OT: A Milestone

prawny
prawny Posts: 5,440
edited January 2010 in Commuting chat
For -null- Wallace AT and all of our North of the border friends

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/8464359.stm
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  • suzyb
    suzyb Posts: 3,449
    I'm so proud :oops:
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  • -spider-
    -spider- Posts: 2,548
    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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  • UndercoverElephant
    UndercoverElephant Posts: 5,796
    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.
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  • Sewinman
    Sewinman Posts: 2,131
    What does it actually taste like?
  • Wallace1492
    Wallace1492 Posts: 3,707
    -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.
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  • Wallace1492
    Wallace1492 Posts: 3,707
    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!
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  • prawny
    prawny Posts: 5,440
    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?
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  • rolf_f
    rolf_f Posts: 16,015
    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 :lol:
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  • Wallace1492
    Wallace1492 Posts: 3,707
    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 :lol:

    Buckie lorry heading north:

    BuckyinthetankO.jpg
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  • prawny
    prawny Posts: 5,440
    Bizarrely I really like that photo. I might set it as the screen saver on my phone.
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  • Aspman77
    Aspman77 Posts: 92
    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.
  • Wallace1492
    Wallace1492 Posts: 3,707
    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.
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  • suzyb
    suzyb Posts: 3,449
    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.
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