Why don't we?

dandc · Subject: Re: Why don't we? Fri Jul 24, 2009 9:04 pm

i havent actually heard of it,but it would not supprise me to know that i had drunk it in some of the states i have been in

graham wright · Subject: Re: Why don't we? Fri Jul 24, 2009 9:33 pm

remember it only too well...pure loopy juice...graham..

Chemist · Subject: Re: Why don't we? Sat Jul 25, 2009 10:21 am

Not a toilet cleaner-more like "its all gone to @@@@@@@@"

Stephen Lock · Subject: Re: Why don't we? Sat Jul 25, 2009 10:29 am

Hmmm..."ratzeputz" doesn't sound like a toilet cleaner to me. Sounds more like the reproductive orifice of a female rat...still off-putting LOL I mean...a RAT???? Nobody gets THAT drunk LOL. I certainly never did, that's for dang sure. That I remember, anyway....

The Germans certainly came up with some lethal schnapps, some I liked others not so much.

Now, Jaegermeister....I always kind of liked that, despite it tasting like cough medicine. It's become quite popular here in Canada as a shooter (small pure alcohol backer thingy), which is almost blasphemy. Usually served chilled, but not always. Nobody here believes me when I tell them it's actually a 'stomach bitter', designed to soothe an upset tummy, not create one LOL.

As for the legend behind the stag with the glowing Cross between his antlers...nobody around here is interested. Philistines!

Chemist · Subject: Re: Why don't we? Sat Jul 25, 2009 10:59 am

I dont recall a German label with " Schnapps" on although its always quoted by Brits in reference to things German. Just like "Lager"
Maybe a German language expert could put me right.
"Korn" I remember in my introduction to all things German at a Bundeswehr base near Munster. A mad skittles evening-"ein mal pils und ein mal korn"-and so on.
The last game was played in complete darkness, I think. confused

GMAG · Number of posts: 17 Registration date: 2009-05-12

HI THATS POWERFUL STUFF.
A BUNCH OF US WERE OFERED IT TO DRINK AND WAS TOLD BY A GERMAN FRIEND NOT TO MAKE A SOUND OR EXPRSION AFTER WE HAD DRUNK IT.
SOME OF US LASTED THREE AND THAT WAS IT .
tHE GERMANS THOUGHT THIS WAS GREAT FUN AND FROM THEN ON WE WERE ALWAYS WELCOME IN THERE BAR.
It attacks from inside the stomach.

dandc · Subject: Re: Why don't we? Sun Jul 26, 2009 9:01 pm

stephen,you arn,t confusing jaegermister with underberg are you small bottles wraped in brown paper,supposed to be a hangover cure.

GMAG · Number of posts: 17 Registration date: 2009-05-12

ratzeputz" There wasnone that sounded like kuriratzeputz if that is the spelling Deadly

nobby clark · Subject: Re: Why don't we? Mon Jul 27, 2009 1:02 pm

Ratzeputze,there's a blast from the past,used to drink it in Celle and surrounding areas,if my memory serves me well it had a strong ginger taste and burned all the way down,good if you had a chest cold.

Chemist · Subject: Re: Why don't we? Mon Jul 27, 2009 1:07 pm

Nobby

If you are still online,take alook at the "who is on line"string

recce83 · Subject: Re: Why don't we? Mon Jul 27, 2009 11:48 pm

Oliver (Trince) wrote:

Did anybody try to drink an alcoholic beverage called

RATZEPUTZ?

Came from Celle and is served in this aera.

This drink is very strange. It is better not to breathe after drinking. Everybody who tried it know what I mean!

As I recall it was a favourite practical joke to play on unsuspecting new boys by both German civvies and their mates back in the 50s. I tried it once...just once.

It has a red colour. As for taste...think straight alchohol laced with an extremely generous splash of Tabasco sauce. I think that pretty well descibes the stuff. I always figured it was made in someone's bath tub.

Stephen Lock · Subject: Re: Why don't we? Tue Jul 28, 2009 8:24 am

dandc wrote:

stephen,you arn,t confusing jaegermister with underberg are you small bottles wraped in brown paper,supposed to be a hangover cure.

Oh, I remember Underberg as well, dandc...had actually forgotten about it, however, until you mentioned it here. However, I don't think I'm confusing the two; Jaegermeister, as used by the purists, was, I am almost certain, not intended as a 'shooter' (again, I feel the need to explain what those are...essentially they are a 'toss-back' drink, usually sickly sweet or raunchy as hell with various "cute" names such as Fuzzy Navel. Almost pure alcohol, served in small shot glasses. The idea is to throw 'em back in one gulp. One can get very drunk very quickly on 2 -r 3 of the damn things). I thought I was certain about the stomach bitter thing, but perhaps on second thought I was mixing it up with Underberg, but ....hmmmm....oh, now I don't know LOL

Stephen Lock · Subject: Re: Why don't we? Tue Jul 28, 2009 8:29 am

Chemist wrote:

I dont recall a German label with " Schnapps" on although its always quoted by Brits in reference to things German. Just like "Lager"
Maybe a German language expert could put me right.
"Korn" I remember in my introduction to all things German at a Bundeswehr base near Munster. A mad skittles evening-"ein mal pils und ein mal korn"-and so on.
The last game was played in complete darkness, I think. confused

I don't think there was a specific drink called "schnapps"....Schnapps is a type of liquor, like an apertif, usually served in a 2cc glass, usually vile as Hades, and every German household I was ever in had at least a couple of bottles of it stashed in the liquor cabinet of the living room schrank.

Here in Canada, some enterprising entrepeneur marketed a variety of "schnapps" -- peach schnapps, etc., also dreadful IMHO and not really schanpps.

GMAG · Number of posts: 17 Registration date: 2009-05-12

They do a good german mustard in tesco
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Chemist · Subject: Re: Why don't we? Tue Jul 28, 2009 10:28 am

"Shrank" now there is a word that takes you back. I reckon every quarter in BAOR had one.

But who remembers "Bulk rubbish?