My hubbies fav 80's drink was a spitfire. Perno and southern comfort together, it also never turned cloudy as perno normally does when mixed. He also liked a snakebite. I however was a very good girl and drank bitter lemon. . My fav drink now is Harveys bristol cream sherry and lemonade. Sad but true, cheap as well.

Jo

VOLARI.......I think it was wine...


CORKER

Diamond White
Diamond Blush
K Cider & Castaway mixed to make a "Blastaway"

A seriously sick looking lion!!!!

I remember a few good nights on Brandy and Babycham when I was at school (during the last few weeks of the 6th form, aged 18 of course )
White Lightning was a killer, wasn't it, specially if mixed with blackcurrant so you could drink it quicker. Diamond White too..... Wonder what Mercury Dry is like with blackcurrant.....hmmmm........
Anyone else remember Taboo and Mirage - could still get Taboo in Sainsburys when I left in 2003, I'll be straight there on my return this year

And dear old Martini ...........stranded in the old Dubai airport in 2000, only one shop where the cheapest drink was a 2 litre Martini bottle. Bars shut, cafes shut, me on my own and not a little freaked out. No drinking in public on pain of death. Large Martini bottle fitted into rucksack, and I made frequent trips to the Ladies, dragging all my luggage, where I consumed Martini at a great rate to fortify myself for the next hour or so on a hard plastic seat waiting for an aircraft to be found.

merrydown cider and kestral green,even at 14 you needed about 10 cans of kestral to get drunk.....and does anyone ever buy special brew i think you know that you have a drink problem when ya get a taste for that stuff

My favourite tipples were:

Stout & Cider
and
Navy Rum with Blackcurrant

Just thinking about that brings back memories i'd rather forget

Black velvet...guiness and blackcurrant...why?

I didn't mix the Stout & Cider with the Navy Rum & Blackcurrant

Two separate drinks

It was the crowd I drank with that got me on the Navy Rum mix

A proper Black Velvet is Guinness and Champagne though a poor mans Black Velvet uses Cider. Babycham was widely used though it didn't make up a full pint. Never heard of the blackcurrant version.
Hic Hic

Ooooh! i'd forgotten Merrydown cider..loved it!

Merrydown Cider lah de dah!! I couldn't afford that when I was a teenager. It was Winemarks own brand cider, 1.99 for 2 litres. Wasn't bad tho'

I did try Tennants Super once, it tasted like beer mixed with vodka. Not very nice...

JTL

Yep, I was a poor apprentice at the time on 15 bob a week if i remember rightly

My Dad's on a right old trip down memory lane, right now he's trying to remember the upmarket name of the babycham type drink they used to make Black Velvets with he reckons it's mozaic or some simlar name

Since you're in Perth.

Stones & Coke (as in Strone's Green Ginger Wine)
Brandivino & Dry
Foster's (nobody in Oz drinks it any more)