grizzleb

Well-known member
It's the combination of more caffeine per drop than red bull and a screw-top cap (ideal for running about the streets with) that makes it the drink du-jour of bampots up here. I also imagine the fact it's produced in an abbey makes it all the more comical.
 

cobretti

[-] :: [-] ~ [-] :: [-]
what do i need to eat, drunk food-wise, in glasgow this weekend? i have already had deep fried haggis and chips with 'soss' :)

Are you up for the whole weekend? If you're out at Numbers on Friday, me and Jack will take you to Hong Kong on Sauchiehall Street, they do a mean Pork Belly w/ French Beans. If you're in the west end at all, there's a chippy right near Kelvinbridge underground that does great potato fritters, they're unbeatable when teamed with a buttered roll. If you're in Jack's area ask him to take you to Istanbul for a kebab, or Kebabish for a grilled baby chicken.
 

grizzleb

Well-known member
Are you up for the whole weekend? If you're out at Numbers on Friday, me and Jack will take you to Hong Kong on Sauchiehall Street, they do a mean Pork Belly w/ French Beans. If you're in the west end at all, there's a chippy right near Kelvinbridge underground that does great potato fritters, they're unbeatable when teamed with a buttered roll. If you're in Jack's area ask him to take you to Istanbul for a kebab, or Kebabish for a grilled baby chicken.
Best curry place in the southside IMO. Lamb Seekh Kebabs are dynamite out there.
 

gostwan

Well-known member
How in hell did I miss this thread? @mos dan, soss is an east coast chippy thing, you wont get it in glesga! It should be noted that the kebabish baby chicken is ridiculously cheap (is £2.99 correct?). When visiting hong kong express the meat lover should really sample the malaysian beef curry. Its melt in the mouth tender.

I've made a huge bowl of chile, which no doubt will be getting scooped between two bits of bread, dipped in egg and deep fried whilst honking this weekend. A drunken fave this is.
 

petergunn

plywood violin
malt liquor gets you tilted for sure, but it terms of a dumbshit crazy drunk, it's no worse than, say, bourbon... i have never tried buckfast, i am curious... in terms of violent nasty drunks, tequila is certainly up there, but i think the king is sisco... stuff is crack in a bottle...

Cisco.jpg
 

STN

sou'wester
conceivably my own...

Perhaps I'll road-test it with another cousin in the Best Western. If I do this, I will post my tasting notes up here.
 

STN

sou'wester
Now if only i could take a bottle of bucky over, and then he (the American cousin) could consume that, and I (the visiting Brit) could consume the Cisco* and then we could take pictures/videos of each other and notes.

Stupid airport security.

Is this stuff widely available, btw? Don't believe I've ever seen it.
 

petergunn

plywood violin
you need to go to a liquor store in the hood or one that caters to hardcore drunks... like the one on Delancey St near the Williamsburg bridge is in the latter category and they stock it... anywhere even halfway respectable will not touch it with a ten foot pole...
 

STN

sou'wester
Can't believe I've never seen it then. I habitually hunt round those places trying to find weird and wonderful things for me and my family to consume (my general one of choice was on the news lately cos that geezer who murdered four cops tried to hide in it). Obv not looking hard enough.
 

Immryr

Well-known member
cisco can't really have anything on buckfast if it's just similar to 20/20, it's the caffeine in buckfast that kills you.
 

scottdisco

rip this joint please
must add my 2c to Peter and STN, seedier stores are a rich haunt of good liquor in the States in my experience also.

i can't remember most names but a lot of the caffeinated malt stuff in the States you stumble across is good, the higher ABV Sparks in the big cans are a good livener.

i am going to have to sit on the fence wrt them and bucky therefore, as legendary as bucky is.

mentioned upthread, and a different sort of booze, but the first time i tried Everclear: tremendous! roof of mouth job. enhanced cuz some Indiana redneck had given me the bottle and pointed out (this was in the far north of IN, very near the Michigan border) you couldn't get it at the shops over the state line.

apparently vast areas of the south - many counties in some states - are formally dry.

do any American Dissensians know much more of this?

i found out recently and it gobsmacked me. IIRC when i say formally dry, i mean no sales anywhere at all, and not even for just Sundays or whatever. anywhere. couldn't believe it.

(well, i mean, i can, obviously.)

apparently i believe a lot of local authorities can and do opt out but at the county HQ level, they try to retain it.

barmy.
 

gostwan

Well-known member
Lol at "Bum wine".

I'll happily mail over some buckie to any US citizens who will mail me a bottle of that vodke that comes in an ak-47 shaped bottle.
 

4linehaiku

Repetitive
Bucky is brutal. There is a time and a place for it though (about 5am in Glasgow if you're wondering). I would liken the taste to cheap red wine + cornflour (for thickness) + Alkaseltza.

On the topic of getting drunk and awake at the same time though: was introduced to Club Mate + Jagermeister in Berlin. That shit is serious. Also, delicious.
 
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