No Soda for my Campari........in Italy !!

[pcatterall]

One of my favourite tipples!! I could never find proper soda in France so we sailed on to Sardinia where ( surely?) we would find some.
Alas, we have scoured the supermarkets in vain!! We thought we were in luck with some stuff called 'Asoda ...' but it was more like sparkling sugared water.
The do sell little bottles of Campari-soda which is the right stuff but the combination proportions are wrong.
Do we have to sail on or can someone help with the right name??

 

[2nd_apprentice]

How about L'eau gazeuse/Aqua gazzata, that's what I'd put in my Mente à l'eau. Shouldn't be too difficult buying Perrier or San Pellegrino?

 

[TheEcho]

Acqua di selz is club soda. If not available then acqua minerale frizzante will have to do - club soda is just regular fizzy water with the tiniest dose of salts, certainly hard for me to tell apart from fizzy mineral water when even the tiniest amount of alcohol is involved.

 

[pcatterall]

Cheers, will try some fizzy water now now and report back! I did remember to take some bitters last time so can always resort to second favourite with G&T !!

 

[Seajet]

I hope the career conservationists don't see this, or they'll take it deadly seriously as the only sort of query on here for us ' rich yotties ' !

 

[BrianH]

I hope the career conservationists don't see this, or they'll take it deadly seriously as the only sort of query on here for us ' rich yotties ' !

Reminds me of the request of some middle-class rag many years ago during a recession, for tips on how to save and improvise on household expenditure. Someone wrote in that they reused the lemon slices in their G&Ts. Incensed at the total irrelevance and ignorance of real-life families having to cope in straightened times, I read the letter out to my wife of the time - someone who had had an upbringing of unbridled luxury (before she met me, I hasten to add). "Oh, that's a good idea" she said. Not quite the response I had expected.

 

[Bobc]

Reminds me of the request of some middle-class rag many years ago during a recession, for tips on how to save and improvise on household expenditure. Someone wrote in that they reused the lemon slices in their G&Ts. Incensed at the total irrelevance and ignorance of real-life families having to cope in straightened times, I read the letter out to my wife of the time - someone who had had an upbringing of unbridled luxury (before she met me, I hasten to add). "Oh, that's a good idea" she said. Not quite the response I had expected.

Lemon in G&T? Yuk!

 

[BrianH]

Lemon in G&T? Yuk!

I say the same about milk in tea - on the very rare occasions I ever drink tea.