More Blasts From The Past.

The subject of once fashionable drinks came up again in the pub last night. We had mention of vodka and lime, lager and lime, snowballs, Cherry B, brandy and Babycham, Black Russians, Brown Split (often known in the non pc 1970s as 'Nancy Boy Specials) Light Split and of course, the notorious Watneys Red Barrel. Sheila Wilson also remembers, when working in The Lamb in the early 80's, some people drinking what sounds like a partricularly nauseous mixture of lager and tomato juice. If thats what they were drinking in The Lamb, I am glad I was drinking in The New Inn at the time.

Talking about Watneys Red Barrel, I remember that in the very early 1970's, Watneys produced a beermat for that particularly awful brew of a beer barrel shaped like a hand grenade and bearing the caption 'start the red revolution with Watneys Red Barrel'. One suspects that if you produced such a beermat today you might get a visit from PC Plod and a consideration as to whether you were in contravention of The Terrorism Act.