d4v3 wrote:I finally picked up a bottle of Bitter Lemon from the Rogers Park Fruit Market. It is also bottled in Nigeria, under the authority of the Atlantic Nigerian Bottling Company. It has a Coca Cola trademark. The bottle is really stylish and the beverage seems to be cloudier than the Nigerian version pictured above.

This must be the Nigerian bottler's current batch of "more modern" Schweppes bottles (I wonder if they buy retired bottles from other regions). Here it is recently among the imported beverages at La Fruteria.





I think the contents are similarly cloudy in this one and the earlier bottling I showed above (probably a fluke of lighting in my original photo).

Saw a new (to me) San Pellegrino flavor and decided to try it: "Chinotto"


This one isn't for me. It's got an odd, bitter, warm spice flavor in the cumin to allspice zone that lights up my "do not want" response. I took a couple more sips just to make sure -- it could have been what I had been eating, but no, it's just weird. Maybe it works as a cocktail mixer, but not as a refreshing beverage.

At Woodmen's in Buffalo Grove this evening, I found liter bottles of Polar Bitter Lemon. Could not wait to get home for some ice.

Regards,
Cathy2

Just seen:

Angostura (bitters) now offers Lemon Lime and Bitters soda. At Shop and Save, four cans were roughly $4.

This drink has a rosey caste to it. The flavor is not in the same league as bitter lemon soda. Since a can buy a liter bottle of Polar bitter lemon for 79 cents, I think I will stick to Polar.

Regards,
Cathy2

Elegant teal-and-yellow cans of genuine Cyrillic-script Schweppes Bitter Lemon are on offer at the Oak Park Pete's Fresh Market. They're in the end-cap beverage cooler facing the salad bar.

Pete's
259 Lake St
Oak Park, IL 60302

Cathy2 wrote:Just seen:

Angostura (bitters) now offers Lemon Lime and Bitters soda. At Shop and Save, four cans were roughly $4.

Regards,
Cathy2

This is wonderful news, I've been looking for this around Chicago since a Trinidadian friend told me about it and I've only found it in NYC or online. Which Shop and Save did you find it at?

mbh wrote:

Cathy2 wrote:Just seen:

Angostura (bitters) now offers Lemon Lime and Bitters soda. At Shop and Save, four cans were roughly $4.

Regards,
Cathy2

This is wonderful news, I've been looking for this around Chicago since a Trinidadian friend told me about it and I've only found it in NYC or online. Which Shop and Save did you find it at?

By Midway Airport at 5829 S Archer Ave, Chicago, IL 60638

I will be interested in your opinion.

Found cans of Bitter Lemon-Schweppes(!) at Ted's grocery in the 2800 block of Devon Ave. They had a top shelf of an end cap full of the tall thin cans on special for 0.99 cents.

1L bottles of Schweppes bitter lemon are .99 each at the Rich’s Market at Cumberland and Belmont.
Valid 11/27/19 -12/13/19

Octarine wrote:1L bottles of Schweppes bitter lemon are .99 each at the Rich’s Market at Cumberland and Belmont.
Valid 11/27/19 -12/13/19

Destination shopping for me! It will also be an opportunity to do a side-by-side comparison with Polar's bitter lemon.

Thank you!

Regards,
Cathy2

Hi,

I adore Polar's bitter lemon, because it is close enough to Schweppes bitter lemon.

Yesterday, I bypassed bitter lemon for their orange sour. I am sure this intend for drink mixes, though it works quite well straight up. It does not have an exaggerated orange taste like Crush or taste like your morning juice, either. It would be a good subtle team player in a mixed drink.

I regularly buy Polar at Woodmans.

Regards,
Cathy2

I saw large bottles of Schweppe's bitter lemon at Fresh Farms Wheeling today, but I forgot to check the price.