80s people-guess what I found in Sainsburys yesterday?

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Lambrusco! White, rose and red. I had to get a bottle for nostalgia's sake. (And its 2.95 a bottle) It was the pre alcho pop fizzy drink of choice. And the red was more sophisticated (ha, who am I kidding?)
Any other long lost drinks that scream big hair and shoulder pads?

I’m with you on the red Lambrusco OP! It was my tipple of choice from around 1984-6. Then I discovered Liebfraumilch.

Ooh ooh ooh ooh ooh ooh!

Tia Maria and orange juice aka Orange Smarties.

Surprisingly delicious.

Also Moscow mules.

Hex and Hooch more 90s, me and the DH used to drink it before we were married, so about 20 years ago.

My dad always got Sobranies at Christmas, I’d nick the purple ones, thought I was so cool! They were bloody awful, actually.

Red witches to get the party started but more often than not I’d drink G&T

I made myself very sick on Malibu so avoided anything fancy like that afterwards

We used to have Blastaways up the student union - it was castaway mixed with diamond white in a pint glass. Tasted like lilt, cost £2 and two pints got you absolutely twatted. Excellent stuff.

We used to go down to the cheap offie, buy a few bottles of Mad Dog 20 20 (kiwi and banana flavour), thunderbird fortified wine, and cider. We’d mix it up in the cleanest washing up bowl, add a carton of pineapple juice then neck it straight out of the bowl with straws before heading out.

How any of us survived I really don’t know.

Has anyone mentioned Reef yet?

I'm sure it used to come in a dumpy conical bottle, a bit like the old Ski yoghurt pots, but all the pictures I can find are of a proper bottle! Maybe I'm imagining it

Ahhh I remember Taboo, I liked it mixed with this weird Schweppes mixer that was pink, I can’t remember the name of it. Russchian maybe?

I also drank Merrydown cider, and Metz (didn’t they have a really creepy advert?).

We didn’t drink wine at uni, just pints of snakebite and black for a quid. You could have a great night for a fiver - a pound to get into the SU bop, 3 pints at a pound each and a pound for your curried chips on the way home.

Thought I was really classy on the nights I could afford K cider instead of the usual rotgut. Remember drinking cinzano out of my friend's parents' drinks cabinet when they were out. The best alcohol was the free sort!

Just looked and amazon sell taboo (and a blue version)

I always have Noilly Prat in, I cook with it a lot, wine and herbs in one handy splash!

VP Wine
Pomagne

I feel sick now...

Malibu and coke for me in the 90’s - after my initiation to alcoholnwith cheap cider. 60p a half in the Irish Club. They let our sixth form have parties there. Oh what a dive

Peach Concorde- that was it! Sold in 1 litre bottles as I recall

I lived near a Concorde factory (not a vineyard - a factory). The CEO might have been sent a postcard of a grape once, but that was the nearest Concorde ever got to actual wine.

I like this Amazon review of Concorde:

I just love a glass of peach Concorde to unwind after a hard day at work. The aromas remind me of biting into a zesty peach and in no way of puking after drinking two bottles at an under 18 disco.

Archers and Lemonade.

Just thinking about it makes me feel sickly...all that sugar, it’s amazing I didn’t end up with more filings.

Malibu and OJ.

Jux cheese footballs
Exactly where are they?

I was ill for days when I was 17 after too many Screwdrivers topped off with a Malibu and coke for good measure...I literally lost the whole of Christmas 1981...after that I stuck to Babycham or Pernod and moussec.
I worked in a bank back then and on our lunch breaks on a Friday, we’d go accross to a new video/wine bar that had just opened, have chicken and chips in the basket and a couple of Cider and blacks....then trundle off back to work
I’m 54 now and my drinking days are well and truly over!!

Noilly Pratt is the only vermouth worth using in a martini. I remember me and my two best mates at uni deciding to get dressed up and going for cocktails one Friday. They bombed up in tuxes. And we only drank the driest of martinis with noilly Pratt. (Even though I was more the blue lagoon type of girl) The fatal flaw in our pretentious wankery Dream of being on a Bryan ferry album cover, was that we hadn't eaten, so we were mortal.
Snake bite only banned by landlords because it stunk, fucked up the glasses and made people pissed twice as quick.
Global hyper colour was 90s (because dsis bought ds one for his 3rd birthday from that there London. We were agog.
Ooo death by chocolate. And who remembers carrot cake being called Passion Cake?

YY To NP in dry martinis, you only have to wave the bottle over the glass of gin though!
YY TO passion cake, so much nicer than carrot cake and the colour changing tee shirts being 90s.
Those were the days when Malibu was on optics in pubs!

I didn’t ever really try Metz I don’t think, but I do remember my mum absolutely hated the tv ad for it with the weird puppets and the voice going “beware the judderman my dear, when the moon is fat”!
I used to drink pints of snakebite (classy), or Diamond Blush when my friends and I were feeling fancy.
When dh and I got married in 1990 my mum took my drink and tipped it into a plant or something every time I turned my back - I should probably thank her for that, thinking back - they were double southern comfort and lemonades that people kept buying me!

I was a big fan of brandy and Babycham. Which I even drank at office lunchtime pub visits because I was too young to know better

Castaway + Diamond White = Blastaway ✔️

We went to a v posh brunch on holiday this year where we were served Mimosas. Taste just like Blastaway

Genuinely curious: how do Snakebites fuck up the glasses?