Any gentleman out there remember Ben Trueman?

in my late teens/early 20’s i worked as a barman for extra cash , & i loved the old snowballs in a bottle. didn’t like the taste , but whenever i served one i’d have a good sniff of the bottle after , customers thought i was nuts 😀

Remember the days when a bottle of Mateus Rosé with the basket on the bottom was the height of sophistication!

And for anyone who’s ever spent any time North of the Border – cremola foam and a bottle of buckies!

Not in the same glass, although on reflection, not so different from a Jaeger Bomb!

Black Russian cocktail a classic black Russian cocktail is made with a vodka coffee liqueur and cola garnish with a Maraschino cherry 🍒

My favourite cocktail 🍹✅

Dubonnet and lemonade 😋
Vodka and lime 🤢

I had such a liking for Blue Bols and lemonade when I was training that the hospital social club added it to the Optics! Perhaps if hospitals still had their own bars, hospital budgets would be healthier – although staff health might suffer as a consequence!!

I remember pubs.
Not sure how I’m going to explain their popularity to my grandchildren.

I don’t know that one but remember Biarritz, Dry Martini & lemonade, snakebite and brandy & babycham. Yuk! Happily I have grown up since then!

Vodka and lime or moscow mules

Tequila with the salt and lemon, could never bring myself to eat the worm at the bottom of the bottle though, Stunning blue flaming Sambuca with the coffee beans , Raki (pernod in flavour) in a Turkish Restaurant , hearing me order once, the Chef came out , shook my hand and joined us for a couple of glasses. A Whiskey drinker really, although I only tend to have a little tipple when I’m cooking, Too many favourites to list but I do enjoy a 12 year old malt called Aberlour.

Babycham!!😊

Although now I am teetotal, I used to drink vodka & pineapple, or Moscow mules, advocate, port & lemon, Lambrini, now you see why I turned teetotal lol

Another you cant get any more, but probably longer than 30 years since they stopped making it, as it was the 1st alcoholic drink I enjoyed in my teens.. BIARRITZ. and also…PONY

And I drank Babysham often yet Now it gives me an instant, intense headache, so can’t touch it, which is a shame as they brought it back out

Cinzano or Martini Rosso and lemonade

Gin &Orange Squash !!

I have some drinks that can stay in the past and never to be drunk again….pernod, southern comfort, carlsberg special brew and colt 45……all evil stuff.

Pina Colada!! Just reminds me of party nights in Magaluf and being young and daft. Oh, and massive jugs of Sangria too with brightly coloured straws…. free for all! Happy days!!

Drink of choice in my younger days was snakebite and black (looked like you were drinking a pint of blood), cherry b and cider or Malibu and pineapple don’t think I would drink any of them nowadays.
These days I’m more of a cider girl plus love a good rosè wine but when on holiday abroad it’s Sangria or Cocktails depending where I am in the world.

Brandy and Babycham

I remember that one made by bacardi. Mine was mad dog 20/20 almost Impossable to get now

Used to love peach cani (I don’t think that’s how you spell it
though 😚). does anyone remember it ? mmm mmm I’m gonna lookout for that in the shops maybe out put some old tunes on and have a little dance 😋

when the weather’s warmer &as lockdown eases who fancies meeting up & brining some of our drinks how about a park somewhere I really like this site joined during lockdown but joined so that I could meet up with people & hopefully make news friends 🌹

Babycham, in the proper glass with the baby deer on, I used to think I was so sophisticated at 18 drinking this, also dubonnet 😎

..just remembered ‘ Black Lady’ Guiness and Cider, 50/50 !!

Still enjoy a snowball (a proper one made with Warninks advocaat, a dash of lime and lemonade with a cherry on top)

I remember that…it was lovely 😋

I used to love southern comfort and lemonade, it was so sweet

Cinzano & lemonade from when I was 18 ….