Author Topic: Buckfast tonic wine, aka The Bucky  (Read 14711 times)

Dave

Re: Buckfast tonic wine, aka The Bucky
« Reply #25 on: 12 May, 2008, 08:33:44 pm »
snakebite, pernod and black aka a red witch

Hmm. Now that's bringing back memories of my teenage years. Not sure it was called a red witch in Stoke though.

I'm still right about the purply nasty though :P

(And don't get me started on what a proper oatcake is...)

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Re: Buckfast tonic wine, aka The Bucky
« Reply #26 on: 12 May, 2008, 08:34:29 pm »
Has anyone else come across a big pink one, so to speak: vodka and creamola foam?
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Re: Buckfast tonic wine, aka The Bucky
« Reply #27 on: 12 May, 2008, 08:38:02 pm »
I think we need a thread on regrettable student drinks, but this seems to be it  ;)
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Dave

Re: Buckfast tonic wine, aka The Bucky
« Reply #28 on: 12 May, 2008, 08:45:47 pm »
I think we need a thread on regrettable student drinks, but this seems to be it  ;)

Pints of blue curacao and lemonade. That do?

border-rider

Re: Buckfast tonic wine, aka The Bucky
« Reply #29 on: 12 May, 2008, 08:50:43 pm »
WKD Blue & Port = Cheeky Vimto

It doies taste remarkably similar.

Introduced to me by my nephews, whose dad is....MD of Vimto :)

Dave

Re: Buckfast tonic wine, aka The Bucky
« Reply #30 on: 12 May, 2008, 08:52:00 pm »
WKD Blue & Port = Cheeky Vimto

It doies taste remarkably similar.

Introduced to me by my nephews, whose dad is....MD of Vimto :)

Ahhhh. So that's what Radcliffe & Maconie were on about.

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Re: Buckfast tonic wine, aka The Bucky
« Reply #31 on: 12 May, 2008, 08:52:22 pm »
I was only introduced to that at Christmas, although it was called Crazy Vimto.

Didn't stop it from being utterly minging.
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Re: Buckfast tonic wine, aka The Bucky
« Reply #32 on: 12 May, 2008, 09:08:21 pm »
Apparently Lurgan is the UK Capital of Buckfast due to its record rate of consumtion per capita.  Oddly enough I've never tasted the stuff.
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Re: Buckfast tonic wine, aka The Bucky
« Reply #33 on: 12 May, 2008, 10:54:03 pm »
I was only introduced to that at Christmas, although it was called Crazy Vimto.

Didn't stop it from being utterly minging.


Round here Crazy Vimto is the superior version of Cheeky Vimto: fortified with vodka to give a little more bite... :sick:
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rogerzilla

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Re: Buckfast tonic wine, aka The Bucky
« Reply #34 on: 13 May, 2008, 08:34:12 am »
There's the traditional stag do "mucky pint" where everyone has a whip round and challenges the barman to put incompatible drinks in a pint glass.  If the end product is black as night with foamy scum that would grace a Chinese river, you're onto something.
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Re: Buckfast tonic wine, aka The Bucky
« Reply #35 on: 13 May, 2008, 08:42:47 am »
There's the traditional stag do "mucky pint" where everyone has a whip round and challenges the barman to put incompatible drinks in a pint glass.  If the end product is black as night with foamy scum that would grace a Chinese river, you're onto something.

In those sort of circumstances, I once drank a pint of guiness and baileys  :sick: :sick: :sick:

bikenerd

Re: Buckfast tonic wine, aka The Bucky
« Reply #36 on: 13 May, 2008, 08:52:46 am »
I went to Newcastle-Upon-Tyne University so my regrettable student drink was Exhibition bitter every week in the Union.  :sick:

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Re: Buckfast tonic wine, aka The Bucky
« Reply #37 on: 13 May, 2008, 08:59:20 am »
One of the 50p-a-pint nights at Birmingham featured Harp lager.  A friend of mine was owed £7 by his roommate and agreed to accept payment in the form of 14 pints of said crap lager.  He got as far as the tenth pint then had to be carried home and threw up on the carpet in the night, but under the terms of the contract the debt was considered to be cancelled.
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Re: Buckfast tonic wine, aka The Bucky
« Reply #38 on: 13 May, 2008, 09:16:23 am »
Power shandies: Newcastle Brown and Smirnoff Ice.

I have never dared.

Re: Buckfast tonic wine, aka The Bucky
« Reply #39 on: 13 May, 2008, 09:31:47 am »

A proper purple nasty is half strong lager, half strong cider and a dash of blackcurrant.

I know that as Pink Panther.

An alternative to the Buckie is 20/20 in various flavours including green, red and yellow I think. I've only tasted the green one. I think it had pictures of kiwi fruit on the label.

I'm beginning to see the attraction of alcopops.

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Re: Buckfast tonic wine, aka The Bucky
« Reply #40 on: 13 May, 2008, 09:37:42 am »
When I was a student, there were pubs who would refuse to serve you a snakebite and black.  It used to be grounds for instant ejection...
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Dave

Re: Buckfast tonic wine, aka The Bucky
« Reply #41 on: 13 May, 2008, 09:40:56 am »
When I was a student, there were pubs who would refuse to serve you a snakebite and black.  It used to be grounds for instant ejection...

Whereas, for me, a pub that did serve S&B was well worth frequenting. I seem to recall a strong correlation between the quality of the jukebox and the quantity of S&B served...

Re: Buckfast tonic wine, aka The Bucky
« Reply #42 on: 13 May, 2008, 01:58:55 pm »
There's the traditional stag do "mucky pint" where everyone has a whip round and challenges the barman to put incompatible drinks in a pint glass.  If the end product is black as night with foamy scum that would grace a Chinese river, you're onto something.

In those sort of circumstances, I once drank a pint of guiness and baileys  :sick: :sick: :sick:

If you try cheap red wine and baileys, the baileys can curdle so it goes all lumpy.
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Re: Buckfast tonic wine, aka The Bucky
« Reply #43 on: 13 May, 2008, 07:20:57 pm »
SLightly OT, but relvant(ish)

Old students like us used to drink, fall over, sleep......

Now with the advent of "Red Bull". "Ir'n Bru 32" etc, the drinks are all awake and hyper.....

This it is suggested is why there is so much aggression and violence in pubs and clubs these days!


PS - The Irn Bru" ads are still brilliant....

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Or listen to the lyrics...

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border-rider

Re: Buckfast tonic wine, aka The Bucky
« Reply #44 on: 13 May, 2008, 07:26:37 pm »

If you try cheap red wine and baileys, the baileys can curdle so it goes all lumpy.
We used to call it seal's brains

Baileys, Cointreau and a dash of cream.  Curdles beautifully.  Called an Orgasm.

Re: Buckfast tonic wine, aka The Bucky
« Reply #45 on: 13 May, 2008, 08:32:22 pm »
Posh snakebites when I was a lad were Furstenberg + Merrydown. 

Green monsters were vodka, blue curaco, midouri (all doubles) in a pint tumbler topped up with fresh orange and lemonade.  Utterly delicious as they just taste like fruit juice.

 :P

Re: Buckfast tonic wine, aka The Bucky
« Reply #46 on: 14 May, 2008, 08:30:49 am »
One of the college bars (possibly Hertford?) in Oxford used to serve a thing called a Pan-Galactic Gargleblaster, which featured 5 shots of clear spirits and 1 of blue curacao, topped up to pint level with lemonade.  I got one of those down in one on a pub crawl in my first year, and shortly afterwards was banned from drinking anything else for the rest of the night as no one wanted to deal with the potential upchucking.

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Re: Buckfast tonic wine, aka The Bucky
« Reply #47 on: 14 May, 2008, 07:19:49 pm »
I've just been reviewing our stocks and have uncovered a house warming present I got about 7 years ago - a bottle of Thunderbird - surprisingly unopened.  Do you think it will age well?
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Re: Buckfast tonic wine, aka The Bucky
« Reply #48 on: 14 May, 2008, 07:25:51 pm »
Do you think it will age well?

I suspect it won't have got much worse :)

Bluebottle

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Re: Buckfast tonic wine, aka The Bucky
« Reply #49 on: 14 May, 2008, 07:30:08 pm »
The thing is, this is the same bottle that I gave a friend for a house warming present 3 years before he gave it back to me.

Oddly, we are still friends...
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