What did/do you call an on-the-go alcoholic bev?

Posted by scrumpyjack18@reddit | AskUK | View on Reddit | 75 comments

For example, if you were at pre-drinks and took a drink with you to have between home and the club/whenever - what was that for you?

I'm wondering if it's a regional thing like knock a door run. We called it a journey juice at uni in Scotland.

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Rowanx3@reddit

Lived/have siblings live in london and we call it a tube tinnie/train tinnie

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terryjuicelawson@reddit

Technically banned on the tube now isn't it? Not sure if any action is ever taken over it though.

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Rowanx3@reddit

Yeah, you aren’t supposed to drink on the tube, every time i do i feel like Diane abbot when she got snapped having a tube tinnie

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TurnedOutShiteAgain@reddit

If it's on public transport then it's a "train beer"; even you're not on a train.

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fortyfivepointseven@reddit

Especially if it's not a beer, or a road. "I've got a pre-mix tinny for road beers on the Tube.".

I have a friend who calls them Abbotts if it's on the Tube/Overground, after this iconic queen incident: https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2019/apr/20/diane-abbott-apologises-for-drinking-mojito-on-public-transport

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foreverunamused@reddit

Bot for the journ

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LHBx@reddit

The Emily Atack special, was hoping I’d see this haha

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foreverunamused@reddit

Haha it's fully part of my lingo now 😂

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Sigh_Bapanaada@reddit

Happy radio lads!

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womDbomb@reddit

Journey juice

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SpaTowner@reddit

OFTR, pronounced ’off ter’ as in ‘off ter the pub’ but standing for One For The Road.

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illbepedro@reddit

Queue beers

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Jimbob136925@reddit

Waiting to get into a gig or festival or something, they were Queue beers. On the way to the venue? Road beers.

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illbepedro@reddit

Stems from uni where we lived so close to the nearest club that any road beer automatically became a queue beer

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AdventurousTeach994@reddit

WHIT? It never had any special name/significance... you young yins hiv tae complicate everything

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Current_Thing2244@reddit

I was wondering the same. And what uni they go to because I can't imagine anywhere in Scotland not mocking that silly name

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scrumpyjack18@reddit (OP)

I'm sorry to hear your drinking was so devoid of whimsy

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AdventurousTeach994@reddit

Whimsy? IN GLASGOW? Is this "Whimsy" a Kafflik or a Hun? or a Muslim Hun or a Muslim Tim?

Where are these Whimsies coming from? Small boats at Largs?

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Current_Thing2244@reddit

"whimsy". Okay then rocket.

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wardyms@reddit

Why does having a word of phrase for a particular situation complicate it? Surely the opposite is true? Makes it very clear what you’re talking about.

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stevenson3529@reddit

SFTJ (something for the journey)

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scrumpyjack18@reddit (OP)

That's my Myers-Briggs type

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MrMotorcycle94@reddit

Train tinnies as I usually drink them on the train uo to meet friends for drinks

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Imtryingforheckssake@reddit

I've never done this nor has anyone I know, so I'd probably call it an alcohol problem.

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ApesApesApes@reddit

yeah i feel the same, didnt have any fun when i was growing up at all

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whyy_i_eyes_ya@reddit

Bus treat. Though I rarely get buses.

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TheWeetchBeetch@reddit

We call them “shinies” because we always get drawn to them in shops like we’re magpies. We take those pre mixed gin and tonics to the cinema and tell the other “I got us some shinies for the movie”.

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TSC-99@reddit

Not allowed to do that so just down it and go.

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WasteofMotion@reddit

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Grand-Meeting-7949@reddit

A traveller!

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Superspark76@reddit

We used to have 2 walking beers on the way to the train, then a train beer and then a to-the-bar beer.

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Gaoler86@reddit

"Train Wine" even if its not wine

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coinsntings@reddit

Currently on the train with a cider.. tis my travel cider

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notcharlesincharge@reddit

A walking drink

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Wiltix@reddit

Road beer.

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allaboutthecow@reddit

Roadie

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parsonpigeon@reddit

Bag o' cans

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WhizzBank@reddit

Roadie

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PmMeLowCarbRecipes@reddit

Road beer. Doesn’t have to be a beer.

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zigzog7@reddit

You don’t take it with you, down it

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Simbooptendo@reddit

GET IT DOWN YOU ZULU WARRIOR

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juiceforsyth@reddit

GET IT DOWN YOU ZULU CHIEF

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Coconutpieplates@reddit

Seconding this. You realise you only have 10 minutes to get to the union or club while it's free entry, so everyone downs what they have or tries to get someone else to for them. The leave ASAP.

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Equivalent_Light8582@reddit

One for the walk

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bizstring@reddit

One for the road

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Aggressive_Sound@reddit

Isnt that the last one before you go home? Not the one you take with you on the way to the first place?

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Lazy-Kaleidoscope179@reddit

Nah that's the last one before you leave

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stehunt78@reddit

We call it a walking beer for the one between the campsite and the festival grounds (i.e. that 200 yards lol).

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1-Bloke@reddit

Traveller

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Personal-Listen-4941@reddit

It’s a walking beer.

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markedmo@reddit

Cheeky traveller

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foxysmooth@reddit

Bot for the journ

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markedmo@reddit

It was a good episode

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Long-Signature-6481@reddit

Cheers cheers walking beers

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wonkeymonkey2024@reddit

Pops; so train pops, bus pops, walking pops..

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SopranoCrew@reddit

road soda

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SomeHSomeE@reddit

Road beer or just roadie. Older starting using journey juice as heard others use it and liked it.

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swansw9@reddit

When I was of an age where this was a fairly regular occurrence I called it ‘one for the road’

In my older years I have acquired the term ‘traveller’ and prefer this now

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