Not a delinquent; I turned 21 in ‘97 😂 I didn’t have my first drink until my 21st birthday and then spent a couple of weeks making up for being “sober” from 18-21 (US, so not legal but my inappropriate BF was 25 so I could have).
I was an army brat teen in Germany through high school. Should have cultivated a taste for good beer, nope. Shmirnov Ice to the face every weekend instead.
There is a convenience store about a quarter mile from the highschool I went to I would buy cigarettes and beer from every Friday. They never asked for my ID 🪪 even once. Shout out to the Favor Mart!
Personally, it was drinking two Mickeys to the neck then pouring Tropicana OJ to replace, mix, then tape, then physically bad times but hazy and fond memories. THE HAZY JUST LEFT AND THE FOND JUST GOT HERE.
After Shock was so sugary, it would develop these alcoholic rock candy crytals inside the bottle that you could poke at n break off. Those were my favs!
Yeah, that one I remember. I'd just gotten an apartment next door to my childhood best friend and a friend of his quit drinking and passed his whole liquor cabinet on to my friend, and that crystalized bottle of After Shock is all I remember.
Budweiser always tasted like vomit to me, but Bud Ice was my hands-down favorite, especially when it came in those cool glass bottles with the "ice cube" texture on it.
We used to call it dead dog. Because it tasted bad but it was cheaper than bud light. We’d get that or ice house (ass house). Aftershock or avalanche were in the freezer for some reason.
Holy cow. I had completely forgotten about Red Dog beer. I even had a giant stuffed red dog which I won at a bar that I totally hadn’t used a fake ID to get in to. It used to sit on my shelf with my Mike’s Hard Lemonade sign which was stolen from another bar which I also totally didn’t use a fake ID at 😉.
Your list is kind of bad. I don't mean offense, I just remember Alizé being like The Thing for chicks in 2002, Red Dog went from Dad Drink and working on cars whilst listening to a "Shock Jock" on the radio in the 90s to... still doing that through the 'oughts(pending punitive sentences), but delinquents drank Mad Dog 20/20, and you nailed the Aftershock. I didnt mention the others the comments above had mentioned, but it is an interesting list.
Also, what the fuck was Zima, really, just because it was really dumb and the whole Jolly Rancher thing was weird too.
…Or your first job as a teen was a store clerk. I spent hours working in the freezer and refrigerator stocking beer. I got sick of the smell of it. Still not a fan of it.
My Grandpa drank Red Dog... I kinda half suspected it was because it was the one beer so gross he knew me and my fellow juvenile delinquent cousin wouldn't raid hid supply of.
Saw this earlier and thought about crossposting. Jack Daniel’s fruit punch was my introduction to partying in undergrad. Never had AfterShock but enjoyed its counterpart, Avalanche. I think they still make it.
Before I developed the taste for beer, those Country Cocktails were so good. I think the packaging made them look so much cooler than Bartles and James.
my brother came home drunk in 96 with a bottle of goldschlager and gave me some when i was a kid lol i was like what this tastes like big red why would anyone drink this
I split a bottle of Aftershock with a friend once in 1999, when I was 19. When the liquor was gone, I ate all the candy to myself. Like 20 minutes later, I was throwing up all over the shoulder of the 101 in Phoenix. This is where the story gets interesting.
We were driving to San Diego to see a punk rock festival show. (Some one off thing, not Warped Tour.) Anyway, we got to roughly Needles, CA when the engine seized in the car we were driving, because the girl who owned it had let it overheat without ever adding more coolant.
So, this being in the time before cell phones, we started walking with our thumbs out in hopes of catching a ride. It's roughly 3 AM in the rural California desert, and we all have nothing but a bottle of water and a backpack each with clothes and toiletries.
Eventually, a conversion van stops, and the driver clears out some of the mess in the back so we can ride with him. He asks where we are going, and says that he is going to Chula Vista. We can ride there with him, and then we're on our own to get to/around San Diego.
A few miles in, he starts flirting with our female companion. She's not interested, but she's being polite. My friend who is in the back seat with me rouses my attention and sort of signals to be ready, because he's feeling like this guy is a creep.
At roughly this point, the driver of the van asks if we like magic. Friend and I both get nervous, thinking he's going to make a bad joke about hitchhikers disappearing. The girl says, "sure, do a trick for us!" and the guy driving makes a gesture with his hand which produces a small flash, a puff of smoke, and a small bouquet of fake flowers. The flash powder freaked the girl out, and she told him to pay attention to where he was driving, and please stop doing magic.
The rest of the ride was very quiet, but we got where we were going at about 5:30 AM and started calling around, trying to find someone we knew who was awake and willing to accommodate us, at least until the show started.
We ended up getting picked up by a kid we all went to high school with, who showed up with a bag of McDonalds and some weed. So, in the span of about 8 hours, I went from sitting alone in my apartment to smoking a joint on the beach in San Diego at 6 AM.
The two companions went on to the show.
I literally never saw the girl again, and wouldn't see my buddy for another 23 years. I called my then girlfriend at USD who put me up for the weekend, and drove me to the Greyhound station on Sunday morning so I could be back in AZ in time for work on Monday.
I managed to get to Phoenix, where I ran out of money and spent another night panhandling to gather enough money to hire a car back to Prescott. Someone recommended that I try a limo company instead of a cab company, because they usually have fixed rates that can save you money as opposed to a cabbie who runs a meter and charges more for travel outside their service area.
After a day of calling into work and sleeping and busking/panhandling at the Greyhound station, I finally had enough money scraped up to take a limo back to my parents house, where I was dropped off after midnight by a black 10 passenger limo with just a Jansport backpack of clothes and food wrappers.
After Shock got remade into Fireball and you cannot convince me otherwise.
Listen, I spent a lot of time in the State Store here in PA as a child with my parents and grandparents. The design of some of the bottles is what I remember most.
Were those Jack Daniel's things available in the 90s? I could have sworn there came out in the Mike's Hard Lemonaid era and that only came to the US in '99 according to wikipedia.
There was a schnapps brand called Tattoo which came in three fruit flavors and turned your mouth and tongue the color (blue, red or yellow) for a day. it was always nearby the After Shock on the shelf. It was made for delinquents and degens.
am i bit seeing the bartle and james wine coolers? i’ve always been pissed i was too young(read not a teenager brave enough to swipe one) to know what they tasted like.
Red Dog was my dad’s go-to when we couldn’t afford Busch Light. I think my first sip of beer was at age 2 and I remember it was a Red Dog can on a wooden coaster. Dad was in the bathroom and I got curious what he was drinking that I couldn’t.
Those few times I really needed to get drunk but only had some loose change at home. I described it the other day as a flat beer someone poured a shot of vodka into.
How about (most, I shared some) whole 1/5 of Captain and then trying to extricate the crystals from the bottom of Aftershock, who knows how much aftershock I drank. The body remembers the effects of rum.
I went to college in a cold, New England city and we had a tradition called Feb Club, where there was a party every single night of February, so as to get us through the cold, dark nights.
When it came time for my friends to host, our theme was "Forties." Nope, not anything to do with the 1940s. Literally Forties of malt liquor. We had trash cans filled with ice and an assortment of 40 oz. bottles of malt liquor - St. Ides, Mickeys, Old English, Steel Reserve, etc. We also had a few 22s of Boones Farm and other fruity shit for people who didn't want the malt liquor.
One day I started drinking st ides, got passed out drunk, woke up a couple hours later in the back of a mini van at my friend's house, dealt with my hangover, started drinking and smoking again... All before midnight... St ides should have been illegal...
Perhaps you can help me with an age old question. Many pronounced it St. Ides like the Ides of March but some rap/hip-hop pronounced it more like "St. Id-is". Thoughts?
For my 18th birthday a bunch of us spent way too many hours at the local Hooters when Bud was sponsoring some putting contest. We won so many Bud Ice t shirts!
Wapiti_whacker82@reddit
Oh, Red Dog! If you look at the label upside down, it resembles Batman going down on a woman.
This-Unit-1954@reddit
I came here to say the same. I was told it wasn’t just any woman, it was Wonder Woman. Don’t know how Superman felt about that.
Wapiti_whacker82@reddit
I now remember that we used to say it was Batman going down on Catwoman!
MsCattatude@reddit
Where’s the Natty Ice
1101base2@reddit
After shock and avalanche for me. Finishing off the bottle so we could get "wasted" on the crystals inside...
kenthels@reddit
What no goldschlager
cropguru357@reddit
Aftershock was for us poors.
sliderturk99@reddit
I used to make shots of 151 and aftershock....woof
__Geg__@reddit
And No Ice House!
Perfect-District@reddit
Or crazy horse
SnooSongs450@reddit
My first thought. That and Hot/Blue 100.
sassypants450@reddit
Hahaha. I thought to myself, “I definitely was a juvenile delinquent, but I don’t relate to any of these”.
I was 100% a Goldschlager consumer (and then inevitably upchuck)
rainbwbrightisntpunk@reddit
The first time I ever blacked out was in Goldschlager. Great graduation party
roflberrypwnmuffins@reddit
Three flakes minimum
ADMotti@reddit
Every off-campus freezer where I went to college had After Shock, Goldschlager AND uncle Jager. No need to exclude!
BongwaterJoe1983@reddit
No goldschlger, yager or southern comfort smh
binary_agenda@reddit
RIP Zima
TragicsNFG@reddit
What no Rev?
Vorpal_Bunny19@reddit
Not a delinquent; I turned 21 in ‘97 😂 I didn’t have my first drink until my 21st birthday and then spent a couple of weeks making up for being “sober” from 18-21 (US, so not legal but my inappropriate BF was 25 so I could have).
Top-Anybody-8452@reddit
m0h3k4n@reddit
I was an army brat teen in Germany through high school. Should have cultivated a taste for good beer, nope. Shmirnov Ice to the face every weekend instead.
BrutusMcGillicudy@reddit
Aftershock is really fun when having lots of sex on mushrooms.
Puzzleheaded_Post604@reddit
My college roomy drank aftershock and Mountain Dew. Together.
Galen_415@reddit
I do and I was
Top_Carpet_7866@reddit
Needs more dog!
Perfect-District@reddit
Those are some deep cuts from the past...scrape bruises and ouchies too.
blamberr@reddit
Where the hell are the forties of Old E??? That was how we got down…with them duct taped to our hands
nahmahnahm@reddit
Yesssssss. Where’s the Olde E???
Monkmastaa@reddit
Big bear and oe pick your poison. Super store liquor had a bulk deal if you bought 12 , worked out to like 2.75 per. Rotten
RB___OG@reddit
Mickeys grenades are missing too
Express-Fennel-3564@reddit
Like a high school party starter pack!
PlatypusDependent271@reddit
There is a convenience store about a quarter mile from the highschool I went to I would buy cigarettes and beer from every Friday. They never asked for my ID 🪪 even once. Shout out to the Favor Mart!
Matt-J-McCormack@reddit
Fuck… I swear I could taste Aftershock just looking at the image.
Doctor_Hilarious@reddit
Any time I drank a St. Ides 40, I most assuredly did NOT win
Man_in_a_chair@reddit
What... no MD2020
Ralliman320@reddit
Yeah, in my 90s delinquency this meme would be MD2020, Boone's, Cisco, and Zima ("for the chicks").
rainbwbrightisntpunk@reddit
My mom would let me drink Zimas. I loved those!
DEIreboot@reddit
St. Ides makes weed drinks with 100mg THC in each can now!
OtisPimpBoot@reddit
100mg per can? That’s some heavy lifting for one can.
sentient_fox@reddit
Be careful in the garage and where you walk and sometimes stand and dont talk either is what I always say.
MsBlondeViking@reddit
This is nice to know. THC is my addiction lol, most edibles don’t do anything for me. Not the case with thc infused drinks I’ve tried.
OtisPimpBoot@reddit
My ex used to take a Zima and stuff Jolly Ranchers down the neck until it was nearly overflowing. Seemed like a waste of jolly ranchers to me.
Man_in_a_chair@reddit
How could i forget about boones!
massunderestmated@reddit
Mad Dog Mondays!
aspect-of-the-badger@reddit
Don't forget OE800 too.
Trashman82@reddit
What else are you gonna do Edward 40hands with?
sentient_fox@reddit
Personally, it was drinking two Mickeys to the neck then pouring Tropicana OJ to replace, mix, then tape, then physically bad times but hazy and fond memories. THE HAZY JUST LEFT AND THE FOND JUST GOT HERE.
OkPlantain6773@reddit
Now we're doing Edward 40 hands with colonoscopy prep liquid! (Seriously, I used this technique to remember to drink it all in the allotted time.)
Trashman82@reddit
Oh shit (literally)
sexwiththebabysitter@reddit
That sounds risky
Trashman82@reddit
Thats putting it lightly
PhantoWolf@reddit
We had that instead of whatever that Alize is.
sexwiththebabysitter@reddit
Just reading the name made me dry heave
little_bird_vagabond@reddit
Seriously. We were able to get our hands on that stuff in middle school. How did MD and Boones Farm get left off??
JustFun4Uss@reddit
Fucking mad dog was a garentee of a bad morning.
miss_six_o_clock@reddit
Was gonna say. I was absolutely a delinquent. We had MD2020, Boone's, Zima, and wine coolers.
PancakeProfessor@reddit
MD-2020: Puke the Rainbow
Any_Nectarine_7806@reddit
Or Boone's.
Dog_Baseball@reddit
Yes! Cheap wine!
Dose Carlo Rossi still come in a gallon jug?
ashurbanipal420@reddit
That's peak delinquency.
SubstantialBreak3063@reddit
That's what I came here to say! They would absolutely 💯 fuck you up
Thick-Broccoli6986@reddit
I thought the same thing. That shit was brutal but any 90s partier remembers a rough night or two on good ole MD
nightowl1984@reddit
No Boone's Farm?
New_Stats@reddit
Why is everyone ignoring the objectively best one (based on name an label design)
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heresmytwopence@reddit
"Fuck with the S, the T, I-D-E-S..."
vitaoptima@reddit
Of these, I've only had Alize...but i knew them all except After Shock.
TheQueefyQuiche@reddit
After Shock was so sugary, it would develop these alcoholic rock candy crytals inside the bottle that you could poke at n break off. Those were my favs!
madsci@reddit
Yeah, that one I remember. I'd just gotten an apartment next door to my childhood best friend and a friend of his quit drinking and passed his whole liquor cabinet on to my friend, and that crystalized bottle of After Shock is all I remember.
batastronaut@reddit
I had a « formative » experience with Aftershock that put me off cinnamon for like a decade 😅
vitaoptima@reddit
Ohhh, sounds tasty AND fun! I love your username, by the way...
TheQueefyQuiche@reddit
Thank ya kindly!
PancakeProfessor@reddit
It was basically cinnamon candy that got you drunk. That makes it sound better than it really was.
TheQueefyQuiche@reddit
This is very true, sounds better than it actually was!
MattsNewAccount620@reddit
We used to keep the after shock in the freezer and pop off frozen bits.
AlienDelarge@reddit
I tried the Jack Daniel's once and they were gross.
lukin5@reddit
Boone's Farm
ILiveinashanty@reddit
No boones farm? No MD20/20?
Automatic-Nature6025@reddit
Budweiser always tasted like vomit to me, but Bud Ice was my hands-down favorite, especially when it came in those cool glass bottles with the "ice cube" texture on it.
ex_gratia_@reddit
Where's the hurricane?
Steely-Dave@reddit
We were all delinquents in the 90’s. By today’s standards we were straight up hooligans.
IdioticPrototype@reddit
I had an assistant district attorney tell a judge that I was a "menace to society".
Like dude... I'm standing right here. Hurtful.
Ohboycats@reddit
And it didn’t get posted on the internet. Great time to be a college kid!
Patty_Curlz274@reddit
Absolutely
SeamusMcBalls@reddit
More of a Mickey’s 40 oz guy myself
GarciaWolf@reddit
Used to get the grenades
Monkmastaa@reddit
We'd get the grenades and make molotovs with them.
Hntrbdnshog@reddit
Minute games with Mickey’s Ice 40s bought from the drive through that didn’t ID.
PancakeProfessor@reddit
We would get Mickey’s 22s by the case. Good times.
crazycatlady331@reddit
Never tried Red Dog but I won a stuffed Red Dog at a carnival.
The thing came apart and was stuffed with tiny styrofoam balls.
Left_Maize816@reddit
We used to call it dead dog. Because it tasted bad but it was cheaper than bud light. We’d get that or ice house (ass house). Aftershock or avalanche were in the freezer for some reason.
hybr_dy@reddit
Aftershock was our generation’s Fireball
healywylie@reddit
No, it was our ipecac.
hybr_dy@reddit
🤮
healywylie@reddit
That’s the only ending I’ve seen!
panteragstk@reddit
My mom used to say Red Dog wasn't beer, but dog piss from a dog with a kidney infection.
old_ass_ninja_turtle@reddit
Red dog was a huge toy at carnivals. I won a couple.
theonetruecov@reddit
We've been full of forever chemicals since the early 90s!
LlewellynSinclair@reddit
I wasn’t a juvenile delinquent in the 90s but I went to a school with a bunch of juvenile delinquents.
PureOrange7049@reddit
Holy cow. I had completely forgotten about Red Dog beer. I even had a giant stuffed red dog which I won at a bar that I totally hadn’t used a fake ID to get in to. It used to sit on my shelf with my Mike’s Hard Lemonade sign which was stolen from another bar which I also totally didn’t use a fake ID at 😉.
psychicmachinery@reddit
MIA: Schlitz, Mickey's (Grenades, preferably), King Cobra 40oz, Malibu, Old Crow "Bourbon", Black Eyes Vodka
militant-hippie@reddit
Accurate
IdioticPrototype@reddit
Replace the St. Ides with Boone's Farm and this was my entire adolescence.
Jolly-Persimmon2626@reddit
Avalanche, aftershocks sister
Yuck_Few@reddit
I still like bud ice
jacksonmills@reddit
I guess I was a basic bitch for drinking Corona
Lebowski304@reddit
Too early for Natural Light?
sentient_fox@reddit
Your list is kind of bad. I don't mean offense, I just remember Alizé being like The Thing for chicks in 2002, Red Dog went from Dad Drink and working on cars whilst listening to a "Shock Jock" on the radio in the 90s to... still doing that through the 'oughts(pending punitive sentences), but delinquents drank Mad Dog 20/20, and you nailed the Aftershock. I didnt mention the others the comments above had mentioned, but it is an interesting list.
Also, what the fuck was Zima, really, just because it was really dumb and the whole Jolly Rancher thing was weird too.
ElegantGoose@reddit
I used to be a middle school teacher and had a student named "Alizé." She introduced herself to people as "Alizé, like the liquor." 🤦♀️
SlackerDS5@reddit
…Or your first job as a teen was a store clerk. I spent hours working in the freezer and refrigerator stocking beer. I got sick of the smell of it. Still not a fan of it.
cranberries87@reddit
I don’t see the Boone’s Farm. 🧐🤔
TiEmEnTi@reddit
Haha wrong, it was the early 00s
abeastrequires@reddit
Hell yea. Loved Red Dog, even had some merch for it long before I could legally buy it.
ParticularBed6338@reddit
You’re gonna have to add Mickeys Big Mouth to the list or even a 40oz or 64oz of it.
IcedHemp77@reddit
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This was my jam
TheCatMadeMeDoIt83@reddit
Mine was mad dog 20/20 & boonesfarm
Impossible_Memory_85@reddit
No Mickey’s?
frustratedComments@reddit
I liked red dog
se-dc@reddit
We downed a bunch of candy-sweet Skyy Blues
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T-Bombie@reddit
I remember Red dog going on sale for 8.99 a 30 rack. Had an older dude at work grab me 4...me and the boys were pounding shitty beers for a month!
nampezdel@reddit
List is illegitimate but not including this
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Plutoniumburrito@reddit
Nah. Mickeys. Haha
Relevant-Bit-7394@reddit
Where's the lucky beer?
CaptianBrasiliano@reddit
My Grandpa drank Red Dog... I kinda half suspected it was because it was the one beer so gross he knew me and my fellow juvenile delinquent cousin wouldn't raid hid supply of.
nampezdel@reddit
Nah, how you not gonna include the goat:
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Ohboycats@reddit
Saw this earlier and thought about crossposting. Jack Daniel’s fruit punch was my introduction to partying in undergrad. Never had AfterShock but enjoyed its counterpart, Avalanche. I think they still make it.
Those were some rough morning afters 😆
marcos_MN@reddit
I was absolutely a delinquent, but what the fuck is St Ides?
mickeltee@reddit
OE 800, Mickeys and Colt 45 were our go to’s.
burrito_magic@reddit
No boones farms?
Visible_Inevitable41@reddit
Keystone ice is coming back! Why???!!!
Millkstake@reddit
The blue Aftershock is so much better but even in its day it was rare. Or at least it was for me
Suitable_Database467@reddit
No mad dog 2020?
AsideLost@reddit
I still get 6 pack tall cans of Bud Ice regularly. Shits like 4 bucks lol
TheNewGuyFromBahsten@reddit
Doo be, doo be doooo
ArcadeKingpin@reddit
I had a Pittsburg penguins starter jacket because I loved that penguin.
Recalcitrant_Stoic@reddit
My friend and I were obsessed with that penguin. I remember how excited we were for the new Superbowl commercials and I had a bud ice tee shirt.
I also had a penguins starter, but that's because I was a pens fan and I am from Pittsburgh.
Coquis619@reddit
Ummm where’s the mickies
MaryMalade@reddit
Everything is exactly right
When I walk around here drunk every night
With an open container from 7-Eleven
In St. Ides Heaven
sexwiththebabysitter@reddit
Place where I grew up had a “Sunday special” which was a 40 of St. Ides and a 22oz Special Brew. A lot of rough Monday mornings.
K2sX@reddit
St. Ides Special Brew. Goldschlager. Boones Farm. Crystal Palace Vodka. The tools of my delinquent youth.
thatswhatshesaid311@reddit
Those Jack Daniel’s cocktails didn’t exist in the 90s where I’m from.
marmot1101@reddit
Katt Williams standup to taught me how to pronounce Alizé “I don’t drink no goddamn Alizé. But b**** do”
Flashy-Share8186@reddit
what, no Bartles and James? I had that before switching to the Jack Daniel’s ones.
doompines@reddit
My pipeline was B&J's--->Zima--->Smirnoff Ice
knivesofsmoothness@reddit
A man of class, I see.
MattsNewAccount620@reddit
B&J was the true gateway drug
burjja@reddit
Before I developed the taste for beer, those Country Cocktails were so good. I think the packaging made them look so much cooler than Bartles and James.
Side note, where's the Zima?
TomatoesAreToxic@reddit
Zima with an apple jolly rancher FTW :)
Existing_Builder1191@reddit
No mad dog 2020
markdepace@reddit
my brother came home drunk in 96 with a bottle of goldschlager and gave me some when i was a kid lol i was like what this tastes like big red why would anyone drink this
dojo_chu@reddit
Shout out IceHouse
dramatix01@reddit
From what I recall, that was actually a pretty tasty beer for how cheap it was.
ArcadeKingpin@reddit
Highest alcohol content at the store. How we didn’t die drinking these on gravel roads driving all night.
pupperdogger@reddit
We called it Cold Crib.
Left_Maize816@reddit
I think you mean ass house.
hmhh62@reddit
Where's my Boones Farm people?!?
lorenzo463@reddit
Red Dog was the best beer for shotgunning because you could cut the hole in the shape of the dog’s mouth.
RevolutionaryBit990@reddit
No love for camo
CosmicTurtle504@reddit
This guy says hi! He’s seen better days, but still keeps me company.
SlapMySloth1@reddit
Where’s mickeys and old English? Those were 90’s staple malt liquor too that I always regretted drinking the night before
Hot_Frosty0807@reddit
I split a bottle of Aftershock with a friend once in 1999, when I was 19. When the liquor was gone, I ate all the candy to myself. Like 20 minutes later, I was throwing up all over the shoulder of the 101 in Phoenix. This is where the story gets interesting.
We were driving to San Diego to see a punk rock festival show. (Some one off thing, not Warped Tour.) Anyway, we got to roughly Needles, CA when the engine seized in the car we were driving, because the girl who owned it had let it overheat without ever adding more coolant.
So, this being in the time before cell phones, we started walking with our thumbs out in hopes of catching a ride. It's roughly 3 AM in the rural California desert, and we all have nothing but a bottle of water and a backpack each with clothes and toiletries.
Eventually, a conversion van stops, and the driver clears out some of the mess in the back so we can ride with him. He asks where we are going, and says that he is going to Chula Vista. We can ride there with him, and then we're on our own to get to/around San Diego.
A few miles in, he starts flirting with our female companion. She's not interested, but she's being polite. My friend who is in the back seat with me rouses my attention and sort of signals to be ready, because he's feeling like this guy is a creep.
At roughly this point, the driver of the van asks if we like magic. Friend and I both get nervous, thinking he's going to make a bad joke about hitchhikers disappearing. The girl says, "sure, do a trick for us!" and the guy driving makes a gesture with his hand which produces a small flash, a puff of smoke, and a small bouquet of fake flowers. The flash powder freaked the girl out, and she told him to pay attention to where he was driving, and please stop doing magic.
The rest of the ride was very quiet, but we got where we were going at about 5:30 AM and started calling around, trying to find someone we knew who was awake and willing to accommodate us, at least until the show started.
We ended up getting picked up by a kid we all went to high school with, who showed up with a bag of McDonalds and some weed. So, in the span of about 8 hours, I went from sitting alone in my apartment to smoking a joint on the beach in San Diego at 6 AM.
The two companions went on to the show. I literally never saw the girl again, and wouldn't see my buddy for another 23 years. I called my then girlfriend at USD who put me up for the weekend, and drove me to the Greyhound station on Sunday morning so I could be back in AZ in time for work on Monday.
I managed to get to Phoenix, where I ran out of money and spent another night panhandling to gather enough money to hire a car back to Prescott. Someone recommended that I try a limo company instead of a cab company, because they usually have fixed rates that can save you money as opposed to a cabbie who runs a meter and charges more for travel outside their service area.
After a day of calling into work and sleeping and busking/panhandling at the Greyhound station, I finally had enough money scraped up to take a limo back to my parents house, where I was dropped off after midnight by a black 10 passenger limo with just a Jansport backpack of clothes and food wrappers.
Fuck Aftershock.
Overall-Scientist846@reddit
After Shock got remade into Fireball and you cannot convince me otherwise.
Listen, I spent a lot of time in the State Store here in PA as a child with my parents and grandparents. The design of some of the bottles is what I remember most.
ajrpcv@reddit
Missing Mickys, Boons Farm, and Pucker / Hot Damn
FinanceRecent5222@reddit
Cisco???
SweetCosmicPope@reddit
Shoobie doobie doo....
Dombat927@reddit
Still cant handle cinnamon liquor thanks to aftershock. Oh the lack of memories it caused
Darksuit117@reddit
Anyone else crack the aftershock bottle open and eat the crystals?
Timely_Help_4065@reddit
Colt 45..it worked every time
theluzah@reddit
that Lynchburg Lemonade was next level
tonybotz@reddit
Alizet and vodka
AlienDelarge@reddit
Were those Jack Daniel's things available in the 90s? I could have sworn there came out in the Mike's Hard Lemonaid era and that only came to the US in '99 according to wikipedia.
menunu@reddit
Olde English 40s anybody?
5th_Meal@reddit
Ah, Red Dog
AnotherCannon@reddit
This post gave me a hangover
ShutUpWalter@reddit
There was a schnapps brand called Tattoo which came in three fruit flavors and turned your mouth and tongue the color (blue, red or yellow) for a day. it was always nearby the After Shock on the shelf. It was made for delinquents and degens.
brinns_way@reddit
omg those Jack Daniels coolers or whatever they were called were tasty lol
KingSpork@reddit
What about Natural Ice?
guyako@reddit
Wow! I forgot all about Red Dog!
vitaoptima@reddit
How many of ya'll remember Cisco? Not the rebooted version that came in the 2000s but the original one.
WhoYouBoo_eek789@reddit
Where are the 40s tho? I was a girl who had a 40 of OldeE or Mickeys in one hand and a flask of Jack, Hornitos or ew, SoCo, in my purse.
Solstice_Spinel@reddit
man, St. Ides takes me back
Wishbone_508@reddit
Please add a NSFW tag to this. I just opened this at work and started to dry heave. Thanks op.
Jairoglyphics1@reddit
You forgot Cisco.
_the_learned_goat_@reddit
Yup
Hipcatjack@reddit
am i bit seeing the bartle and james wine coolers? i’ve always been pissed i was too young(read not a teenager brave enough to swipe one) to know what they tasted like.
SushiStew-1007@reddit
Red Dog was my dad’s go-to when we couldn’t afford Busch Light. I think my first sip of beer was at age 2 and I remember it was a Red Dog can on a wooden coaster. Dad was in the bathroom and I got curious what he was drinking that I couldn’t.
DarinCN@reddit
Yes! My first drink - at 18 was aftershock!!
Mammoth_Mixture4735@reddit
Mad Dog 20/20 and Cisco. I think im going to gag im glad I quit drinking
timsea99@reddit
Steel Reserve anyone?
ouijahead@reddit
Those few times I really needed to get drunk but only had some loose change at home. I described it the other day as a flat beer someone poured a shot of vodka into.
Pleasant-Parsley-816@reddit
More of a Keystone Ice / Natty Ice and jeagermiester kinda scene for me
TheNewGuyFromBahsten@reddit
Try shooting 100 proof southern comfort and chasing it with Avalanche, the blue Aftershock. Never again...
SpaceCadetEdelman@reddit
How about (most, I shared some) whole 1/5 of Captain and then trying to extricate the crystals from the bottom of Aftershock, who knows how much aftershock I drank. The body remembers the effects of rum.
its_a_multipass@reddit
We'd make bombs w that and Sparks
zippster77@reddit
I’ll take things that have made me puke for 1000 please Alex.
DoctorAvailable6601@reddit
Cinnamon aftershock with whipped cream was the shit 🔥
1877KlownsForKids@reddit
I can safely say everyone turned their phone upside down to make Reddog transform into Batman having sex.
-Odi-Et-Amo-@reddit
I had a whole damn relationship start after a night of drinking Alize.
R0botDreamz@reddit
What happened to wine coolers? Lol
bassman314@reddit
St. Ides is still around, but in a different form.
It’s now THC-infused….
hanshotfirst2233@reddit
King Cobra 40s were .99c. Ghetto fabulous while playing dominos in the garage with the door open during those Northern California summer evenings.
nooks-n-crannies@reddit
I remember liking St. Ides special brews when I first started drinking. I can't imagine the hangover they would give me now
ElJeferox@reddit
Pretty sure each and every one of these landed me a night with my head over the toilet. Oh the memories!
Adventurous_Pin_344@reddit
I went to college in a cold, New England city and we had a tradition called Feb Club, where there was a party every single night of February, so as to get us through the cold, dark nights.
When it came time for my friends to host, our theme was "Forties." Nope, not anything to do with the 1940s. Literally Forties of malt liquor. We had trash cans filled with ice and an assortment of 40 oz. bottles of malt liquor - St. Ides, Mickeys, Old English, Steel Reserve, etc. We also had a few 22s of Boones Farm and other fruity shit for people who didn't want the malt liquor.
A messy time was had by all.
Hootinger@reddit
I used to make fun of red dog so much. Thanks for bringing back that memory. lol
Battle_Unicorn_3006@reddit
kolemsai@reddit
That's not being a delinquent, that's just being a teenager
sureal42@reddit
One day I started drinking st ides, got passed out drunk, woke up a couple hours later in the back of a mini van at my friend's house, dealt with my hangover, started drinking and smoking again... All before midnight... St ides should have been illegal...
lartinos@reddit
Red dog tasted pretty good actually!
MysteriousCicada5012@reddit
I have an Old English bottle cap medallion necklace
sweetangeldivine@reddit
Where’s the Caguama
Benzinni1@reddit
Where's the Colt 45?
abbydabbydo@reddit
No Zima and Jolly Ranchers? I was a Lynchburg lemonade girl, though.
JohnnyCastleGT@reddit
Where’s the Zima?
gregshafer11@reddit
I havent seen red dog in a long time. Good old batman eating
DDrewit@reddit
If you mean St Ides Special Brew, then yeah. For 40s it was Magnum or OE 800.
BeanerSchnitzel38@reddit
Mickey's Big Mouths were the way to go (hand grenades).
FruitMustache@reddit
I saved all my caps from Red Dog!
BeanerSchnitzel38@reddit
Perhaps you can help me with an age old question. Many pronounced it St. Ides like the Ides of March but some rap/hip-hop pronounced it more like "St. Id-is". Thoughts?
Jr5309@reddit
I see no Boone’s Farm or Roundy’s brand vodka.
B_B_Rodriguez2716057@reddit
Specifically came to the comments to see where Boone’s farm would be.
AgeNo9436@reddit
I will always see the Red Dog logo as Batman going down on Catwoman.
Late-Arrival-8669@reddit
I can neither confirm nor deny.
I did really like the Bud ICE back in the day :P
danappropriate@reddit
Where’s the Boon’s Farm?
johnnycat75@reddit
There is a severe lack of Boone's Farm here.
45babycakes@reddit
Red and blue Maui?
ridinbend@reddit
Kegs of red dog were cheap
OriginalZog@reddit
Damn do they still make st ides special brew ? I had a Notorious BIG St Ides poster in my dorm room.
45babycakes@reddit
Not a Juvenile I was cool! Lmao
Ultimate-Flexionator@reddit
King Cobra 40s and a pint of Blackberry Brandy
bigfancydelta@reddit
Senior year of HS '99/'00, one of my homies got a 'hookup' at a gas station and always had Bud Ice... shudders. Cheap? CHECK. Get you drunk? CHECK.
tfriedlich@reddit
For my 18th birthday a bunch of us spent way too many hours at the local Hooters when Bud was sponsoring some putting contest. We won so many Bud Ice t shirts!
BarbaraBattles@reddit
Shout out to 2Pac for getting this suburban white teen sippin’ on that Alize!
ClownMeat1@reddit
Yes. Yes I am. Mostly juvenile delinquent. Still.
PackageNorth8984@reddit
Jokes on you. I only hung around with juvenile delinquents.
No-Economics-1808@reddit
Where’s the heroin?
Express-Cow190@reddit
I had a Red Dog t-shirt in grade school. I don’t know how I got away with wearing it.
Also anyone remember Labatt’s Black Ice?
timsea99@reddit
They still make that shit, still fucks you up
fossilreef@reddit
OMG, Aftershock brings back memories
adamcmorrison@reddit
Oh after shock how found memories I have of barfing red liquid all over trying to get to the crystals.
ONROSREPUS@reddit
I loved after shock. I still have a bottle from the mid 90's unopened.
Fact: drink 3/4 bottle and puke in a ice cream bucket and it stains the ice cream bucket pink.
Gwendolyn-NB@reddit
5/6 know and consumed lol.
ChromeSonata@reddit
Bruh St. Ides was a whole vibe no cap
Fr0stbite37@reddit
Ol batman beer. Never got to try it before it disappeared