Rock shandy is an Irish fizzy drink. It came about when fizzy orange was mixed with fizzy lemon, in a pub in Blackrock in south county Dublin. It's a personal favourite of mine.
You can read its interesting origin story here.
Yesterday I had dinner in Zambrero in Blackrock. When the girl asked me what drink I'd like, I saw a rocky shandy in the fridge and opted for that. When I asked her if she knew rock shandy was invented in Blackrock, she didn't. (To be fair, she obviously grew up a long, long way from Blackrock.)
It pleases me to an absurd degree to drink a fizzy drink which is not only distinctive to Ireland, but to a particular part of Ireland...and to drink it in the very place it was invented, where it's simply sold as a drink like any other!
(Also, I love the word "fizzy".)
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