Getting My Priorities Right!

[Buenchico]

I've had a really long shopping list sitting in my pocket all day long but I've never made it to a big supermarket. So, with just a few minutes left before they were due to close at 11, I've just been down to the local Co-op. With so little time left, I had to prioritise my shopping list. So here's what I bought:

1. Cat food (always at the top of the list!)
2. Beer
3. Pizza

Who says that men don't know how to shop?

;-)

[venator]

Did anyone ever drink Red Barrel? Plain water was stronger, but briiliant marketing!

[tonyav]

LOL, Yep Wattney's Red Barrel was absolute carp. I remember that when I first started having foreign holls ( Spain in the early 70's )

[tonyav]

Red Barrel was the only English beer available !

[Jackdaw33]

Mild was unknown in NE England. It was a choice of ordinary (IPA) and bitter. A combination of the two was known as a pint of mixed.

[Buenchico]

I've drunk plenty of Mann's brown ale in my more impecunious days. I don't regard it as the best brown ale but it was always the cheapest one in Morrison's ;-)

Red Barrel was, indeed, rubbish, Venator but I seem to recall actually seeking out pubs in Sheffield that served it during my student days! (Maybe it was a longing for southern beer!).

Anyway, weak beer was actually advantageous if you were doing 'the West Street run'. That involved having a half pint of beer (or if you were brave/foolhardy, a pint) in all of the 21 pubs between our college campus and the city centre as a precursor to getting down to some really serious drinking once you'd got there ;-)

[Jackdaw33]

Another popular drink was a Black and Tan, half stout, half beer.

[tonyav]

Mild was a popular beer in the Black country, jd. Especially Banks or M&B. I thought that Mild ale was available all over, shows how wrong you can be.

[Buenchico]

A good pint of mild is hard to come by but, when you find it, it's the elixir of the gods ;-)

Right, I've finished the Staropramen (and I'm saving the Moretti for another night), so I'm off to bed now.

Thanks for the chat, guys.

Good night!

[tonyav]

Jackdaw33Another popular drink was a Black and Tan, half stout, half beer.


Ah yes, a Black and Tan where I live is half of Mild and half of Stout.

[tonyav]

G'night Chris.

[Hopkirk]

Bring back Davenports

[roopower]

Cat food doesn't actually taste that bad. I know as I absent mindedly licked the fork when dishing it up one evening. It smells awful though.

[gness]

I'll take your word for that, Roo. If you're ever stuck for work I read that you can earn up to £50,000 a year as a pet food tester.
One chap says he loves his job and gets satisfaction from two days never being the same.
I'm still wondering how tasting pet food can be different every day. :-?

[The Builder]

Top man, Chris. I'm glad that your various various medical concerns have not gotten in the way of a good beer.

I have a confession for both SD and Gness.
Even after a lifetime of beer sampling... ale, Craft etc usually, I have never been able to get anywhere near a pint of the black stuff.
I've tried.
And I've tried.
I even forced myself to keep trying Murphy's for some time, in a pub just across the street from the Murphy brewery in Cork itself.
No go.
Same with Beamish.
Occasionally, I try a Guinness, thinking "how bad can it be?"
I just can't get the taste. :o(
Naturally I've kept this from the Garda whenever I've been in Eire.

[gness]

Oh dear. Do you think ruining your tastebuds with Murphy's and Beamish has stopped you enjoying Guinness, Mr Builder?
Very wise to keep it from the Guards....in fact keep it from everyone...... ;-)

[shoota]

A pint of Youngs Winter Warmer with a Pussers chaser used to preclude the need for clothes or central heating.
Draught Old Peculiar similarly.
But, like the Builder, that black stuff was best sent back from whence it came.

[gness]

We wouldn't have it back, Shoota. Everyone knows that we keep the best black stuff here and what we send out is....okayish...x

[rowanwitch]

For those who are wary of dark beers track down a black IPA, fair few on the US imports list but sometimes an experimental brewer will surprise you with a UK version. If you see it Great Heck Black Jesus is A joy if you can find it. A lovely halfway house Titanic plum porter, rich and damsony, Christmas cake in a glass try Greenjacks Baltic trader (10.5%abv) or Ad hop's Christmas Pudding ale
Cat cat brewery. Mocha moggy is a really chocolate one, as is Brass Castle Bad Kitty