CONFESS!!!! What was your cheap drunk of choice back in High School/College

[LynneSin]

I actually went through a 2 month period of Mad Dog binging my freshman year in college. I couldn't believe I could get a quick drunk off of something that was $2 a jug.

It only takes one night hugging the porcelain god to realize why they practically give that stuff away

:cry:

[bicentennial_baby]

1. Zima

:puke:

[racaulk]

47. I loved Zima back in the day!

Splash some Grenadine in there, and it was fairly...ummm...tolerable.

But I couldn't stomach it now if you paid me to. The same with Ramen noodles.

:puke:

[Kerrytravelers]

66. ZZZZZZZZZ IIIIIIIIIIIIIII MMMMMMMMMMMMM AAAAAAAAAAAAAA !!!!

I was heard to hollar this in the dorm hallways on a good night. I did love my Zima. I could hear the clinking of the bottles and suddenly, a smile appeared on my face. :D

I saw some in the store yesterday. I didn't even know they still made Zima. :shrug:

[JTG of the PRB]

75. Right on!!!

Zima was the beverage of choice for myself and my friends for half of junior year. I had a Zima for the first time since them a few months ago and I wondered what I ever saw in it to begin with... :puke:

[bicentennial_baby]

111. It coincided with the release of Crystal Pepsi, which

made for good cover at boarding skool. Just walking around campus with our bottles of Crystal Pepsi, yup. :rofl:

[Indi Guy]

107. I'm an ex-Zima guy

(but I still have a skin problem)

[La Lioness Priyanka]

113. i am so embarrassed to admit this, but a drank a lot of zima first semester freshman year.

[redqueen]

2. Beer?

I hardly drank till I was in my mid twenties. And then it was mostly just beer... and occasionally the ill-advised shots of whatever someone else was buying.

[redqueen]

64. Oops... beer of choice was Milwaukee's Best.

Or whatever was goin for $1 at the bar.

[AlCzervik]

3. Haffenreffer and Reunite aka "Ruin ur nite".

[MissMillie]

4. Haffenreffer!

aka "Green Death"

yep... and those bottle caps got harder and harder to decipher after about 5 or 6.

[AlCzervik]

6. yup, thats what we used to call it too. Nasty business Haffenreffer.

[SallyMander]

26. Is Haffenreffer from RI?

My grandma used to work at a museum with the same name...

[AlCzervik]

27. i have no idea.

[jpak]

59. Haffenreffer AKA "Green Death"

:beer:

:puke:

and then there was Maximus Super, Ripple and Bali Hai

:puke: :puke: :puke:

:evilgrin:

[DBoon]

93. We called Rainier Ale "green death"

and despite my posting about being a wine snob, I really liked it

[av8rdave]

5. There were a few over those young/stupid years

When I was in Jr High, it was purple passion, made with Vodka, Everclear and Wyler's grape drink mix. It could cause one wicked hangover.

First beer? Why, none better than Pabst Blue Ribbon.

My college girlfriend and I actually thought that T.J. Swann's Easy Nights fine apple wine was classy stuff. Skiing just wasn't skiing without a bota bag of that tucked in your parka!

[AllegroRondo]

7. In my Army days,

In Korea, we could get Milwaukee's Best for $3 a case.

But for a REALLY cheap drunk, Korean Soju was about $1 a liter.

[Kali]

8. 151 or any rum, PBR, Miller bottles.

[Heidi]

9. TJ Swan.

:puke:

[zabet]

22. Been there,

drank that :puke: is right

And malt duck :puke:

and Boone's Farm :rofl:

[Heidi]

23. Vicious hangovers, all.

And there's a special place in hell for the male friend who advised me, "Drink TONS of icy cold water to cure a cheap wine hangover." :grr:

[zabet]

28. Yes...

a few mornings of selling cars through the
porcelin phone :puke: <----buuuuiiiiccckks!!!

Icy water just makes you dunk again, at least
that is what it does to me.
:spray:

[Heidi]

32. Yep. That's what it did to me.

But I only had to attend my 8 a.m. political theory class _stone drunk_ one time before I learned that ice water is NOT a cure for a cheap-wine hangover. :rofl: :spray:

[SacredCow]

10. I remember drinking this stuff....

It was fairly potent, as I recall. I don't remember gagging on the taste, but what do you know about taste at 18 (and younger)? Like the OP, the aftermath of Cisco made you realize what a HUGE mistake you made in your decision to consume this crap.

On edit- Yeah, they were potent- supposedly 20% alcohol content. It ain't your daddy's wine cooler....

[Ryano42]

11. From Hell I give you...Malt Duck.

Essentially grape or apple flavored Malt Liquor.

Death in a bottle...:puke: Something from the 80's that thankfully has been scrubbed from the collective memory...:scared:

[Jeff In Milwaukee]

61. Thanks for reviving that vomitous memory

Red Grape Malt Duck -- a Heileman's product, if I remember correctly. But there's a lot about that era I don't remember correctly.

[Hobarticus]

139. Always a crowd-pleaser at football games...fits inside a glove!

Pass that bad boy up and down the row, EVERYBODY took a dip of the Duck.

[Connonym]

12. 10 cent beer night at the Palms

good times

[SacredCow]

13. I give you the evil quintet....

http://www.bumwine.com/

And I've had 'em all!

[unsavedtrash]

40. What's the word?

Thunderbird!

Right there with you.

[SteppingRazor]

14. I never went as cheap as Mad Dog. Even in high school, my drink was Southern Comfort...

But I couldn't drink the stuff after a few years in college. All that syrupy stuff (SoCo, Rumplemintz, Goldschlager, Jagermeister, etc.) just grosses me out now.

In college, I was mostly a beer drinker. But if I drank booze, I generally went with Jack Daniel's.

[LynneSin]

29. To this day I have chills of horror run thru my body when I smell SoCo

It was a sad and dangerous night and I woke up to some nasty mess the next morning.

And that's all I'm going to say about SoCo - the liquor brewed from the bladder of Satan

[Drum]

30. couldn't agree more!

just a whiff of it makes my guts roll.

[zingaro]

15. Milwaukee's Best aka "the Beast"

Thankfully I never had to endure the MD 20/20 hangover, though I was stunned witness to it a few times. It looked so painful that I just stuck to beer.

[KatyMan]

109. same here...

My brother and I for years would give each other a 12 pack of Milwaukee's Best for Christmas. This was after, of course, we could both afford better.
Although MB isn't that bad a beer for cheap beer.

[Inchworm]

16. Anything cheap

Old Milwakee, 20/20, Corn Liquor, 5-star wine, bootleg qualudes, homegrown, Boone's Farm, and more I can't remember.

I looked up the 5 star because I couldnt remember if we just called it that or if it was a brand name. No luck.

:yoiks::tinfoilhat:

[Bennyboy]

17. Southern Comfort and peppermint Schanppes....

The girls love the schnappes (and still do).

[zingaro]

21. oh schnapps...

I loved schnapps until the butterscotch variety and I had a very bad night together. After that the schnapps love was gone.

Still is, actually, so many years later.

[AlCzervik]

31. i had one really bad experience with Schanppes in high school and i have never been able

to drink it since then.

[seemunkee]

18. Mickey's Big Mouth

or Slo Gin
What the Hell was I thinking?

[meegbear]

19. Lowenbrau

Yum!

[Drum]

20. in northern WV, it was

Stroh's beer, or Genessee Cream Ale, or Mickey's Big Mouths....

:9

[zabet]

24. Miller Ponies

Anyone?

[Heidi]

34. Hahaha!

YEP. At least you're safe drinking water the next morning after Miller Ponies. :rofl: :spray:

[Generic Brad]

80. Not if you drink 32 of them

:toast: :beer: :puke: :hangover:

[flvegan]

25. Everclear or Rumple Minze.

Keystone Beer was a fave too. Kept "the Huffenruffer ale" in my fridge too, damnable Beastie Boys.

[MrCoffee]

33. whatever gallon jug of tequila $5 would buy

[cloudbase]

35. Boone's Farm

Annie Green Springs

both around 79 cents a quart back then. Quantity has a quality of its own.

Edit to add cheap beer: Tech, Stoney's, Duquesne, Schmidt's, Iron City.

[catmandu57]

60. Boone's Farm

The smell of apples make me wretch to this day.

[Zephyrbird]

101. You took the words right out of my mouth!!

Oh the old Boone's Farm. Chug a lug lug.

:puke:

[raccoon]

116. Same here. I remember the room tilting.....I don't miss that at all. nt

[Z_I_Peevey]

130. Strawberry Hill.

While burning strawberry incense.

Wow, was I cool.

[porphyrian]

36. Short answer: whatever I could afford and get my hands on.

Long answer: The most usual suspects, in no particular order, were Boone's Farm (often on sale), Milwaukee's Best ("The Beast", the change-counting default), Natural Light (though never by choice), Mickey's Big Mouth (my signature for a while), and occasionally 32oz bottles of whatever malt liquor was on sale (Florida didn't sell 40oz due to some stupid law that may still be in effect).

[Beer Snob-50]

37. carling black label

the stuff was terrible.

[unsavedtrash]

38. Schaeffer Beer and Wild Irish Rose

The beer was .99 cents and the wine was $2.
Had to give them up when I started waking up in places like strangers yards, roofs, and under a train car.
My high school years are a bit of a blur.
:smoke:

[Aristus]

39. Wine coolers.

It was the Eighties...

[Arugula Latte]

58. Yep. Me too. Bartles and Jaymes were my best friends for a while.

:)

[bigwillq]

41. Old English

40s and Boone's Farm.

[Fire Walk With Me]

42. Grolsch.

But I unfortunately imbibed Red,White,andBlow, Falstaff, Buckhorn, and other atrocities such as Miller and Budweiser (and Schlitz, etc.) when nothing good was around.

And the hard stuff, of course.

[maveric]

43. Genesee Ale.

99 cents a six-pack and work almost every penny of that.

[madinmaryland]

44. My god! That stuff was horrible MD 20/20!1!

Nasty hangovers. That and the boone's farm stuff.

:puke:

[SeattleGirl]

45. Mad Dog and Boone's Farm.

Just the thought of that makes me gag now.

[lost-in-nj]

46. Rolling Rock, Boones Farm

and Blackberry Brandy :puke: :puke:


lost

[Xithras]

48. Vodka Kool-Aid

Yes, exactly as it sounds.

We would make Screwdrivers whenever possible, but OJ was expensive. Anyone could afford a Kool-Aid packet and cheap store brand Vodka!

The Cherry and Lemon Kool-Aid's actually taste pretty damned good with Vodka. Watermelon? Not so much.

[LynneSin]

53. Our sorority drink was Lemonade and Vodka

I'm not sure how I got home from Summer Fling my freshman year - I was totalled

[wicket]

49. 40oz

[trackfan]

50. Tyrolia

A white jug "wine" that tasted like soured 7Up

[jakefrep]

51. OE 800

OE's The Name, Eight-Ball's the Game!

[Tafiti]

52. Several.

High school: Vodka - McCormick's, Skol; Rum - Captian Morgan; randoms - Firewater, Goldschlager, Rumpleminze, and beer.

College: Beer - Natural Light, Miller High Life; Wine - Carlo Rossi (obscene, I know); the advent of Jager bombs.

[BrotherBuzz]

54. Red Mountain - $1.29 a gallon

Damn, I dropped that habit quick, and switched to Lucky Lager stubbies.

[Cabcere]

55. Not really cheap...

(and at 4-5% alcohol by volume, not exactly a quick route to intoxication either)...but my friends and I love Woodchuck hard cider. :beer: :9 Every Sunday you can get a mug (about half a pitcher) of the stuff for around $5.50 at one of the local bars, and I'm pretty much of a lightweight so it only takes about a mug and a half to get me pretty buzzed. :crazy:

[GalleryGod]

56. Italian Swiss Colony Mus-ca-tel !

"the horror...the horror ":puke:

[datasuspect]

57. middle school/freshman HS - md 20/20

and any of these beers:

pearl
carling's black label
schaeffer
old style
point
miller lite

[jus_the_facts]

62. Ice Man 40oz...

....chased Jim Beam shots with it once too...have mercy. :puke:

[Norwood]

63. Vodka and Natural Ice usually

and I freakin HATE vodka! It was always so cheap though. It was after high school but a few years ago a friend of mine bought this cheap bottle of vodka, was only 2 bucks. Man that stuff was nasty! Tasted like rubbing alcohol smells, it probably was actually. It stayed in his fridge for a good year or so till someone finally held their nose and drank it.

[SPKrazy]

65. Whatever You Had

:P

actually beer was the cheapest and easiest to get


sloe gin?

:puke:

cherry vodka

:puke:

:rofl:

left out everclear and bacardi 151

:puke:

[Javaman]

67. Junior high: Boonsfarm. Highschool: Jack Daniels.

College: Vodka.

now, nothing. LOL

[Initech]

68. Pabst Blue Ribbon

It was and still is my cheap beer of choice. I'd much rather drink a PBR than the swill that Bud/Coors/Miller call beer.

[ChavezSpeakstheTruth]

69. Olde English 800

[tjwash]

70. I always liked me a little "night train". Sober to Stupid with no stops in between.

nt

[Release The Hounds]

71. Kingsbury and the 'Beast'

[Broken_Hero]

72. uh

chocolate milk, and milk......I was a goodie two shoes in HS....

[skyblue]

125. Shout Out to my fellow Goody 2 Shoes. Me also. Do ya 1 better ...

Also quite the nerd.

[Broken_Hero]

127. I've always been a nerd

and thanks, :toast: to another goodie two shoes...I didn't start drinking until I was out of college anyways...

[DarkTirade]

73. Man, I feel so innocent compared to all you guys...

I never even tasted alcohal until my parents let me have wine with thanksgiving dinner when I was 18. :P

And now I brew my own... go figure.

[Rabrrrrrr]

74. Ah.... her name was Laura.

:blush:

[QueenOfCalifornia]

76. Mine was always

Dino:

[opiate69]

77. Beer, Wild Irish Rose and Everclear..

The Wild IRish Rose was the only thing available from bootleggers on Sundays in the area of Eastern Connecticut where I lived in the late 80s. Nasty, nasty stuff.

[ldf]

78. okay, this was strictly for the ease of drinking

tang and vodka.

all you needed was water.

awful. :puke:

but easy to carry with you.

[TheMightyFavog]

104. I called that an astronaut screwdriver!

Horrible, but a fun name.

[likesmountains 52]

79. Everclear and koolaid...

[Lautremont]

81. Extra Old Socks

Properly called Extra Old Stock, but the colloquial name for this extra-strong Canadian brew is more accurate.

[Wapsie B]

82. Old Mil, Blatz, Schlitz, PBR were the beverages of choice.

I can remember getting pitchers of that stuff real cheap at times.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

83. 151-proof rum mixed with cherry kool-aid.

Called Ralph on the big white phone after that...

[njdemocrat106]

84. Ballantine Ale

Cheap, but not horrendous (IMO, anyway).

Runners-up: Schaefer and Pabst

[abbeyco]

85. Pink Champale or California Coolers

The thought of either of those now is enough to make me :puke:

Oh, and Matilda Bay or whatever that imitation wine stuff was called.

[Adsos Letter]

86. Boone's Farm Strawberry Hill...

about the same effect on the system as MD 20/20

:woohoo: then :puke:

[RushIsRot]

87. Coors, mostly.

[philosophie_en_rose]

88. Strawberry Hill or 2 buck Chuck for fancy occasions.

:)

[Bennyboy]

89. Buffalo Beer!

Sacramento's home brewer back in the 70's. They had a small brewery and sold the cheapest beer. Once we bought so much beer we could not even find it one night!

[LostInAnomie]

90. Crystal Palace Gin

$3.50 - $4.00 a fifth. You just better not have plans for the whole next day though.

[PassingFair]

91. What, nobody else was into the SLOE GIN?

We put that crap into EVERYTHING!

It didn't need to "fizz" to make us fuzzy!

[DBoon]

94. girls in my high school would drink it

this was a catholic school in the mid 1970's

[PassingFair]

95. I graduated in '77.

...pegged me!

[DBoon]

92. High School - Boone's Farm

I refused to touch beer - that was for jocks

College - whatever cheap jug wine the local supermarket was selling

[Bravo Zulu]

96. We’d start singing, whilst getting wasted!

One of the songs, all I can remember of it, I think you kill a few million brain cells every time you get drunk?


Mine eyes have seen the glory of the coming of the lord
He was comin round the corner in a black and yellow ford
One hand was on the throttle and the other on a bottle of
Pabst blue ribbon beer

[ellisonz]

97. Anything we could buy/steal.

[Kutjara]

98. Any bottle of wine that cost less than $3.00/gallon and came with a screw top.

I went to boarding school and corkscrews were banned by the Stasi who ran the dorms, so I developed quite a taste for, shall we say, unpretentious vintages. My purchasing criteria ran thus:

(1) Volume of wine
(2) Alcohol content
(3) Price
(4) Ease of opening
(5) Taste.

Awww, who am I kidding? Taste was never a factor. Two huge belts and all wine tastes the same anyway. Once the gag reflex has been anesthetized, it's party time!

[WCGreen]

99. Wild Turkey....

Or a twelve pack of Little Kings...

[Jeff In Milwaukee]

117. Wild Turkey was your CHEAP drink?

Where? On your yacht?!

[WCGreen]

131. I had a job in college and I also bartended for a lot of politcal

fundraisers...

Crank an awful lot of the Turkey...

[Jeff In Milwaukee]

133. Well, you were in Cleveland...

Where there were a lot more Democrats.

Up until two years ago, I lived in Cincinnati. The Dems there were so poor that we were drinking Hudy De-Lite!

[WCGreen]

142. Do you remember the big plastic jugs of Little Kings...

It was unpasteurized and had to be shipped and kept cold...

[BlackVelvet04]

100. Rolling rock, moonshine

or Kessler bourbon.

[silvershadow]

102. Little Kings.

[Rosie1223]

121. Ditto that

Campus bar special 3/$1.

Good Times, Good times.

[TheMightyFavog]

103. Point Specail...

Otherwise known as "blue bullets."

Actually decent for a cheaper beer. They make some decent seasonal varieties.

The only downside, is that Point products give you farts that are classified as weapons of mass destruction.

[NickB79]

105. The best cheap drunk I knew was named Mary

Loved that girl, man she was hot :9

[The Traveler]

114. Mine was Iris

Yow. Better than wine ... :)

[MrSlayer]

106. 8-Ball.

A 40 of Old English 800 and a nickle bag of weed was a major party back in 8th grade. $15 went a long way back then.

[Guava Jelly]

108. tj swan

mellow nights

[QMPMom]

110. Boone's Farm Strawberry Hill. n/t

[Fox Mulder]

112. Milwaukee's Best aka "The Beast"

I cannot drink a single can of that shit now without wanting to throw up. But back in college (two years ago), I could drink a whole case of it in one night.

[LynneSin]

119. In college it was Milwakukee's Best Light

Way to take really bad beer and make it even worse.

Actually my cheap beer of choice in college was Schaeffers - I could get a case of 16ozs for $5.99

[Fox Mulder]

123. Wow, they make The Beast in light form?

Must've been awful! I can't even imagine what it'd taste like!

:puke:

[zingaro]

120. whoa I am so having a deja vu...

That is my exact answer from above - I mean word for word.

If you say that you fashioned headwear out of the empty 12-pack cardboards, I'll have to pm you to see if we went to college together :rofl:

[Fox Mulder]

122. I didn't even notice that until now.

That's weird. Must be the full moon or something.

No, I don't think I ever made headgear out of the cartons. At least not that I can remember. :shrug:

[Jeff In Milwaukee]

115. My favorite adolescent beer story...

My best friend when I was in middle school was a kid who lived out in the country with a long, dirt-road driveway leading to his house from the county blacktop. Running right across his driveway was a railroad track. Now the house was in the country, but close enough to town (and the rail yards) that trains would often stop dead on the track while blocking his driveway.

So one day I'm going to see him and there's a train across the tracks. As luck would have it, there was an boxcar sitting squarely on the driveway, and it's empty with both doors open. So leave my bike by his mailbox and I jump in one side and jump out the other. About five box cars down is my friend John, who is busily working one of the metal seals on the boxcar door. These were strips of thin metal that locked the boxcar door handle in place, keeping nosy kids like ourselves from getting inside.

But because there was a little play in this one, John can bend it back and forth, back and forth, really fast in hopes that he can get it to snap. Now bear in mind that the locomotive is a mile away and the caboose is around a bend - so nobody can see what he's doing.

The thing snaps. We're in! But just as it snaps, the whole train lurches forward. It's going into the yard, and in just a few seconds, the caboose is going to come round the bend. I tell John we'd better get out of here before we get caught. But John has been working too long on this little project to just let it go. He slides open the door and jumps in.

A second later his head pops out the door. His face looks like he's just had a vision of the Holy Ghost. "It's full of fucking beer!" he yells. Did I mention we were thirteen? But now the train is moving.

I run like hell to get out of sight, and crouch in the tall weeds. From up on the rail bed, I can see cases of beer flying out the boxcar. They're long-neck bottles, so most aren't surviving the trip. John jumps out at the last minute and runs for cover.

The train gets safely by, and we go to inspect our booty. Of the five cases John threw from the train, only about a case worth didn't shatter on impact. But we've got A CASE OF BEER.

It's Schlitz. And it's warm.

But we don't care. Because we're thirteen and we have a whole fucking case of beer.

[Beausoir]

118. Great story!

:toast:

[Kali]

134. great story

kids these days are so freaking deprived

[Burma Jones]

124. Schmidts and Rolling Rock

[hyphenate]

126. I never had a cheap drink in high school

My favorite was Cutty Sark Scotch Whiskey, and that ain't cheap! I stayed with the scotch for about two years, then went to screwdrivers, and then finally to Kahlua and Strawberry Daiquiris. (No, I didn't mix the Kahlua in the Daquiris!)

I basically don't drink anymore at all, but a Daiquiri once a year is about all I drink at all.

[Zavulon]

128. Stroh's

I haven't seen it sold anywhere in years.

[SKKY]

129. Mad Dog, Night Train, and Milwaukee's Best...

...yep, didn't drink much else for the better part of 2 years.

[Phillycat]

132. Lager was still cheap then.

[rbnyc]

135. Don't make that face--It's Shaef's!

Shaefer's.

[TrogL]

136. Kressman wine or Black Velvet rye

[ceile]

137. Stawberry Hills

I get a whiff of the stuff now and immediately gag.

[slutticus]

138. Skol or Hannah & Hogg Vodka

Came in plastic 1.75 Liter jugs.

At least the Hannah & Hogg was charcoal filtered.


:puke:

[Ramsey]

140. Bourbon

Straight bourbon, chugged from the bottle, no adornments.

[sasquatch]

141. Bud Ice

[Roon]

143. A liter out of my Mother's box wine

She never knew...