Various bits of explanation on the CUSFS drinks list... From: bam@hermes.mod.uk (Brian A. Mellor) > Mackeson... Mackeson Milk Stout. A dark stout, like Guinness, but sweet rather than smoky bitter > Cider, Tuborg > ^^^^^^ Cheap Dutch lager > Vimto, Vimto A mixed fruit cordial. Probably blackberry, blackcurrant and orange squash mixed. Very refreshing drunk hot or cold. Experience - never mix with Polish spirit vodka, even if you are out of mixers. Vimto stains like blackcurrant juice..... > ...a packet of Handy-Andies Packet of 20 or so paper handkerchiefs > Green lager, Frazzles > ^^^^^^^^ Tasteless drinking snack made from deflavoured corn starch then deep fried in lard From: daniel@scs.leeds.ac.uk (D N Crow) >V2. > > Vimto, Vimto Vimto is a strange sort of soft drink, I suppose it might be described as a mix between Cola and cough medicine. >JAMES JOYCE > > ...a packet of Handy-Andies I think they are refering to packets of tissues, you know that contain about 15 of the jobbies, that you carry around in handbag/pocket/whatever. Don't know why these might be in a drink though. Perhaps there are other things called "Handy-andies" that I know not wot of. >FRAZZLES PEAT > > Green lager, Frazzles > ^^^^^^^^ A sort of crisp-like snack food: flavoured potatoe thingies. From: duncan@rcp.co.uk (Duncan Booth) >THE DISPOSESSED. > > A Whimbo ... Once upon a time in Cambridge there was a fast food restaraunt called the 'Whim'. They were a last resort when you couldn't face another late night kebab from the kebab shop around the corner. Variously known as Whimbos or Kangaburgers the products probably contained real meat --- this assumption is based purely on a vague memory that they were prosecuted on at least one occasion for using certain varieties of meat more normally associated with hopping around the Australian outback. As to how many of the drinks have actually been tried. The answer is probably most of the ones that you might actually want to try and several of the others. I certainly remember Thursday nights down the 'Horse and Groom' trying out such things as the Cure for the Common Cold. The point being that a group of people clubbed together to pay for all the ingredients and then drank it out of the same glass so you soon found out if it worked as advertised. What amazes me is that there is only one liquid nitrogen drink in the list (and probably nobody ever tried that one). Or at least not twice. Virtually every CUSFS party used to have some liquid nitrogen in the punch. Green lager I'm not positive about, but I think it was lager made by Greene King breweries. As to the comment someone made about Cam water it wasn't completely deadly. I'm sure I must have involuntarily swallowed a few mouthfuls the number of times I fell/was pushed/jumped in. Just make sure you get your Cam water from well upstream, definitely not from the lower river. From: rea@st-andrews.ac.uk (Robert E Arthur) RJ Hopwood wrote: >>Green lager >It's a green monster - half lager, half cider and something blue that i can't >remember the name of The green monster *I* know (and love) is made as follows: Insert measure of Vodka. Insert measure of Bacardi. Insert measure of Blue Bols. Fill with cider and orange (or lime). The orange makes the Blue Bols go green. Lager/cider mixes are best put into a "Floating Bogey". 1/2 lager 1/2 cider Baileys blackcurrent (the Baileys curdles and floats, hence the name). This must be drunk fast, with the record around here being 14 secs. (I managed 18). Have fun.....