The Treehouse Episode 36, Zesto with Danny Baker and me Louise Pepper.

Yes, indeed. Good morning to everybody. Good morning to Louise on the other side of

town. Here we go again. One of the three hours of fun for Olding Young without the slightest

hint of vulgarity. And I don't want to break lockstep here. I don't want to let daylight

in upon magic peps. Making me let daylight in upon magic peps. But I'll explain again

why the show is called Zesto. It's much more fun when you don't. There's always a reason.

And I know there's a certain huge burgeoning online communities now trying to crack the

code of these. But as you know, I prepare the months in advance, peps. And Zesto is one

of the great lost soft drinks of brick. Oh, I thought it was going to be a cleaning product.

No, you'd think so. Perhaps that's why they didn't market it. But Zesto was made by

R. Whitesoo, of course, famous for their name. And their cream soda, which was, they

all civilised people agree it was a D cream soda. But for a very short period in the 1960s,

and I mean, on in six months, they had a drink called Zesto, which was like a sort of a

sort of a Coca-Cola, Dr. Pepperie, Charlie, I was poor.

No, it's a B. Noringee pineappley. No, no. Oh, this is where it's all gone wrong. They

sounded like a cleaning fluid and it wasn't the fruit you're expecting. It was marketed

only I believe in the in the South East. I'm willing to be corrected on that. And they

tested it. And then people turn around and pronounced it to taste like fish four days

old or something. I loved it. I remember being at a family wedding. And there's something

I haven't been to for months or years and decades of family wedding. Come on, kids. Anyway,

I remember going back up to the bar and just getting glass after glass is Zesto and

told a woman behind the bar said, Oh, you'll drink the straw. This you love this, don't

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