Have your drinking habits changed - Page 3

jambutty · 30-05-2008, 15:46

I was 11 when alcohol first passed my lips. It was in the middle of the winter of ’47 on a train with no heating and several hours to our destination. My uncle poured a tot of Vodka into a cup of lemon tea to warm me up. It worked. Not only did it warm me up but magically shortened the journey. Or was that because I went to sleep?

At 16 the Australian Inn supplied me with my first half pint of mild.

Until my 20th birthday, when I got my first tot of Navy rum, it was generally mild but not much of it or down south Watneys.

The Navy rum was something to behold and it was issued at 12:00 noon after being drawn from the rum locker at 11:00am to the pipe of “Up Spirits”. Although some wag would sometimes add, “Stand fast the Holy Ghost”.

We, on the lower deck, had our rum watered down with two parts of water to one part of rum. That might sound a bit weak until you consider the strength of the neat stuff, how much we got and when we got it. The neat rum was at least 150 degrees proof (some say it was as high as 180) and each tot was one eighth of a pint. Watered down our tot of rum ended up as three eighths of a pint of liquid around 50 degrees proof and on an empty stomach. Imagine the effect.

Ashore Woods’ Navy rum at 100 degrees proof with two parts of coke added made a pleasant drink if a slice of lemon was added. Black Cat rum obtainable only down south had the same taste as a neat tot but not the strength. As did Old Mariner (in a square bottle) available up here only at Thwaites’ pubs and off licenses.

More than two years in Capetown introduced me to Brandy and Canada Dry ginger ale (horse’s neck) and white wine, the drier the better.

Although I had my alcoholic moments I was never a drinker as such and quit completely after my second heart attack.

SamF · 30-05-2008, 16:02

Lager Cider Vodka Southern Comfort Dry White Wine

Haha only 18 so will add to this as the years pass

jaysay · 30-05-2008, 16:23

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Originally Posted by Royboy39

Dont you start..................I believe inuendo is not your forte

What you mean Roy that weren't no inuendo

Royboy39 · 30-05-2008, 16:26

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Originally Posted by jaysay

What you mean Roy that weren't no inuendo

I know...but I have promised to be nice to the ladies

Less · 30-05-2008, 17:13

Michael Green, author of course sailing and many other art of course, books, at the beginning of each book would put a definition describing that particular sportsman, in 'The art of course drinking', he defined a course drinker as:-

Someone that turns up at a friends house unexpectedly, all the friend has to offer is a very cheap cooking sherry, the course drinker accepts the glass, sniffs it, knocks it back in one, pulls a disgusted face and says, "God, that was awful!". As he hold the glass out for a refill!

Lilly · 30-05-2008, 20:04

I love Jack Daniels and coke.

pussycat · 30-05-2008, 21:23

i was a cider drinker when i was younger ; can;t stand the stuff now ;

Royboy39 · 30-05-2008, 22:13

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Originally Posted by pussycat

i was a cider drinker when i was younger ; can't stand the stuff now ;

Try Scrumpi with a drop of orange cordial.....blow your brains out.
Pints of course.
1 Oh I like that.
2 What the hell is this?
3 I feel a little tipsy.
4 Can you pick me up off the floor please.......I cant walk.
Tewkesbury..............1968.

Wynonie Harris · 30-05-2008, 22:23

Started when I was around 16 on brown-and-mild splits (half a mild and a bottle of brown ale in a pint glass for the uninitiated). Moved over to lager in my thirties, much to the disgust of my old fella ("that's not real beer!"). More recently, found that lager was giving me headaches, so, over the last year, I've started supping real ale, which goes down very well indeed. Bring on the Black Sheep!

BERNADETTE · 30-05-2008, 22:40

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Originally Posted by Wynonie Harris

Started when I was around 16 on brown-and-mild splits (half a mild and a bottle of brown ale in a pint glass for the uninitiated). Moved over to lager in my thirties, much to the disgust of my old fella ("that's not real beer!"). More recently, found that lager was giving me headaches, so, over the last year, I've started supping real ale, which goes down very well indeed. Bring on the Black Sheep!

Used to serve a bloke at Rishton your first tipple, he had it with Macky. Macky mild split we called it

grannyclaret · 30-05-2008, 23:21

I am admitting to nothing,but i wish those dustbin men wouldent rattle the boxes so loudly every other week.....""oooh the shame of it""

BERNADETTE · 30-05-2008, 23:29

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Originally Posted by grannyclaret

I am admitting to nothing,but i wish those dustbin men wouldent rattle the boxes so loudly every other week.....""oooh the shame of it""

Nowt wrong with that Granny you have earned a few drinks

Loz · 31-05-2008, 03:26

I started off on white lightning because it was cheap then became a lager drinker(i still like one now and again) then went back onto cheap cider but stopped because i went a bit crazy off it and now my fav is vodka and irn bru.

jaysay · 31-05-2008, 10:04

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Originally Posted by grannyclaret

I am admitting to nothing,but i wish those dustbin men wouldent rattle the boxes so loudly every other week.....""oooh the shame of it""

yup GC must agree even over here Hyndburns Recycling Engineers, seem to take delight in rattling he blue box on the way to the wagon

jambutty · 31-05-2008, 12:27

On Saturday mornings on his way home from work (Saturday mornings was part of the working week in those days) my dad would bring home a bottle of Mackeson’s stout, where he would pour it into a glass and stick a red hot poker into it. I was allowed to drink some of the froth.

I did have a spell where Black Velvet tickled my palette, or at least the poor man’s version, being Cider and Guinness instead of Champagne and Guinness.