OT: A Milestone
prawny
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For -null- Wallace AT and all of our North of the border friends
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/8464359.stm
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/8464359.stm
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Dreadful stuff - cheap and nasty. It is clearly targeted at the market they serve - making profit from vandalism and misery. Well done to the Monks of Buckfast Abbey.
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Thing I don't get is that it's not actually THAT cheap. I seem to recall the good people of http://www.trampjuice.tk/ not even giving it a rating as it was about three times the price of proper tramp juice.
I think it's a west of Scotland thing, really.0 -
What does it actually taste like?0
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-spider- wrote:Dreadful stuff - cheap and nasty. It is clearly targeted at the market they serve - making profit from vandalism and misery. Well done to the Monks of Buckfast Abbey.
Its not that cheap, a bottle costs 6 or 7 quid, when you could get a nice bottle of red for a fiver.
It does taste foul though. About 10% of the worldwide sales of the stuff are in North Lanarkshire, where it is referred to as "Coatbridge Table Wine"
It will be interesting to watch this tonight."Encyclopaedia is a fetish for very small bicycles"0 -
Sewinman wrote:What does it actually taste like?
Buckfast - Tasting Notes
A fortified tonic wine, made by the monks of Buckfast Abbey.
It has the dark appearance of blood, funny that as a lot of drinkers injur others.
It has a rich, elegent bouquet, in contrast to the skint neds who drink it.
Imagine, dettol mixed with cough medicine, add a bag of sugar and a high alcohol content.
There you have it!"Encyclopaedia is a fetish for very small bicycles"0 -
Wallace1492 wrote:Sewinman wrote:What does it actually taste like?
Imagine, dettol mixed with cough medicine, add a bag of sugar and a high alcohol content.
There you have it!
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prawny wrote:Wallace1492 wrote:Sewinman wrote:What does it actually taste like?
Imagine, dettol mixed with cough medicine, add a bag of sugar and a high alcohol content.
There you have it!
Yummy, where can I get some down here?
Hijack a lorry load - there'll be plenty heading past your way for the border and a hijacking seems in the spirit of the productFaster than a tent.......0 -
Rolf F wrote:prawny wrote:Wallace1492 wrote:Sewinman wrote:What does it actually taste like?
Imagine, dettol mixed with cough medicine, add a bag of sugar and a high alcohol content.
There you have it!
Yummy, where can I get some down here?
Hijack a lorry load - there'll be plenty heading past your way for the border and a hijacking seems in the spirit of the product
Buckie lorry heading north:
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Sewinman wrote:What does it actually taste like?
Yup cough medicine, treacle, cold coffee (cheap instant) topped off with a liberal amount of meths
Boggin! As the drinkers would say.
Wean these kids off it and onto Maddog 20/20 and Thunderbird like I drank as a 14 year old.
Buckie is too expensive for the neds round here, they drink White Lightning, £2 for 3l.0 -
prawny wrote:Bizarrely I really like that photo. I might set it as the screen saver on my phone.
I like the plate below the regi - B.T.W. 5. There must be a whole fleet of Buckfast Tonic Wine lorries plying their trade up and down the motorways of Britain. Would it not be better to lay a pipeline direct from the Abbey to North Lanarkshire?
One of my favourite stories is from a few years ago, the local MP urged the monks to cut the supply to ease the suffering of her constituants. On attending a meeting in Airdrie she was met by a couple of neds with posters saying "Don't Ban Buckie". Nothing happened except the publicity sent Buckfast sales soaring."Encyclopaedia is a fetish for very small bicycles"0 -
I've actually been to the Abbey, when I was younger on a family holiday we went. Up until then I didn't realise Buckie was made by monks.
I do remember though that even though the place was really busy the monks (in the shop) still took the time to be pleasant to people and thank them.0