# 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:** 3
**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, 11:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/v8-the-v-is-for-fucking-vile-gross/100891/41 "2002-04-01T23:32:18Z")
You’re just trying to provoke me now, aren’t you? (Must resist urge to post lengthy diatribe on quality of American microbrews…again.) ---
**Author:** ![Green\_Bean](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/green_bean/32/1760_2.png) [@Green\_Bean](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Green_Bean)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2002, 12:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/v8-the-v-is-for-fucking-vile-gross/100891/42 "2002-04-02T00:47:30Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Miller \* > **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.** Oooh, yeah! I loves me some Clamato. And I once had Beefamato, which was pretty good too. I can’t find it anymore. I am just crazy about V8 (room temperature), too. Regular tomato juice is okay, but boring. ---
**Author:** ![Atreyu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/5e9695/32.png) [@Atreyu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Atreyu)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2002, 1:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/v8-the-v-is-for-fucking-vile-gross/100891/43 "2002-04-02T01:19:58Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by featherlou \* > \*\* > Or from the US of A. \*\* :eek: C’mon, **Ferrous**! Defend our honor! The Pacific Northwest alone has plenty of excellent beers! You know of what I speak! [sub]I’d recommend a new thread so that this one doesn’t get hopelessly hijacked into a beer war.[/sub] ---
**Author:** ![Dijon\_Warlock](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a9a28c/32.png) [@Dijon\_Warlock](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dijon_Warlock)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2002, 1:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/v8-the-v-is-for-fucking-vile-gross/100891/44 "2002-04-02T01:30:11Z")
Put me strongly in the pro-V8 camp. **Daowajan** is obviously insane. 😉 Spicy Hot V8 makes chili what chili should be. You don’t like it? Send it to my house. Mr. Pibb is of the Devil. ---
**Author:** ![PunditLisa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/4af34b/32.png) [@PunditLisa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PunditLisa)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2002, 4:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/v8-the-v-is-for-fucking-vile-gross/100891/45 "2002-04-02T04:19:38Z")
> [@](#): > > You really, really, REALLY don’t want to know. Okay, I’ll take your word for it. I’m _still_ in therapy over the felching thing. ---
**Author:** ![Emperor\_Penguin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/c2a13f/32.png) [@Emperor\_Penguin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Emperor_Penguin)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2002, 5:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/v8-the-v-is-for-fucking-vile-gross/100891/46 "2002-04-02T05:01:54Z")
[QUOTE] \*Originally posted by Miller \* \*\*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. \*\*[/QUOTE And one would hope the only one… I’ve always called beer and V8/Clamato a “Red Eye” (or disgusting if you prefer). Supposedly a good hangover cure, once you get over the eventual dry heaving. Really, if canned ass had a taste, it would taste like V8. (Can you tell I’m not a huge fan?) ---
**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 2, 2002, 3:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/v8-the-v-is-for-fucking-vile-gross/100891/47 "2002-04-02T15:57:57Z")
hee hee hee {dances into thread, pokes **ferrous** in the ribs, pirouettes out again} ---
**Author:** ![Ferrous](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/8e7dd6/32.png) [@Ferrous](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ferrous)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2002, 4:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/v8-the-v-is-for-fucking-vile-gross/100891/48 "2002-04-02T16:56:57Z")
Nay, I will not be provoked! It’s too early in the morning. If I start to rhapsodize now about the wonderfullness of Oregon and California beer and ale, I will never make it through the day at work! What does a _Canadian_ know about beer anyway?😉 ---
**Author:** ![swampbear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/swampbear/32/467_2.png) [@swampbear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/swampbear)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2002, 5:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/v8-the-v-is-for-fucking-vile-gross/100891/49 "2002-04-02T17:45:30Z")
Around here we call the V8/beer combo a Bloody Bubba. Hey, I live in the good ol southern US of A. We try to throw in a Bubba anwhere we can. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Earthworm\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/f07891/32.png) [@Earthworm\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Earthworm_Jim)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2002, 7:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/v8-the-v-is-for-fucking-vile-gross/100891/50 "2002-04-02T19:37:38Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by swampbear \* > \*\*Around here we call the V8/beer combo a Bloody Bubba. Hey, I live in the good ol southern US of A. We try to throw in a Bubba anwhere we can. 😃 \*\* Yes, we’re everywhere now… MWAHAHAHAHAHA ---
**Author:** ![sturmhauke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e47c2d/32.png) [@sturmhauke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sturmhauke)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2002, 8:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/v8-the-v-is-for-fucking-vile-gross/100891/51 "2002-04-02T20:00:43Z")
You V8 drinkers are masochists and evil necromancers. Evil, I tell you. V8 is only to be used as an ingredient in stews and gaspacho (Spanish vegetable soup). V8 plus Tabasco is a defilement of the Holy Hot Sauce Gods. Repent, repent! ---
**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 2, 2002, 9:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/v8-the-v-is-for-fucking-vile-gross/100891/52 "2002-04-02T21:09:45Z")
Heathen! BLASHPHEMER! It is YOU who are deluded, and on the road to Hell (where the only hot sauce that is served is that which is supplied by Taco Bell, and is therefore unworthy of consumption)! Of COURSE the Holy Fluid Which We Unworthy Mortals Call Tabasco is meant to be served with V8- why else would V8 be the same hue as HFWWUMCT? Surely our father McIlhenny foresaw this very combination! Stray from that path! Come back to the way of righteousness- discover the pleasures of Spicy V8, and be rewarded! Else, perish in the tepid fires of Cholula! ---
**Author:** ![Flamsterette\_X](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/41988e/32.png) [@Flamsterette\_X](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Flamsterette_X)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2002, 11:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/v8-the-v-is-for-fucking-vile-gross/100891/53 "2002-04-02T23:24:26Z")
I used to have V8 all the time when I was a kid… I **loved** the stuff! Nowadays, I don’t have it as often, but it’s still good! However, I have not tried it with Tabasco sauce or Worcestershire Sauce. I’ll have to try it one day. [sub]Hmmm… wonder if it’ll work with my Insanity Sauce?[/sub] ---
**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 2, 2002, 11:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/v8-the-v-is-for-fucking-vile-gross/100891/54 "2002-04-02T23:38:08Z")
And we were worried about a beer hijack?!? ---
**Author:** ![teela\_brown](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/d9b06d/32.png) [@teela\_brown](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/teela_brown)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2002, 11:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/v8-the-v-is-for-fucking-vile-gross/100891/55 "2002-04-02T23:45:09Z")
Quick, what are the 8 vegetables that make up V8? ---
**Author:** ![Ferrous](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/8e7dd6/32.png) [@Ferrous](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ferrous)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2002, 11:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/v8-the-v-is-for-fucking-vile-gross/100891/56 "2002-04-02T23:50:13Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by featherlou \* > \*\*And we were worried about a beer hijack?!? \*\* Another time, perhaps. But if you’re ever in Portland, drop me a line and I’ll take you out for a pint of Full Sail IPA. Mmmm… (Almost quittin’ time!) ---
**Author:** ![Green\_Bean](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/green_bean/32/1760_2.png) [@Green\_Bean](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Green_Bean)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2002, 1:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/v8-the-v-is-for-fucking-vile-gross/100891/57 "2002-04-03T01:59:37Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by pugluvr \* > \*\*Quick, what are the 8 vegetables that make up V8? \*\* Tomato Celery Watercress Carrot Beet Parsnip Artichoke Rhubarb Okay, I made up those last three… I looked on the V8 website for the answers, and I did get the first 5 right. I’ll leave it to the rest of you to guess the last 3, though! ---
**Author:** ![Emperor\_Penguin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/c2a13f/32.png) [@Emperor\_Penguin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Emperor_Penguin)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2002, 2:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/v8-the-v-is-for-fucking-vile-gross/100891/58 "2002-04-03T02:01:32Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Green Bean \* > \*\* > > Tomato > Celery > Watercress > Carrot > Beet > Parsnip > Artichoke > Rhubarb > > Okay, I made up those last three… > > I looked on the V8 website for the answers, and I did get the first 5 right. I’ll leave it to the rest of you to guess the last 3, though! \*\* Is wet fermenting monkey a veggie? ---
**Author:** ![apollo9](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a3d4f5/32.png) [@apollo9](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/apollo9)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2002, 4:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/v8-the-v-is-for-fucking-vile-gross/100891/59 "2002-04-03T04:07:46Z")
Bwahahahahahahahahahahahaha! Personally I love V-8, preferably cold but at Burning Man last year, I drank that bad boy at much warmer than room temperature!!! 😃 But you want gross? I mean REALLY DISGUSTING? One word: Clamato. Yeah baby, Clamato. I think it’s worse than cod liver oil, and that stuff is Nass-tay! ---
**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:** [April 3, 2002, 5:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/v8-the-v-is-for-fucking-vile-gross/100891/60 "2002-04-03T05:41:45Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Green Bean \* > \*\* > > Tomato > Celery > Watercress > Carrot > Beet > Parsnip > Artichoke > Rhubarb > > Okay, I made up those last three… > > I looked on the V8 website for the answers, and I did get the first 5 right. I’ll leave it to the rest of you to guess the last 3, though! \*\* I looked - parsley, lettuce and _ **spinach?** _ [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/v8-the-v-is-for-fucking-vile-gross/100891.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/v8-the-v-is-for-fucking-vile-gross/100891.md?page=4)