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Irish TikToker goes on epic quest to find classic drink from 2010s
An Irish TikToker has embarked on an epic quest to determine if anywhere in the country still serves a classic drink from the 2010s.
Being sold in the good old days in promos such as two for a tenner, the staple that was Zaconey and Coke was a bestseller in pubs and clubs around the country — becoming a particularly popular beverage of choice for the college students, before being unceremoniously discontinued in 2016.
While bottles of the 'God's nectar' were knocking about until 2019, there are, unfortunately, only a finite number of bottles left; with TikToker Liam Mackessy going on a quest to try and find a bottle of the brown stuff. @liammackessy I feel we are closer to getting Zaconey back on the market but in case we don't succeed, Linnane's bar in Tralee is the place to be! Sinead, you are and will always be a legend for this! #zaconey #zaconeyandcoke #bringbackzaconey #irelandtiktok #blastfromthepast #ireland ♬ original sound – Liam Mackessy
After being inundated with comments saying that people have a 'tiny drop' left that they want to save for a special occasion, Liam didn't stop there, saying that he was looking for a proper bottle/to see if there were any pubs, anywhere in the country, that still served it (and again, we cannot stress, this was discontinued over half a decade ago).
However, he struck gold (and Coke) when he found out that Hennessy's Bar in Tralee bought a number of the bottles before they were discontinued, and are serving the drinks, as well as Linnane's Bar — with a follower whose partner worked there bringing up a bottle of the good stuff to Liam, where he and his husband enjoyed a Zaconey and Coke over a decade later.
'We used to drink this all the time when we lived in Galway back in 2014, 2015,' Liam said. 'Let's do a little taste test and see if it brings back all those memories from that time.' Zaconey and Coke was a staple of the college town drink in the mid-2010s, with the drink being discontinued. However, some people are still looking for the finite bottles. Pic: Riley's Dundalk/Instagram
The taste brought back the memories for Liam, who immediately said: 'I didn't realise how much I missed Zaconey until now.'
While the drink has been discontinued, some people have shared that they have managed to keep their bottles over the years — with one person on the Ireland subreddit sharing an unopened bottle of Zaconey and writing 'Could this be the last one in Ireland?'
'2 Zaconey and Coke for €10 (I think) in Workman's Dublin,' one person reminisced. 'Peak college years!' The drink has been discontinued with a few bottles still knocking about — and even a few pubs still serve them. Pic: Zaconey/Facebook
'Man, we really were living in the good days,' another wrote. 'Nowadays they'd call it a cocktail and you'd be paying €15 for a watered-down one,' while another added 'Zaconey and Pepsi in Electric Galway. What a time to be alive gods nectar.'
