The Scots are all blitzed on Buckfast Tonic Wine!

• Guest 640

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  18 January 2010     19:1938172
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  Yes its true but you can hardly beleive it. This humble quiet life drink, once the tipple of Ministers, Priests, Reverends and yes even Nuns..god help us! has found its way onto the youth market by some strange quirk of faith, or should that be fate!
  
  It seems each bottle is packed to the rafters with caffeine, 281mg per bottle, as well as alcohol, and golly gumdrops does it send your brain into a total oblivion type spin...or so the rumour suggests! Sadly Im not talking from experience here but will have to try and put that right and find out for myself. But of course....all in the interests of research you understand.
  
  The Scots have the worst drink problems in Europe, well I mean all them grey and brown oul buildings in Edinburgh are enough the depress even high rollers...so who can blame them.
  
  But Buckfast Wine has the eminence of respectability written all over its image. Its brewed by monks after all, down there at Buckfast Abbey, who it is rumoured like a little drop with their even song, so much so that it has become known as their very uneven song! No Im just kidding with that last bit.
  
  But seriously though it seems that Buckfast was related to over 5,000 crimes in Scotland between 2006-2009. The well kept secret is out. The drink of the devil himself clearly. Religion gets blamed for lots of things but this is a new one.
  email: dover7@msn.com
• Bob Frost

  • Location: Deal
  18 January 2010     20:0338180
  #2      
  'No drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we're looking for the source of our troubles, we shouldn't test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity, ignorance, greed and love of power.'
  P J O'Rourke.
• howard mcsweeney1

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  18 January 2010     20:5138182
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  good old buckie, or jock juice as it is commonly known used to be the preferred weekend tipple for a lot of the squaddies when they were based here.
  
  i always remember that classic episode of rab c nesbitt when he woke up in the gutter one day with a bottle still clenched in his fist, then deciding to pay a visit to buckfast abbey to pay homage to the source of all his "happiness".
  
  the monks faces when they saw this dishevelled figure laid out on their front lawns, whilst they were trying to impress tourists, was a classic comic moment.
• Guest 640

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  19 January 2010     09:4038228
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  Yes good one Bob. Howard never realised it was so well known...I think I remember a zillion years ago a doctor prescribing it for my mother as a pick-me-up after she had been ill. Thats interesting re Rab, used to watch that meself, it looks like the Scots have been on this stuff for ages.
  
  Because Buckfast is relatively expensive, it has played havoc with the SNP's plans to up the price of cheap booze in an effort to stem the drinking tide. This Buckfast isnt cheap, so it shoots holes in their theory.
  
  Whats the theory..the theory is this...up the price of drink and the working classes, who it is suggested use it for solace and recreation, would not be able to afford to buy enough of the demon drink to get regularly pie eyed. Buckfast is above that price category anyway, and people are still buying it. So cost doesnt play as much of a part as previously suggested by Experts. Gawd save us from experts!
  
  Buckfast drinker =
  email: dover7@msn.com
• Bob Frost

  • Location: Deal
  19 January 2010     10:0338233
  #5      
  There are a number of problems with this 'commotion lotion'.
  
  Firstly it has a sweet taste, which appeals to young drinkers who would turn up their nose at a pint of decent bitter.
  
  Secondly, as well as having a high alcoholic strength of 15%(you get a lot of bangs for your buckie!) it has a high caffeine content (the equivalent of five strong cups of coffee per bottle).
  
  The mixture of a sedative and a stimulant means that you end up with hyperactive drunks, not a pleasant sight.
• howard mcsweeney1

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  19 January 2010     10:5638239
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  funnily enough it is the older dipso with a more mature taste that is lured by the attrractions of buckfast.
  
  the report i saw about drinking in scotland was that the average scot downed 64 bottles of vodka per annum, a figure i find hard to believe.
• Guest 641

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  19 January 2010     17:1238262
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  What next Sanatogen Tonic Wine? I know its made with British Ruby wine, not sure about the alcohol/caffeine content though, closely followed by Dandelion and Burdock
• howard mcsweeney1

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  19 January 2010     19:0238272
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  buckie knocks spots off of you chateau lafitte 1923 barry, just one swig then look for a comfortable gutter.
• Guest 641

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  19 January 2010     21:2838286
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  Now that sounds quite interesting, so I can let the laffitte and friends lie a little longer in the cellar, I'll have to sample this interesting aperitif with you Howard, which year would you recommend
• howard mcsweeney1

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  19 January 2010     23:1038313
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  i will have to consult my chums in pencester gardens barry, at present they are concentrating on those blue cans of the danish export.
  
  all the same to me, the container ends up in the river, don't tell phil and ian though.