Was some straying into Perth nostalgia recently. Hugh Jass may help extend that ennui with this shot of a derelict factory near Bunbury. Now where is that shot of the ex Passiona building on Scarborough Beach Rd I had ready to go along with this? Was this really our state drink? I thought that was Swan Lager?
Of course you know that I was born a Weaver & Lock man don’t you? Of course you do.
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well fuck me, I used to work on the weaver and lock bottle line in como somewhere.
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Greggo did weaver and lock make a drink called Kandy ?
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That does ring a bell. Pink can. Not sure if Wever and Lock. I was born a Frist and Apla man.
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Thanks Greggo,
I knew they did , my sister and i were remeinising as we used to live on labouchere rd.
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The only mention of Kandy online that I can find is here, TLA, but the manufacturer’s not named, and the history available at the State Library only goes up to 1950. Perhaps you could ask Jenny Seaton to check with her mate Gary Carvolth, who was Weaver and Lock’s Marketing Manager. Some nice antique bottle labels here and here.
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South Perth..cnr Mill Point Rd.
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The only references to I can find are from New Zealand, Kandy was manufactured by Food Processors Ltd and also by Watties (heinz) Along with Green Lime Flavour and Olde Stoney Ginger Beer. Olde Stoney was of course also manufactured by Kirks and as it has the same can design I assume this was done under licence.
I am unsure as to the manufacturer of Kandy outside of NZ.
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I was born a Frist man…
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I have done some further research and found that Kirks did indead make a pink can of Kandy. This was on a website called the Can Museum. I suspect that most of Kirk’s and Gest’s flavours/recipes were used under licence due to their prevalence of use by different companies in at least 2 different countries.
http://www.canmuseum.com/Search.aspx?Brand=4762
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There was a can with really soft metal. As soon as you opened it it would almost collapse. I think that was pink.
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I miss the old lead cans. Nanny state.
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Gest lemonade was spark-alark-alark-aling, IIRC, TLA. I remember this style, although it was a bit mean of the fossicker to scale it with a Coke Real
ActionRefreshment ruler, given that CCA bought them out and shut them down. I quite like this shot from Beverley. This style was before my time, from where else but Dumbleyung.LikeLike
Snuff, I am concerned about the amount of energy you so assidiously devote to fossicking out these gems! In this case Gests.
And for the record, real men only drank Masters Choc, the rest were lolly waters for Chumbies, Pooftas and Pompadour’d Poo Pokers. So there….
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So, our Gest-statin’ period is over?
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It’s hard to tell, JJ. Might just be gas.
p.s. I wish I’d found this earlier. Could’ve given the other bushpigs a run for its money.
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Crazy country cashed-up bumpkin bogans.
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love the guy on the left, scratching his shin with his heel… true blue
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The three page-boys with green faces are a noice touch.
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B&S after-party, i.e. the next day? Or do they wait for the bump to start showing?
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Looks like about 8 and a half months later, NF#1, but as I mentioned, unless it is all about the rooting, it might just be gas.
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I actually saw this bumper sticker once. “Fat chicks, shoot ’em, don’t root ’em”. These days that would significantly limit your prospects I’d suggest.
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Occasionally saw that one in FNQ, hfp, always sported by blokes kidding themselves they had an option.
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At one stage not an uncommon bumpkin sticker. Far more charming and innocent than the more recent FOWF.
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Perhaps so, NF#1. And yet, although as Mez points out they now have franchises in
where else butBali, they’re still churning out crap in Dumbleyung.LikeLike
Duly noted Snuff.
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No OsamaMobile ?
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Whether it’s operatin a Haulpak or performin brain surgery its Emu Export. It’s a big drink for the big man , in fact I’ve got the thirst for it now ……………Jesus , this shit is piss.
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Yess!!! Red Bull flying pisspots act cancelled.
http://www.perthnow.com.au/business/news/wa-to-lost-20m-from-red-bull-chop-aha/story-e6frg2qu-1225898504835
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Does that mean the Brazilian contingent won’t be ditching in the Swanny next year? :(
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Nooooooooo!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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I wasn’t against it. More worrying is that the giant PERT sign won’t appear.
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Worsts don’t come easy,
raison d’etre for TWOP.
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Me either. I didn’t go to watch but quite enjoyed hearing them do tests runs over the ocean. Made the place reek of ooshta rather than sheep shit.
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Hey!!! TLA is fixing the grammar in my posts!!!! You’se the bestest of ’em all!
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MRRT-like impact on West Australian economy claims AHA.
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I’ve never heard of this drink, does that make me a bad person?
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Probably just makes you a young person.
Modern ponces can shove your Gatorade up your collective arse, nothing cured a hangover like Gest Olde Stoney Ginger Beer.
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With the “double ender” logo
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A bad person?
I don’t know, but in some areas you risk hearing “We don’t take kindly to strangers ’round here”.
It is also now called Kirk’s. And it’s no longer our state drink.
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Or “We got ourselves a Chineee, boys…”
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Well I know what Kirks is, so I can’t be that bad.
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Now owned by Amatil, that’s right, no blood for oil
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Ahem.
Who can make a lemonade (who can make a lemonade)
sparkle like the dew (sparkle like the dew)
the Gest man can,
yeah,
the Gest man can.
On beach, blue and white stripey suit.
I’d love to see pictures of the old Weaver and Lock factory. Inexplicably, my grandfather used to take me there when I was small. They used to give me a Passiona while the men talked business, whatever that meant. On the whole it was better than the Midland abbatoir, where he also used to take me. No Passiona there.
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There must have been a Passiona factory on Scabs beach Rd (next to where IKEA used to be) because I took a pic of the building with passiona still on it. There was also a Pasito. Maybe that was Gest.
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I can’t recall a Gest Pasito, TLA, but you could be right as it’s now Kirks, along with Olde Stoney Ginger Beer. Passiona was originally Cottee’s, and Schweppes since ’84.
p.s. I haven’t had much luck online with Weaver and Lock, JaneZ, but you might want to pop into the State Library next time you’re in Northbridge.
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Yes indeed, Snuff, there was a Gest Pasito, with toucans on the centre logo. Don’t forget the good ol’ Club Lemon Soda, many summer days sippin’ tall glasses of that with loads of ice, poured out of one litre glass bottles.
One Gest drink I’m not sure of was a lime soda: not dark green, like Cottee’s Coola, but more like lime cordial light green and transparent. Last time I recall seeing it would be around 1981. I think there was a ship in the centre of the logo. Can someone indeed confirm this?
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the state library have photos of weaver & lock, but they are not available to view online, you would have to go into the library.
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have you gone Battye? Some lovely shots of revelry inside Red Castle.
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JaneZ, you’ve just ruined my morning reminding me of Johnny Young, recollecting my early teen fear and revulsion of him (surrounded by young flesh) singing his slow version of “All My Loving” at me every Sunday evening.
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Jesus christ, that was Johnny Young in the stripy suit, wasn’t it. How did I miss that all these years?
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Did calling it the “our state drink” increase its popularity? I guess the some gummermint department would now have to certify that a product met certain standards of sugar content and fizziness in order to carry that claim. Who would admit coming from WA anyway geez.
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Perhaps those who came here from the “Eastern States” and found that they preferred it?
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LEARN HOW TO SPELL GUEST IS SPELT G U E S T NOT G E S T.
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NO IT’S NOT (and stop shouting)
It’s a contraction of Golden West, which was the previous name.
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