Southern Comfort - does anyone drink it anymore?

Southern Comfort - does anyone drink it anymore?

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RaeB

Original Poster:

552 posts

229 months

Friday 8th February 2008
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We were discussing Southern Comfort as a drink from our younger days i.e. late teens/early 20's and the memories from that time. I saw a small bottle for £7 yesterday, so I got it expecting us to try it and grimace. But we drank the whole bottle last night. It's not as bad as I thought it would be, a little sweet if you add lemonade but not bad straight on the rocks.

What drinks bring back memories for you? I remember working in a pub where we served snakebite, those were the days!

shadowninja

78,604 posts

297 months

Friday 8th February 2008
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Southern Comfort is a quite sweet. I like it. I like most spirits, tbh. biggrin

Puggit

49,126 posts

263 months

Friday 8th February 2008
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"SoCo" rolleyes

Whisky for beginners...

dickymint

27,230 posts

273 months

Friday 8th February 2008
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Watneys red Barrel
Party Sevens

Edited by dickymint on Friday 8th February 09:42

briSk

14,291 posts

241 months

Friday 8th February 2008
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people would buy mead if diageo marketed it 'over ice'... (or some bird flinging it around a glass/steel/neon club.
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can you imagine people poncing around after work with their Blue Nun 'over ice'.

Black Tower with fvcking Cranberry fvcking juice.

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Rant: 3/10
Sarcasm: 6.5/10

hehe

TonyHetherington

32,091 posts

265 months

Friday 8th February 2008
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Important fact; the backing music for the "SoCo" adverts used here and in the US is by a mate of mine's band (The Len Price 3) biggrin

splitter / judas

4,330 posts

224 months

Friday 8th February 2008
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I drink it from time to time on the rocks with either Coke or lemonaide.

Tuscan Tart

2,187 posts

224 months

Friday 8th February 2008
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I have it with Lime and Lemonade, only thing that doesn't get me bladdered.

Gemsbok1000

1,934 posts

219 months

Friday 8th February 2008
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Puggit said:
"SoCo" rolleyes
Did people actually call it 'Soco' and the ad agency picked up on this or is it a case of the agency inventing a slightly trendier name?

Edited by Gemsbok1000 on Friday 8th February 09:46

princeperch

8,122 posts

262 months

Friday 8th February 2008
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I drank a bottle of it at a party when at university. I was violently ill. Never touched it since.

Edited by princeperch on Friday 8th February 09:45

kiwisr

9,335 posts

222 months

Friday 8th February 2008
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It does seem to be becoming more popular again in many London drinking establishments.

Puggit

49,126 posts

263 months

Friday 8th February 2008
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Gemsbok1000 said:
Puggit said:
"SoCo" rolleyes
Did people actually call it 'Soco' and the ad agency picked up on this or is it a case of the agency inventing a slightly trendier name.
I'm assuming it's a poor attempt at copying JD...

onomatopoeia

3,511 posts

232 months

Friday 8th February 2008
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I'll occasionally drink Southern Comfort with orange juice on a hot summers day, if for some reason I'm not in the mood for beer. Doesn't happen very often though, I've had the bottle in my kitchen for eight years and it's not finished yet.

When I started going to pubs as a teenager I would drink bitter (or more usually lemonade and lime since I was the only one who bothered to learn to drive and buy a car), all my friends drank cider.

shadowninja

78,604 posts

297 months

Friday 8th February 2008
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Mmmmmm mead! *quaffs some mead* (Namely, getting most of it on the floor.)


kiwisr said:
It does seem to be becoming more popular again in many London drinking establishments.
Bugger. I will have to bin mine, then. Trends are for sheep.

trumpet600

3,527 posts

246 months

Friday 8th February 2008
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princeperch said:
I drank a bottle of it at a party when at university. I was violently ill. Never touched it since.

Edited by princeperch on Friday 8th February 09:45
Same here. Bloody horrible stuff, I can't even smell it now without feeling nauseus.

I would rather drink my own piss

briSk

14,291 posts

241 months

Friday 8th February 2008
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trumpet600 said:
I would rather drink my own piss
..over ice..!

hehe

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(i am doing some research here - surprisingly they *look* as though they're still an independent 'brand'..)

briSk

14,291 posts

241 months

Friday 8th February 2008
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The Brown-Forman Corporation is one of the largest American-owned companies in the spirits and wine business, and is a diversified producer and marketer of various consumer products. Headquartered in Louisville, Kentucky, Brown-Forman employs 3,350. Some well-known brands of the corporation include Jack Daniel's, Canadian Mist, Southern Comfort, Early Times Kentucky Whisky, Woodford Reserve Bourbon, Old Forester Bourbon whiskey, Korbel champagne, Fetzer wine, Finlandia vodka, and Bolla wine.

Recently, the company bought Tequila Herradura, a well-known Mexican company that produces tequila.

The company was founded in 1870 by George Garvin Brown, a young pharmaceuticals salesman in Louisville, who had the then-novel idea of selling top-grade whiskey in sealed glass bottles. Since then, it has grown into a company that in fiscal 2006 had sales of $2.4 billion. The Brown family controls more than 70% of the voting shares[1].

so not too bad then at least it's nothing to do with the evil spheres of doom that are diageo and Anheuser-Busch...

trumpet600

3,527 posts

246 months

Friday 8th February 2008
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briSk said:
Recently, the company bought Tequila Herradura, a well-known Mexican company that produces tequila.
really?

JagLover

44,831 posts

250 months

Friday 8th February 2008
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It's my favourite drink.

Southern Comfort, some ice, and a bit of Lemonade (not too much or you drown the flavour)


briSk

14,291 posts

241 months

Friday 8th February 2008
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trumpet600 said:
briSk said:
Recently, the company bought Tequila Herradura, a well-known Mexican company that produces tequila.
really?
that's what wikipedia reckons!
(surely you noticed my post was too well written to have come from these fat fingers..!) smile