And here’s another thing about Trader Joe’s. Their [insert booze here] of the gods brand is flippin’ awesome. Their Rum of the gods changed my life. Cheapo booze that does not disturb the innards is wino paradise! Though I must say, there is a difference between cheap drinks and full on I-cash-my-check-and-buy-my-sauce-at-the-same-location wino drinks. I don’t think the TJ store brand quite counts as wino booze, even though it’s not on the top shelf. It may be the most degenerate of boozes for yuppies in Santa Clara, CA, but for the rest of us, it’s just regular sauce that’s not the greatest, but is all good because it’s reasonably palatable and on the cheap.
Everything you need to know about unabashed wino hooch can be found in post #3. I don’t know anything, but I know booze.
How many threads do I have to harass Stranger in before he acknowledges my shameless and laughably poor internet advances? I’ll stop now because this thread is about a very important topic. Mad Dogg is serious shit.
Their Vodka of the Gods is awesome, and cheaper than any other vodka around, even the bum brands. I don’t think the TJs around here have Rum OT Gods - I’ll have to check that out!
Yes it is - for a vin ordinaire it is quite acceptable. Although the second bottle always tastes the same no matter what you are drinking.
For el cheapo liver-killer, we used Two Star Port. Two Star is to wine what Velveeta is to cheese - a sort of “processed wine product” designed by somebody who had it described to him but never actually saw one. It doesn’t try to be better than it is. You can dress a whore up in silk, but she will still give you the clap as fast as you can unzip her, and it is the same with Two Star. What’s the Thurber line - “it’s a naive little domestic Burgundy without any breeding”, but you will definitely not be amused by its presumption - that stuff is nasty, and even my high school buddies for whom Romilar-on-the-rocks-and-hold-the-twist was an aperitif thought the same.
When we could afford it, we graduated to a mixture of Southern Comfort, blackberry brandy, and Seven-Up, if that gives you any idea of our standards at that moment in our downward spiral.
Ah, to be young and stupid again. Instead of old and - well, unchanged.
Just get some Night Train and drink it! You may or may not regret it, but then you will have your own anecdotes!! I recall from my extremely young years, that I preferred Night Train to MadDog 20/20, which I always had to mix with Kool-Aid to be able to drink. Boone’s farm was like, the “top shelf” stuff… You know, for a date, or something… Gods, those were the days, glad I’m old now!!
I recall an article of a number of years ago by someone in the Homicide division of the Chicago police. He said they had designated Richard’s Wild Irish Rose “the official wine of murderers” since an empty bottle was found at the scene of about 65% of the murders they investigated.
Do you get industrial (hard) cider in the US? They are usually called White Bolt-thrower or something and come in neon blue or green two-litre bottles. They’ve never been anywhere near an apple and are 7.5-8.5% per volume at pocket money prices.
I recall from my extremely young years, that I preferred Night Train to MadDog 20/20, which I always had to mix with Kool-Aid to be able to drink. Boone’s farm was like, the “top shelf” stuff… You know, for a date, or something… Gods, those were the days, glad I’m old now!!