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Creamola Foam! Oh, what a wonderful drink Creamola Foam was. I must confess I did think it was called Cremola Foam, but photographic evidence (of a particularly rusty tin) would prove otherwise.
Anyway, Creamola Foam was a weird little drink made from coloured crystals. It came in a little metal tin, labelled with a boy and a girl drinking through straws. You had to prise the lid off with the end of a spoon, much like you used to have to do with Andrews Liver Salts indigestion powder, before they put it in a plastic bottle.
You took a spoonful of the crystals and mixed it with water which caused the whole lot to go fizzy, again much like Andrews. Unlike Andrews however, you ended up with a foamy fruity mixture which you could then drink and enjoy, although have too much of it and it would probably give you a tummy ache – yet another point where it is unlike Andrews!
I certainly remember orange, lemon and raspberry flavours, but there was apparently also apple, cola and cider varieties (I’m not sure how cider differed from apple, and I’m sure it wasn’t alchoholic being a kids drink).
Sadly, as with all the good sweets and snacks from the 1980’s it seems, it is no longer available. However, online sweet shop Retrosweets have an online petition with over 2000 signees begging for the drink to return. I’d love to see it return, although I suspect that its ingredient list may be the reason why it was taken from our shop shelves in the first place. Oh, why is everything nice so bad for you? Here are those ingredients in full – perhaps you might want to try mixing up a batch?
- Sugar
- Fruit acids
- Sodium bicarbonate
- Gum acacia
- Saccharin
- Saponin
- Flavouring
- Colour
I can feel my teeth rotting away just reading that little lot…
April 23rd, 2009 at 10:48 pm
Thanks a lot! I had forgotten about this stuff! If I remember correctly, going overboard wasn’t too bad, but making a weak one was like taking soluble aspirin. Fake flavour, but that didn’t make it bad.
June 24th, 2009 at 8:13 pm
Hail the return of the MIGHTY CREAMOLA !!! Let us all die in luxury in the depths of your MIGHTY FROTHY FOAM ! Come back sooooooooooooon !!! We just LUVYA !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
June 24th, 2009 at 10:42 pm
So I take it you liked Creamola Foam then, George?
August 30th, 2009 at 8:39 pm
Fantastic for creating mini volcanic erruptions.Scoop out some of the weird crystal stuff, add water and replace lid.Wait and see it errupt!Mum band it on discovering what we were up to!Wish still on market for this alone I think I thought it tasted vile but would love to try again
September 8th, 2009 at 6:48 am
That drink is so retro it takes me back over 50 years. It was excellent stuff. All the fun was in making it. One spoonful (heaped+) would produce so much foam that you would have to drink it while it was still reacting. Curiously though, it would never re-foam after it was made and would go flat quite quickly. I didn’t matter because I just drank it and pestered my aunt for some more .. and more .. and more ..
October 20th, 2009 at 11:04 pm
please bring back was amazing raspberry was the best,my partner use to put it in is vodka. memories of childhood to taste it again, would be a dream filled.
October 22nd, 2009 at 3:48 pm
Samantha, I do hope your partner was not adding creamola foam to vodka when he was a child…
Sounds like an interesting idea though…
November 21st, 2009 at 10:50 pm
i remember this in the 1950s every time it was mentioned in our housemy little brother used to go in fits of hysterical laughter.i never heard from or about it till recently and thats a really weird story that would make your hair stand on end.but creamola foam or cremola foam as i thought it was has made my life really wonderful ,and i have never even tried it,
November 23rd, 2009 at 2:39 pm
You have me really intrigued Elaine. Are you sure you can’t let us know a little bit more about your Creamola Foam story?
December 28th, 2009 at 11:24 pm
Apparently creamola foam is making a comeback according to a story in the scottish sunday post,(27.12.09) it will be called creamola fizz .It should be on the shelves the end of january
December 29th, 2009 at 3:02 pm
Hooray! I’ll keep my eyes peeled for a jar of it. If anyone sees it anywhere then please let us all know!
January 5th, 2010 at 7:15 pm
I drank it in the 1950’s. A craze at the same time was for brightly coloured water bottles on shoulder straps in which you carried your Creamola Foam. The most stylish bottles were lime greem or shocking pink but my mum didn’t know that and bought me boring royal blue. Even so, Creamola seemed to taste even better from the plastic bottle.
January 6th, 2010 at 12:58 pm
Does anyone have a link to the story in the Sunday Post about it’s comeback???
January 7th, 2010 at 9:52 am
Looks as if this post would have been better suited to Child of the 1950’s!
I never realised Creamola Foam had been around so long when I originally wrote this.
February 14th, 2010 at 10:27 pm
hi
i have 2 sweet shops 1 in inverurie and the other in elgin.all kremola as its now called has been on sale for the last 10 days now out of stock but an other order will be made this week will post another blog when its in
March 11th, 2010 at 10:42 pm
Please Please Please Sarah can you let me know when you have this in?? I live in Northern Ireland and would love to try this again! Have been searching for years for something similar . . . .nothing even close!
March 13th, 2010 at 9:49 am
I’ve just bought some on eBay. They’ve even got raspberry! I can’t wait to try it.
March 13th, 2010 at 10:36 am
I’m with Rachael, please let us know when you have it back in stock Sarah.
And Lisa, when you get yours, lets us know what it’s like, and if it’s as good as it used to be!
March 13th, 2010 at 11:06 pm
Here’s a link to the people selling it on eBay:
http://www.fizzshop.co.uk/
April 9th, 2010 at 9:35 pm
Dont bother trying the new stuff, it tastes nothing like the original and the fizz is not thick and creamy.The german stuff tastes like the originall after it went flat but it also does not have the right fizz.
September 18th, 2010 at 4:21 pm
Creamola Foam is back!
Krakatoa is the new Creamola foam. It’s superb, a real tribute to the original recipe.
Please visit the site and give us your feedback.
We also manufacture Coulters Candy, for those with a really good memory
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