According to their website, “one of the largest tour operators of city breaks and bespoke holidays for over 40 years”. The advertising campaign featuring the Cresta Bear and the line about being frothy is attributed to John Webster, who also created the Honey Monster, the Smash Aliens, the White Devil and the Duchess of Malfi. Probably toxic.
10 June 2015
peter mcornithologist
The Polar Bear is supposedly based upon Jack Nicholson. Does anyone know what the fuck we were drinking.
10 June 2015
Bobby SVARC
Only one thing came close to Cresta and that was that pink milk drink tack that came in a plastic bottle the early eighties. Nesquick it wasn’t.
Flying Nun also-rans the Bird Nest Roys had a song called Cresta. All I recall off the top of my head is the chorus, ‘Cresta’s been around for years.’
18 June 2015
wobbly jelly
Kids were having ‘flavoured’ pop in a restaurant in France – one was strawberry and Mrs said that tastes like Cresta (it didn’t) – but had to bite my tongue not to say ‘what the …’
My kids are big fans enjoyed The Robin – but then they only got lemonade.
16 July 2015
Dr Desperate
The line ‘It’s frothy man’ features in the Black Grape song ‘Yeah Yeah Brother’ on ‘It’s Great When You’re Straight… Yeah’.
20 July 2015
Theqwill10
I’m watching the tail-end of Manchester City v Leicester (the Foxes won 3-1 in case you are reading this in the distant future). Given Leicester have been the surprise guys this season, I wonder if it has been aided by some supplementary sources. Or more succinctly…Leicester! What the fuck are they drinking?
6 February 2016
Bobby SVARC
Stupid Boy
6 February 2016
jodrell banksy
Brumbeat group The Applejacks apparently started out as skifflers The Crestas, if you believe wikipedia.
27 November 2017
hendrix-tattoo
Also the name of my local taxi firm owned by a big time gangster.
Much against my better judgement I shall attempt to cut a long story short.
At work, happening across a bottle of solution apparemtly abandoned at the sink, to check whether whoever was making it had carried out the final step of adding detergent, I gave it a good shake and opened the top to look in… at which point a colleague said….
“It’s frothy man!”
9 February 2019
The harbinger of nothing
(Now posting in the more appropriate location)
The lack of comma makes the slogan sounds more like what one might exclaim when faced with a bubbly, milky superhero.
21 August 2019
transit full of keith
When I first heard this song, I wrongly remembered Cresta as that soft drink you made with crystals from a little flip-top tin. Turns out I was thinking of Creamola, to which the lyrics could equally apply I suppose.
21 August 2019
Pirx the purist
I just remember it being absolutely f*cking foul stuff.
Didn’t the bear on the TV commercials sing a song based on Elvis’ ‘Teddy Bear’?
21 August 2019
Ferencváros fan
After what was one of the undoubted highlights of Leamington Spa last Friday, the time seems right to observe that Cresta, played by Candice Bergen, was one of the main characters in the brutal revisionist Western, Soldier Blue. Released in 1970, and filmed in 1969, I believe that it pre-dates the drink of the same name. I’m just about old enough to remember the theme song charting for Buffy St Marie.
THIS LEADEN PAUL
According to their website, “one of the largest tour operators of city breaks and bespoke holidays for over 40 years”. The advertising campaign featuring the Cresta Bear and the line about being frothy is attributed to John Webster, who also created the Honey Monster, the Smash Aliens, the White Devil and the Duchess of Malfi. Probably toxic.
10 June 2015
peter mcornithologist
The Polar Bear is supposedly based upon Jack Nicholson. Does anyone know what the fuck we were drinking.
10 June 2015
Bobby SVARC
Only one thing came close to Cresta and that was that pink milk drink tack that came in a plastic bottle the early eighties. Nesquick it wasn’t.
10 June 2015
dickhead in quicksand
Cresta! – what the fuck was I thinking?
11 June 2015
jodrell banksy
Flying Nun also-rans the Bird Nest Roys had a song called Cresta. All I recall off the top of my head is the chorus, ‘Cresta’s been around for years.’
18 June 2015
wobbly jelly
Kids were having ‘flavoured’ pop in a restaurant in France – one was strawberry and Mrs said that tastes like Cresta (it didn’t) – but had to bite my tongue not to say ‘what the …’
My kids are big fans enjoyed The Robin – but then they only got lemonade.
16 July 2015
Dr Desperate
The line ‘It’s frothy man’ features in the Black Grape song ‘Yeah Yeah Brother’ on ‘It’s Great When You’re Straight… Yeah’.
20 July 2015
Theqwill10
I’m watching the tail-end of Manchester City v Leicester (the Foxes won 3-1 in case you are reading this in the distant future). Given Leicester have been the surprise guys this season, I wonder if it has been aided by some supplementary sources. Or more succinctly…Leicester! What the fuck are they drinking?
6 February 2016
Bobby SVARC
Stupid Boy
6 February 2016
jodrell banksy
Brumbeat group The Applejacks apparently started out as skifflers The Crestas, if you believe wikipedia.
27 November 2017
hendrix-tattoo
Also the name of my local taxi firm owned by a big time gangster.
28 November 2017
dr desperate
Also the name of a Humberbeat group whose 1964 line-up included Mick Ronson.
http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-VEd_WT2mlps/U0LaB6CToYI/AAAAAAAAAEU/5fHCEYqFSeg/s1600/crestas_02.jpg
28 November 2017
Alice van der meer
Much against my better judgement I shall attempt to cut a long story short.
At work, happening across a bottle of solution apparemtly abandoned at the sink, to check whether whoever was making it had carried out the final step of adding detergent, I gave it a good shake and opened the top to look in… at which point a colleague said….
“It’s frothy man!”
9 February 2019
The harbinger of nothing
(Now posting in the more appropriate location)
The lack of comma makes the slogan sounds more like what one might exclaim when faced with a bubbly, milky superhero.
21 August 2019
transit full of keith
When I first heard this song, I wrongly remembered Cresta as that soft drink you made with crystals from a little flip-top tin. Turns out I was thinking of Creamola, to which the lyrics could equally apply I suppose.
21 August 2019
Pirx the purist
I just remember it being absolutely f*cking foul stuff.
Didn’t the bear on the TV commercials sing a song based on Elvis’ ‘Teddy Bear’?
21 August 2019
Ferencváros fan
After what was one of the undoubted highlights of Leamington Spa last Friday, the time seems right to observe that Cresta, played by Candice Bergen, was one of the main characters in the brutal revisionist Western, Soldier Blue. Released in 1970, and filmed in 1969, I believe that it pre-dates the drink of the same name. I’m just about old enough to remember the theme song charting for Buffy St Marie.
21 March 2023
BOBBY svarc
Lesta, what the fuck were we thinking
21 March 2023