Remember when people would pay silly amounts of money for a single bottle of Prime? Heron Foods here have them on offer at 3 for a quid

by CyGuy6587

50 comments

  1. It’s the fact they actually taste dreadful and nothing else. Once the novelty wore off, it was inevitable.

  2. Heron Foods sounds like a real bargain place.

    Not only can you get 3 Prime drinks for a quid, they’re giving free cash out whilst you’re there too.

  4. I’ve got my eye on those chicken dinosaurs top right

  5. Some of the best influencer marketing of recent times. The hype they generated was insane.

    Whether it was a long term success was very much secondary in their minds. And let’s remember it probably costs them 10p to make, so even in the bargain bin, they are making a comfortable profit.

    I hate it, I hate that this is the world we live in, but they played the game better than nearly anyone.

  7. Not long ago people on my local residents Facebook page were trying to sell their kids collections of empty prime cans and bottles.

    They couldn’t even give them away, unsurprisingly.

  9. The Spar local to me still has shelves full of them, they have moved them right to the front, where the chocolate bars were, can’t remember the price but they are on offer.

  10. Next items in the bargain bin are those ridiculously fucking big Stanley Cups. They’re currently going for 50 quid but eventually, the idiots will realise they’re a total con as well.

  11. It’s gonna be really fun to explain to the next generation what the hell “Prime” was and why it’s plastered over the ring and arena on any WWE programming for five years worth of programming.

  12. I hate food waste I think it’s absolutely awful. However, I was given a free prime drink in a train station and it was the most disgusting thing I’ve ever drank, I felt awful but I had to bin it, I can’t believe how much people were obsessed by these and I just can’t fathom why

  15. Ours local Heron has them too, all the best before dates were the end of July. I think this is a result of a) artificial scarcity, restricting customers to two bottles per purchase when they first came out means they’ve now got shit loads left and B) those are the “early flavours and most kids who collect the bottles will have had these flavours for ages. 

  18. They were giving these out free all week a few weeks ago at Waterloo station. My fridge looks like the window of a vape shop with all the free bottles I’ve still got in there.

  19. I’m from (a town on the outskirts of) Wakefield.

    Wakey Wines was wild.

  23. I only ever had prime once and that was because my local tesco express sold them off on clearance for 20p a bottle. Seriously tasted like shit.

  25. Work in food/drink distribution and at the start several thousands of cases were going out each. Now its in the hundreds.

  27. 3 for a quid, I want them to pay me at least £2 to take three off them

  28. Assuming that these are being phased out as most places are almost giving these away now..

  30. kids at school bully other kids for not having prime drink. so stupid. 

    never touched this shait and never will.

  32. That’s interesting. Mini Sainsburys near my work had three different flavours for 29p/bottle a week or so ago (blue raspberry, meta moon and tropical punch – I took a picture). Just assumed they were short dated or discontinuing selling them in that one shop.

  33. Yeah my cousin bought a load in Florida before it came out over here, and because he put it in his hand luggage, it all got dumped at security 😂😂😂😂 idiot

  34. That drink is absolutely dead in the USA. They can barely give it away.

  35. Im glad we all matured and realised it taste like shit, Ka drinks tastes good

  41. Got given two for free at a train station. If you like sweet water they are fine a bit to sweet for me. If Im im the mood for that type of drink I do prefer Oasis, a little sweet but doesnt live like a squatter for five years on the tongue

  42. “people”. Only if you count the things that have bean juice down their shirt, can’t pronounce words and eat things that they find in their nose and belly button as people.

  43. My local aldi has had the same stock for months it’s just rotting at this point and collecting dust

  44. The silly price was for American import, not its being made in the UK so will be slightly different as well as cheaper.

  46. I saw them for 40p in asda the other day and still no one was buying it

  47. Just like zoo coin or whatever the fuck it’s called. It’s a Lear trend with Logan.

  48. might be because it was recently discovered that a bottle of prime contains a fuckton of forever chemicals like PFAS. might’ve tanked the popularity a ton.

  49. I remember seeing a video of a dad in a store with his son, that wanted a lot of these bottles. Like – a lot. And the dad was so excited to give his 8 year old kid this special gift! And the dad said he had to drive from another town to get them. I thought it was a skit, honestly! Like what drink can be that special? Does it even taste… good?

  50. They were handing them out for free at London Waterloo. Might have been a new flavour though.

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