The retro Christmas drink from the 70s we really need to bring back

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Would anyone actually serve these chintzy drinks for Christmas nowadays?

Surely your guests would think you’d lost the plot? They’re the drinks equivalent of an acrylic toilet cover or crocheted doilies. I mean, there’s tasteful retro, and there’s a flagrant disregard for good taste.

All three drinks are 70s relics that require relegation to the back of the sticky drinks cabinet, if you ask me. You can throw in both Harvey’s Bristol Cream and Wallbangers while you’re at it.

But what about Babycham? The perry that comes in a small glass bottle with the leaping Bambi on the label. Or, perhaps I should say chamois. Do we give it a pass or confine it to the same drinks graveyard as the rest of them?

Well, I’m going to stick my neck out here; I think Babycham deserves a second look.

For the younger generations of the British public not familiar with the iconic beverage, it’s a sparkling pear drink, aka perry, with a low alcohol content of just 6% ABV.

The taste is soft, fruity, sweet, and frothy, with the flavour of fresh pear juice. It’s good value for money too; you can purchase a pack of four 20cl bottles for £3.90 at Tesco.

Perry is made from fermented perry pears, which are smaller, harder and sourer than supermarket-bought fruit. And Britain has a long history of making perry, particularly in Herefordshire, Gloucestershire and Worcestershire, where perry pears have been grown for centuries.

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