In Scotland Is Buckfast Tonic Wine The Intoxicant Of Choice For Protestant Neds?

[sandyRoe]

Or does it cross sectarian boundaries?
Protestants would drink it here in Belfast while Catholics would sip QC 'British sherry'.

[wolf63]

I'm a protestant atheist and have never tried the stuff. The hardest drink for me is Pepsi Max.

I might be more of a west coast thing. I live in a much more civilised area. :)

[sandyRoe]

Aye, I don't suppose there's much call for it in Morningside. ☺

[Psybbo]

A good red here

[wolf63]

Perth is much mores sophisticated and civilised than Morningside. It is also windy and wet.

[sandyRoe]

A nice claret, properly decanted, allowed to 'breath' for a while, is the best way.

[mushroom25]

dinnae diss coatbridge table wine........

[catswhiskas]

My stepsons girlfriend, they live just outside of Edinburgh, drinks Buckfast and red wine together, how scary is that , yuk !

[DTCwordfan]

Agree Sandy, Buckfastleigh is about ninety miles from here and to be avoided, a bit like most of Devon in fact. After all, they can't even make a decent pastie and try stealing ours down here and things are compounded by the heathen way they prepare their cream teas. Imagine putting the cream on before the jam, that's because their clotted cream is not as robust and clotted as ours, the proper job way being to spread the jam on the scone - and then the cream.

Poor buqqers that they are, I guess. How those monks enticed Weegies into drinking the poison called Buckfast Tonic Wine, who knows....

[DTCwordfan]

Does she nae have any liver, catswhiskas?

[Pete65]

Almost certainly, because it is the cheapest!

[catswhiskas]

I wonder if she is not leading him astray, always has a can of cider in his hand DTC, it is worrying .

[sandyRoe]

Wolf, is Perth not whisky country. A wee dram?

[anneasquith]

buckfast and red wine. ? that's posh !!

[Psybbo]

DTC, you're leading me astray! Again!

[DTCwordfan]

The wine is it, Psybbo, or the scones, jam and cream!

That is worrying, cats.....

[humbersloop]

I've just looked this stuff up - Blimey O Riley!!

[Psybbo]

The scones, DTC

[wolf63]

Sandy, my mum worked in the Dewars bottling plant. It's gone now, I sentence for a tour. Enough to put one off whisky for life - the smell.

I don't drink alcohol. Combined with some of my medications it would make the world more confusing than it is now.

[DTCwordfan]

That's not bad temptation, Psybbs..... http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_ose6OjdXX8k/TB6QCH7Di6I/AAAAAAAABKs/DxOChrKsvrs/s1600/DSC_0074.jpg

There's also thunder and lightening, most people haven't heard of this... a 'split' roll (fresh as poss), golden syrup and clotted cream http://www.travelaboutbritain.com/recipes/images/thunder_and_lightning.jpg


Sloopy, it tastes awful....

[SirOracle]

For all of you thirsty for knowledge of drinking preferences in the in the West try the following link. I don't think there is any sectarianism involved here.

www.hiddenglasgow.com/forums.php?t