Sunday + Cancelled = Feet Up With Alcohol

[Shaun]

I should have been working today at an outside family event, but it was cancelled due to the weather. Got paid in full though. A nice lazy Sunday with a few ciders, ahhh, life is good. :beer1: :)

[Penfold42]

LOL....don't speak too soon....the good lady may want some DIY doing....:eek: :D


You lucky so in so.........have a good afternoon......:approve:

[Dragonfly]

I should have been working today at an outside family event, but it was cancelled due to the weather. Got paid in full though. A nice lazy Sunday with a few ciders, ahhh, life is good. :beer1: :)


Shaun you're a Scotsman !!!!!!!!! why the fruit based drink for the ladies??

http://blogs.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/ianwylie/almurray300-thumb.jpg

:D :D :D :D :D :D :beer1: :beer1: :beer1:

[Penfold42]

Shaun you're a Scotsman !!!!!!!!! why the fruit based drink for the ladies??

http://blogs.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/ianwylie/almurray300-thumb.jpg

:D :D :D :D :D :D :beer1: :beer1: :beer1:

LMFAO........:D

He must be bladdered already and fell asleep......:D :D :D :D

[Shaun]

Shaun you're a Scotsman !!!!!!!!! why the fruit based drink for the ladies??

http://blogs.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/ianwylie/almurray300-thumb.jpg

:D :D :D :D :D :D :beer1: :beer1: :beer1:

:lol:

The Cider makes a nice chaser for the Single Malt. ;)

[Shaun]

Just tried a tin of pear cider. Now there's a strange concoction if ever there was one. Not sure if I hate it or despise it. Still got another 3 tins of it left to make my mind up.

[Penfold42]

I quite like this at the moment.......

http://www.jacquescider.co.uk/Images/img_JacquesCiderBottleNewApril08.png

[Shaun]

Mmmm. May have to try that. I'll PM you my address so you can send me a bottle. :ph34r:

[Penfold42]

Too late been supped.......anyway me and Batman think you will prefer one of these.....

:eek: :D

http://www.artfostersbabycham.co.uk/mediac/400_0/media/Babycham.jpg

http://www.cbrands.eu.com/images/fortified_wine_style/babycham_logo.gif

[Tony Scott]

Brothers 7% Glasto Festival pear cider......Mmmmmmmmm, 4 of those and you start feeling like a proper Worzel!! :D

[Shaun]

I've never tried Babycham. Isn't babycham 0.000000000001% alcohol?





That Glasto festival cider sounds good. Just my kind of alcohol percentage preference. :)

[Penfold42]

"In the late '50s the British drinks industry came up with something called Babycham---a small (about the size of an airline wine) bottle of sickeningly sweet sparkling white wine: a 'baby champagne'. Sophisticated girls-about-town would ask their boyfriends for one when they went down the local Regent Dance Hall for a bop.

The marketing was clever: only girls ever drank it, and the label had an appealing baby deer on the front. I would like to think that this is supposed to be a baby chamois ... employed to circumvent any French indignation of using 'cham' to imply 'champagne'. If so, their ad agency was aiming far above their market's heads---I wouldn't think more than one in five thousand people would connect the 'shammy leather' used to polish their Austin Eleven with such doe-eyed denizens of the Dolomites.

Keep in mind that the '50s mean something very different over here---no beehive hairdos and Cadillac fins and Elvis, but continued rationing, Vespa scooters, and skiffle: good girls were increasingly going to pubs, and the traditional drinks their mums would have had (Martini and lime, stout and blackcurrant, port and lemon, whiskey and ginger) were all men's drinks plus some concentrated fruit syrup. The fact that the second of these is basically Guinness with a slug of Ribena proves how ripe womankind was for some alternative beverage, and Babycham was wildly popular for decades afterwards: it was new and exotic in a drab, cold little country, and served in a ****tail glass with a cherry---oh, so very posh, innit? On the whole, perfectly suited to that awkward moment when boy meets girl and boy orders girl drink.

Babycham continued to be the cast-iron UK default drink for girls in pubs and dances and parties basically until the late '80s: girls were still ordering it when I was at Oxford, despite more palatable alternatives. ... Since then they've tried marketing it in different ways---putting a cool pair of shades on the baby deer, and even making a 'dry' version, but sales continue to decline in the face of alcopops. While it's still to be found in nearly every off-licence and pub throughout the land, people nowadays drink it more out of nostalgia or a heightened sense of camp than anything else: it's still popular among blowsy divorcees and effete gays.

So yes, trying to get a girl drunk with Babycham is instantly redolent of a certain age and context: you can imagine Saturday night in a suburban pub circa 1963, Cliff Richard playing on the jukebox, and some hopeful lad ordering tiny bottle after tiny bottle of this noxious liquid for his giggling girlfriend, only to have her rush out into the car park and be spectacularly sick all over the bonnet of his Mini."

:D :D :D

[Shaun]

Ok, you've sold me on it. Where can I buy some? :ph34r:

[Boogie Boy]

Babycham wasn't the worst drink in dem times. Cherry B was far more sickening.

Whilst were on the subject of drinks we don't see much of anymore, whatever happened to Barley wine? That was hellishly potent stuff and certain types were incredibly sickening too.

[Tony Scott]

"In the late '50s the British drinks industry came up with something called Babycham---a small (about the size of an airline wine) bottle of sickeningly sweet sparkling white wine: a 'baby champagne'. Sophisticated girls-about-town would ask their boyfriends for one when they went down the local Regent Dance Hall for a bop.

The marketing was clever: only girls ever drank it, and the label had an appealing baby deer on the front. I would like to think that this is supposed to be a baby chamois ... employed to circumvent any French indignation of using 'cham' to imply 'champagne'. If so, their ad agency was aiming far above their market's heads---I wouldn't think more than one in five thousand people would connect the 'shammy leather' used to polish their Austin Eleven with such doe-eyed denizens of the Dolomites.

Keep in mind that the '50s mean something very different over here---no beehive hairdos and Cadillac fins and Elvis, but continued rationing, Vespa scooters, and skiffle: good girls were increasingly going to pubs, and the traditional drinks their mums would have had (Martini and lime, stout and blackcurrant, port and lemon, whiskey and ginger) were all men's drinks plus some concentrated fruit syrup. The fact that the second of these is basically Guinness with a slug of Ribena proves how ripe womankind was for some alternative beverage, and Babycham was wildly popular for decades afterwards: it was new and exotic in a drab, cold little country, and served in a ****tail glass with a cherry---oh, so very posh, innit? On the whole, perfectly suited to that awkward moment when boy meets girl and boy orders girl drink.

Babycham continued to be the cast-iron UK default drink for girls in pubs and dances and parties basically until the late '80s: girls were still ordering it when I was at Oxford, despite more palatable alternatives. ... Since then they've tried marketing it in different ways---putting a cool pair of shades on the baby deer, and even making a 'dry' version, but sales continue to decline in the face of alcopops. While it's still to be found in nearly every off-licence and pub throughout the land, people nowadays drink it more out of nostalgia or a heightened sense of camp than anything else: it's still popular among blowsy divorcees and effete gays.

So yes, trying to get a girl drunk with Babycham is instantly redolent of a certain age and context: you can imagine Saturday night in a suburban pub circa 1963, Cliff Richard playing on the jukebox, and some hopeful lad ordering tiny bottle after tiny bottle of this noxious liquid for his giggling girlfriend, only to have her rush out into the car park and be spectacularly sick all over the bonnet of his Mini."

:D :D :D

Tony, you seem to know a lot about it.....a bit partial are we???? ;) ;) :D

[Dragonfly]

hey .........I'd love a Babysham :D :D :D :D :D

[Penfold42]

Tony, you seem to know a lot about it.....a bit partial are we???? ;) ;) :D
:lol:........or Brandy and Moussec......:eek: :zip: :rolleyes: ;) :D

hey .........I'd love a Babysham :D :D :D :D :D
You get drunk on wine gums.....!!!:D

[Shaun]

hey .........I'd love a Babysham :D :D :D :D :D

This one do?

http://i.realone.com/assets/rn/img/2/0/8/9/9129802-9129805-slarge.jpg

[theoloyla]

Just tried a tin of pear cider. Now there's a strange concoction if ever there was one. Not sure if I hate it or despise it. Still got another 3 tins of it left to make my mind up.
Silly since it has suddenly become fashionable to drink cider they are now calling perry pear cider.:bang:

[theoloyla]

"In the late '50s the British drinks industry came up with something called Babycham---a small (about the size of an airline wine) bottle of sickeningly sweet sparkling white wine: a 'baby champagne'. Sophisticated girls-about-town would ask their boyfriends for one when they went down the local Regent Dance Hall for a bop.

The marketing was clever: only girls ever drank it, and the label had an appealing baby deer on the front. I would like to think that this is supposed to be a baby chamois ... employed to circumvent any French indignation of using 'cham' to imply 'champagne'. If so, their ad agency was aiming far above their market's heads---I wouldn't think more than one in five thousand people would connect the 'shammy leather' used to polish their Austin Eleven with such doe-eyed denizens of the Dolomites.

Keep in mind that the '50s mean something very different over here---no beehive hairdos and Cadillac fins and Elvis, but continued rationing, Vespa scooters, and skiffle: good girls were increasingly going to pubs, and the traditional drinks their mums would have had (Martini and lime, stout and blackcurrant, port and lemon, whiskey and ginger) were all men's drinks plus some concentrated fruit syrup. The fact that the second of these is basically Guinness with a slug of Ribena proves how ripe womankind was for some alternative beverage, and Babycham was wildly popular for decades afterwards: it was new and exotic in a drab, cold little country, and served in a ****tail glass with a cherry---oh, so very posh, innit? On the whole, perfectly suited to that awkward moment when boy meets girl and boy orders girl drink.

Babycham continued to be the cast-iron UK default drink for girls in pubs and dances and parties basically until the late '80s: girls were still ordering it when I was at Oxford, despite more palatable alternatives. ... Since then they've tried marketing it in different ways---putting a cool pair of shades on the baby deer, and even making a 'dry' version, but sales continue to decline in the face of alcopops. While it's still to be found in nearly every off-licence and pub throughout the land, people nowadays drink it more out of nostalgia or a heightened sense of camp than anything else: it's still popular among blowsy divorcees and effete gays.

So yes, trying to get a girl drunk with Babycham is instantly redolent of a certain age and context: you can imagine Saturday night in a suburban pub circa 1963, Cliff Richard playing on the jukebox, and some hopeful lad ordering tiny bottle after tiny bottle of this noxious liquid for his giggling girlfriend, only to have her rush out into the car park and be spectacularly sick all over the bonnet of his Mini."

:D :D :D
Very accurate except that Babycham isnt a wine it is sparkling perry. There was a wine competitor called Moussec.

[Penfold42]

Very accurate except that Babycham isnt a wine it is sparkling perry. There was a wine competitor called Moussec.

Your right....but very nostalgic.

How times have changed....:)