can you get buckfast anywhere in london

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never tried this and can't remember having seen it around.....kinda amiss not to have at least tried the fav drink of a neighbouring nation

keep meaning to open a shop in london that only sells buckie, square sausage, tablet, tunnock's tea cakes and happy hardcore cds

you can get it at the convenience store near my house (im in hackney)

What does it really taste like and just how much caffeine is in it. These are the questions I'd want answered before I try it.

It tastes, from memory, like a mixture between cheap port and cough medicine. Bear in mind I haven't tasted this for about 20 years.

Ward - I'm sure you can get a tax break to help make that dream of yours a reality.

Tastes like Calpol, if you guys ever had that medicine. It's v v sweet and sticky. People in Ireland are pretty wild for it, lots of people seemed to combine it with drugs IME.

tunnock's tea cakes

Oh you can already get those in London, as well as the caramel wafers ("14 million billion trillion made and sold every day!") and snowballs.

based on experience I reckon giant/super well-stocked Tescos will have it, not sure where those are in London tho

most central off-licenses sell this shit, I have had to restrain my curiosity a coupla times

nakhchivan if u wanna get buckwild and trash the cbd w/ me i am game

My brother drinks a cocktail of Buckfast and milk (!!!) before heading on a night out. Similarly, the slogan for a night out in my high school was "let's get Bucky & crack" - God love the west of Scotland. Bucky is rank, but it's good for getting you in the mindset of "who's up for a dance and a fight?"

It really upsets me that you can't get square sausage south of the border - it's a dietary staple for me, especially on hungover Sunday mornings. I buy a block from the butcher's and cut it myself, so I can have thin slices and make it last longer.

someone in the pub yesterday was talking about mixing buckfast and guinness on a recent trip back to ireland - "it makes both of them taste better!"

Have had Bucky, it's pretty sticky, drinking anything with milk is pretty fuckin savage imo

baileys and guinness mix together like a choc milkshake, for the 5 seconds before they curdle. you have to drink them v quickly.

my local used to do these little shot glasses of baileys and guinness, it ws good iirc

There's a drink here that involves dropping a shot glass of Baileys into a pint of Guinness and chugging it before it curdles that called an irish car bomb :/.

Is that because it goes off in your mouth?

erica yep i've heard people call it that...a lot. it's actually surprisingly nice, a chocolatey guinness.

Yeah, they're actually delicious.

A lot of restaurants here do Guinness ice cream floats which people say are amazing but I've yet to try. As a lover of both Guinness and ice cream I'm pretty sure it would be awesome even if it seems like an odd combination.

I've still never eaten haggis, keep meaning to rectify this.

Never seen a plain loaf down here mind, anyone?

i know a somewhat dumb american who asked for an irish car bomb in a northern irish pub. iiiiiit didn't go down well.

my work colleagues used to buy me them in my last job at the bbc, as "the only irish person in the office" i was forced to take on a more irish persona than i'd like.

You can get square sausage and plain bread in Bristol, pretty much only in speciality Irish stores though for some reason. Saying that, Morrisons has both from time to time, although it calls them Irish too. Never seen tablet though, for shame.

Never seen a plain loaf down here mind, anyone?

^^this. I miss plain bread.

i know a somewhat dumb american who asked for an irish car bomb in a northern irish pub. iiiiiit didn't go down well.

― Antoine Bugleboy (Merdeyeux), Saturday, November 20, 2010 1:13 PM (22 minutes ago) Bookmark

Reminds me of when I went into an 'Irish' pub in Australia that had a picture of the Queen on the wall.

Tastes like Calpol, if you guys ever had that medicine. It's v v sweet and sticky. People in Ireland are pretty wild for it, lots of people seemed to combine it with drugs IME.

― I see what this is (Local Garda), Saturday, 20 November 2010 10:42 (2 hours ago)

cool i used to love that stuff!

now other ppl have heard of it i can finally use...

haha all britishes parents have heard of that shit i think

lots of people seemed to combine it with drugs IME.

Speaking of drugs, I've heard the Scots boil up big vats of lucozade and ecstasy pills before a party.

that's like the caledonian version of the blood libel

unfair and untrue

Tasting like Calpol surely not a problem for a British drinking population that happily uses Red Bull as a mixer.

when i was an impressionable teen we used to do a few shots of Benylin before a night out. have been known to hit the codeine-ated or benzedrine-ified sizzurps as a grown-up too.

Plain bread - if you mean the TALL loaf in wax-paper wrapping - has always been available at the Sainsbury's at the Angel and I'm sure you can get it at the King's Cross Tesco, Alba.

I don't remember Bucky tasting like Calpol. I've always wanted my dream cough syrup and booze fusion CALPAHOL to be a real product.

You don't get potato scone outside of Scotland, do you?

Suzy, thats good to know, describing a plain loaf to most people often feels like trying to make a convincing argument that your best friend is a unicorn.

There are a lot of Scots in WC1, almost as if they didn't range too far from King's Cross once they left the train, so it's a good bet to look around here for Scottish treats. Potato scone is perhaps called something else by Sassenachs but you can get a version in Waitrose or M&S. Square sausage is worth asking for at McKenna's butcher on Theobald's Road in Holborn - they will order most things people request if they don't have it.

square sausage isn't irish...is it? never had a square sausage in my life.

think it might be an Ulster thing

i.e. Scottish

Square sausage and a potato cake on a roll: breakfast of hungover Scottish champions.

Never heard of square sausage either...worth starting a thread on McDaid's Football Special?

Actually, I'll just paste the whole Wikipedia entry - every detail is crucial:

McDaid's Football Special is a soft drink produced in Letterkenny and Ramelton, a company based in County Donegal, Ireland. Two flavours are produced: banana, and the most popular one, which is made with a mix of seven secret flavours. The company uses their own private water source to produce the beverages.

Football Special is one of McDaid's oldest and most distinguished products, winning two awards for excellence in 1984 and 1989 from the London Beverage Society.

James McDaid Jr., the CEO of the company was also on the founding board of Swilly Rovers FC, one of the most decorated junior football clubs in Ireland, and, as such, wanted to celebrate winning trophies by filling the cup with an exciting but non-alcoholic beverage. They created a drink and named it "Football Cup". Later, the name was changed to Football Special.

"I'll tell you what sir, it's hard to beat a glass of vodka and football special. In fact make it a double because I am in such a good mood."

Football Special! Fucking love it. Was gonna start an import business but I believe they're selling it over the internet now.

At one time you could only get it in this little 10 mile square of Donegal, I believe.

McDaid's Football Special is a soft drink produced in Letterkenny and Ramelton, a company based in County Donegal, Ireland. Two flavours are produced: banana, and the most popular one, which is made with a mix of seven secret flavours. The company uses their own private water source to produce the beverages.

oh man why did nobody tell me about this before I went to Rathmullan

I wonder if the "own private water source" is to avoid the brown tapwater you get in that area, or if this is a special, even browner water

Hundrreds is average tbh

real scotland

http://m.stv.tv/news/west-central/275705-buckfast-owners-announce-controversial-tonic-wine-to-be-sold-in-cans/

Next stop nightclubs.

new branding

https://twitter.com/StewartWilson19/status/471915679621189632

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BoyUzuCIEAA6Mfe.jpg

I'm buying the first one I see.

lol @
"Stewart Wilson @StewartWilson19
The approved Twitter account for Buckfast Tonic Wine."

didnae even register an official @buckie

http://waterfordwhispersnews.com/2014/05/20/powdered-buckfast-to-be-sold-in-wraps/

http://i.imgur.com/WUKGShS.png

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/06/02/world/europe/buckfast-abbey-tonic-wine.html?ref=dining

I have still yet to taste or even see buckie in a can.

this article could have run at any time in the last 20 years

English Abbey’s Caffeinated Wine Gains Popularity and Scrutiny

“At the end of the day it’s not different from any other alcohol,” she said. “In Scotland, they make whisky; it’s all about responsibility.”

it's different from other alcohol in that buckie bottles are the only kind which get lobbed over my back fence and smashed in the garden

In Scotland, A Turbo-Booze To-Do

In Gutter, Evidence of Tradition

brb gonna start a petition to introduce decaf buckie

I clearly have some work to do before visiting London (2014 or bust), as I thought buckfast must be some twee manner of saying breakfast.

― eclectic husbandry (Dr Morbius), Monday, November 4, 2013 11:56 AM (1 year ago)

every time this thread comes back up i misread it as 'breakfast' and feel a moment of deep pity for ppl who live in such a sad fucked up place that there's no breakfast

decaf coffee is pointless enough

Eldorado - previously a rich white fortified jakey wine - now comes in a £5.99 bottle of caffeinated "tonic" in a blatant play for the Buckfast market

http://www.unitedwines.co.uk/tmp/uploads/cms_image/rs-300x500/1413204801-88.jpg

in a fit of curiosity i bought a supermalt last night

lasted about three sips. probably even grosser than buckfast

Yeah, it's very much a Caribbean staple but you lasted two sips longer than i did.

reckon it might have been ok with maybe 10% of its sugar content, but sweetened malt fizz feels like the opposite of health and efficiency

some caribbean staples i can't get enough of, btw - i get through about three aloe vera juice bottles a week. i've also recently developed a liking for that foco tamarind juice stuff. having a backstreets cornershop as my only nearby source of sustenance is great fun tbh

yeah my dad drinks supermalts, I remember when I was young really wanting to like them but they made me feel ill. I don't like excess maltiness in beer either (eg the erdinger alkohol frei)

carribean junk product he got me into that I still love and consume unhealthy amounts of = encona sauce

oh, one cricket team we played served sarsaparilla during the drinks breaks. i could very, very easily get hooked on that stuff

I'm pretty sure my dad puts Encona on every meal he has.

Milo is more palatable than Supermalt if you absolutely need to have sugary malt drinks.

Are there any malt drinks that just aren't sugary?

I'm not so into sweet drinks luckily but when hungover I love root beer & that Arizona green tea you can get in the states, wish we had that here

good disgusting sweet corner shop can drink you can get here: that thai drink with basil seeds in it

I'm pretty sure my dad puts Encona on every meal he has.

SAME! My mum used to boggle at how he'd slather it all over a roast dinner

the Arizona green tea IS here! you can get it in my cornershop!

whaaa

why did we waste so much of this thread talking about shitty buckfast

just fished an empty bottle of arizona blueberry white tea from the recycling and an admiring its ornate patterning rn

*am

I'm fuckin hangin this am, could do with a can

it really does pay to scan the entire drinks shelf

I've got a soft spot for arizona arnold palmers

obviously when it comes to nectars & from-concentrate juice drinks, poland is host nation and tournament winner. dr witt alone has to be worthy of some sort of prize, let alone frugo, tymbark etc etc

Counter to that is krakow non-alcoholic coffee beer which is one of the worst things I've ever tasted

I'm having a Bloody Mary rn and they put pineapple juice in it 😩

and they put pineapple juice in it

disgusting savages

It was an unwelcome surprise :-(

Why not stick some battery acid in the hungover person's stomach while you're at it

A trip to the polish shop has reminded me that the horrible coffee beer brand is karmi, not krakow

Dunnes Stores are selling naggins of Buckfast now. Just doesn't look right.

That size has been around for ages. I've yet to encounter a can on my travels though.

My cornershop soft drink import of choice is S. Pellegrino Melograno e Arancina 'sparkling beverage'.

i don't drink anything bad for me unless it's got alcohol in it

really into these tallboy cans of kern's nectar they have at the 7/11 now. because what kern's nectar needed was one of those giant arizona style cans. the 80 difft kinds of monster energy drinks skeeze me out though.

I've had a few cans, all delivered to me by Edinburghers though. I'm trying to keep them for special (rare) occasions though.

Special occasions = Saturday nights.

Dunnes Stores are selling naggins of Buckfast now. Just doesn't look right.

i would get these all the time, much more often than a full bottle because the caffeine, and the booze tbh, were generally more than i wanted before going out to the pub/club. glasgow being what it was both my friends and many of the retailers would disparage my choice and suggest i go for a full bottle.

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