I adore overly long pet names, I have Crookshanks Tuxedopants Smithchester and Albaquirky New Mexico Smithchester. Their last name is a melding of mine and my partner's last names.
I like how this channel is turning more and more into a Greg cosplaying according to the subject at hand channel. I know it's kind of always been here with the Tiki stuff, but it's been getting more frequent and it's great.
I know exactly what to do with Boone's Farm. In 1972, I owned an MGB and lost all the coolant on the way home. I put an entire bottle of Boone' Farm in the radiator and got home safely - only @ 10 miles. I arrived smelling like a bad apple pie, but the car survived to break down another day. Thank You Boone's Farm!
Yes! I want a compilation video of all the National Parks drinks I can send to my dad--I got him a bottle of Yellowstone Bourbon for Christmas last year, partially thanks to their sponsorship of Greg.
That's their market. Maybe not teens, exactly. But young people who just want to get drunk without gagging on stuff that tastes like alcohol. I've been there, too.
I don't know if I physically can put that much liquid in my body to actually get drunk off of these, I drink too much liquor for that shit. My tolerance is too high
Thanks for making this episode. As a 25 year old I had no previous knowledge on wine coolers outside of it being the drink the criminal would bring over in episodes of To Catch A Predator
I think a couple of the drinks were spoiled... Some aluminum cans have a liner on the inside that gives off that hot-tar-burning-tires-condom-factory taste and smell when it gets too old. I got the exact same thing from a six pack of cider once, and someone from the company that canned it told me that's what happens to old cans. My guess is these wine coolers aren't big sellers and they sat on the store shelf waaaay too long.
From my understanding, the fact it smells like a fart says it's actually much worse. It means it's contaminated by Sulphur. Whether it's due to age or a flaw in the canning process (could also be the wine since the one they use may to take to the canning process well) I'm not sure, but it's definitely a sign that Greg should NOT have drunk them.
Makes sense, I guess bare aluminum would affect the flavor much more over time... That plastic must make the cans a lot harder to recycle though... Guess it's glass bottles for me!
@@haptichugs2855the issue is glass is incredibly bad for recycling because it takes so much energy to melt that it's almost as bad for the environment as using new glass. Of course the important thing is to remember to reduce and reuse first.
As someone who was also not allowed to wear sunscreen as a child (due to being Italian and growing up at the same time as you), this episode hits me in the nostalgia.
I remember adults would mention wine coolers A LOT when they talked about underage drinking, like in health class and stuff. and i'm in college now, so this was pretty recent. I guess the product declined but the awareness that it was like a sweet alcohol drink that teens would like stuck around. I didn't even know what a wine cooler actually was until watching this
i have extremely vague memories of reading an older YA book where teens were drinking Strawberry Hill, agreed that it was recent enough that adults remembered them well when we were younger but the moment has definitely passed
As a teenager in the 80s, wine coolers being consumed illicitly by underaged drinkers was largely a female phenomenon, along with guys trying to get into the pants of said females.😉👍 Most males were drinking cheap beer(the Strohs 30 packs were particularly popular) or some kind of brown liquor.
This is what I always think of when I hear "wine coolers". In DARE/health class they gave the equivalent of standard drinks in terms of wine coolers. This was probably the late 2000s and I doubt anyone was even drinking them then.
I like these because they serve a very specific purpose well: letting people who don't like the taste of alcohol enjoy alcohol without getting plastered by jungle juice.
When I visited Germany (10 years ago admittedly), I learned that obviously there is a market for teens who are legally of drinking age but not exactly hard drinkers yet. There are plenty of relatively accessible and low ABV drinks available, mostly beers lightened or sweetened with various additives. The technical term they used for these was usually "Gemischtesbier," or literally "mixed beer." However, most of the teens to whom they were marketed preferred the term "Pussybier." Note that is not a translation, they just borrowed the phrase from English.
Yeah in Denmark we call it Ludderbenzin (which literally translates to “whore-fuel”), even though we all know it slaps, because it’s just soda, but with the ABV of beer.
In Germany teens who are at least 16 years old can buy any beer or wine. But sweet drinks like wine coolers or beer mixed with soda are preferred by young people as they are easier to drink.
Had a female friend when I was a younger man that raved about Goldschlager because she "likes how the gold flakes scrape [her] throat." I get she was making a suggestive pass, but man that annoyed me. 😒
It's really the same market in the US, except that legally it's not supposed to be. Or, I should say, it *was* that age bracket in the heyday of wine coolers, I don't really know what the teen scene is like now, but I can't imagine anybody else is going for these things. Those who are past college-age but still have a sweet tooth tend to go for pitchers of sangria (which really is kind of the original wine cooler) or whatever sugary mixed drink is in fashion this month.
As a Canadian, I found it interesting that all of these coolers kept their base spirits north of the border. Mike’s Hard may be a malt liquor beverage in the US, but in Canada the tagline was “An Excellent Source of Vodka.”
@@kobakusu The pointless distinctions we draw on that stuff because the OPC functionally shackled us to The Beer Store for all eternity just feels so wrong sometimes.
@@NoOther1 honestly our entire Liqour control system is frustrating and god awful. Let me just order the foreign stuff I want rather than having to buy what the LCBO horribly stocks.
"these are marketed to children" so fun story, when I was 21 and could suddenly buy alcohol I thought I was so cool when I would come home after class and "unwind" by watching tv and drinking a Seagram's strawberry daiquiri they are in reality closer to liquid candy than alcohol and 100% marketed to children
I don't think I've had a wine cooler or something like a smirnoff ice or a hard lemonade since I was an actual child. But I did grow up in a time and a place where it was considered normal to give hyperactive kindergarteners rum milk punch to make us sit still. I have some strong memories of walking down to Joe D's liquor to pick up my dad's staples and sneaking that strawberry hill boone's farm into the bag, and I'm pretty sure that place closed down when I was 10
I love in the newer afterparty episodes (and even occasionally in the “actual” episodes) Mere has camera cutaways as well. She’s fully cemented into the show and her and Greg play so well off each other. I love it
I just have to say. I bartended for years and every gosh darn family gathering, I had to “bartend” with whatever three scratch bottles whoever had in their cabinets. I was so over it. But man you’ve given the love of liquor back to me and made me home bartend again Greg. Thank you for the content. MAN!
Haha. I am still forced to bartend at every get together. People think all they need are a few base spirits and a couple of mixers and we should be good to go. I started to bring a few essentials with me so I wouldn't be ashamed of the drinks I gave people.
I think that asphalt note is the essential oils in the coolers getting skunked by something, either too much acid or being stored too hot. Happens with a lot of beers shipped in clear bottles in the summer from sunlight and heat.
Yeah, living in the Southwestern USA most Domestic Beers and Malt Liquors spoil in the 100+ F or 40+ C heat. Tried to drink a couple that were left out only to find out though tasting a bit sweet made me throw up almost instantly. Probably from the alcohol converting to acetaldehyde in the heat.
I unashamedly love segram's escapes. Are they sweet? Absolutely, but I prefer sweet drinks. Are they low abv? Absolutely, but I don't drink to get drunk, so I don't care. There will probably come a day where my body ages and makes the amount of sugar in them gross to me, but right now they're amazing and I offer absolutely no apology for loving them.
@@wbfaulk not by that much and I don't like the flavors of most sodas. I also don't like most beers or wines, so on the occasions when I want to drink and don't want to bother mixing something, I'll take a Seagram's over a beer or wine every time.
Preach! As someone with a sweet tooth and an extremely low tolerance for alcohol, wine coolers are a little slice of liquid candy happiness and I’ve been known to have them for dessert. I bet a seagrams float would be amazing
I also like Seagram's. I also can't drink much alcohol because I am a small person and not a regular drinker, so a small amount of alcohol gets me drunk. A Seagram's is perfect for me when I want to drink.
Yeah I really like seagram's. May be because I may or may not have ADHD idk. I tend to drink a shit ton of soda so seagram's became my favorate easily.
For someone like me, who isn't big into alcohol, I love Seagrams wine coolers 😅 I guess I'm weird for subscribing to an alcohol channel when I don't really drink alcohol. But I find your videos very informative and enjoyable to watch 😊
I remember being like 5 or 6 years old and asking my mom for a sip of her soda and she said yeah while she was trying to put sunscreen on my sister. I picked up her bottle and drank like 1/2 of it instead of the can of soda, the bottle was her wine cooler… 1990’s at its best. I took a great nap later that day.
Gotta love the moment in every episode where Greg randomly turns into a North Carolina diplomat from 1910 and rides it through the rest of the episode.
I remember in the early 2000s when we were learning about the amount of alcohol in various beverages and how impaired it would make you (for example in driving lessons or health/anatomy class), they ALWAYS talked about wine coolers as a benchmark for some reason even though literally no one knew what those were or had ever seen one. This video is the first time I've ever seen evidence these things actually existed...
I had the exact same experience. It was like they expected a stranger to offer me a wine cooler masquerading as a soda, when I had never and still have never seen one in real life.
Probably because wine coolers are generally 3.2% alcohol (like light beer), which is the equivalent of 1 ounce of standard 80 proof liquor. It’s a good measuring stick for “1 drink,” since wine and beer can vary so much.
generally they would invoke mike's hard as an equivalent to wine coolers in my day, and my goodness imagine trying to get even a little drunk on those things, yeesh! they should have mostly stuck to talking about bottom shelf vodka and whiskey which is what most young people would drink to actually get drunk, wine coolers are something you sip on on a hot summer day to get a very light buzz at the most.
@@mattnutella I think part of it was pedophiles would literally give underage girls wine coolers to get them drunk so they could take advantage of them more easily.
@@kevinmiller1356during my college orientation they actually used Wine Coolers as an example of multiple "drinks" in one container, because they said the total amount of ethanol in one was higher than in a beer or a glass of wine, and told us they were dangerous because of it. Honestly not a bad lesson, but maybe the wrong choice of beverage to use to make that point
DIY wine cooler template: 2oz fruity liqueur of choice 4oz wine you don't care about 4oz carbonated mixer (un sweet) Combine and serve over ice ABV will vary with the wine and liqueur chosen (and if you can figure it out in your head then you know you are not drunk). You can mix and match liqueurs and wines to find combos you like. Last time I did these it was peach schnapps + white zinfandel w/ plain seltzer for bubbles, but you can do you. 😉
Hearing Greg utter "Boone's strawberry farm wine hill, for the times when you need a citrus flavored wine of strawberry wine Boone farm town" followed by him missing the glass and pouring it all over the counter" had me in TEARS from laughing. Also, I'm adding "per'shay" to my vocabulary regardless of it lacking any and all meaning.
These Yellowstone Bourbon ads are just incorporated so well, actually showing something practical that can be done with it that is simultaneously in theme with the channel and the reason I watch these videos in the first place. So much less jarring than the cocophony of "x mobile game has limited time offer using my code I super duper love this character the graphics are so epic wow better than skyrim in my opinion I will definitely be maintaining my clan once the sponsor duration runs out" so many channels resort to.
I can't get the bourbon where I am, no matter how much I'd want to. But what I really want is the ceramic smoking apparatus that Greg used in the drink. Welp, off to Google I go!
The keyed-up aggression comes from the powerful vibe of that outfit carrying with it the all energy of a guy in the 80s who is himself *keyed* up and aggressively trying to talk his buddies at the bar into starting a business.
Greg, now you know why Bartles & Jaymes has the refrigerate after opening on the can. You can’t finish a full can of road tar, you HAVE to save it for later.
I want to try and defend Seagram’s for nostalgia’s sake because it was my introduction to alcohol, but I kinda can’t. It’s not alcohol poisoning that’ll get you if you drink those-it’s a diabetic coma from all the sugar. 😂
I drank almost half of a case of those for my graduation party (from high school.) I've never thrown up so hard from any other drink before, fireball is great, whiskey I love, but nothing hits me as hard as that sugar overdose did.
I actually love these national parks cocktails. Idk how the paid promotion would work but i'd like them collected and put in a single video on their own too!
I live very near the Smokies...like, minutes away. LOL I would love to try the drink today. But I'm not ordering celery bitters just to use it once & then have it in the cabinet for 20 years.
It's a great sponsorship and Greg does the spots really well, with beautiful scenery and interesting cocktails to go along with the parks. I like to think of myself as someone who doesn't cave to advertising often, but I'm tempted to pick up some of that bourbon.
What's crazy is everybody (including myself) likes the commercials, but they're just mini episodes of old how to drink-Greg tells us a story and makes a cocktail. With a little bit of extra theatricality and a good character thrown in.
@@GirishManjunathMusic yeah, that's why my spice cabinet looks like an explosion hit a tiny bottle factory as it is. I buy oddball spices to go in recipes thinking "oh, I can use this in XYZ and stuff"...then it all sits there, like tiny little judges shaming my frivolous spending...
I find it funny that Greg sometimes describes himself as having a sweet tooth, but far and away his biggest criticism of a lot of these types of mass market drinks is that they are too sweet. Not knocking, just find it funny. Also this episode is correct, 95% of "Coolers" are straight up juice, with a slight whiff of alcohol. That's fine for me most days, but if you want an actual, like, grown up drink, stir clear.
I remember Wine Coolers being the "BIG BAD NO NO" Drink that was used in ALOT of videos played to elementary schoolers on the dangers of Alcohol in the early 00's... of all the elementary school memories I have alongside a video about a family who returns to a US ruled by a dictator mobilizing for war but you know shit was weird back then.
I always found the "aLcOhol baD" videos weird as a kid because my parents let me drink a bit of wine/schnapps (not enough to get tipsy, but a bit) quite often lol
The main reason wine coolers never had to be good tasting is because the school doing the anti wine cooler stuff was free advertisement for the product.
The wine coolers are what the "cool" parents would let the teens/young adults (16-20) have at a sleepover, and they'd say "I don't care if you guys drink, but no one's driving, give me your keys" lol
@@adbreon if things like Mike's hard lemonades and Smirnoff ices are also alcopops, then I can tell you that you won't die before you get drunk, but you most likely will have a terrible hangover (source: those are some of my favorite drinks even though the hangover can be wicked 😅)
I figured this episode was gonna happen eventually. Knowing you don't like sweet drinks, I knew you wouldn't like the Seagrams drinks. I enjoy em cause they're literally just slightly alcoholic soda but I knew as soon as I saw "Wine Cooler review" this episode was gonna come for me.
Same, I unironically like them *because* they are just super sugary sodas so can you mentally feel like you're drinking without actually _feeling_ like you're drinking
Two of the most epic hangovers I've ever had: 1st was Jose Cuervo. Second was Boones. Just the smell of either triggers my gag reflex 50 years after the fact!
You just gave me a visceral sense-memory of this incredibly cheap gin a friend of a friend brought back from a road trip somewhere. You know how some gin is like chewing on a pine tree? (I'm looking at you, Bombay) Well this was like getting smacked in the face by a whole branch that had been soaked in full strength Muskol. Just straight up pine and deet. Complete with the way bug spray makes your lips and tongue numb when it gets in your mouth. We ended up passing it to each new person that showed up that night, without any warning, and watching the results. The entertainment value was almost worth the taste.
To me wine coolers have always been for, as Meredith said, those who don't want to drink (or have very low tolerance) but still want to feel "included" in the drinking. And for teens.
Quick thought but once all the different Yellowstone cocktails have aired, might not be a bad idea to edit them into one big video? Easier to find in the future since they're hidden otherwise.
My family has an entire tradition about passing around a bottle of Boone's Farm whenever anybody has a big life event. We add a new decoration onto the bottle to celebrate the occasion, and after about forty years of this you can barely tell what it contained (past tense, because at some point somebody drained the bottle to make it legal to ship across state lines). I'm not sure who has it right now, but I'm 100% sure that when I get my next job I'll find out. The bottle is referred to as "vintage Tuesday" in honor of not having ever been a wine anybody would take seriously.
About the extremely low proof, until just a couple years ago it was the law in my state that you couldn't buy anything higher than 3.5% ABV without going to the state liquor store. So 3.2% was actually pretty common to see for drinks like these as well as beers.
@@xanderwebb7998 CO has liquor stores, not sure on the everclear front but it was our grocery stores that couldn't carry above like 3.5 abv and only 1 store in that city could carry anything higher. This law has since been repealed but most grocery stores still don't have wine.
Underwood is a fairly well known, decent winery here in Oregon (pronounced like version A and ONLY version A). I think they were one of the first wineries to can their wines, which is popular in the Pacific North West because camping/hiking/outdoors stuff and glass don't go well together.
Everything I know about wine coolers I learned in D.A.R.E circa 2007 (long after wine coolers weren’t popular) and I learned was that creepy old men will try luring me into their vans with wine coolers and to just say no to them
I invented a cocktail called a "Gilbert". It was simply Southern Comfort with Lucozade (paired on the basis that they were the same colour). It was lovely! An advantage to this drink was that you were consuming a hangover cure (the Lucozade) at the same time as you were imbibing alcohol, so the morning after was less painful! You could also substitute IrnBru for the Lucozade for the very same reasons - same colour, same hangover-reducing qualities. I can no longer drink at all, due to being on strong painkillers which would be dangerous to mix with alcohol, so I am imparting my wisdom to you to enjoy.
These are I guess equivalent to what we called “alcopops” in Britain in the 90s and 2000s, really sweet drinks that the 12 year olds could start on. Smirnoff Ice is the most known but there was WKD, Bacardi Breezer, VK Vodka Kicks, Reef, Hooch as you said 😂 and some more I can’t remember. You should try those if you can find them Greg 👍
We have/had those in Germany too. After binge drinking spiked, they taxed the hell out these drinks and things went back to normal. And by normal I mean, kids pouring Vodka and Red Bull together.
I remember subscribing when you had like 7k subs. I just saw that you have passed 1.5 million. Congrats my dude! You teached me how to make simple syrup and oleo saccharum. I've discovered so many great cocktails because of you. I wish you and your team all the success. Much love ♥️
I just realized I never subscribed despite watching the channel since butter beer. Between this channel and the educated barfly they've cost me a lot of money and I've enjoyed almost all the drinks.
Jaysus, I can't even imagine the sugar-induced (because it wasn't the booze) hangover you suffered making this episode. You, sir, are a giant among men, if there were a ribbon for sacrificing yourself on the altar of "watchable youtube clips" you would have earned it with 5 mint-leaf clusters. I doff my cap to you. I (barely) survived the OG wine cooler era, so I know whereof I speak. BTW: Back in the mid-late 80s- the wine spritzer/cooler was a legit thing. Wine and either tonic (if the wine was drier) or seltzer (if it was sweeter). My parents had some friends that spent a lot of time in CA in the late 80s, and these were apparently the seed for bottled wine coolers.
Okay, I was almost old enough to drink at the beginning of the wine cooler era (I drank, I didn't drive, we'll leave it at that). They all tasted like some variation of sangria, at that point. There was some sugar, but mostly it was like sangria or a wine spritzer - not that sweet. The sweetness was added later, especially when they added the malt stuff and stopped calling them "wine" anything.
I got a good chuckle out of the first drink being the Seagram's "Jamaican Me Happy," as it's my wife's favorite drink to sip on if I'm not making a tiki drink to share. She almost never drinks, but those types of Seagram's are her guilty pleasure. Won't be sharing this episode with her tonight, methinks...
My mon is the same way. She likes sweet things, not the taste of alcohol. There are a couple of non-tiki mixed drinks she'll enjoy, a blackberry gin Bramble comes to mind, but even that one hides the alcohol well.
It's my spouses favorite as well, I don't find them to be too bad either. Can't find a beer or wine I really like because I enjoy stuff on the sweeter side.
I remember being a kid and grabbing a couple of these and putting them in my moms shopping cart, they just looked exactly like the kind of soda I would like to drink.
I have a buddy that used to work for Seagrams. He told me that the main reason for making the wine coolers in the first place was just for advertising the brand. At the time, it was illegal for liquor to be advertised on TV. So it was worth creating a drink to get their name on TV, and they just hoped to break even on the wine coolers. I can tell you I still remember the Bruce Willis Golden Wine Coolers commercials, but I never drank one. I've had plenty of Seagram's 7. It wouldn't surprise me it the other large liquor companies did the same. Obviously, they ended up doing better than they thought. By the time the Zima's & Mike's Hard Lemonade's came out 10+ years later there was definitely a market for them.
@@pennyforyourthots Oh yeah, I always forget that. Soft-cider is very rare, at least that use the word "cider" and not our word for non-carbonated soft drinks I don't think non-carbonated soft drinks are that popular except for with children We also just drink a lot of alcohol and hard-cider and wine-coolers are very popular
@@zeyface6366 soft cider is popular around me, mainly cause we have like 4 different large apple orchards within 20 miles of each other, and is a fun autumn activity for the family to go out to the orchard, pick a bushel of apples, and buy a gallon of cider and a dozen or so doughnuts.
I remember in the mid 90s in the UK when Hooch was launched as “alcoholic lemonade” and the moral panic about kids drinking it (despite it being legal to drink from 5 here [on private property with parental permission]). When I was a teenager in the early/mid 2000s my alcopop of choice was either Smirnoff Ice or the Green/Orange Bacardi Breezer.
@@Sorrowdusk Most of my friends parents would let us drink at 14/15 (and we even found a pub that would serve me at that age, and I still get IDd occasionally at 35).
@@Sorrowdusk Yeah drinking a bit of booze in your early teens isn't a big deal in British culture. Having a beer watching the football at the weekends with my dad wasn't unusual and my friends and I were procuring drinks for the purpose of getting drunk from 14ish (sometimes from shops who didn't ask questions, sometimes via an older sibling, less responsible parent or occasional random stranger) and getting served regularly in pubs from 15 onwards. This was also in the early to mid 2000's. I still see kids hanging out and getting lary at the places we used to go and get drunk in the evenings so I assume things are more or less the same. The girls all used to drink alcopops, they were ok but a bit sickly for my tastes, we used to drink the far less palatable but far more economical cheap cider like strongbow or white lightning, £3 would easily give you more than enough to make some terrible decisions.
@@DjDolHaus86 jeez white lightning, frosty Jack's or whatever they serve in Aldi are the absolute worst. Strongbow and thatchers ain't that bad and I usually go for them first when I go anywhere new. It's always the same
@@michaelwright968 I wouldn't disagree, white lightning and frosty jack was awful but it was awfully cheap and when you've only got a few quids worth of pocket money it was the best deal. I've got nothing against strongbow, it's not great but it's not offensive
ten years ago i went on a high school trip to Italy. in Florence, i got extremely overpriced gelato, but wanted something to drink with it. they had a cooler with gatorades, and the only flavor left was this orange bottle called “arancia”. now i knew it wasnt italian for orange, but i figured it couldnt be that bad, it was orange gatorade. whole thing ran me 16 euros. the gelato was delicious. the gatorade tasted like piss, and, being 16, i forced all my friends to taste it. they agreed. as far as im concerned, arancia is italian for piss
I have had those Seagrams before and I am so so happy to see Greg ingest those. They had absolutely zero alcohol in them. I honestly used them as like "margherita mixed" added tequila, ice, blended them together. Made it OK.
I grew up in Washington saying it the same way she did (option A). I never expected to hear somebody say "argon" and mean our neighbor across the Columbia.
Worked at a liquor store for awhile and dear sweet lord if we ran out of Seagrams specifically the blue one Calypso. I’d get cursed out by every 50+ year old woman in town
Well that’s answered a long standing question for me. I had no idea what Bartles and Jaymes was but it’s referenced in You or Your Memory by The Mountain Goats (“I checked into a bargain priced room on la sienaga, gazed out through the curtains of the parking lot. walked down to the corner store just before nightfall in my bare feet. black tarry asphalt, soft and hot. and when I came back I spread out my supplies. on the counter by the sink, I looked myself right in the eyes St. Joseph’s baby aspirin, Bartles and Jaymes, and you or your memory.) So that clears that up!
I love the Seagrams escapes 🥺 they are yummy Edit: ok hear me out, if you want a slightly alcoholic soda this is kind of the place to go. No offense to the hard root beer people but those kind of suck
While I know the type of drink, as a European I had never heard of the term 'wine cooler' for that drink. Here the term wine cooler is used for either those refrigerators made specifically for wine bottles, or those cooling sleeves you can slip around a bottle during summer. I don't know what these drinks are typically called in the rest of Europe, but in the Netherlands we often called them 'breezers' instead, which I suspect is borrowed from the Bacardi Breezer drinks, which I guess kind of resembles a wine cooler drink and which for a long time were probably the only drink of that type available here. I have no idea if the kids of today still call them that though. Anyway, I'm glad to have learned something new again about drinks in general again!
When I was a sophomore in college (1992-ish) one of my dormmates’ mothers would occasionally go to the liquor store and buy stuff for us since we were underage and she thought the American drinking age (21 rather than 18) was ridiculous. She would NOT, however, go so far as to buy us hard liquor - she would only buy wine or wine coolers.I don’t remember the brand, but I remember there was a sangria wine cooler that was actually pretty decent and didn’t taste like soda.
I remember sneaking them in the early 90's, but what did I know back then? Then, in the summers, my parents would drink wine spritzers that they made themselves, and they were actually good! For a summer BBQ, I'll still soak peaches in cheap chianti for a day or 2, then serve over ice with soda water.
I actually really like Seagram’s Escapes, lol. When I was first able to drink, I didn’t like the taste of beer or wine, and I didn’t have enough money to try different mixed cocktails, so the coolers were a great way for me to drink something that I knew I would find tasty that still had a bit of alcohol in it.
Yea same, I can't drink something that's too strongly of alcohol, it can be off putting to me. Sweet fruity drinks are what I lean toward. So I also really like Seagrams, but I totally get if people have an aversion to not tasting the alcohol in the drinks.
me too! Like if my friends are having cheap beer or something I'll drink this, not to get drunk but just to feel included while drinking something... not disgusting lol If I want a real cocktail I'll make something with vodka or whiskey or whatever, but if we're just sipping on wine or beer I'll 100% go for seagrams over any of that. Wine tastes to me like it's just... rotten, and idek how to describe most beers I've had other than "ick" lol I don't mind the taste of alcohol, in fact I really don't have any problem drinking any sort of liquor straight... just beer and wine that I don't like
I keep seeing the strawberry Underwood in the store, then getting the can that I usually get instead (because I am a habitual drinker of canned wine.) Maybe I'll try it. Also, as an Oregonian, Meredith is correct in her pronunciation.
I haven't had a wine cooler since I was 6 but if memory serves me they were they were closer to a sweet fruity desert wine or ice wine with just a little bit of cool-aid in it.
I had very fond memories of the original wine coolers as they were essentially vat-aged white wine, citrus juice and sugar. Those were tasty as they were essentially pulp-free sangria. I've always hated malt beverage, so the wine cooler for me died with the idiotic decision to move away from wine.
Meredith mentioning tongue film made me flashback to a morning after a long nightof sugary drinks where i literally peeled a layer of filth off of my tongue. I have not made that mistake again
Oregonian here, Meredith said it right. Though "ahregon" like the way you tend to say ahrange is fine too. The only objectively wrong one is OreGONE or any variation thereof. So long as you avoid that one, you're all good.
Greg is such a fun guy, that I sometimes forget that he's ancient, and then he talks about stuff that happened 20 years before I was born. I'm an adult. ...he looks really good for apparently being old.
@@jackielinde7568 Hey, just because something is old, doesn't mean it's bad, or that it decreases in value. Just take good care of yourself, and you're not just old, you're a priceless antique.
HtD 5 years ago: "If a drink you like is in the glass, you did it right." HtD now: "This drink is trash, this company is trash, and if you like it then so are you."
Boone's farm was my first drink. My mom and her aunts gave me a glass when I joined them in talking about family gossip, lol Also, Seagrams is treated like pop by older ladies like my mom and stepmom.
I love cream soda, so thanks for the inadvertent recommendation. If I see a bottle I'll have to give it a go out of morbid curiosity. Some of Underwood's canned wines are legitimately good. I think it was their red blend that I found really nice. It's been a bit since I've had it, so I don't remember exactly. May also have something to do with the fact that I drank a whole can of their wine in, like, 15 minutes...
Then never really went away north of the border, either. Arizona here, and yeah, I saw them all the time. But I kind of lost interest in them back in the mid ninety's. Couldn't tell you why. Every now and then, I'd pick up a four-pack, but that's a "once in a blue moon" kind of thing.
It would have been fun to talk to your parents/grandparents about old drinks they had in their day. My grandpa always talked about random drinks, like thunderbird and how he said it was the worst drink ever but it did the job.
I absolutely love Seagrams. It's nice to sit back with one on a hot summer day and just relax. Would I drink them if I wanted to get drunk? Probably not, because it would take forever lol. But for someone like myself that doesn't always want to get wasted when they drink, they're perfect 🙂.
As someone who enjoys Seagrams because I have a low tolerance and like fruity things I'm 100% okay with you shitting on them. It's funny and entertaining They're cheap, low alcohol, and a great drink for people new to drinking because let's be honest some alcohol tastes disgusting and I will never understand why people enjoy drinking most beers because they taste like piss smells.
I was in high school when the cooler craze first started...ugh, they were so dangerous. My friend once wasn't paying attention and drank 3/4 of a 2 liter bottle of Sun Country Cooler. It was really bad, he was so loaded and puked all the way home, and his mom had a few choice words for us on Monday. She reported it to our parents, there were "meetings" to discuss "what happened to Mike".
