wordsfromlee Posted March 12, 2022 Share Posted March 12, 2022 My go to on a Friday night was 8 bottles of Tuborg for a fiver. Mainly because they had the key-pull tops so you didn't have to worry about having a bottle opener. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members Egg Shen Posted March 12, 2022 Paid Members Share Posted March 12, 2022 I still remember the first time i went out and had a drink underage. My mam even bought me the drink because i don't think she liked the idea of me finding someone to buy it for me. I had 2 cans of Woodpecker and 2 stubby cans of Lemon Hooch, what a night! Great days. When i settled into regular underage drinking around the age of 15/16, it was common to just buy the cheapest alcohol with the highest % just to get as drunk as humanly possible on a budget. This meant we usually went for 3 litre bottle of white cider for £2.99. White Lighting, Omega and all that stuff. Other days i went for a large bottle of Lambrini for a few quid, which I always regretted cause it's basically urine in a bottle. Mad Dog 20/20 was another local favorite. I sometimes bought a small bottle to accompany my white cider. There was the phase of going for super strength lager too which was absurd because it tasted like shit. Lynx Altra was the one. Its long since discontinued (probably banned) but it was set you back around £8 for 8 cans and you were guaranteed to end the night face down in the mud up the local field, what were we thinking? @Silky Kisser Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members Bus Surfer Posted March 12, 2022 Paid Members Share Posted March 12, 2022 (edited) 30 minutes ago, Egg Shen said: Lynx Altra was the one. Its long since discontinued (probably banned) but it was set you back around £8 for 8 cans and you were guaranteed to end the night face down in the mud up the local field, what were we thinking?  Like sucking a battery. I remember the Yellow Lynx were a staple for a long time. Scott Roberts downing 8 of them on the bus up to Sheffield for the WWF show and needing a piss for about 3 hours. Edited March 12, 2022 by Silky Kisser Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members Egg Shen Posted March 12, 2022 Paid Members Share Posted March 12, 2022 Attitude Adjustment Tour, Austin vs. The Rock in the main event! what a show! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members PunkStep Posted March 12, 2022 Paid Members Share Posted March 12, 2022 9 hours ago, neil said: Fosters Ice Holy shit, I completely forgot this existed. I think my first choice was Bud Ice, followed by Fosters Ice. My friend loved his Metz, which was lemon schnapps I think? Hooch and TwoDogs as well were drinks I'd go for in my early days, alcopops were very well marketed entry drinks for teenagers. Whenever there was a house party though, because they were cheap, my folks would get my those shitty stumpy French supermarket brand beers to take rather. Horrible stuff. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr_Danger Posted March 12, 2022 Share Posted March 12, 2022 The line doing the rounds between my peers was that they put paracetamol in the silver Lynx to make it even stronger. I don’t know how that made sense, even to our booze addled teenage minds. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Abe_Knuckleball_Schwartz Posted March 12, 2022 Share Posted March 12, 2022 Hooch or Labatts Ice was mine. Similar to Hooch but I can always remember another called the Muts Nuts or something like that. It was removed from sale when the whole alcopops storm hit the media. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rule One Posted March 12, 2022 Share Posted March 12, 2022 (edited) Overall I pretty much tried all the usual rites of passage of teenage drinking except for cider, a family member was a deep alcoholic heavily into cider. I saw what it did to him and wanted to no part of that. Luckily for us we never had no booze supply issues as we had Dirty Des (RIP you gloriously seedy motherfucker.) and as long as he knew one of your family you had access to all of your average filth laden teenager desires; cigs, booze and porn. Between the ages 13-15 it was whatever we could get in volume, MD 20/20, cheap versions of lambrini for the girls and beers were a mix up of Fosters/Carling/etc and I found my happy place with Skol/Yellow Lynx because unless a mate was skint or it was the end of night, nobody wanted to drink it but me. After 15 until we started hitting the pubs I got into spirits a bit more starting out by clearing my guts out on a regular basis with Thunderbird and cheap vodka before entering a lifelong affair with Jack Daniels. I used to think I was king shit sat on park equipment knocking it back like a fool. Glory days, eh? Edited March 12, 2022 by Rule One Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SuperBacon Posted March 12, 2022 Share Posted March 12, 2022 (edited) 1 hour ago, gmoney said: Stolichnaya is fancy. Yeah, I didn't think it was right. It could've possibly been that, but maybe in the late 90s it was quite cheap, and not the decent brand it is now? Anyway, whatever we were drinking was absolutely grim. Edit: Upon looking for it, I stumbled across Reefs. MEMBER REEFS??? Edited March 12, 2022 by SuperBacon Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members Teedy Kay Posted March 12, 2022 Paid Members Share Posted March 12, 2022 Our neck of the woods could only get White Lightning in a four pack of the small glass bottles. So Special Red was our 2 litre bottle of Cider of choice. That and a couple of bottles of Kiwi and Strawberry MD 2020 seemed to sort us out, with a packet of Embassy Filters stolen from Matt Ellis' mum under the guise he was taking them and binning them to help her stop. Good nights had all whilst leant against the newly installed green cable internet/TV box on the corner of the green. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members Hannibal Scorch Posted March 12, 2022 Paid Members Share Posted March 12, 2022 What happened with Aftershokz? That seemed to be the go to shot of choice in the late 90’s/early 00’s. I don’t think a house party when the parents were away didn’t have at least one bottle involved. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rule One Posted March 12, 2022 Share Posted March 12, 2022 19 minutes ago, SuperBacon said: Edit: Upon looking for it, I stumbled across Reefs. MEMBER REEFS??? Yes! I learnt a valuable life lesson with with Reefs, if you drank the orange ones you must then stick to that. Never ever in any circumstances try your mates blackcurrant Reefs after an orange one, it opened up an ungodly world of instant sickness and bowel movements. Nothing brings a cold sweat of shame at 3am when you remember that you had to evacuate yourself in multiple ways in a Sports Bar of all places because of this. We tried and tested this method amongst our friend group and it was the same result, nobody could survive. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members ReturnOfTheMack Posted March 12, 2022 Paid Members Share Posted March 12, 2022 I love Reef, it was my Christmas morning drink of choice. I even bought some last November, there's 1 left in my fridge now. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members Bus Surfer Posted March 12, 2022 Paid Members Share Posted March 12, 2022 Anyone else remember these things? Attach to your bottle of White Lightening to further increase the misery and shame.  Great days. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
simonworden Posted March 12, 2022 Share Posted March 12, 2022 The spirit talk reminded me that for a time you could get Tesco Value/ Asda Smar Price vodka, whisky, brandy, gin and white rum, red wine and white for dirt cheap. I think the vodka was about 4 quid for a big bottle. Wine was 2 quid I think. That stuff would do the trick on the cheap. I don't think supermarkets are allowed to sell the super cheap stuff now are they? Abou 9 years ago when I was dirt poor I'd buy a 4 pack of the value bitter for social drinking round mates. Did me fine even at 2%. I could drink them all, drive home after a short while and only spent about £1 all night. Even got brethalised one time with no reading showing. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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