Following on from the Magners craze there is now a fasion for pubs to serve bottles of "Pear Cider". My reaction to this is "It's not sodding pear cider, it's perry!" Am I right? Cider implies it's made from apples, surely.
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Pear cider?
Disco Sea Shanties wrote:
Following on from the Magners craze there is now a fasion for pubs to serve bottles of "Pear Cider". My reaction to this is "It's not sodding pear cider, it's perry!" Am I right? Cider implies it's made from apples, surely.
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Babycham is perry isn't it?
edit: as PG said
Those fruit-flavoured ones that sponsor The Championship on ITV look like the most gross things ever. Especially the virulent neon blue one.
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I bet they also insist on putting ice in it. Ice. In cider. Or perry. I mean, what? Whose idea was that? Why do people just go along with this marketing-driven arse?
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Look, the great unwashed will never go for a product that some crusty old peasants in the sticks have brewed since time immemorial. We need to convince the young, trendy people that it's cool to drink our brand so we need to cut the ties from underage drinkers and toothless old men falling off park benches, smashed out of their boxes on strong but acidic crap. We'll insist it's served over ice, get a bloke to do the voiceover in an alluring/serial murderer voice (take your pick) and have a load of pretty young things holding it in bottles and pint glasses.
/ad man mode/
Yes, the term "Pear Cider" pisses me right off as well.
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Is there a perry equivalent of scrumpy I wonder. Something thick, opaque, indeed, often lumpy, one and a half pints of which would floor a concrete elephant.
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I'm having pear yoghurt at the moment, incidentally. william pear & butterscotch lakemead yogurt from Marks and Spencer, to be precise. And it's made me remember why I don't like pears as much as apples - it's the skin, the skin on pears is much stringier, and has a sort of gritty texture. The Pear Development Board need to work on pear skins if they're ever going to win me over.
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