What does 'Two/Three Buck Chuck' mean to you?

[Cazzle]

To me, two (three, four or five) buck chuck would be a really cheap bottle of wine (probably Passion Pop). It’s all there in the name - a really cheap bottle of wine for guzzling until you spew.

I think the kids these days tend to prefer the bulk quantity of goon for their blackout drinking sessions. But cask of goon or bottle of two buck chuck: either way, someone is riding the porcelain bus tonight.

[GreedySmurf]

@Eliahna

To me, two (three, four or five) buck chuck would be a really cheap bottle of wine (probably Passion Pop). It’s all there in the name - a really cheap bottle of wine for guzzling until you spew.

I think the kids these days tend to prefer the bulk quantity of goon for their blackout drinking sessions. But cask of goon or bottle of two buck chuck: either way, someone is riding the porcelain bus tonight.

You’re going to have explain ‘goon’ now you know.

Thanks to Aspidistra for getting started on the vomit synonyms. It is a very long list.

[Cazzle]

Goon = cask wine

[Waterman]

@Tamerlane

Here’s an article on its rise. You’ll note that when it began its meteoric ascent as a widely consumed table wine in the early 2000’s ( one of my brothers was an early adopter), CA as a state was in the midst of a glut of decent-quality wine grapes. Hence the Charles Shaw wines could be produced cheaply from decent stock and thus was surprisingly palatable for the price.

When the glut passed and good-quality grapes were no longer so cheaply found in large quantities, quality ( it is argued by many ) declined. Which is to say the “three-buck-chuck” of today is considered by many to be inferior to the once tolerable “two-buck-chuck” of the past.

To the best of my knowledge, Two Buck Chuck was not made by Bronco. Bronco had purchased large quantities of bulk wine, already produced, by the tanker truck load and had it shipped to his bottling facilities. He reputedly had several million bottles made.

[Cartooniverse]

My In-Laws, who are in Topeka, live off of the stuff. My MIL refers to it as Two-Buck Chuck, though I do believe the price has surpassed $ 1.99