CONFESS!!!!!! What was your bumwine of choice when you didn't know any better

[LynneSin]

Since we all seem to have a bumwine thread today - let's see which was the bumwine of choice for the young and once crazy of DUers.

Late freshman year first semister I discovered Mad Dog - I was at the liquor store with my friend and was amazed to see this giant jug of wine for $2.29!

I think I went thru the Mad Dog phase for about 2 months until one truly horrendous hangover/puke experience.

That stuff is so nasty that when we took my leftover jug to a hotel party, the maids stole the good stuff but left that behind. Even they new better. When we left the hotel we left the jug behind.

[MiddleFingerMom]

1. My older brother told me about "Trashcan Parties"...

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... at college in the early-to-mid-sixties, where you brought a cheap bottle of
wine or two and poured it into a trashbag-lined trashcan with an unbelievable
amount of cut-up fruit in it.
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The following morning, any survivors ate the fruit for breakfast.
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I know, I know... it didn't sound good to me THEN, either.
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And I think I was still in grade school.
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[LynneSin]

4. We'd do it with the bathtubs in the college dorms.

All the college dorms at school where I attended had one bathtub per community bathroom.

Yes we all did crazy things.

Mind you at Girl Scout Camp we did something similiar with soup. At this day camp, there was always one day that every girl was suppose to bring a can of soup and then we'd dump all those cans of soup into one big pot and cook. It was the NASTIEST thing because you can almost guarentee that one girl would bring something really disgusting. One year I tried to commit everyone just bring a can of chicken noodle soup but we still got weird nasty flavors.

[EvolveOrConvolve]

90. My Boy Scout troop did that every year

I always brought Split Pea with Ham to give the soup that special diarrhea green color that all good soups should have.

[Mopar151]

10. In the NH state college system, that's called "Screech"

Probably cuz of the noises from the restroom later in the evening.

[av8rdave]

19. We used to have Purple Passion parties

I think some people called it purple Jesus. Basically it was Wyler's grape drink mix, a little water, Vodka and Everclear.

Good stuff.

Ah, yes, the high school days...

[muffin1]

21. Grain Alcohol.

Good times...:scared:

Sometimes I'm amazed that I'm still alive.

[av8rdave]

22. Likewise!

The times I can remember were pretty good, it seems.

I like to think the times I can't remember must have been even better!

[jmowreader]

39. We did that in the Army, but we didn't line the can like a bunch of wimps

We weren't STUPID, you understand--we had a can we'd bought new and used for nothing but Holy Water parties. Of course, we never actually TOLD anyone that.

[MiddleFingerMom]

45. I've made "kitty litter cakes" in brand new litter boxes...

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... much the same as you -- never actually CONFIRMED that it was a kitty litter
box (and kitty litter scoop) used JUST for that purpose.
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Google for them, if you've never seen them.
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The "litter" is vanilla Oreos whirred up in a blender and about a quarter of
the crumbles dyed green (like chlorophyll granules). It tops the "cake" --
which in mine was cubes of cake mixed with pudding for moistness.
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HILARIOUS -- and definitely lets out your inner child when you start getting
your artistic freak on with the Tootsie Rolls.
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Psssst... draping one over the edge like Fluffy was in too much of a hurry to
leave is a CROWNING touch. Not to mention flattening one into a circle and
using a pencil eraser to make a pawprint in it.
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You may be thinking that I spent WAY too much time designing my cakes.
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You may be right.
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Made it for dessert when I went to the "intro to the family" dinner when I moved
to Atlanta to live with my then-girlfriend.
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Yeah, it was risky... but they absolutely LOVED it.
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Except for their 13- or 14-year-old daughter -- who thought we were ALL
dis -- gus -- ting.
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[EvolveOrConvolve]

92. I remember Jungle Juice parties

Everyone would bring 1 item of hard alcohol and 1 item of non-alcoholic liquid. The rules for the non-alcoholic beverages were "Anything Goes" - including milk, kool aid, juice, etc.

We'd mix it all together then get bombed.

[Throd]

2. Not wine, but Popov Vodka

[LynneSin]

6. *** cringes ***

THE HORROR - it burns IT BURNS!!!

[Mopar151]

9. Really, dude.....

A quick clue - never buy drinkin' liquor packaged in plastic. Some of that skull-crackin hangover is from the chemicals the alky leached out of the bottle. And some of that discount hooch is not bottled where it is "distilled", and I don't think they clean the tank trailer so good from whatever they hauled before.
If it comes in plastic - it's for washin' parts or cleanin' paintbrushes!

[geardaddy]

11. Us too.

[PRETZEL]

3. Whatever we could get our hands on,

whether it be the 'Bird, Mad Dog, or Boones Farm.

We didn't care. It only depended on how much money we could muster up.

[Lucy Goosey]

5. Black Tower

I bought Black Tower when I was still young enough to be influenced by the "hey, cool bottle!" factor. I was over it before I turned 20.

I was also fond of cheap white zinfandels.

I don't actually have any hangover horror stories about them, though - I've always tolerated wine really well. Hard liquors have always been my nemesis that way.

[dysfunctional press]

82. same here.

i've been alcohol-free for over a decade now, due to the massive pain meds i have to take for a chronic condition...but when i did drink, i preferred scotch to wine.

however- my years in fine-dining allowed me to learn enough about wine(s) to make good choices and recommendations.

[libodem]

7. Boone's farm

Strawberry Hill.....:P

[Mopar151]

12. "Boone's Farm Regional" was my high school n/t

[nomorenomore08]

20. Same here. But I was more of a daquiri man.

I remember one time in high school, chasing a half-pint of Bacardi with a bottle of Boone's strawberry daquiri. Let's just say I completely ruined my white sneakers...

[WinkyDink]

42. Another vote here!

[blueamy66]

77. Me too

We'd buy it at the drive thru at a south Chandler liquor store when we were 16.

Those were the days...

[EvolveOrConvolve]

93. Yes!

Although I think it's just called Boones wine now - they removed the Farm from the name sometime in the 20 years since I drank it.

The Strawberry Hill was yummy - especially mixed with fruit juice.

[Iggo]

8. Spañada...

...and a valium.

Good times.

[pink-o]

36. Oh, Dude! I remember playing "chug-a-lug" with a jug!

Of Spanada, that is! I thought I was the only one who was old enough to have sucked down that particular poison!!

[UTUSN]

13. Mad Dog Twenty Twenty, plus it was good for killing cockroaches en masse!1

That is to say, if a swig or so was left over in a glass or open bottle or whatever, in the morning there would be a SLEW of dead drunk roaches carcasses in the pool!1

Whups, TMI TMI !!1

[PoliticalOne65]

14. Mad Dog 20/20

[tonekat]

15. 2002 Chateauneuf du Pape - what was I thinking? N/T

[Richard Steele]

16. Manishevits (Yes, I know I misspelled it)

That stuff went down like soda pop,
which was a big plus with those of us
who had never consumed anything stronger than soda pop.

Also, does anyone here remember "Malt Duck"?
That crap was popular in my teenage years, back
in the 70s/80s transition era when our main source of alcohol
was our parents' garage coolers.

[LynneSin]

25. I remember Cold Duck

I use to buy that all the time AND I would mix it with Popov's Vodka for an extra kick.

[Mopar151]

43. Sadly, I do remember "Malt Duck"

Illness/buzz ratio waaayy out of whack... Kinda like "Haffenreffer" malt liquor - which came with a rebus indide the bottlecap. If you could solve the rebus, you did'nt need no more.

[Burma Jones]

17. Boone's Farm Strawberry Hill and Green Apple, the neighborhood Moms just kept buying it

8th Grade through somewhere around the end of my Sophomore Year, then it was pretty much all Beer - Stroh's, Schmidt's, and Heineken (when I had money)....

[av8rdave]

18. This is an embarrassing confession

My college gf and I thought that T.J. Swann's Easy Nights fine apple wine was the stuff! We never went skiing without a bota full of it.

Amazing what good skiers we became after a few swallows of that!

[Blue_In_AK]

23. Red Mountain back in the hippie days. n/t

[retread]

30. Part of the reason those days are so faded in memory! n/t

[madamesilverspurs]

31. Gawwwwd yes.

Late '60s, LA beach cities -- green glass gallon jugs, five bucks got a couple of them and change. Slept on the beach many nights, still amazes me that I made it through that phase.

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[Blue_In_AK]

54. It was a bargain, that's for sure.

[A-Schwarzenegger]

63. Chipped a tooth on a jug of Red Mountain. Now 23 years sober.

:*

[retread]

75. I hear you. Can remember hanging out and someone would throw a nickel or dime on the floor. When

the count reached $1.56 we had a gallon.
Never chipped a tooth but have scars and jail time fueled by Red Mountain.
Have abstained since 1979. When I look back closely on those years, I think, "What the hell was that guy thinking." I try not to do that too often as the past is immutable.

[Capn Sunshine]

83. yeah, but remember why?

1) jug was big, so you could put everything in it a shake it up. Acid, reds, mescaline, all of the above, you name it.
2) one stop shopping

[Kali]

24. apple hill for the first big puking drunk

but then I found 151 and it was all over with for the wine

[Quantess]

26. Livingston Burgundy

Doctor Livingston, I presume.

[carlyhippy]

27. Boones Farm, and I still like it hahah

:)

[trackfan]

28. Tyrolia

The 7-Up of "wine".

[retread]

29. Red Mountain Vin Rose. 1.50 per gallon. n/t

[Doc_Technical]

32. Pagan Pink Ripple.

Also
Bali Hai wine.
I remember commercials for this fine beverage featuring
Juanita Hall reprising her role as Bloody Mary talking
about the fruit in the wine "and they all together put 'em
and squeeze, squeeze. Ahh Bali Hai, you like?"

[KG]

33. as a HS freshman we'd spend weekday afternoons shoplifting Boones Farm

and AGS to have a supply for the weekend. easier to boost and stash than beer.

[Brother Buzz]

34. Not a bumwine but the jugiest of jugs wines - Red Mountain

$1.25 a gallon. The clear glass gallon jug hand a nice handle on it, too.

[Forkboy]

35. Never a wine guy. Southern Comfort on the other hand....

White Russians would fuel the night nicely as well. :)

[LynneSin]

38. I get nauseous just smelling SoCo

:scared:

And I use to drink that stuff like it was mother's milk

[Forkboy]

41. A lot of people say that.

I don't know, I never had a problem with it. My friends and I lived off the stuff (mixed with Mountain Dew it'll eat through a McDonald's cup in about an hour). The 100 proof stuff required a little more care, mind you, but the regular 80 proof stuff was yummy.

One time this guy we knew (he went by the name Buckethead...I don't know his real name...he had "Fuck You" tattooed on the INSIDE of his lower lip) showed up with two cases of SoCo Gallons....6 per case. No idea where he stole it from, but that was a nice month. :)

[MiddleFingerMom]

81. TOTALLY agree with you...

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New Year's Eve. 17 years old. Our parents agreed to buy us liquor if we promised
to stay in at Bill's house for the night.
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We wanted 100 proof Southern Comfort.
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A lot of it. And FAST, too.
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Still can't even whiff it without almost CACKin' a li'l bit in my mouth.

[pokerfan]

72. SoCo

Man, oh man, I can't believe I drank that crap in high school. What the hell was I thinking?

[GoddessOfGuinness]

37. Yago Sangria

"Yago" is reminiscent of the sound I'd make hurling it up.

[chromotone]

40. Thunderbird

KYYYYYRIST!!! After one such over indulgence, it nearly ruined my taste for wine.

I was on tour with a college concert band and we spent our last night in San Francisco. I remember going into a liquor store at the request of a couple who wanted some wine. The three of us were "partying" (although I think they were more interested in each other--I think they wanted to screw), so I offered to go get some. I was only 18 at the time but looked older. Anyway, I didn't know that much about wine so I looked at the stock to see what looked good. I noticed the expensive wine was all on the shelves, but the least expensive was in the cooler! I thought, "Wow, what luck. The least expensive wine is chilled!" I considered that a plus in making my purchase.

I bought a couple of bottles and went back to the hotel. I will never forget the reaction I got from guy. When I pulled the bottles out of the paper sack, he said, "Oh...Thunderbird..." I sensed hesitation in his voice and asked, "It's okay, isn't it?" He said something like, "Uh...yeah... I'll do..." We drank the bottles with yours truly downing one himself. Crap! What a night! I spent it on the bathroom floor of our room.

For years I couldn't even smell wine without getting a sickening feeling. That was some 40 years ago, and even today I really don't like sweet wine. :puke:

I don't know what happened to the couple. With me out of the way, they probably got to humping...

[Mopar151]

46. From the definitive website for bottled evil

http://www.bumwine.com/tbird.html
Look for the pigeon feces and you'll find this old bird. As soon as you taste this swill, it will be obvious that its makers cut every corner possible in its production to make it cheap. Self-proclaimed as "The American Classic," Thuderbird is Vinted and bottled by E&J Gallo Winery, in in Modesto, CA. Disguised like Night Train, the label says that it is made by "Thunderbird, Ltd." If your taste buds are shot, and you need to get trashed with a quickness, then "T-bird" is the drink for you. Or, if you like to smell your hand after pumping gas, look no further than Thunderbird. As you drink on, the bird soars higher while you sink lower. The undisputed leader of the five in foulness of flavor, we highly discourage driking this ghastly mixture of unknown chemicals unless you really are a bum. A convenience store clerk in Show Low, AZ once told me that only the oldest of stumbling indian drunks from the reservation buy Thunderbird. Avaliable in 750 mL and a devastating 50 oz jug.

The history of Thunderbird is as interesting as the drunken effects the one experiences from the wine. When Prohibition ended, Ernest Gallo and his brothers Julio and Joe wanted to corner the young wine market. Earnest wanted the company to become "the Campbell Soup company of the wine industry" so he started selling Thunderbird in the ghettos around the country. Their radio adds featured a song that sang, "What's the word? / Thunderbird / How's it sold? / Good and cold / What's the jive? / Bird's alive / What's the price? / Thirty twice." It is said that Ernest once drove through a tough, inner city neighborhood and pulled over when he saw a bum. When Gallo rolled down his window and called out, "What's the word?" the immediate answer from the bum was, "Thunderbird."


:evilgrin: :hippie: :party: An old friend was back in town, and she wanted some wine to put in the bong. A fine time was had, and we left the rest of the T-Bird in the back of the fridge. A few days later, my roommie's ne'r do well/teen queen cousin was hangin out, and I tossed her a few bucks to do the dishes and make the place look like humans lived there. That night, she said "What does a migrane feel like? All I had to drink was that half a bottle of wine that was in the fridge...."

[OrwellwasRight]

44. Boone's Farm Tickle Pink!!!!!

A now retired flavor. Today's high skooly girls don't know what they're missing.

:spray: :spray: :spray:

[Mopar151]

47. Our town drunk "Uncle Henry", called it "Pickle Tink" nt

[OrwellwasRight]

48. ROFL.

Not quite as appetizing sounding.

Although ralphing up pink puke wasn't necessarily appetizing either, but it happened a time or two. :puke:

How can you learn what your limits are if you don't exceed them?

[ChoralScholar]

49. Miller High Life

The 'Champagne' of Beers.

[blue neen]

50. Thundergrape.

It was a toxic mixture of Thunderbird and grape Kool-Aid, mixed in a college-dorm-standard metal trash can. There usually were some orange slices thrown in for "extra flavor".

:toast:

[Tuesday Afternoon]

51. Mateus

[blue neen]

52. When the wine was gone, you had to save the bottle,

and stick a candle in the top! :)

[Tuesday Afternoon]

53. oh yeah

:thumbsup:

[Hardrada]

60. We were drinking Mateus when we watched the Moon Landing.

Wow, man! I actually liked cold Mateus and someone got pissed at me at a party when he thought I had drunk his Mateus. Took awhile to straighten that out! Oh yeah, Mateus from Portugal.

[Blue_In_AK]

69. Mateus was the stuff we drank when we wanted to be high class.

(See my Red Mountain post above.) :rofl:

[Tuesday Afternoon]

70. I have never heard of Red Mountain ...

what did I miss :) :hi:

[Blue_In_AK]

74. Big green gallon jugs

that cost about five bucks and would keep a small party going for a while. I actually knew some speed freaks in Denver in 1968 who would shoot the stuff up when they couldn't get their hands on any meth.

[mulsh]

55. Algerian wine my dad got for @ 3 cases for $6.50.

At the time (1970's)Algeria was said to produce the world's rock bottom worst wine.

He made my brothers and me drink some when he got it so we'd know how putrid the stuff was. It was worse than either Cisco or Mad Dog and had quite the anti-freeze/grain alcohol after burn. He bought a bunch of cases because they were so cheap to use them to defer neighborhood kids from stealing the really good stuff in the back.He kept the cases in his garage/wine seller right up front. It worked. Neighbor kids would steal bottles every now & then but they never made it to the good stuff in the back.

I had a very brief fling with high octane Everclear. One 16 oz coke & everclear was enough for me.

My musical partner and his roommate concocted an Everclear cocktail: Everclear, Zoom, and Gatorade.

[LynneSin]

57. did your father think of trying a lock for on the liquor cabinet?

Seems a bit easier than lugging bad wine back from Algeria

BTW - I went thru my everlear phase - I would have jello shots all the time with Everclear.

[vixengrl]

56. I remember making "sangria punch" with Kings burgundy.

It was like, a gallon of wine and some amount of 7-up and some fruit punch--to hide the actual ass-taste of Kings Burgundy. But not-always-legal people at parties would drink it. I'd drink it. (But then, I've drank the bottom-shelf tequilas with names like "Zapatos", which I think translates as "shoe-filtered" and vodka that could also put a shine on your linoleum.))

[Mopar151]

59. Ahh, the "joys" of bottom shelf ta-kill-ya

"Two Fingers" looked, smelled, and tasted like old gasoline - leaded.

And there was "El Toro", with the little plastic sombrero on the cap. Word was, if you drank the bottle, the cap would fit your head.

[Aristus]

58. Cabernet in a box.

With a handy spigot! B-)

[MilesColtrane]

61. Malt Duck

Not even a bumwine.

But, I suppose you could call it a bum"wine".

I did actually try Ripple once...just once.

[WCGreen]

62. Riuniti Lambrusco

[shugah]

89. finally!

i thought i was going to have to read thru this whole thread, and then admit to "riuniti on ice, that's nice!"

admittedly, i developed that fine taste in college. in high school we drank beer or blackberry brandy. wtnf? (what the nasty fuck?)

[LostInAnomie]

64. Crystal Palace gin dumped into an orange Gatorade.

$6 would get me bombed off my ass.

[JCMach1]

65. Boone's Farm

and Milwaukee's Beast were the staples in mid-1980's Florida.

[rcrush]

66. St Ides Malt Liquor!

Mostly just because of the commercials. I learned my lesson though.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5-vVn3gBXZM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ELxJfRamYUY
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5vjN5JZUBBY
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X_jMUjCIRY0

[JVS]

73. Hell yeah!

[Call Me Wesley]

67. Frizzantino.

Ewwwww ... Sweet sparkly white wine. 1.5 liters for under $5.



Right up there with Mateus.

[JustABozoOnThisBus]

68. In Spain, we could get the bota filled with wine ladled from a barrel

the second bota-full didn't taste so bad.

It was not a budget-buster.

:hi:

[ChickMagic]

71. Boone's Farm Strawberry Hill

I puked a lot of that stuff up.

[geardaddy]

76. London Mist Gin

Cheapest stuff you could find in Upstate NY. 100 Proof.

[Inchworm]

78. I still don't know any better

On occasion I get a big bottle of what I call Richard's.

It must be purple and I cut it with cherry koolaid.



:+

[dugaresa]

79. I took a ride on the Night Train and nearly died, I experienced double vision

never again, I learned that lesson very well.

[Arkansas Granny]

80. Back in the late 60's & early 70's we were drinking Bali Hai and then

moved on to Boone's Farm. Later on we switched to Annie Greensprings and T.J. Swann. I can't say that any of them were any worse or any better than the rest.

[Kutjara]

84. Gallon jugs of whatever we could get for $1.99.

I went to a boarding school where possession of a corkscrew was a capital offense, so we had to make sure we bought our wine in screw top bottles. Inevitably, what we ended up with was blindingly cheap Liebfraumilch or Hock. It was a toss up between puking because we were drunk or puking because of the taste. Ahh, happy days.

[kimi]

85. Boone's Strawberry somethin or other when I was a young un

Later, Franzia Mountain Chablis in the box.

Blech to both now.

[triguy46]

86. 2 to choose from: Mateus or Blue Nun. Actually they were pretty good...

and worked wonders with dates.

[applegrove]

87. Entre Deux Lacs when I was in high school. We could drink across the river in

Quebec when we were 18.

[Initech]

88. PBR - $6.00 for a 12 pack.

[HipChick]

91. Thunderbird..

[Arugula Latte]

94. Bartles & Jaymes and California Coolers wine coolers

Hey, we were girls, it was the mid 80s, and we were in college.