Your favorite brand of el cheapo rot-gut?

[Mayberry Machiavelli]

Poll question: Your favorite brand of el cheapo rot-gut?

Sorry to offend any fans of the following beverages!:o

[amazona]

1. old crow

Not that I actually drink it but, c'mon, you gotta like a the hubris of a drink called Old Crow. I use it sometimes to make hard sauce for bread pudding or to put into a pecan pie.

[asthmaticeog]

6. YEAH!

Back about 11-12 years ago or so, my best pal and I would invariably spend Christmas together getting wrecked with a bottle of Old Crow each - the plastic bottles for lushes too sketchy to be trusted with glass. I tried drinking some recently and I couldn't get the stuff down - horrible.

[Magrittes Pipe]

42. You're daft.

The O.C. is the most delicious $14-for-1.5-liters bourbon out there.

[hickman1937]

2. Mohawk Peppermint Schnapps

I actually hate the stuff, but its self regulatory. It cuts down on the intensity of my hangover.

[stevebreeze]

3. Once bought a bottle of "Luv" wine from Target (30 years ago)

My sister and I drank it while my brother,who I was supposed to be watching (age3) and my sisters daughter (age2) ran roughshod through my parents house. We had passed out.

[BikeWriter]

4. Drinking Mad Dog got me married once. I stay away from it!

Boone's Farm's not bad.

[htuttle]

33. You too?

Damn that stuff.

[BikeWriter]

35. Yeah, I got two sons out of the deal...

...and a hangover!

[steely]

5. Did you leave out Annie Green Springs?

I liked MD - the wine of the century - ha ha

Wasn't MD 20/20 a Manischewitz (Mogan David) product?
That always threw me - a kosher line, and an edgy product - from the same place.

[Ruby Romaine]

7. when I lived in the UK (almost 20 yrs ago) the rot gut stuff was sold in

fancy food shops as something special & gourmet (in the "food hall" markets in department stores)-exotic bali hai & boones farm.

There's a hysterical book -"judaikitsch"
with all kinds of cool insane craft projects for your empty manischewitz bottles, matzoh meal boxes etc...

[Sporadicus]

8. Is Ripple Still Marketed?

To this day the smell of Hawaiian Punch makes me ill.

[Bzzzz]

9. Hmmm

Annie Green Springs...ahhhhhh:D

[Liberal Veteran]

10. What about Cisco?

Known as "liquid crack," for its reputation for wreaking more mental havoc than the cheapest tequila. Something in this syrupy hooch seems to have a synapse-blasting effect not unlike low-grade cocaine. The label insists that the ingredients are merely "citrus wine & grape wine with artificial flavor & artificial color," but anyone who has tried it knows better. Tales of Cisco-induced semi-psychotic fits are common. Often, people on a Cisco binge end up curled into a fetal ball, shuddering and muttering paranoid rants. Nudity and violence may well be involved too. Everyone who drinks this feels great at first, and claims, "It's not bad at all, I like it." But, you really do not want to mess around with this one, because they all sing a different tune a few minutes later. And by tune, I mean the psychotic ramblings of a raging naked bum.

[Ilsa]

13. So, how many people saw you naked?

Were you arrested and thrown into a psych ward until they realized it was just the hooch talking?
Your writing is interesting enough for me to send to a special friend, if that's okay with you.

[Liberal Veteran]

14. It's not my writing...I lifted from a website.

Plagarism is the first rule of scholarship. :)

I got it from here.

http://www.bumwine.com/cisco.html

[InvisibleBallots]

40. oh my god that picture is hilarious

[proud2BlibKansan]

11. My uncle the priest

carries Manischewitz in his little bag that priests carry in case they have to administer the last rites when someone is dying.

[yardwork]

12. You left out Thunderbird and Everclear

without which my youth would have been.....more productive.

[Ilsa]

15. Everclear is a dirty word.

I had finished some antibiotics a couple of days before and thought the drug was out of my system. I went to a party, had a couple of small cups of some fruit punch with that innocently vile stuff, and started getting sick. I made it home, threw up a dozen times over the next two days. I avoided antibiotics for the next three years. I won't ever drink everclear again. "Bottled Demon spit" is too nice a way to describe it.

[Liberal Veteran]

16. Was it metronidazole?

That particular antibiotic is well-known for BAD interactions with alcohol.

[Ilsa]

18. I think it was a sulfa drug, like Bactrim.

I doubt it could have been metronidazole. This was over twenty years ago, and I wasn't a nurse then. But I seem to recall getting Bactrim a couple of times for a UTI.

I knew better than to drink while on the drug, but I had finished the course of treatment several days before. That was when I learned how sensitive my body was to medications. It has never happened since.

[Osamasux]

19. You and me both.

Affectionately known as 'Word' where I used to hang, ages ago. ("Have you heard, what's the word? Thunderbird.") With that unique turpentine taste.

Or Wild Irish Rose, when you wanted to get sophisticated.

[hickman1937]

22. Thats the one

Thunderbird, first time I ever got drunk.

[Mayberry Machiavelli]

23. Oooh you are right, those are serious omissions. Sigh.

[patdem]

17. Used to love wine..and my mother used to say 'Whatever you do do NOT

give her wine.' If anyone has seen the movie 'Blind Date' you would know why I should not be given wine under any conditions. Truly and truly, after drinking wine there have been high speed chases, nights in jail and being lost in the subway in NY City at 3 in the AM (I am from VA)

That was back in my youth. Now I drink only beer when I drink. NO wine for me.

[Historic NY]

20. I think I'm going to be sick.........past experience has shown......

a el cheapo drunk is bad....very bad.....can you say dry heave bad.

[Mayberry Machiavelli]

32. Yes, I've had the bad el cheapo bender with Boone's Farm Strawberry Hill.

With all associated side effects and one or two unexpected ones. There was a bad New Year's underage drinking high school party, complete with blackout, from my misspent youth too, involving Man o' Manischewitz, but there were many other culprits too.

"It was so dark. It happened so fast. There were so many kinds of booze."

[fluffernutter]

21. and *whoosh* i'm back in HS at the dance, lol!

[Longgrain]

24. I've had more than a few bad nights...

with that "bag-in-a-box" stuff... ah good times.

[SmokingJacket]

39. We called it "headache in a bag." nt

[baldguy]

25. Montepulciano d"Abruzzo

There are some you can get for $4-5 a bottle.

(But I'm a snob.)

[northzax]

34. hah!

I was going to say Valpolicella!

[vixengrl]

26. Jug sangria isn't too bad--

I would have "adult punch" at some of my teenage parties made with that (I think it was King's). I believe you can still get Ripple, but sadly, Champale is a thing of the past. I used to drink Banker's Club gin, actually, but that's neither here nor there, and I was neither here nor there when I was drinking it.

[GOPisEvil]

27. Life's too short to drink bad liquor.

[LuCifer]

28. Boones Farm! BAAAAAARF!!!!!

My ex (Jen, if you're reading this, you're still a slut!) I swear used to use that frakin Boones Farm for basically a date-rape drug. After we broke up, I ran into a few of her ex's (yup, she got around! thank gods for CONDOMS!!!) and they said the same thing. Don't ask me how it works, cuz it's not like Boones Farm has all that great of an alcohol content!!!!!!!

[lgardengate]

29. None! Give me Jose Q Tequila,or Champagne,or Dry White Wine

OR Mexican beer (Corona) or give me nothing! :toast:

[antigone382]

30. I admit it: I'm drinking a glass of blackberry boone's farm right now.

Hey, I only recently began enjoying spirits. You gotta start somewhere. :)

[BikeWriter]

36. Not bad stuff...

for cheap wine!

[GingerSnaps]

31. Vine Rot?

Ice Wine is nice if you like a sweet German wine.

I like Australian Wines myself because of the climate that the grapes are grown in.

The only red/rose wine that I can stomach is Penfolds Beaujolais Nouveau.

Oh you said cheap...Trader Joes cheap $2.99 per bottle wine is ok to cook with and you can get it down if you chill it real well which you are not suppose to do but it helps. :D

[Z_I_Peevey]

37. Boone's Farm, for sentimental reasons.

Riding on the bus to a football game, sneaking cigarettes and slugs of Boone's Farm. Eating cold Chef-Boy-Ar-Dee ravioli directly from a can. Ah, good times, good times.

[cleofus1]

38. hey man!

christian brothers brandy!

[SmokingJacket]

41. My first drunk was on Manischevitz.

By accident. I was hanging out with some kosher friends during passover... and... WHOA! That's not grape juice, is it??

[Magrittes Pipe]

43. Thunderbird, ESQ

I love it more than I love you.