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"YOUR 60S XMAS DRINKS SHOPPING LIST"

lolwray
lolwray Posts: 4,929
edited December 2011 in General Charlton
a trip down memory lane for the more mature lifer
i remember part of the preamble to christmas was taking the pram to the off licence (on corner of northover and verdant lane) to stock up on drink ...we didnt have a car ..not many would have done
the list went something like this
babycham
sandemans port ...for port and lemon
gordons gin  ..for gin and orange (not orange juice-squash)
vat 69
warniks advocaat ..for snowballs ...that was as close to hedonism as you d get in my house at the time
cherry brandy ..for gran
bottles of light ale
watneys cream label stout or mackeson
c and c lemonade
tizer

have i left something out ? 
 
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  • ellisaddick
    ellisaddick Posts: 1,435
    Watneys Party sevens and fours


  • Floyd Montana
    Floyd Montana Posts: 3,730
    Stones Ginger Wine?

    R Whites?
  • Big William
    Big William Posts: 3,866
    edited December 2011

    In those days I hadn't graduated past R Whites, which had a taste all of its own.

    Can remember whenever there was a party on for the "grown-ups" there would be

    Watneys Red Barrel, as immortalised by Eric Idle. Apparently this was what was in the party 4/7's

    Babycham

    Johnnie Walker 

    Worthington E

    Double Diamond

  • iainment
    iainment Posts: 8,075

    Martini rosso

    Barley wine

    Sherry

     

     

  • Saga Lout
    Saga Lout Posts: 6,845
    Blue Nun
  • charlton villager
    charlton villager Posts: 286
    2 quarts of mild put into screw top brown glass bottles for Grandad

    bottles of guiness for Nan

    bottle Captain Morgan rum

    Cream Soda for the kids

    peppermint cordial

    Lime Cordial

    Packet alka seltzer

    packet of aspro

    packet of Woodbines or Weights
  • LenGlover
    LenGlover Posts: 31,718

    Get an extra few drinks off the Mackintosh lorry: Limeade, lemonade, cherryade, cream soda and tizer being the favourites.

    Stones Ginger wine, worthington white shield, Mackesons stout, Harveys Bristol cream.

  • lolwray
    lolwray Posts: 4,929
    yep ...must admit left off the sherry and the cream soda

  • stilladdicted
    stilladdicted Posts: 4,307
    edited December 2011

    Cocktail Cherries

     

    Grappa ( mum was italian)

    Mateus Rose and Blue Nun or was that a bit later?

  • Stuart_the_Red
    Stuart_the_Red Posts: 1,919
    Emva Cream sherry (at least that's how my Nan pronounced it!). 

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  • BowieAddick
    BowieAddick Posts: 1,192
    Cinzano and Black Tower (might be a bit later but I was only born in the 60's)
  • ellisaddick
    ellisaddick Posts: 1,435
    What about Beasleys Russian Stout it came in a 3 nip bottle and was like alcoholic treacle.
  • Stuart_the_Red
    Stuart_the_Red Posts: 1,919
    Blue Nun
    The red version of which was Bull's Blood!
  • stilladdicted
    stilladdicted Posts: 4,307

    Do 'ave a Dubonnet

    Also Cherry B.

    Remember quietly mixing Babycham with Brandy.

  • Greenie
    Greenie Posts: 9,174
    Cheese Balls
  • Oliver Street
    Oliver Street Posts: 5,133
    Burton's Potato Puffs for nibbles
  • Algarveaddick
    Algarveaddick Posts: 21,348
    Pony... the little drink with the big kick.
  • SoundAsa£
    SoundAsa£ Posts: 22,568
    edited December 2011

    A packet or two of proper (and I do mean proper) crisps. Smiths, there's never been anyting to touch 'em. Would often have a packet of KP Roasted Peanuts as well.

    Washed down with a bottle of R.Whites Cream Soda..........hate to think how many calories that lot was!

    Talking about 59/60/61 when I was 12 or 13.

    Saw one or two mention Blue Nun.............don't think that was around until the mid 70's to be honest, though Mateus Rose became popular around the mid 60's.

    Used to get these from the offo at the cross roads of Verdant Lane and Brownhill/St Mildreds Road in Catford.

    Happy days!

  • March51
    March51 Posts: 3,256
    edited December 2011

    Blimey Len: the Mackintos lorry. I'd really forgotten them, remember putting ice cream into the cream soda: delish! When we moved to Kent it was Moore's of Swanscombe for fizzy drinks. Remember that my dad had a book of cocktails that he brought out every Christmas but inevitably he either didn't have, or had run out of, the correct ingredients so he'd bung something else in. Most people who came to our house left it either very drunk or very ill

    Captain Morgan rum.

    Campari.

    Boxes of Cheeselets and Twiglets, turkish delight,and sticky dates.

  • charlton villager
    charlton villager Posts: 286
    Emva Cream sherry (at least that's how my Nan pronounced it!). 
    That's funny my nan called it the same but i sure it was called Enva Cream.??

    No problem anyway as a seven or eight year she used to give me a knowing wink and a secret sip whilst no one was looking. Just the one of course. God bless her.



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  • stilladdicted
    stilladdicted Posts: 4,307
    Iced caramels, hula hoops, Bing (red and white), Meltis New Berry Fruits with liquid centres, Milk Tray and Black Magic.
  • Fanny Fanackapan
    Fanny Fanackapan Posts: 18,812
    Creme de menthe ...UGH !
  • richie8
    richie8 Posts: 1,205
    Cinzano.
  • Six-a-bag-of-nuts
    Six-a-bag-of-nuts Posts: 8,156

    Get an extra few drinks off the Mackintosh lorry: Limeade, lemonade, cherryade, cream soda and tizer being the favourites.


    That brings back memories, Len.
    There was a Mackintosh's depot just off Kings Highway in Plumstead, near to where my Nan lived.
    We lived in Abbey Wood and Mackintosh were competing for business with the Corona lorry.
    Corona had more modern lorries and newer style bottle tops as I recall
  • Six-a-bag-of-nuts
    Six-a-bag-of-nuts Posts: 8,156
    Mickey - chocolate milk drink from the milkman

    Ind Coupe Super Draught


  • IdleHans
    IdleHans Posts: 11,101
    edited December 2011
    Emva Cream sherry (at least that's how my Nan pronounced it!). 
    That's funny my nan called it the same but i sure it was called Enva Cream.??

    No problem anyway as a seven or eight year she used to give me a knowing wink and a secret sip whilst no one was looking. Just the one of course. God bless her.


    It was definitely EMVA cream. Not sure where it came from, but the phrase "Cyprus sherry" is horribly near the tip of my tongue.

    Edit: just googled it - dear god, you can still buy it, now known as Emva Cream Fortified Wine. It is from Cyprus. Score one for the EU, I reckon.
  • Covered End
    Covered End Posts: 52,268
    Mackesons ?  WTF was/is that ? Was/is it a stout ?
  • stilladdicted
    stilladdicted Posts: 4,307

    Mackies, ah there's memories. It looked good, tasted good and by golly it did you good.

    It was originally brewed in a Hythe brewery in Kent and this milk stout was considered beneficial to health. It was actually prescribed to some hospitalised elderly people in a Canterbury hospital as was a drop of brandy. We woz more human in them days.

  • Covered End
    Covered End Posts: 52,268

    A Double Diamond works wonders works wonders works wonders

     

  • LenGlover
    LenGlover Posts: 31,718
    Some old photos here one of which, if you scroll down, has a Mackintosh lorry in it!

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