles for about 20p.
Whatever about coke, Is there anything to be said for bringing back smak ?
Yes it was me. Bebo and Facebook was how I rallied the Cavan troops and even the BBC covered the campaign –
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/northern_ireland/7118861.stm
I used the alias ‘Don Leahy’ (middle name and mums maiden name) to hide my identity from the Coca-Cola logo ripped off on the t-shirts 8-)
Conor 8-)
#BringBackCavanCola