@jws It's called Vimto. I checked Amazon, but the prices are way higher than those I've seen in shops here, and we're 14,000 km away from the maker in Cyprus. Amazon also describes it a blackcurrant drink or concentrate, it's much more than that: grape, raspberry & blackcurrant juices, cane sugar with various (unspecified) herbs & spices.
So a local supermarket currently stocks the cordial I spent hours trying to find elsewhere. But their stock is all they will ever have: it's a discontinued line. Nine bottles remaining, being sold for ½ price.
Maybe I could have found the stuff I went all over the place searching for, locally. The problem is that the supermarket's app was down & I couldn't search in specific stores. Apparently the stuff I want is in the newest store a couple of km away.
A friend bought a new 21.5-in iMac for his wife. He wondered why it was slower than the 24-in 2008 iMac it replaced. It was taking MS Word 38 seconds to stop bouncing on the dock & actually start working. I suggested a few possibilities and eventually it was realised the poor thing was still indexing its content after having over 18,000 sizeable photos thrust at it from a back-up drive.
It's working fine now that the indexing is done.
@keita It's a special brew, very tasty & versatile. Consists of grape, raspberry & blackcurrant juices along with unspecified herbs & spices. Very big in the Middle East. My preferred serving is either a hot drink made with boiling water or in milk over ice. The trick with the latter is to use just enough to slightly curdle & thicken the milk.
@matigo Never seen a drunk cat. I have seen a very unco-ordinated cattledog failing to round up the cows (pretty much failing at even walking) after slurping up some spilled brandy.
@keita I spent most of the day driving around to potential suppliers of a favourite imported fruit-juice cordial. In the end my usual supplier had it in the more distant of their two retail outlets. So I'm stocked up for another 12 months or so.