# V8 - The V is for Fucking Vile (gross) **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [March 30, 2002, 7:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/v8-the-v-is-for-fucking-vile-gross/100891 "2002-03-30T07:32:22Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![kaylasdad99](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaylasdad99/32/3398_2.png) [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2002, 11:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/v8-the-v-is-for-fucking-vile-gross/100891/21 "2002-03-30T23:43:57Z")
Is it Sprite? I really, really _need_ some SPOOFE points. ---
**Author:** ![SPOOFE](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c5a1d2/32.png) [@SPOOFE](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SPOOFE)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2002, 11:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/v8-the-v-is-for-fucking-vile-gross/100891/22 "2002-03-30T23:56:50Z")
Congrats, you scored ten SPOOFE points… and here, have another twenty just because I’m in a good mood. ---
**Author:** ![Miller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miller/32/481_2.png) [@Miller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miller)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2002, 11:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/v8-the-v-is-for-fucking-vile-gross/100891/23 "2002-03-30T23:58:44Z")
I’ve never tried V8. I do, however, have a deep and abiding love of Clamato. Mmm, Clamato. Truly the finest tomato and clam beverage ever devised by man. (Incidentally, I don’t like tomatos, and I cannot stand any form of sea-food, but especially not clams, the phlegm-nugget of the high seas. Yet puree them into liquid and pour it into a cool glass, and I’m in hog heaven.) ---
**Author:** ![Astroboy14](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/df705f/32.png) [@Astroboy14](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Astroboy14)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2002, 12:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/v8-the-v-is-for-fucking-vile-gross/100891/24 "2002-03-31T00:04:22Z")
No, no, no people! Behold, I shall educate you: -1 big glass -1 small can V-8 -2 or 3 shakes of tobasco sauce -1 can of beer (good beer… not dark, though!) Combine. Guzzle. Enjoy!🆒 FWIW, I used to love V-8 straight, but can’t drink it that way now… **Astrogirl** got into my V-8 stash a few years ago, and tried it for the first time… “EWWWW! It tastes like watered-down ketchup!!!” I haven’t been able to get the picture out of my mind since then! :eek: ---
**Author:** ![Rebo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rebo/32/13005_2.png) [@Rebo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rebo)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2002, 12:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/v8-the-v-is-for-fucking-vile-gross/100891/25 "2002-03-31T00:47:08Z")
Mmmm, V-8 is the best! When I was a pregnant, I used to crave it, and a tuna salad sandwich – for breakfast! Cold though, warm is just, well, _wrong_. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Asbestos\_Mango](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/edb3f5/32.png) [@The\_Asbestos\_Mango](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Asbestos_Mango)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2002, 1:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/v8-the-v-is-for-fucking-vile-gross/100891/26 "2002-03-31T01:53:15Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Astroboy14 \* > \*\*No, no, no people! Behold, I shall educate you: > > -1 big glass > -1 small can V-8 > -2 or 3 shakes of tobasco sauce > -1 can of beer (good beer… not dark, though!) > > Combine. Guzzle. Enjoy!🆒 > > \*\* I’m logging off and going to 7-11 for V-8, Tobasco and beer **right now** This just sounds too good, I gotta try it. ---
**Author:** ![dobbinaire](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e79b87/32.png) [@dobbinaire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dobbinaire)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2002, 4:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/v8-the-v-is-for-fucking-vile-gross/100891/27 "2002-03-31T04:03:34Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by jayjay \* > \*\*I can’t stand V-8 cold. I’ve always thought, however, that it would make a pretty good tomato-veggie soup if you heated it. Haven’t tried it yet, though. > > jayjay \*\* Use V8 instead of water in your next stew, it does make it much better. Also, try one small jalapeno diced in it for an extra kick. ---
**Author:** ![Doug\_Bowe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/df788c/32.png) [@Doug\_Bowe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Doug_Bowe)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2002, 8:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/v8-the-v-is-for-fucking-vile-gross/100891/28 "2002-03-31T08:44:35Z")
Serve the V-8 chilled in a bowl on the patio and tell your guests it’s gazpacho. Thea-I think Pibb is a product of Coca-Cola, not Pepsi. Astro- You’re describing “Red Beer” or “Tomato Beer,” a grand old Midwestern tradition. ---
**Author:** ![secretkeeper78](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e95f7d/32.png) [@secretkeeper78](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/secretkeeper78)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2002, 9:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/v8-the-v-is-for-fucking-vile-gross/100891/29 "2002-03-31T09:22:55Z")
I used to like V8. but the last time I bought it I just could not stand to drink it… it my be the celery taste or something, or maybe it’s because it was cold and I do think it is better warm… Mr. pibb is a coke product. and to me it tastes better than D. pepper. for some reason I find pepsi products to be flat and bitter and coke to be fizzier and well just better… I guess it’s a good thing there are two different companies. ---
**Author:** ![Astroboy14](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/df705f/32.png) [@Astroboy14](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Astroboy14)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2002, 11:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/v8-the-v-is-for-fucking-vile-gross/100891/30 "2002-03-31T11:10:08Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Doug Bowe \* > \*\* > Astro- You’re describing “Red Beer” or “Tomato Beer,” a grand old Midwestern tradition. \*\* Indeed I am! Though I’ve never heard the term “Tomato Beer” before… I always heard it called “Red Beer”. **Thea** , tell us how you liked it! I’m gonna have to go hit the black market store soon and get some V-8… not commonly available here in Seoul.☹ ---
**Author:** ![The\_Asbestos\_Mango](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/edb3f5/32.png) [@The\_Asbestos\_Mango](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Asbestos_Mango)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2002, 3:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/v8-the-v-is-for-fucking-vile-gross/100891/31 "2002-03-31T15:04:27Z")
**Astroboy** I like it, I like it! I made one for my mom and she liked it too (although for her I had to use less Tobasco- she doesn’t like spicy stuff). We both agreed that we like a slightly higher V-8 to beer ratio than the recipie calls for, though. Yum! (this would be a great frat-party dirnk, BTW. Can you imagine those college boys drinking themselve so drunk they forget what they’re drinking, then puking red?) ---
**Author:** ![Doug\_Bowe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/df788c/32.png) [@Doug\_Bowe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Doug_Bowe)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2002, 5:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/v8-the-v-is-for-fucking-vile-gross/100891/32 "2002-03-31T17:46:39Z")
A guy I know from Iowa (seems fairly Midwestern) likes to take his red beer with a sprinkle of celery salt. Thea - Red beer would probably be a fantastic frat-party drink (I see it mostly consumed in bowling alleys). Standard Pilsner runs what? 5% alcohol? That means a glass of red beer would be cut to around 2 1/2%? This might allow the frats to actually party, rather than pass out. ---
**Author:** ![Lightnin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lightnin/32/180_2.png) [@Lightnin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lightnin)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2002, 5:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/v8-the-v-is-for-fucking-vile-gross/100891/33 "2002-04-01T17:54:08Z")
I’m only saying this because we’re all friends, and I think you all should know. [sub]I _like_ V8.[/sub] There, I said it. I don’t have it often- actually, I’ve only had it once or twice in the past year. I don’t even like tomatoes very much. Something about V8, though, calls to me. ESPECIALLY Tabasco V8. Yum. ---
**Author:** ![Pucette](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/278dde/32.png) [@Pucette](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pucette)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2002, 6:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/v8-the-v-is-for-fucking-vile-gross/100891/34 "2002-04-01T18:34:29Z")
I loooove V8. With Tobasco and Worchestershire sauces added liberally. Ironically, I had the OPs reaction to regular tomato juice on a plane once (they were out of Bloody Mary mix), and have hated it since. ---
**Author:** ![Tedster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/4491bb/32.png) [@Tedster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tedster)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2002, 6:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/v8-the-v-is-for-fucking-vile-gross/100891/35 "2002-04-01T18:50:25Z")
I prefer ice cold Orange Juice for breakfast, but I drink V8 now and then, it’s Good Stuff. It’s great as a beef stew stock, and makes the very best bloody mary base, too. I buy it in the can, though. The metallic/irony taste is part of the allure. I have a couple stashed, as I’m assuming that sooner or later, canned V8 will become extinct. ---
**Author:** ![Tedster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/4491bb/32.png) [@Tedster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tedster)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2002, 6:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/v8-the-v-is-for-fucking-vile-gross/100891/36 "2002-04-01T18:55:53Z")
I prefer ice cold Orange Juice for breakfast, but I drink V8 now and then, it’s Good Stuff. It’s great as a beef stew stock, and makes the very best bloody mary base, too. I buy it in the can, though. The metallic/irony taste is part of the allure. I have a couple stashed, as I’m assuming that sooner or later, canned V8 will become extinct. ---
**Author:** ![Angel\_of\_the\_Lord](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/angel_of_the_lord/32/2949_2.png) [@Angel\_of\_the\_Lord](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Angel_of_the_Lord)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2002, 8:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/v8-the-v-is-for-fucking-vile-gross/100891/37 "2002-04-01T20:13:42Z")
Oh, God, I totally agree. Once, in my house, after having already had two or three cans of Diet Coke that evening, I decided to try to be healthy, and snagged a can of V8 that was sitting, room-temperature, behind the bar downstairs. One word: BLECH! It was salty, nasty, pasty, purified _crap_. I ended up immediately backwashing into the can, then walking over to the utility sink and pouring it down there. How much goddamn salt in IN that stuff, anyway?! ---
**Author:** ![Ferret\_Herder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/e47774/32.png) [@Ferret\_Herder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ferret_Herder)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2002, 10:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/v8-the-v-is-for-fucking-vile-gross/100891/38 "2002-04-01T22:09:41Z")
Like V8, Clamato and clam juice are both really good for stews that use fish in them, as well. I certainly can’t imagine what anyone would use plain clam juice for other than that, at any rate. V8 seems like something I should drink because I’m a vegetarian, but I just haven’t bought any. For the Red Beer - any recommendations on the beer type? Just your favorite or are any types better/worse than others? I assume that something like Guinness is out, for instance. ---
**Author:** ![Ferrous](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/8e7dd6/32.png) [@Ferrous](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ferrous)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2002, 11:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/v8-the-v-is-for-fucking-vile-gross/100891/39 "2002-04-01T23:10:31Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Astroboy14 \* > **-1 can of beer (good beer… not dark, though!)** My good man, _good_ beer does not come in cans! ---
**Author:** ![Cat\_Whisperer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cat_whisperer/32/4839_2.png) [@Cat\_Whisperer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Whisperer)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2002, 11:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/v8-the-v-is-for-fucking-vile-gross/100891/40 "2002-04-01T23:28:01Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Ferrous \* > \*\* > My good man, _good_ beer does not come in cans! \*\* Or from the US of A. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/v8-the-v-is-for-fucking-vile-gross/100891.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/v8-the-v-is-for-fucking-vile-gross/100891.md?page=3)