Sorry, an utterly trivial inquiry I know, but does anyone else in the UK remember a short-lived soft drink from the early-to-mid-80’s called WFLA? Came in a carton, three flavours, slogan was ‘No tin, no fizz, no lobster’ (so no mystery why it didn’t catch on).
The advertising consisted of cartoon-ish renderings of a variety of nonsensical scenes suggested by the initial letters WFLA- e.g. Winged Fraulein Lands Askew, Wives For Lovelorn Androids, etc.
I’ve Googled, but no joy. Friends meet my recollections with blank stares. Anyone remember it?
Only 80s drinks I can remember were Squirt, Quattro and Um Bongo. Don’t remember WFLA, but some things didn’t get to us down in the depths of Cornwall!
I was around the UK for the whole of the '80s, and I don’t remember WFLA at all, though the “no lobster” rings a very slight bell.
Whereas way down deep in the middle of the Congo, a hippo took an apricot a guava and a mango, he stuck it with the others and he danced a dainty tango, the rhino said “I know, we’ll call it Um Bongo”.
Indeed, jjimm, and I believe I’m right in saying that the python picked the passionfruit, the marmoset the mandarin, the parrot painted packets that the whole caboodle landed in…
Oh yes, hammos1, and in conclusion, I believe that when it comes to sun and fun and goodness in the jungle, they all prefer the sunny funny one they call Um Bongo. I may be wrong, though.
I remember that advert too. It was shown in the summer of 1983. It was also put onto billboards too. I remember the winged fraulien landing askew, she was a dark hard woman dressed in stockings and suspenders crash landing upside down on her bed. The wifes for love lorn androids ad featured irritated robots sitting in cars in which the road is grid locked. I remember the billboard slogan, White flamingo legs akimbo. The last part of the jingle when W.F.L.A, its crucial no tin no fizz no lobster (followed by a drum role).
Speaking of Eighties, or maybe early Nineties… does anyone remember a bottled drink called Orbitz? It had white spheres floating in it, it was thick and transparent and cloyingly-sweet. I only ever bought one bottle, this was in Oakville, Ontario.
I remember Orbitz. it was in my sophomore year college welcome pack. It was terrible. My girlfriend kept her bottle on a shelf. Eventually the little spheres fell to the bottom. Who wants a beverage with little snot balls floating in it?
lol i was hired by the Milk marketing board of england to promote this drink and was flown from the united states to England, still have my shirt that says “drink wfla”
Ok…acknowledging this is a zombie…I have to ask. Is the “no lobster” completely nonsensical, or is there a cultural explanation that I’m missing from the US?
