I'm sure we're all familiar with these. Cheap, nasty alcoholic drinks that only
winos would drink. The kind of things that
no sane man would touch unless he was trying to get obliterated and only had
£5 to his name. We all know them. They are openly ridiculed for being an awful product, yet they are commonly available for sale, fueling the addictions of problem drinkers everywhere. Post the drinks that are considered "
hobo tonics" and "
wino pop" in your culture.
I'll start off by exposing a few that are
commonly derided in Great Britain.
The first one is
MD 20/20. I was on the train going south from Carlisle the other day and it was packed with Rangers fans headed to Manchester for a cup game. They were all drunk, singing and jumping around, and hiding their drinks as the transport police came past. All very canny guys, liked a good sing song. One of them was drinking this stuff though, and I can only imagine he lost his wallet on the way to the off-licence and had to buy his peeve with the remainder of his bus fare. He was liberally swigging the lurid orange liquid and getting plastered as he did so.
Next up we have
Frosty Jack's cider. A wicked concoction, and not just because it's cider, but also because it's probably never had an apple near it in it's life. So cheap even the small bottles are formed of plastic in a faux-glass manner. A student favourite, because it's cheaper than even mineral water
(FACT!), also popular with tramps looking for oblivion. You'll often spot empty 2L bottles of this strewn around parks in the morning, clear signs that kids have been drinking it the night before. In town centers, it's more likely to be vagabonds and tramps.
See Also: White Lighting-the same as Frosty Jacks in principle and favoured by charvs and underage drinkers due to it's available at practically every corner shop with a licence.
Next up on this
tour de force of ridicule is Carlsberg's Special Brew. Coming in the grottiest of brown-coloured cans, it's a potent brew at 9%ABV, and costs about the same (or a little less) than a "normal" strength lager. Popular with hooligans and especially tramps, this is another one to be wary of. It's not so popular with youngsters though, perhaps due to it's rough taste and their fondness of imbibing huge quantities of weaker lagers and beers. I bought a 4 pack of these before at the recommendation of a friend, needless to say I was not impressed.
See Also:
ACE Lager-another cheap, wretched lager, of even lower standard than Special Brew. Famously ridiculed by Viz Comics, which feature a character who regularly drinks 8 cans of Ace before beating his wife and soiling himself.
Now, for perhaps the most derided of all disgusting drinks:
Lambrini. Famously a favourite at
Mark Latimour's parties, this urine-coloured drink describes itself as "Perry". Clocking in at about £2 a bottle and being as common as Coca-Cola, and also due to it's vile sweetness, it's a favourite of young charv girls, who drink it on friday nights before their liver turns to concrete (at which point they start drinking neat vodka and taking cocaine and ecstasy to get the same buzz). It's obviously being marketed towards these tween drinkers, as anyone who had anything more to spend on drinks than a weeks worth of dinner-money wouldn't touch it.
Thats all for now folks, I've still got plenty of ammo left! Lets see the wino drinks from your hometown!
BTW, the grammar error in the title is intentional, a product of my time wading through the Special Brew.
