"alan_m" wrote in message
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On 19/06/2015 08:11, Chris Hogg wrote:

Just because they're fruit-flavoured? So you would advocate banning
fruit juices, cordials etc because they might lead to alcohol
addiction?

That's how many alcoholic drinks are being marketed these days.

Take a cheap to make raw undrinkable spirit

There is nothing undrinkable about pure ethanol.

The fruit flavourings are added because that is how
many prefer to drink their alcohol, with some form
of flavouring added to it. Just as true of pink gin
or with gin itself, or with akvavit etc.

and add fruit flavourings. Marketed as an alco-pop.

The current trend is to take poor quality alcoholic apple juice and add
flavourings to make them more palatable.

Makes a lot more sense to start with sugar and ferment that.

Marketed as a cider from a maker that has been business for hundreds of
years who miraculously pick all their own apples from the cider apples
orchards that have been ripped up or neglected for the past half century.