Robinsons Fruit and Barley Pink Grapefruit

I’ll state from the outset that I am not a great fan of cordials. As a child, I was force fed the stuff whilst dreaming about guzzling anything carbonated and so as soon as I had any say in the matter, fizzy drinks became my tipple of choice and anything which you had water to became something to be drunk only in emergencies such as when you wake up with an awful hangover and your tongue is stuck to the top of your mouth! Anyway, all of this was before I discovered the delights of Robinsons Pink Grapefruit Smooth Fruit & Barley. Why did this stuff turn my head where all of it’s ... more

Sitting here at my computer drinking a nice cold glass of squash I suddenly realised that I hadn’t written an opinion about my preferred soft drink – what an omission! So I asked Ciao to set up the relevant product category, which incidentally gets done very quickly these days, and now I’ll tell you all about it. I do enjoy fruit squash in general but I don’t like it to be too sweet and sickly or too high in calories. Some of the orange squashes taste like liquid sugar! So, over the years I have tried quite a few different flavours and have tried various low sugar and low calorie squashes. The ... more

Well I was experiencing a little writer’s block and was wondering what I could write about. I have just poured myself a drink of Robinson’s Fruit and Barley Pink Grapefruit, looked on Ciao and low and behold there is a category so here we go. This product is one of my favourite squashes and I find you don’t really need to use too much to get a lovely flavour. It is recommended that you use one part concentrate to four parts water, but I find that you don’t really need that much. It is found in most supermarkets at around 99 pence for a 1 litre bottle. So lets get down to the nitty gritty. It ... more