19 Alcoholic Drinks That Sum Up Your Teenage Years In Britain

Why did we let WKD convince us that "blue" was a flavour?

1. WKD Blue

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All the flavours really, but the blue one in particular, because it was and remains to be the bluest thing any British person has ever seen. Also, because WKD considered "blue" to be a legitimate flavour.

2. Frosty Jack's

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Of all the drinks that could come in a three-litre bottle, Frosty Jack's is pretty much the last one anybody would pick.

3. Lambrini

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Actually looked kind of classy, until you started swigging it from the bottle and throwing it back up on the pavement.

4. Tennent's Super

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List of things that are a bad idea:

#1. Letting a teenager drink 9% lager.

5. Vodkat

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Vodka, but named after a fluffy animal so it seemed suitable for children. Probably. Tasted like paint stripper.

6. Apple Sourz

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Every British teen's first experience of shots. Tasted like it would rot your teeth out before it got you fucked.

7. VK

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Basically just a rip-off of WKD / what would happen if you put booze in J2O.

8. Cans of Strongbow

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Best served at room temperature and slightly shaken up, and drank on a broken swing at night time.

9. Glen's Vodka

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Glen's vodka was the closest thing British teenagers had to a real thrill because every time you drank it you never knew if you were going to get poisoned to death.

10. Echo Falls white wine

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The favourite of many a first-year uni student when the loan still hasn't come in and you need to get pissed for about three quid.

11. Caribbean Twist

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Made you feel like a grown-up sipping cocktails except then you were sick on your shoes.

12. MD 20/20

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Sounds more like a type of engine oil than something you should drink, which says it all really.

13. White Lightning

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Might actually be exactly the same as Frosty Jack's, just in different packaging. The results were definitely the same, anyway.

14. Bacardi Breezers

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Alcopops that seemed really cool because they had a bat on the bottle top. Actually quite tasty, but you probably can't drink them any more because of that one time when you were 14.

15. Cans of Boddingtons

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You hated it but it got you drunk at house parties when they had run out of everything else.

16. Jägerbombs

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The quintessential drink of the British lad who's off on a "mad one" and can't be wasting time with this "sipping" nonsense.

17. Reef

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The most knock-off alcopop of all the knock-off alcopops. The sort of thing they'll probably start selling in east London bars early next year.

18. Cactus Jack's

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Like an alcoholic Slush Puppy, but without the slush and with a lot more regret.

19. Smirnoff Ice

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Lemonade but fun.