Buckfast tonic wine, aka The Bucky

[rogerzilla]

Thunderbird...I think it's a by-product of the American "defense" industry, or something.

[Jacomus]

Diesel is a drink of choice around these parts.

- Double Vodka shot
- Half pint Strongbow
- Dash of Blackcurrent
- Top off with Stella

  There are no words to describe the pain that drinking this causes the next day. A binge on Diesel lay me out for 3 days.

[rogerzilla]

Friends who used to drink the strawberry milk shakes claimed three of them were enough to cause acute kidney pain the next day.  Mind you, each one contained a minimum of six units of alcohol, if you were lucky, (the "top shelf job" being a very loose definition depending on which bar you were in).

[Ian H]

Back to the subject.

There was a six axle tanker lorry heading north on the M5 this morning. On the back was the proud logo 'Buckfast Tonic'.

[hairyhippy]

Thunderbird and circular saws do not mix.

[PeteB99]

Has anyone mentioned VP 'British sherry' yet

[Ian H]

Monks' drinks business to develop

[Thor]

Causal link between Buckfast and violence?

[Moloko]

Causal link between Buckfast and violence?

Rather than start from the standpoint that this humble tonic wine was a "bad thing", we simply wanted to find out why it had acquired a reputation, particularly in the central belt, as Scotland's "commotion lotion".

 

[Wascally Weasel]

I thought the indifference of the distributor was quite unpleasant but not surprising.  I wonder if he would be so complacent if the victims of a Chateau du Bucky glassing started claiming damages from them through the civil courts (if such could be done)?

[Julian]

I thought the indifference of the distributor was fairly reasonable.  The problem isn't with the product; it's with the little chavsters who drink it until they punch someone. 

[rogerzilla]

I'm amazed how much caffeine it contains. Maybe it's one for the Audaxers 

[Kathy]

Having heard The News Quiz last night, I now thoroughly approve of Buckfast Wine. 

(If you didn't hear it, *do* listen again. Comedians getting - or pretending to get - caffienatedly drunk on radio has to be one of the best things I've heard for several years).

[Thor]

+1.  Very amusing. 

I suspect that all this attention, precipitated by a programme critical of the product, will be of net benefit to sales.