phart Posted January 24, 2020 Share Posted January 24, 2020 3 hours ago, aaid said: Because it was already over the minimum unit price. Buckfast is only slightly more alcoholic at 15% than a standard bottle of red wine. The problem with Buckfast isn't so much the strength of the alcohol related to the price but also the amount of caffeine in it. It's that combination that's particularly problematic when consumed in quantity. Was going to say it's the combination of ingredients in buckfast that seems to do the damage, I used to drink QC sherry instead of buckfast when i was a teenager , same size bottle same 15% alcohol but half the price and no mania with all the Caffeine. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bonzo Posted January 24, 2020 Share Posted January 24, 2020 Used to drink Eldorado then moved on to Thunderbird, don't think I could drink it now. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
phart Posted January 24, 2020 Share Posted January 24, 2020 i see it's almost 9 quid now. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Grim Jim Posted January 24, 2020 Share Posted January 24, 2020 A right jakey combo of Vodka and Carlsberg Special. Not in the same tumbler! No, the voddy had some diluting orange in it, as I'd never seen fresh orange juice (apart from in an orange obviously ...at Christmas). Used to throw up before I got any pleasurable effects, other than rights of passage. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bonzo Posted January 24, 2020 Share Posted January 24, 2020 A few bottles of scotsmac were sampled but I've never had the pleasure of lanliq. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lairdyfaeinverclyde Posted January 25, 2020 Share Posted January 25, 2020 14 hours ago, bonzo said: Used to drink Eldorado then moved on to Thunderbird, don't think I could drink it now. Ah, Eldorado good memories (I think). Celtic supporters club in Greenock sold it by the tray, 32 glasses per tray. Out on a date with a burd, go to the bar to buy a round of drinks, couple of fly glasses of the local Beaujolais before you go back to the table, the rest of the night was a blurr, so classy. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
phart Posted January 25, 2020 Share Posted January 25, 2020 I used to work with a boy from Plains their pubs sold buckfast or so i was told. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bonzo Posted January 25, 2020 Share Posted January 25, 2020 2 minutes ago, phart said: I used to work with a boy from Plains their pubs sold buckfast or so i was told. I'm sure I've seen it in an optic in the sarry heid in Glasgow. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vanderark14 Posted January 26, 2020 Share Posted January 26, 2020 Yaaaaaaaaaaasss Big ben will chime and now we have a new fucking coin https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-51250753 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bonny79 Posted January 26, 2020 Author Share Posted January 26, 2020 2 hours ago, vanderark14 said: Yaaaaaaaaaaasss Big ben will chime and now we have a new fucking coin https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-51250753 This is good Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TDYER63 Posted January 26, 2020 Share Posted January 26, 2020 2 hours ago, vanderark14 said: Yaaaaaaaaaaasss Big ben will chime and now we have a new fucking coin https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-51250753 #Cringe. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aaid Posted January 26, 2020 Share Posted January 26, 2020 12 hours ago, phart said: I used to work with a boy from Plains their pubs sold buckfast or so i was told. I'd never seen Buckfast sold when I was growing up. I've only tasted it once when GlasgowManCity formerly of this parish handed me a hip flask at an away game and said "try this" and it was Buckfast and it was rank. A few years back BBC Scotland had a documentary about Buckfast. I think it was around the time there was some talk of "banning the Buckie". They focussed on three things: the recipe and the amount of caffeine and the problems that caused; the packaging, essentially that people who get off their tits on Buckfast have a prepondancy to smash the bottle over someone's head; general anti-social behaviour and in particular under age drinking. For the part on ant-social and underage drinking, they started off with a piece showing a park with lots of empty Buckfast bottles lying around littering the place. I thought this looks familiar and realised that it was from my home town and was where I'd done my fair share of underage drinking in my teenage years - more Merrydown snakebites tbf - so I thought, okay, I can't get *too* judgemental about this. Of course the real irony here is that it causes so much damage - compared to other types of alcohol - and yet is produced and the profits go to a religious order. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Och Aye Posted January 26, 2020 Share Posted January 26, 2020 13 hours ago, phart said: I used to work with a boy from Plains their pubs sold buckfast or so i was told. Even one of our social club (Motherwell area) sold it. A double double it was served as. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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