Drinks That Squaddies Drank in Deutcheland (BAOR)?

It would be Herforder for me, god how I miss that stuff. Mind you the odd Brandy and coke was always a welcome extra!!

Welcome Fred !!
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HUSSAR

Hallo!! They're outnumbering us again Brum - welcome Fred.

Welcome Fred.....Where have all the scaleys gone...????/

Gordon. wrote:

Used to sell ciggies in the Hotel Corfe In Bad Zalzuflen..The place got raided one night and the only table that didn`t have Rex on it was ours...Severe reprimand march out sarnt major....

I used to flog Whisky and Ciggies to the owner of my local in Lippstadt then give him all the money back in exchange for Beer, Schnapps and Frikadellen. Happy days.

Gordon. wrote:

Welcome Fred.....Where have all the scaleys gone...????/

Gone for soldiers, every one?

This was invariably on the Musik Box when I was at the height of my entrepreneurial activities on the Schwarzemarkt:-



www.youtube.com/watch?v=KLQg-Mv9Hfg

I often used to go onto the "Harder" stuff when my drinking had reached a certain stage.
I recall that I "experimented" with Korn,Schnapps and Steinhager (not together I hasten to add) but used to view with suspicion something wrapped in paper, with a twist at the top called (I think) Underberg,any idea what the stuff was (or did?)

brrowe wrote:

. . but used to view with suspicion something wrapped in paper, with a twist at the top called (I think) Underberg,any idea what the stuff was (or did?)

That'll be the infusion of herbs etc that the Bundeskrauts use to consume. Great for a hangover.

pinky wrote:

Welcome Fred !!
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HUSSAR

Jings, another Donkeywalloper !

Just bringing a little more 'class' to the forum, and just in the nick of time...........lol
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WO1 (STILL).
HUSSAR

brum wrote:

brrowe wrote:

. . but used to view with suspicion something wrapped in paper, with a twist at the top called (I think) Underberg,any idea what the stuff was (or did?)

That'll be the infusion of herbs etc that the Bundeskrauts use to consume. Great for a hangover.

It also settled your stomach in preparedness for another "Session"!

brrowe wrote:

but used to view with suspicion something wrapped in paper, with a twist at the top called (I think) Underberg,any idea what the stuff was (or did?)

Most supermarkets sell Underberg now.

Hi Fred !

SNIFF - korn and sprite (lemonade).
Not bad.....
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HUSSAR

Do you think that the 'Other Side' - Dort Druben (DDR) and Warsaw Pact and Roosians were just as free with the old amber nectars as we were in BAOR? Or is it just me viewing my time in Fransica Barracks through the Beer Googles of the 1960s.

I often thought (which is dangerous) that if the Roosians and Warsaw Pact military did attack, the early hours of a Sunday morning when the snores and stench of drunken nights in the NAAFi, Mess or downtown would have been be the best time to attack. I did read somewhere after the Berlin Wall fell, that the Warsaw Pact National Servicemen were as likely to be brahms & listz as well on cheap Russian Vodka.....

I think that they probably distilled their own "Poteen", unclevanya. We were mollycoddled with our NAAFIs, Messes Bty/Sqn Bars etc!

Now that we are all Older and Wiser (I think), what are you drinking today? What is your favorite tipple, and do you still drink like yesteryear when young, fit and abroad in BAOR, or at more sedate pace that goes with your age and wisdom...

Me, I don't partake of the alcoholic amber nectars.... I is a reformed character. Just a boring old fart, a Victor Meldrew who drinks nothing stronger than coffee, tea and fizzy drinks.....

Me, I don't partake of the alcoholic amber nectars.... I is a reformed character. Just a boring old fart, a Victor Meldrew who drinks nothing stronger than coffee, tea and fizzy drinks..... [/quote]


You do surprise me unclevanya!! I very rarely drink when I am back in the UK, when I do it would probably be a couple of cans of Stella Vier. The last time I drank anything of any quantity was at a Bty reunion around 4 years ago, the reunion was on the Saturday night and I was still ill on the following Wednesday. Back in the day I would drink Sh*** through a sweaty sock.

In 1954-55 I used to drink Gilda-Brau beer. That was in the pub opposite 4 armd wksps Hannover. Willie Franke's. (spelling??)

just imagine if they had sold bloody fosters in german pubs in the 50s . ww3 ginger

Stella Vier, that's Beck's, Stupid Boy!

I like to mix my drinks.

I usually find mixing drinks is a forerunner to plaiting legs with a resultant fall from grace !.

It has been known!

We used to frequent a Minden bar (name escapes me) which charged 25 pfennigs for a beer. At four drinks for 1 mark, and 12 marks for £1 you can imagine the uproar of Thursday nights!