Definitely a Christmas tradition at the LapHouse.

I start picking up discounted Appletiser on offer from September onwards so we have a small stock of the stuff over the holidays. We like having some Orangina in the house too at the end of the year.

My daughter is a massive fan of Ramune, but that must be just as much for the botttle with the marble in the top as the drink. It’s a major international soda you can get nearly everyhere nowadays, both Sainsbury’s and Morrisons stock it in the U.K.

Calpis/Calpico is another of her favourites and also a mega soda (and still drink and concentrate) brand that, like all the others I’ve mentioned, has nothing to do with Coca-Cola or Pepsi.