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Last night we were discussing alcohol, and tripping the light fantastic with words such as SubZero with Grenadine, West Coast Coolers and C&C Music Factory.
And this then led to conversations about Summer Wine, Strongbow, Passion Pop, Peach Cooler, Lemon Ruskis and Two Dogs. All headache inducing sweet liquids which were a right of passage if you were of the same era as me.
The whole conversation bought me back to the first time I got drunk. I must have been about 16 when a mate and I thought it was a great idea to procure a bottle of “whatever” from the fridge in my parents garage and drink it. When my mum found us later, rolling around and laughing till we cried, she was more concerned about what we had drank, rather than the fact that we had drank it.
Yes, my first taste of the turps was a bottle of Verve Clicquot, not the box of Fruity Lexia sitting right next to it.
She hit the roof. And rightly so, because that Verve Clicquot soon re-appeared in a less appealing form than when it went in.
Classy lady… right there.
The Coolabah Cask DID however get a workout during the university era, due to it’s appealing price point and the silver baggie that you could pull out and play with. But years on, I cannot even sniff it, along with Southern Comfort, Tequila and Pimms. And West Coast Coolers…
Did you favour any of the 90’s drinks?
Do you retch when you sniff a particular brew due to bad memories?
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