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[Olliebeak]

C'mon girls - the boys have got their own thread started by our friend NSSO. What did you drink 'back in the day' ................?

One of my favourite tipples - special nights out/celebrations only though - was Brandy and Babycham!

[kizzy]

Cherry B! It was sold in small bottles and served in a champagne glass with a cherry on a cocktail stick. If you were lucky you got two cherries and an umbrella! Proper sophisticated I was

[Olliebeak]

As a barmaid, I used to serve lots of those, kizzy. I always put two cherries on the stick for regular customers .

I also remember a 'bit of a scandal' involving Prince Charles being seen drinking, either Cherry B or Cherry Brandy, in a pub with some schoolfriends - naughty boy .

There ya go - Link

[Thumpa lumpa]

I know this is a ladies thread, but what alternative name did they have for Cherry Cider??..............I seem to remember someone telling me once but I can't recall it.

Edited by Thumpa lumpa, 02 September 2011 - 03:46 PM.

[SWIMMER]

Hi Ollie TL can't help you there my favourite tipple when I drank was same as Ollie's although I also like Brandy and pinapple and vodka and lime. Those were the days my friend. Can't find a Brandy emo, so this will have to do. I was also quite partial to larger and lime when I was pregnant. Wonder what the baby wanted there lol

[eejayess]

You'll not believe this but when I was 15 I got drunk on Babycham. My dad had a pub and it was Christmas Eve and I had to work behind the bar, I had been working all day till 6pm then when I came home I had to go straight behind the bar without anything to eat.
Customers kept saying "Have one yourself " so I did, a Babycham, needless to say it ruined my Christmas and I have never touched one since.

[Olliebeak]

Thumpa lumpa, on 02 September 2011 - 03:46 PM, said:

......... but what alternative name did they have for Cherry Cider ..........

I don't remember any drink being 'Cherry Cider' but I do remember an oft-requested mixture of 'Cherry B and Cider' back around 1969/70/71. It was lethal!
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I only ever drank it once - and never again. I was violently ill/drunk on walking out into the fresh air at the end of an evening in Liverpool Locarno.

I found this link - but not sure if it's the same thing that you meant.

[busybee]

Martini Rossa (by the bottle full) my brother got me to try it. Then I progressed on to Malabu but know I'm Vodka babe though and though

[BarbaraM]

Pony....god, cant believe i remember that....Gin and Orange......wine tasted discusting, now i love a nice Merlot.

[caby]

To ensure that I could dance the night away, stay hydrated and sober, I drank cinzano and lemonade. Also with the cherry on a stick.
The Royal Oak pub on the east lancs served delicious draught sherry and when I was thirsty I would have Britvic orange.
By the time I reached twenty I had matured to the occasional whiskey and lemonade.
Olliebeak - yes Brandy and Babycham was delicious and expensive. Can anyone remember that really strong lager from the seventies?
Nowadays I like vodka peach martnis...just like drinking pop!

Yes Barbara M - Pony came in little dark bottles - right?

[Honey]

my very first drink was lager and lime in the Sutton Arms, when we frequented the local dances and discos we used to drink Ponys, lager, Snowballs, rum and coke, port and lemon, I remember becoming violently ill one night when several of us went to a dance at Rainhill hospital club and drank Cherry B and cider, my mum had to put me to bed and I thought I was going to die, never again!

[BarbaraM]

caby, on 02 September 2011 - 08:46 PM, said:

To ensure that I could dance the night away, stay hydrated and sober, I drank cinzano and lemonade. Also with the cherry on a stick.
The Royal Oak pub on the east lancs served delicious draught sherry and when I was thirsty I would have Britvic orange.
By the time I reached twenty I had matured to the occasional whiskey and lemonade.
Olliebeak - yes Brandy and Babycham was delicious and expensive. Can anyone remember that really strong lager from the seventies?
Nowadays I like vodka peach martnis...just like drinking pop!

Yes Barbara M - Pony came in little dark bottles - right?

Yes, if i remember rightly, tasted like sherry? I can only remember Carlsberg.....but then i didnt look at the labels then..i did like Barley wine..hit the spot
Does Higsons still have pubs?

[gilly]

Ladygab used to drink ponys.cherry B and cider,babycham and her all time favourite was snowballs(advocaat and lemonade)

[Honey]

I nearly forgot,Guinness and black too!

[Olliebeak]

Pony - the little drink with the big kick!

My mum took me out for my first 'legal' drink (May 1969) - and I got blitzed on Pony. Yup it was Sherry!

Link!


caby - strangely enough, The Royal Oak was yet another pub that I worked in (on and off Feb 69 to May 72).

Lagers from those days - Carlsberg, Harp, Grunhalle (don't laugh!), Carling, Heineken, Skol, Tennents, Tuborg - could be others. I'm sure the fellas will come up with more than those.