{"id":23944,"date":"2024-10-10T12:29:02","date_gmt":"2024-10-10T11:29:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/?p=23944"},"modified":"2024-10-11T06:43:03","modified_gmt":"2024-10-11T05:43:03","slug":"utter-trivia-old-jamaica-ginger-beer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/?p=23944","title":{"rendered":"UTTER TRiViA: Old Jamaica Ginger Beer"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"750\" height=\"937\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/img_9921-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-23941\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/img_9921-1.jpg 750w, http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/img_9921-1-240x300.jpg 240w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 706px) 89vw, (max-width: 767px) 82vw, 740px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">I used to enjoy this, occasionally.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>I\u2019m not a great fan of fizzy or canned drinks. But I did notice that I no longer saw the above Ginger Beer, in our local shops or supermarkets any more. Which is a shame, as it\u2019s one of the only canned fizzy drinks I kind of liked!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I googled \u2018old Jamaica ginger beer\u2019, to find out what\u2019s up. And got the following contradictory results:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"612\" height=\"1024\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/img_9919-1-612x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-23942\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/img_9919-1-612x1024.jpg 612w, http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/img_9919-1-179x300.jpg 179w, http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/img_9919-1.jpg 750w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 612px) 100vw, 612px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Looks fairly clear\/official.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>So, the above is on a website with the registered domain name, oldjamaicagingerbeer.com. It looks both official and categorical. But I could find no dates. And there\u2019s so much fakery online\u2026 who knows? <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I also found this:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"750\" height=\"599\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/img_9920-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-23943\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/img_9920-1.jpg 750w, http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/img_9920-1-300x240.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 706px) 89vw, (max-width: 767px) 82vw, 740px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">On Reddit.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Admittedly that\u2019s on Reddit, which seems to be a cesspool of drivel, by and large. But when I search for the product itself, it <em>does<\/em> seem to be available. And that includes from all the places &#8211; Tesco, Sainsburys, etc. &#8211; that I couldn\u2019t find it myself, in store. It\u2019s also online, via Amazon, etc.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Most perplexing. And gassy\u2026 \ud83e\udee7<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019m not a great fan of fizzy or canned drinks. But I did notice that I no longer saw the above Ginger Beer, in our local shops or supermarkets any more. Which is a shame, as it\u2019s one of the only canned fizzy drinks I kind of liked! I googled \u2018old Jamaica ginger beer\u2019, to &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/?p=23944\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;UTTER TRiViA: Old Jamaica Ginger Beer&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paGwUa-6ec","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23944"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=23944"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23944\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23945,"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23944\/revisions\/23945"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23944"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23944"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23944"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}